David Hale (born 22 May 1984) is an

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coach and former player who is currently serving as an assistant coach with the

Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawt ...

in the

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. As a player, he played with the

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and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Early life

Hale was born in

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but moved to the

Gold Coast, Queensland The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...

with his parents prior to his first birthday. He grew up in the

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area of the Gold Coast and attended Marymount College during his schooling years. In 2000, he began playing with the

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in Division 2 of the state league where he was selected in the

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/AFL Academy squad . In 2001, he switched to Broadbeach and represented

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

at the under 18 national championships.

AFL career

Hale was recruited from the Broadbeach Football Club. He represented the Queensland Scorpions at U16 and U18 state championship levels before being taken at pick 7 in the

2001 AFL Draft The 2001 AFL draft consisted of a state draft, a body draft, a pre-season draft and a trade period. The AFL draft is the annual draft of players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Aust ...

by the

Kangaroos Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also ...

. Hale spent the 2002 season playing for the

Murray Kangaroos Murray Kangaroos Football Club, officially nicknamed The Kangaroos, was an Australian rules football club which competed in the Victorian Football League between 2000 and 2002. The football club was a joint venture between the North Melbourne F ...

in the VFL before making his AFL debut for North Melbourne in Round 5, 2003. In 2008 Hale lead the goalkicking for North Melbourne with 37 goals, including a career-best 8 goals against

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in Round 21; a performance that earned him 3 votes in the

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. Hale then seemed to fall out of favour with the coaching staff playing only 16 games in 2009 and 12 in 2010. On 8 October 2010, David Hale was traded to

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in exchange for a 1st round draft pick. His first season at the Hawks Hale played a predominantly forward role, providing a tall marking target, then he would provide relief to

Max Bailey Max Bailey (born 23 October 1986) is a former Australian rules football coach and player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. He most recently served as the development coach of the Hawthorn Football ...

in the ruck. In 2012 with Bailey injured, Hale took the number one ruck mantle, rotating duties with forward partner,

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. Hale enjoyed more time on the ball and used his mobility to have an impact around the ground. Bailey returned in 2013 so Hale again was 2nd mantle in rucking until Bailey would get subbed off and then he took the lead rucking spot. Hale played in all three of Hawthorn's victorious Grand Finals from 2013 to 2015. Hale was substituted off for

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late in the 3rd quarter of the

2015 AFL Grand Final The 2015 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 3 October 2015. It was the 120th annual Grand Final of the Australian F ...

; with abolition of the substitute rule at the end of the

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, this meant that Hale became the last player to be substituted out of the game. He announced his retirement on 6 October 2015.

Coaching

Fremantle Football Club

On 23 October 2015, it was announced that he had joined

Fremantle Football Club The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of ...

as an assistant coach under senior coach

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alongside former premiership teammate

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for the 2016 season. In the 2019 season, Hale coached Fremantle as caretaker senior coach for one game in the final round of the season, which was their loss to , in Round 23, 2019, after senior coach

was sacked the previous week. Hale was not retained as Fremantle Football Club senior coach at the end of the 2019 season, with the position instead going to

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, but Hale however remained at Fremantle Football Club as an assistant coach. At the end of the 2021 season, Hale would depart Fremantle Football Club to return to Hawthorn as an assistant.

Hawthorn Football Club

At the end of the 2021 season, Hale returned to

as an assistant coach under senior coach Sam Mitchell.

Statistics

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

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2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

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Honours and achievements

Team * 3× AFL premiership player ():

* 2× Minor premiership ():

* Minor premiership ():

Individual * North Melbourne Leading Goalkicker: 2008 * Under 18 All-Australian team:

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hale, David North Melbourne Football Club players Hawthorn Football Club players Hawthorn Football Club Premiership players Broadbeach Australian Football Club players 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland Australian rules footballers from Queensland Australian people of Dutch descent Box Hill Football Club players Fremantle Football Club coaches Three-time VFL/AFL Premiership players