David Teague (footballer)
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David Teague (born 5 May 1981) is a former professional
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 for
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and
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in the
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and was the senior coach of the
Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...
, from 2019 to 2021. Teague is an assistant coach with the
Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...
.


Playing career


North Melbourne

In the 2000 AFL Draft, Teague was recruited by the
North Melbourne 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 ...
and made his AFL senior debut in 2001. He played a total of 33 senior games throughout 3 seasons for the Kangaroos.


Carlton

Following the end of the
2003 AFL season The 2003 AFL season was the 107th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured six ...
, Teague was traded to the
Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...
. Teague played a total of 50 games for Carlton Football Club and kicked two goals in his two seasons with the club from 2004 until 2006. In 2004, Teague won Carlton's best and fairest award, the
John Nicholls Medal The John Nicholls Medal (formerly the Robert Reynolds Trophy from 1934 to 2003) is an Australian rules football award given to the player(s) adjudged best and fairest for the Carlton Football Club for the season. The voting system as of the 2017 ...
. He was delisted from Carlton's playing list in 2007 after failing to be in their lineup for the entire season. Throughout his playing career, Teague was well-regarded for his courage in defence. In 2004, he won the Robert Rose Award as the most courageous player in the league, as voted by the players. His style made him a dominant player in wet conditions.


Coaching career


Carlton assistant development coach and Northern Bullants player-coach (2007–2010)

On 12 October 2007, it was announced that Teague would continue with the
Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...
as a development coach with Carlton and as
player-coach A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the sq ...
for the
Northern Bullants The Preston Football Club, which trades and plays as the Northern Bullants, is a long-established Australian rules football club based in Preston, Victoria, Preston that plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL). It plays its home games at t ...
(on the Bullants list as a VFL-listed player). In 2009, Teague retired from playing with the Bullants, but he retained his coaching roles and was able to coach the Bullants into the club's first grand final since 1984. They finished runners-up to
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. In 2010, he again coached the Bullants into the grand final (which they again lost to North Ballarat).


West Coast Eagles assistant coach (2011–2013)

In 2011, Teague was appointed as an assistant coach for the
West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ...
. Teague was assistant coach for three seasons with the Eagles.


St Kilda Football Club assistant coach (2013–2014)

Teague joined St Kilda as an assistant coach in November 2013.


Adelaide Football Club assistant coach (2014–2017)

In October 2014, Teague was appointed assistant coach (forwards) with the Adelaide Crows under newly appointed senior coach Phil Walsh who he had previously worked with during his time at West Coast.


Carlton Football Club assistant coach (2017–2019)

In October 2017, Teague was appointed assistant coach (forwards) at Carlton, returning to the club after a long absence.


Carlton Football Club senior coach (2019–2021)

On 3 June 2019, Teague was announced as caretaker senior coach of Carlton Football Club, following the mid-season sacking of
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as senior coach of Carlton. Five days later, Teague coached and won his first match as coach of the club with a 15-point win over the
Brisbane Lions The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Melbourne-based 1883 foundation VFL c ...
. Teague led Carlton to win six games of the remaining eleven games of the 2019 season to finish sixteenth on the ladder. On 15 August 2019, following the club's improved results under his coaching, Teague was permanently installed and re-appointed as full-time Carlton Football Club senior coach, signing an initial three-year deal. After Teague was given the role of full-time Carlton Football Club senior coach, things did not improve for the club, when Teague guided Carlton in the 2020 season to finish eleventh on the ladder with seven wins and ten losses. In the 2021 season, Carlton's on-field performance under Teague further deteriorated. The situation at the club then worsened with the disappointment of the expectations that dropped in the on-field performance. Teague's job came under increased pressure after the team’s horror loss to
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in a humiliating thrashing by 95 points In Round 22, 2021. After the final game of the 2021 season in Round 23, 2021, when Carlton under Teague lost to GWS by fourteen points, Teague told reporters in a press conference after the game:
“I understand the club will make a decision. Let’s be honest, it doesn’t look like it’s going to go in my favour, but in terms of what I’ve done and what I’ve been able to control, I know who I am, I know the way I’ve done it and I’m really happy with it”. Teague also stated that he "didn't have the full support of people from within the club".
Carlton under Teague finished the 2021 season in thirteenth place on the ladder with eight wins and fourteen losses. On 26 August 2021, Teague was sacked as Carlton Football Club senior coach at the end of the 2021 season. The club came to this decision after an extensive review of the club's football operations due to a disappointing season with poor on-field results. The club review found that Teague's coaching methods and gameplan were supported by only 30 percent of the club's players and the club's staff. Teague coached Carlton to a total of 50 games with 21 wins and 29 losses with a winning percentage of 44 percent. Teague was replaced by
Michael Voss Michael Voss (born 7 July 1975) is a former professional Australian rules football player with the Brisbane Bears/Lions and current senior coach of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Voss was a triple premiersh ...
as Carlton Football Club senior coach.


Richmond Football Club assistant coach (2021–present)

Shortly after Teague was sacked as Carlton senior coach, he made the move over to
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to join the
Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...
as an assistant coach under senior coach
Damien Hardwick Damien Patrick Hardwick (born 18 August 1972) is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He is the senior coach of the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 2010, and has the longest continuous servi ...
for the 2022 season.


Statistics


Playing statistics

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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 ...
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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
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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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Coaching statistics

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References


External links

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David Teague profile in Blueseum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Teague, David 1981 births Carlton Football Club players Living people North Melbourne Football Club players John Nicholls Medal winners Preston Football Club (VFA) players Preston Football Club (VFA) coaches Corowa-Rutherglen Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Carlton Football Club coaches