Marcus James Drum (born 1 May 1987) is an

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 in the

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(AFL) for the Fremantle Football Club between 2006 and 2009 before he was traded to

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

during the 2009 trade week. In July 2011 Geelong announced that Drum had retired due to ongoing injury problems.Bradshaw, Finn (21 July 2011
Geelong Cats defender Marcus Drum calls it quits

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In October 2013 he joined as a player welfare manager. Recruited from the Murray Bushrangers, Drum is the nephew of former

player,

Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for ...

coach and current

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Nationals MLC

Damian Drum Damian Kevin Drum (born 28 July 1960) is an Australian politician who has represented Murray and Nicholls in the Australian House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election as a member of The Nationals. Drum served as the Assistant Mi ...

. He is a nephew of champion Richmond player and coach

Francis Bourke Francis William Bourke (born 2 April 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach who represented Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1967 and 1981, and coached the club in 1982 and 1983. A key figure in a suc ...

and cousin of Richmond and North Melbourne player

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. He is also a cousin of Geelong and St Kilda player Steven King, through their mothers. In the 2005 National Draft, Drum was selected with the 10th overall draft pick.

AFL career

Fremantle (2006–2009)

Drum played five games in the 2006 AFL season, and won Fremantle's Beacon Award for the best up-and-coming player at the club's

Doig Medal The Doig Medal is the best and fairest award given out to the player considered best and fairest during a season for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL. It was renamed in 2000 after the legendary Fremantle footballing family, the Doigs, who h ...

dinner in October 2006.Middleton, Katie
Youngsters Sign on until 2009
; 16 May 2007 He did not play until round 16 in the 2007 AFL season, when new coach

Mark Harvey Mark Harvey (born 11 June 1965) is a former Australian rules football player and coach. He played over 200 games during fourteen seasons with the Essendon Football Club, winning three premierships, and was senior coach of Fremantle from 2007 t ...

chose him in the squad to take on

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

AAMI Stadium Football Park, known commercially as AAMI Stadium, was an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, Australia. It was built in 1973 by the South Australian Nat ...

. In a win for Fremantle, he kicked 4 handy goals for the team. However, he only played two more matches for the season, against

in round 17 and

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in round 22.

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saw Drum play 9 games, his highest annual tally to date, including the final four matches. After playing in the opening round of the

2009 AFL season The 2009 AFL season was the 113th 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 ...

, Drum didn't return to the AFL until Round 19, when he again played the final four games. During the season his form for

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

in the WAFL was poor, but despite this he was a surprise selection for the last four games. During the 2009 AFL trade week, Drum was traded to Geelong for a third round draft pick, number 49 overall.Broad, Ben (8 October 2009
Mumford heads to Swans, Geelong gets Drum

Geelong (2010–2011)

Due to a succession of injuries, including a detached retina and injuries to his

Achilles tendon The Achilles tendon or heel cord, also known as the calcaneal tendon, is a tendon at the back of the lower leg, and is the thickest in the human body. It serves to attach the plantaris, gastrocnemius (calf) and soleus muscles to the calcaneus (h ...

and hamstring, Drum struggled to play regularly for Geelong's side in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL) and never made his senior debut for Geelong in the AFL. In the middle of the

2011 AFL season The 2011 AFL season was the 115th 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 s ...

he announced his retirement from AFL football after only playing 6 games in two seasons in the VFL.

Statistics

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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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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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2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

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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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References

External links

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WAFL profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Drum, Marcus Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fremantle Football Club players Perth Football Club players 1987 births Living people Murray Bushrangers players