Marc Bullen

Last updated

Marc Bullen
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-07-12) 12 July 1982 (age 39)
Original team(s) Congupna/Murray Bushrangers
Height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2001–2005 Essendon 44 (9)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2005.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Marc Bullen (born 12 July 1982) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League for the Essendon Football Club.

Originally from Shepparton, Victoria, Bullen was selected with the 63rd pick in the 2000 AFL Draft. In the 5 seasons he played for the Bombers, he never cemented his position. During the 2003 and '04 seasons the young defender/midfielder had patches of good form, playing 16 & 17 games respectively of the 22 standard season games, including an AFL Rising Star nomination in 2003. [1] However 2005 was a brown patch for him in his short career and he only managed 7 games for the season. Despite rumours of trade interest from Port Adelaide, at the end of the season he was subsequently delisted. [2]

After his delisting from Essendon, Bullen moved to Adelaide in 2006 and signed on for the Port Adelaide Magpies in the SANFL where his appearances were restricted due to injury.

In 2007, he switched to the Silvan Football Club in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League. Winning the premiership in his first year with Silvan, Bullen also tied the clubs B&F with ex Essendon great Gary Moorcroft. In 2008, Silvan went through the season undefeated, with Bullen awarded Best on Ground in the Cats triumphant back to back premiership. Bullen moved to Maribyrnong Park in 2009 playing in the Essendon District Football League. Bullen went on to play in premierships in 2009-10 with the Lions. In 2013, Bullen took the senior coaching reins at Deer Park in the WRFL. Bullen a playing coach at Deer Park until retiring from playing in 2016, has coached the club for seven consecutive years, winning a record 7 senior premierships in a row! Including a 3 point triumph over the more fancied Altona in 2019. With 11 premierships to its name, Deer Park is fast closing in on league leader Spotswood’s 15 flags. Bullen has been appointed senior coach at Deer Park for 2020.

Bullen also works at Hardwicks Meatworks which is an abattoir in Kyneton, Victoria.

Related Research Articles

Essendon Football Club Australian rules football club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club which has its training and administration base in the northern Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game’s premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home ‘Ailsa’, and while the exact date is unknown, it is generally accepted to have been in 1872. The club’s first recorded game took place on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20. From 1878 until 1896, the club played in the Victorian Football Association then joined seven other clubs in October 1896 to form the breakaway Victorian Football League. Headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Ground, known as Windy Hill, from 1922 to 2013, the club moved to The Hangar in near Tullamarine in late 2013 on land owned the Melbourne Airport. The club currently plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Dyson Heppell is the current club captain; Ben Rutten is the senior coach.

Gavin Adrian Wanganeen is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and also for the Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Craig Edwin Bradley is a former Australian rules footballer and first-class cricketer. He is the games record holder at Carlton in the AFL/VFL, and in elite Australian rules football.

Mark Williams is an indigenous former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was traded from the Hawks to the Bombers during the 2009 AFL trade week.

Aaron Henneman is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Australian Football League (AFL). Henneman joined YVMDFL club Silvan in 2007 after being delisted by Essendon the year before. Joining ex Essendon teammates at Silvan including Gary Moorcroft, Ben Haynes and Marc Bullen. Henneman played a starring role at CHB in the Cats premiership the same year. Has been playing a starring forward role in recent times for the Oakleigh football club despite a tough time with recent shoulder injuries.

James Gwilt Australian rules footballer, born 1986

James Gwilt is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the St Kilda Football Club and the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Scott Camporeale is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Essendon in the Australian Football League, and coached the Adelaide Football Club in an interim capacity following the death of head coach Phil Walsh in 2015.

Joshua William Paul "Josh" Mahoney is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood, the Western Bulldogs, and Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Hayden Skipworth is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) with the Adelaide Football Club and the Essendon Football Club. Skipworth returned to the Essendon Football Club, where he served as the midfield coach until the conclusion of the 2019 Season. In the 2020 Season, Skipworth served as the Collingwood Football Club's Head of Academy before moving into a Line Coach position at the club in October 2020.

Gregory Anderson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the Essendon Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Nathan Bassett Australian rules footballer

Nathan "Bassy" Bassett is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently an assistant coach with the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Jason Cloke is an Australian rules footballer, who played in the Australian Football League with the Collingwood Football Club.

Paul Chapman (Australian footballer) Australian rules footballer, born 1981

Paul Chapman is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Dale Mathew Kickett is a former Australian rules footballer. Kickett played for Fitzroy Lions, West Coast Eagles, St Kilda Saints, Essendon Bombers, and Fremantle Dockers, all being between 1990 - 2002. Kickett holds the shared record for most clubs that a single player has been in.

Angus Monfries Australian rules footballer, born 1987

Angus Monfries is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Monfries played as a forward pocket or half forward.

Paddy Ryder Australian rules footballer

Patrick Ryder is an Australian rules footballer playing for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Formerly playing for Essendon and Port Adelaide, he was traded to St Kilda after the 2019 season. Ryder has notable speed, agility and leap for someone of his size and it is these attributes that had his first AFL coach in Kevin Sheedy compare him to Indigenous Australian rules football star Graham "Polly" Farmer. Ryder's father, Revis Ryder, played football for East Fremantle.

Laurence Schache was an Australian rules footballer, playing in the Australian Football League (AFL) with the Brisbane Bears and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) with Sturt, West Torrens and Woodville-West Torrens.

Ben Haynes is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for Richmond and Essendon Football Clubs and in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) for West Adelaide Football Club.He also played for Melton south panthers.

Aaron Francis Australian rules footballer

Aaron Francis is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Essendon Football Club with their second selection and sixth overall in the 2015 national draft.

William Alexander Snelling is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

References

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.