Brett Peake (born 5 July 1983) is a former

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who played for the

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and the

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. He was traded from Fremantle to St Kilda during the 2009 AFL trade week. An outside

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, he began his senior football career at

East Fremantle Football Club The East Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Sharks, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The team's home ground is East Fremantle Oval. East Fremantle are the ...

in the

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(WAFL).

Career with Fremantle

Peake was the first player to be drafted by Fremantle under the father-son rule, utilising selection 43 in the 2003 AFL draft.Dockers reward Peake's progress
/ref> His father,

Brian Peake Brian Francis Peake OAM (born 4 December 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played State of Origin football fo ...

, played over 400 senior games with

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and Western Australia between 1972 and 1990. Peake spent the entire 2004 season playing with East Fremantle. Good form in the WAFL and an extensive injury list at Fremantle saw him make his debut in Round 13 in 2005 against the Kangaroos. He ended the season having played nine of the last ten games. In 2006 Peake became a regular with the Dockers' side, playing 20 games and finishing the season with 10

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votes. He missed six games in early 2007 with a broken collarbone. In 2009, he was suspended in June for a discipline breach and was also dropped for the last two games of the season. With concerns over his disposal and lack of two-way play leaving him on the outer at Fremantle, Peake requested a trade at the end of the year. As his father did in most of his 300 games for East Fremantle, Peake wore the Number 7 guernsey for Fremantle.

Move to St Kilda

During the 2009 trade week Peake was recruited by

in exchange for the number 48 pick in the 2009 AFL Draft.Fremantle Dockers send Peake off to St Kilda
(7 October 2009) Peake made his debut for the Saints in Round 1, 2010, against

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, and had 14 possessions (and a goal) in an eight-point victory. Peake played 23 games in 2010, including four finals matches. As of the end of the 2010 AFL season, Peake had played in seven finals matches including two grand finals. Under the new coach, Scott Watters in 2012, Peake played the first game of the season before being dropped. He was not given another game and was delisted at the end of the season.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peake, Brett 1983 births Living people Fremantle Football Club players St Kilda Football Club players East Fremantle Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Sandringham Football Club players Australia international rules football team players Australian people of Māori descent