Darryl Wakelin (born 11 August 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League as a defender.

AFL career

Adelaide

Wakelin was selected by Adelaide with the 11th pick in the 1993 Pre-Season draft. After 2 seasons on their list he didn't play a senior game and was delisted at the end of 1994.

St Kilda

In 1994 he played in a premiership with the

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league team, winning the

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for best afield in the absence of his twin brother,

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, who had already left for St Kilda. Wakelin was the first player from the "key defensive" positions of centre half-back or full-back to win the award. In 1995, Darryl left the club to join his brother at St Kilda. He played his first game in Round 1 of the 1995 season. His career started superbly with the Saints, averaging 10 disposals in his first season. Wakelin played in St Kilda’s 1996 AFL Ansett Australia Cup winning side – the club's first AFL Cup win. Wakelin played in 17 of 22 matches in the 1997 AFL Premiership Season home and away rounds in which St Kilda Football Club qualified in first position for the 1997 AFL Finals Series, winning the club’s 2nd Minor Premiership and 1st McClelland Trophy. By the end of the 2000 season, the Saints were looking for younger players and Wakelin was traded to Port Adelaide for the fourth selection in the 2000 National Draft (which was then on-traded to Carlton as part of a deal for Aaron Hamill). In total, he played 115 games for St Kilda, kicking just 8 goals.

Port Adelaide

In 2001 he joined the Port Adelaide without his twin brother, Shane, who moved to Collingwood. In 2004 he won a premiership with Port Adelaide after his brother had lost in the two previous Grand Finals. During 2005 the Wakelin Brothers became the most capped pair of twin brothers overtaking

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and Matthew Febey. In Round 12 of 2006, he picked up a career high 22 disposals against West Coast. In round 5, 2007, Darryl played his 250th game. On 29 August 2007 he announced his retirement from AFL at the season end, which in fact concluded for him as part of the 2007 Port Grand Final team.

Personal life

Wakelin's

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Shane Wakelin Shane Wakelin (born 12 August 1974) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Wakelin was born in Wh ...

played alongside him at St Kilda. Wakelin was born on 11 August 1974.

was born on 12 August as he was born a number of minutes after midnight and Darryl was a born a number of minutes before midnight. He was born in

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but moved to

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at just six months old. His father was a wheat sheep farmer. He was 13 when he moved to

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. At 16 he was identified by Port Adelaide along with his twin brother and they made the move down to

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. Throughout his AFL Career, Daryl was known as one of the best fullbacks in the competition along with his brother Shane.

Playing statistics

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 15 , , 18 , , 0 , , 3 , , 103 , , 63 , , 166 , , 78 , , 16 , , 0.0 , , 0.2 , , 5.7 , , 3.5 , , 9.2 , , 4.3 , , 0.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 23 , , 1 , , 1 , , 94 , , 75 , , 169 , , 64 , , 32 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 4.1 , , 3.3 , , 7.3 , , 2.8 , , 1.4 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 21 , , 2 , , 0 , , 96 , , 86 , , 182 , , 89 , , 31 , , 0.1 , , 0.0 , , 4.6 , , 4.1 , , 8.7 , , 4.2 , , 1.5 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 20 , , 0 , , 1 , , 129 , , 57 , , 186 , , 101 , , 25 , , 0.0 , , 0.1 , , 6.5 , , 2.9 , , 9.3 , , 5.1 , , 1.3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" , 2004 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 23 , , 1 , , 0 , , 122 , , 92 , , 214 , , 104 , , 27 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 5.3 , , 4.0 , , 9.3 , , 4.5 , , 1.2 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2005 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 24 , , 0 , , 0 , , 149 , , 106 , , 255 , , 134 , , 27 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 6.2 , , 4.4 , , 10.6 , , 5.6 , , 1.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 20 , , 0 , , 1 , , 164 , , 90 , , 254 , , 130 , , 11 , , 0.0 , , 0.1 , , 8.2 , , 4.5 , , 12.7 , , 6.5 , , 0.6 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2007 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 15 , , 0 , , 0 , , 112 , , 59 , , 171 , , 80 , , 21 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 7.5 , , 3.9 , , 11.4 , , 5.3 , , 1.4 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 261 ! 12 ! 13 ! 1481 ! 923 ! 2404 ! 1066 ! 302 ! 0.0 ! 0.0 ! 5.7 ! 3.5 ! 9.2 ! 4.1 ! 1.2

Trivia

*Wakelin has a pharmacy degree from the

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and runs a pharmacy in Alberton South Australia.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wakelin, Darryl 1974 births Living people Port Adelaide Magpies players Port Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club Premiership players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) St Kilda Football Club players South Australian State of Origin players Australian rules footballers from South Australia Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Australian twins Twin sportspeople Identical twins One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players People from Whyalla