David Noble (Australian footballer)

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David Noble
Personal information
Full name David Noble
Date of birth (1967-05-15) 15 May 1967 (age 55)
Original team(s) North Hobart
Draft 111th overall, 1989 VFL Draft
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1991 Fitzroy 2 (0)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
1989–1991 Tasmania 2
Coaching career
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
2021–2022 North Melbourne 38 (5–32–1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1991.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

David Noble (born 15 May 1967) is a former Australian rules football coach, administrator and player, best known for his tenure as the senior men's coach of the North Melbourne Football Club in 2021 and 2022. He is the chief executive officer of Dick Johnson Racing.

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Playing career

North Hobart

A rover from Tasmania, Noble began his senior football career at North Hobart in the Tasmanian Football League in 1985. He soon was made vice-captain of the club, and won statewide premierships in 1987 and 1989. [1]

Fitzroy

Noble was recruited to the Australian Football League by Fitzroy in the 1989 draft with the 111th pick. He played mostly in the reserves at Fitzroy. His senior debut in Round 6, 1991 was the first of four premiership matches which Fitzroy played on his former home ground, North Hobart Oval, between 1991 and 1992 – but it was a disaster for Fitzroy, losing to Hawthorn by 157 points. He played only one more senior game for Fitzroy. [1] [2] He played two state of origin matches for Tasmania during his career.

Prahran

In 1992, Noble played for Prahran in the Victorian Football Association. He then served a successful captain-coaching position at the Upwey-Tecoma Football Club in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League in 1993 and 1994, winning two premierships and two best-and-fairest awards at the club. Noble retired from playing at the end of 1994. [1]

Coaching career

Following his successful captain-coaching stint at Upwey-Tecoma, Noble began a coaching career in the TAC Cup, serving as assistant coach at the newly established Oakleigh Chargers, then senior coach at the NSW/ACT Rams. He then joined AFL club the Western Bulldogs for five years from 1998-2002, serving as an assistant coach over that time as well as the reserves coach in 1998 and 1999, winning one reserves premiership. [1]

In 2003, Noble moved to South Australia, and served as senior coach at Glenelg in the SANFL in 2003 and 2004, but did not take the club to finals. He then joined the AFL's Adelaide Crows and spent more than a decade at the club, serving as assistant coach (2005-10), list manager (2011-13) and head of football (2014-16). He was an integral part of the club’s eight finals campaigns over that ten year period. [1]

North Melbourne Football Club senior coach (2021-2022)

In 2021, after ten years in administrator, Noble returned to coaching and became the senior coach of North Melbourne on an open-ended staff contract. [3] [4] Taking over a club from previous senior coach Rhyce Shaw after Shaw resigned for personal reasons and the club under Shaw had finished second-last in 2020. [5] Noble led the club to the wooden spoon in 2021 with a 4–17–1 record. He became known for a tough coaching style, with it being said that in just his first season he delivered more sprays than former coach Brad Scott had delivered in a 9½ year tenure; and drew such condemnation for the spray he delivered after his team's "embarrassing" 108-point Round 3, 2022 loss to Brisbane Lions at The Gabba, that he apologised days later. [6] Noble was sacked as senior coach of North Melbourne with six weeks remaining in the 2022 season, after a disastrous 1–15 start to what was eventually a second consecutive wooden spoon; after the club's internal review had concluded it would dismiss Noble as a result of his poor win-loss and negative feedback towards his coaching style from staff and players, he and the club agreed to part ways immediately. [7] [8] [9] [10] Noble was replaced by assistant coach Leigh Adams as caretaker senior coach of North Melbourne for the rest of the 2022 season. [11] [12]

Administrative career

In September 2016, he left Adelaide and moved to become the Brisbane Lions General Manager of Football, serving there for four years and overseeing the Lions' return to finals football. [13] In December 2022 Noble was appointed chief executive officer of motor racing team Dick Johnson Racing. [14]

Accolades

Noble was inducted into the AFL Tasmania Hall of Fame in 2016. [1] His son John has played senior AFL football for Collingwood since 2019.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "302. David Noble". AFL Tasmania. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "DAVID NOBLE" . Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "North Melbourne sign new coach from rival AFL club". 7NEWS.com.au. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "North Melbourne appoints David Noble as new senior coach". 20 November 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "North Melbourne appoints David Noble to replace Rhyce Shaw as AFL head coach". ABC News. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  6. ↑ Jon Ralph; Matt Turner (25 May 2022). "AFL2022: Angry, shouty David Noble has work to do to unite North Melbourne". Herald Sun. Melbourne, VIC. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  7. ↑ Kate O'Halloran & Andrew McGarry (12 July 2022). "Coach David Noble and North Melbourne Kangaroos 'mutually agree to part ways'". ABC News.
  8. ↑ "Noble quits as North Melbourne coach". 12 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  9. ↑ "North to sound out ex-Roo Clarkson after parting ways with David Noble". 12 July 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "North Melbourne and coach David Noble part ways amid horror season". 13 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  11. ↑ "AFL: North Melbourne caretaker coach Leigh Adams wants players to express themselves". 15 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  12. ↑ "AFL: North Melbourne caretaker coach Leigh Adams wants players to express themselves". 15 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  13. ↑ "David Noble named as Brisbane Lions' new General Manager of Football - lions.com.au" . Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  14. ↑ DJR brings Roo onboard Auto Action 1 December 2022
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