David Spriggs (born 25 January 1981) is an
Australian rules footballer with the
Vermont Football Club in the
Eastern Football League, who formerly played for the
AFL
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Sports
* American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues:
** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...
's
Geelong Football Club,
Sydney Swans and the
Port Melbourne Football Club
The Port Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Borough, is an Australian rules football club based in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne. The club was founded in 1874 and has been competing in the Victorian Football Association/Leag ...
in the
Victorian Football League
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.
Career
He was recruited as the number 15 draft pick in the
1999 AFL draft from
Beaumaris
Beaumaris ( ; cy, Biwmares ) is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, of which it is the former county town of Anglesey. It is located at the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from th ...
. He made his debut for
Geelong in Round 1, 2000 against
Fremantle.
He was delisted by the Cats at the end of the 2004 season and nominated himself in the
2004 AFL draft where he was picked up by the
Sydney Swans for pick No. 47. He made his debut for Sydney in Round 3, 2005 against 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 ...
.
Spriggs failed to make a single AFL appearance in
2006, and was subsequently delisted by the Swans at the end of that season. He joined Port Melbourne in 2007.
In July 2006, Spriggs posed for ''
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan may refer to:
Food and drink
* Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo"
History
* Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
Hotels and resorts
* Cosmopoli ...
'' magazine's ''
Lonsdale Boys With Balls'' feature for the September 2006 issue.
External links
*
1981 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Sydney Swans players
Geelong Football Club players
Sandringham Dragons players
Port Melbourne Football Club players
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