Darren Cuthbertson (born 7 April 1970) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with

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in the

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(AFL) during the early 1990s. Cuthbertson had started out in the Melbourne Under-19s after coming to the club from

Epping Epping may refer to: Places Australia * Epping, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney ** Epping railway station, Sydney * Electoral district of Epping, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Epping Forest, Kearns, a he ...

and is best remembered for a run of 19 goals in three weeks which he kicked in his fourth, fifth and sixth AFL games. He kicked seven goals in Melbourne's win over

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at the

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, bagged another seven the following week when they met Collingwood at

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and five more against the

Brisbane Bears The Brisbane Football Club, nicknamed the Bears, was a professional Australian rules football club based in Queensland on the Gold Coast (relocated to Brisbane in 1993). The club participated in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/A ...

a round later. Cuthbertson's form then dropped away but he still finished the season with 29 goals and played in two finals. He lasted just two more years on the Melbourne list and then returned to Epping where he had considerable success.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cuthbertson, Darren 1970 births Melbourne Football Club players Epping Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Living people Place of birth missing (living people)