Nathan Bassett

Nathan Bassett
Bassett coaching in April 2018.
Personal information
Full name	Nathan Bassett
Date of birth	(1976-12-07) 7 December 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s)	Norwood (SANFL)
Draft	No. 3, 1996 Rookie Draft
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	88 kg (194 lb)
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1997	Melbourne	000 0(0)
1998–2008	Adelaide	210 (25)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2010–2013	Norwood	91 (68–23–0) 74.7%
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2013.
Career highlights
All-Australian team: 2006 2× SANFL premiership coach: 2012, 2013
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Nathan "Bassy" Bassett (born 7 December 1976) 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.

Career

Bassett made his SANFL debut for Norwood in 1994, he finished sixth in the club best and fairest as a 19-year-old and was drafted at pick 3 by Melbourne Football Club in the inaugural AFL rookie draft.

Melbourne

Drafted with the third selection in the first AFL Rookie Draft by Melbourne in 1997, ^[1] Bassett was elevated to the senior list after Round 4 in 1997 to replace Craig Turley but suffered a fractured sternum in the next Reserves game and was unable to make his AFL debut for the Demons. ^[2] When he made his return to the reserves he played six more games at full forward but didn't see much of the ball and wasn't suited to the role. ^[3] At the end of the season he was traded to Adelaide for Matthew Collins and Brent Williams.

Adelaide

Bassett impressed in the pre season and made his debut at 21 for the Crows in round 1 1998, showing promise in defence. He was hardly beaten in his debut season, finishing tenth in the Best and Fairest despite only playing 13 games and missing out on finals. ^[4]

He played 210 games for Adelaide and topped off a great 2005 season by being named Best Team Man and coming runner up in the club's Best and Fairest award. ^[5]

In 2006 Bassett was named to the All-Australian Team, along with his teammates Andrew McLeod and Simon Goodwin.

Some of Bassett's nicknames include The Hound, Bassy, Bruce and Fred Basset – after the comic strip which appears in many Australian newspapers.^{[ citation needed ]}

He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1997. ^[6]

Statistics

^[7]

Legend

G	Goals	K	Kicks	D	Disposals	T	Tackles
B	Behinds	H	Handballs	M	Marks

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)
				G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
1998	Adelaide	8	13	1	0	90	33	123	34	19	0.1	0.0	6.9	2.5	9.5	2.6	1.5
1999	Adelaide	8	21	1	0	154	60	214	69	10	0.0	0.0	7.3	2.9	10.2	3.3	0.5
2000	Adelaide	8	18	4	4	159	62	221	79	26	0.2	0.2	8.8	3.4	12.3	4.4	1.4
2001	Adelaide	8	13	0	0	93	58	151	44	7	0.0	0.0	7.2	4.5	11.6	3.4	0.5
2002	Adelaide	8	20	9	3	136	73	209	52	30	0.5	0.2	6.8	3.7	10.5	2.6	1.5
2003	Adelaide	8	21	3	1	135	117	252	80	25	0.1	0.0	6.4	5.6	12.0	3.8	1.2
2004	Adelaide	8	21	1	0	133	96	229	82	27	0.0	0.0	6.3	4.6	10.9	3.9	1.3
2005	Adelaide	8	25	2	2	200	176	376	120	45	0.1	0.1	8.0	7.0	15.0	4.8	1.8
2006	Adelaide	8	22	2	0	248	149	397	172	41	0.1	0.0	11.3	6.8	18.0	7.8	1.9
2007	Adelaide	8	13	1	0	132	69	201	93	26	0.1	0.0	10.2	5.3	15.5	7.2	2.0
2008	Adelaide	8	23	1	0	188	179	367	127	39	0.0	0.0	8.2	7.8	16.0	5.5	1.7
Career			210	25	10	1668	1072	2740	952	295	0.1	0.0	7.9	5.1	13.0	4.5	1.4

Coaching

Bassett was the senior coach of the Norwood Football Club which plays in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He coached them to the Grand Final in his first season in 2010, where they were runners up. He then led the Redlegs to their 28th SANFL premiership with a 12.7 (79) to 3.12 (30) win over West Adelaide in the 2012 Grand Final at AAMI Stadium. Back-to-back premiership success came in 2013 over North Adelaide. At the last match ever played at AAMI Stadium, in front of almost 37,000 fans, Norwood defeated North Adelaide 10.12 (72) to 4.8 (32). ^[8]

On 17 October 2013, Bassett was confirmed as an assistant coach to Mark Thompson at Essendon. The move reunited Bassett with former Adelaide coach Neil Craig, who Bassett played under from 2004 to 2008. ^[9] He remained an assistant at Essendon until the end of 2015.

On 18 September 2015, Bassett was announced as an assistant coach at the Port Adelaide Football Club. ^[10]

References

1. Lovett, Michael, ed. (2010). AFL Record Season Guide 2010. G. Slattery. p. 471. ISBN   978-0-9806274-5-9.
2. "Nathan Bassett".
3. Camry Crows 98 Official Year Book.
4. Lovett, Michael. AFL '99.
5. "Nathan Bassett". Adelaide Football Club. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
6. Capel, Andrew (19 June 2008). "Adelaide Crows Nathan Bassett's achieves milestone". The Advertiser.
7. Nathan Bassett's player profile at AFL Tables
8. Milbank, Zac (18 October 2012). "Norwood premiership coach Nathan Bassett stays to coach Redlegs again". adelaidenow.
9. Bassett joins Bombers
10. "Former Redleg and Crow defender Nathan Bassett joins Power as assistant coach for 2016". 18 September 2015. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.

External links

• Nathan Bassett's playing statistics from AFL Tables