| Tyson Slattery | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Tyson Slattery | ||
| Date of birth | 3 December 1990 | ||
| Original team(s) | West Adelaide | ||
| Draft | No. 67, 2008 National Draft, Essendon | ||
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2010 | Essendon | 1 (1) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of Round 14, 2010. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Tyson Slattery (born 3 December 1990) is an Australian rules footballer who was drafted by Essendon in the fifth round of the 2008 AFL Draft. He is the son of Wayne Slattery, a former St Kilda player.
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Thought to have formed in 1872, the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20, winning 1 goal to nil. The club played a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1878, one year after the VFA formed. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2013, the club has been headquartered at The Hangar, Melbourne Airport, and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground; throughout most of its history the club's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill, Essendon, where it played from 1922 until 1991. While it stopped playing games at the ground thereafter, Windy Hill remained its training and administration base until the end of 2013. Dyson Heppell is the current team captain.
Wayne Slattery is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for South Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
After playing for all of 2009 and most of 2010 for the Bendigo Bombers in the Victorian Football League, Slattery made his AFL debut for Essendon in Round 14 of the 2010 AFL season. He was involved in a controversial shepherd on Adelaide's Bernie Vince, although no charges were laid. [1] He dropped back to the VFL the following week, staying there for the rest of the season.
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is the major state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria. The league evolved from the former Victorian Football Association (VFA), and has been known by its current name since 1996. For historical purposes, the present VFL is sometimes referred to as the VFA/VFL, to distinguish it from the present day Australian Football League, which was known until 1990 as the Victorian Football League and is sometimes referred to as the VFL/AFL.
The 2010 Australian Football League season commenced on 25 March 2010 and concluded on 2 October 2010. It was the 114th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 21st under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. The premiership was won by Collingwood, who defeated St Kilda by 56 points in the Grand Final Replay, which was played after the first Grand Final was drawn. Collingwood's win marked the 15th VFL/AFL premiership in the club's history.
Bernard Vince is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
