Jamie Lawson (born 5 October 1971) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played with the
Sydney Swans in the
Australian Football League (AFL) during the early 1990s.
Lawson, a rover, was recruited from the
Sunraysia Football League
The Sunraysia Football and Netball League, also known simply as the SFNL is an Australian rules league in the Sunraysia district of north-west Victoria and south-west New South Wales. Nine clubs – Mildura, South Mildura, Imperials, Irymple, Re ...
. An
Indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
, he arrived in what was a bad time for Sydney, with the club finishing with the wooden spoon in three of his four seasons. He had a career high 30 disposals and two goals against fellow cellar dwellers
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
at the
SCG in 1992.
Aged only 22, his career came to an end late in the
1994 AFL season when he broke his leg at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground, playing against
Richmond.
[ His fractured tibia led to ]compartment syndrome
Compartment syndrome is a condition in which increased pressure within one of the body's anatomical compartments results in insufficient blood supply to tissue within that space. There are two main types: acute and chronic. Compartments of the ...
and he was forced to retire.['' Sydney Morning Herald'']
"The dark days of Hollywood"
22 April 2007, Daniel Lane. He had been in good form prior to the injury, polling Brownlow Medal votes in his previous two games.[
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1971 births
Living people
Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football
Australian rules footballers from New South Wales
Sydney Swans players
New South Wales Australian rules football State of Origin players