Jonathon Griffin (born 14 January 1986) is a former professional

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er who played for the

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and Fremantle Football Club in the

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(AFL). A ruckman from

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, Griffin played for in the

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(WAFL) before being drafted by Adelaide at the 2005 Rookie draft. Upgraded to the club's senior list for the 2007 season, he debuted the following season, and played 41 games for Adelaide before being traded to Fremantle during the 2010–11 trading period.

Football career

Griffin was born in Bunbury,

. His family moved to the southern suburbs of

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when he was 10 years old, and he attended Booragoon Primary School and Applecross Senior High School, playing junior football for Karoonda JFC. He was drafted by Adelaide from

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in the

(WAFL) with the 21st selection in the 2005 Rookie draft and spent the 2005 season on the rookie list. He was upgraded to the senior list for the 2006 season but spent most of 2006 playing reserves for Central District Bulldogs. Griffin got his chance to make his AFL debut in the early rounds of 2007 due to the departure of Matthew Clarke and injuries to

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and

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. Although he was recruited as a key-forward Griffin was required to play as a ruckman. Many thought Griffin was not yet ready to play at the highest level as a ruckman because of his lanky figure, however Griffin managed to hold his spot for the first 13 rounds of 2007 before being replaced by the returning Maric. Griffin started well in the

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, with strong performances against very good ruck opponents in

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and

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, of the Western Bulldogs,

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and

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of the West Coast Eagles and

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and Brendon Lade of

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. In the 2009 season, Griffin only played 2 games for the Crows, with Maric and Kurt Tippett preferred as the main ruckman with James Sellar and Brad Moran also selected ahead of Griffin. Through his maternal grandfather's Bibbulman ancestry, Griffin is descended from the

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people of south-western Australia. He was selected for the Indigenous All-Stars team in 2009. Since returning to his home state of Western Australia, Griffin has been used mainly as Fremantle's backup ruckman, competing with Zac Clarke and

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for the ruck positions. Griffin played his first game for the Dockers in round 10 of the

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against St Kilda, after Sandilands was unavailable due to injury. A career-best performance against in round 15 saw him collect 26 disposals, 9 marks, 30 hit outs and 2 goals. He played the first seven games of the 2013 season before damaging his

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(ACL), with the resultant knee reconstruction ruling him out for the rest of the season. He resumed his career in April 2014, through Fremantle's new affiliate team in the WAFL, . Jonathon played in Peel's maiden WAFL premiership in

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but missed out in

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, with a knee injury keeping him out of the Grand Final team. Griffin was delisted by Fremantle at the conclusion of the 2017 season. After being delisted by Fremantle, Jonathon returned to the WAFL in 2018 and was named captain of East Fremantle after having signed a two-year deal with the club. After three seasons with East Fremantle, Griffin announced he would be retiring at the end of the 2020 season.

Statistics

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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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2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

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2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

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2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

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2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

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2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

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2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

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, , 12 , , 13 , , 5 , , 2 , , 51 , , 71 , , 122 , , 21 , , 39 , , 289 , , 0.4 , , 0.2 , , 3.9 , , 5.5 , , 9.4 , , 1.6 , , 3.0 , , 22.2 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, , 12 , , 7 , , 4 , , 2 , , 40 , , 25 , , 65 , , 20 , , 30 , , 186 , , 0.6 , , 0.3 , , 5.7 , , 3.6 , , 9.3 , , 2.9 , , 4.3 , , 26.6 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 97 ! 36 ! 20 ! 484 ! 404 ! 888 ! 255 ! 236 ! 1749 ! 0.4 ! 0.2 ! 5.0 ! 4.2 ! 9.1 ! 2.6 ! 2.4 ! 18.0

References

External links

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Jonathon Griffin's profile
on the Official WAFL Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Griffin, Jonathon 1986 births Adelaide Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Central District Football Club players East Fremantle Football Club players Fremantle Football Club players Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football Living people Noongar people Peel Thunder Football Club players People educated at Applecross Senior High School People from Bunbury, Western Australia

Football career

Statistics

See also

References

External links