Matthew James Lloyd (born 16 April 1978) is a former professional

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er, who played for the

Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their A ...

in the

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(AFL). A highly decorated

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, Lloyd's AFL's honours include being the eighth all-tim
leading goalkicker
in the history of AFL/VFL, with three

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s as leading goalkicker in the league, AFL life membership, as well as winning both the

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and Goal of the Year awards. Among his representative honours are five

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selections, three times representing the Victoria State of Origin team, as well as twice representing Australia in

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. Lloyd has kicked over 100 goals in a season—twice. He also belongs to the small group of players whose first kick in the AFL resulted in a goal.

Early life

Matthew Lloyd was born in Melbourne in 1978 to parents

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(a former VFL footballer who played 29 games for the

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from 1965–1967) and Bev Lloyd. The Lloyds moved to Scotland for three years because of John's work, and it was there that Matthew picked up

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and

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playing for his

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club. Lloyd attended St Martin De Porres Parish Primary School in

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before moving to St. Bernard's College, Melbourne. He supported the

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when he was young because in the first game he attended, Fitzroy player

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kicked nine goals.

Career

AFL

Lloyd was drafted into the AFL as a 16-year-old in the 1995 Pre-season Draft as a "compensatory selection" that was awarded to Essendon by the AFL in return for losing Todd Ridley to the newly formed

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. The Bombers picked up what would be one of their all-time greats for a relative pittance in the draft. Lloyd was heralded as a future football star after his AFL debut in Round 14, 1995, where he scored a goal with his first kick in league football and three for the match. The key features of Lloyd's game were his powerful

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s on the lead (particularly overhead), his use of his body in a defensive capacity and accurate goal kicking, particularly from

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s on his left foot. He converted a large majority of set shots inside the

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and kicked further than 50 metres on a regular basis. Lloyd was known for his ritual when taking set shots at goal. Almost every time, he took time to go far back on the mark, pull both his socks up, and then grab some grass and throw it into the air to measure the wind and take a very long run-up before kicking; this was his method of following advice given to him by coaches to bring down his heart rate in order to focus better. In 2006, the AFL introduced a "shot clock" to limit the amount of time that players had to take set shots; although Lloyd's ritual was not the longest in the league, its quirks made it so well known that the rule became commonly known as the "Lloyd Rule". Lloyd adjusted his ritual to fit into the new rule, and he still retained the most famous aspect (throwing grass) until the end of his career. Lloyd's goal-scoring ability enabled him to top the Essendon goal scoring every year from 1997 to 2009, except for 2006 when he only played three games due to a serious hamstring injury. Matthew lloyd

Lloyd was selected in the

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on five occasions (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003), won the

for kicking the most goals in the regular season three times (2000, 2001 and 2003) and twice kicked more than 100 goals in a completed season (109 in 2000 and 105 in 2001; on both occasions he reached the milestone during the finals). Lloyd was a member of Essendon's 2000 premiership team and was captain of Essendon from 2006 to 2009. He was recognised for his achievements at Essendon in 2002 when he was ranked the 22nd greatest player ever to play for the club in the "

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" list. Lloyd was appointed Essendon captain ahead of the 2006 season after

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elected to stand down following the side's disappointing 2005 season. Lloyd's first match as Essendon captain resulted in a 27-point win over the defending premiers

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, where he kicked eight goals (six of them in the first quarter alone). It would be the only win that Essendon would enjoy under Lloyd's captaincy until exactly a year later.Bombers upset Swans - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
/ref> As well as being the top all-time goal scorer, captain and life member at Essendon, Lloyd was part of its 2000 premiership team. In 2013, Lloyd was inducted as a member of the

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and as a Legend in the Essendon Football Club Hall of Fame.

State of Origin

Lloyd had a successful

State of Origin A State of Origin competition is a type of sporting event between players representing their state or territory. State of Origin began in Australian rules football on 8 October 1977 between Western Australia (WA) and Victoria, at Subiaco Oval ...

career, kicking 8 goals in 3 games. He first played for

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in 1997, against

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, kicking 3 goals, including a

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along the ground from near the boundary line, which went one way then curved back another. In 1998 Lloyd kicked two goals against The Allies, in Brisbane. Lloyd last played for Victoria in 1999 against South Australia in the second-last-ever State of Origin game, kicking 3 goals and being named in the best players.

Career highlights

In Round 20 2007 Lloyd kicked a backheel goal whilst surrounded by opponents and was awarded the ''2007 Goal of the Year''. In Round 18 against the

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, Lloyd took a spectacular mark above five players to win the ''2008 Mark of the Year''. A haul of eight goals in that match gave Lloyd his best return since Round 1, 2006.

Performances against the Sydney Swans

In Round 3, 1999, Lloyd, aged just 21 at the time, kicked a record 13 goals against the

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at the MCG, kicking the first goal of the game and breaking John Coleman's record for most goals kicked by an Essendon player against the Swans.Seven controversial moments of Essendon champ and Hall of Fame inductee Matthew Lloyd
''Herald Sun'', 5 June 2013 In his first game as Essendon captain, also playing against the Sydney Swans, Lloyd kicked eight goals (six in the first quarter against his opponent,

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) He kicked a total of 69 goals playing against the Swans, including the aforementioned 13 in 1999 and eight in the first round of the 2006 season.Matthew Lloyd
''AFL Tables''

Injuries

During Essendon's 1996 preliminary final against the

in Sydney, Lloyd ruptured his spleen in the second quarter. He suffered a large amount of blood loss and spent 10 days in intensive care in a Sydney hospital. In Round 6, 2002 against

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, Lloyd ruptured a tendon in his right ring finger when it was caught in his opponents guernsey. It required surgery to be reattached and he was out for eight weeks. Lloyd returned in Round 14 against the

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when Steven Kretiuk controversially targeted his injured hand. Midway through the third quarter of the Essendon vs

Bulldogs The Bulldog is a British breed of dog of mastiff type. It may also be known as the English Bulldog or British Bulldog. It is of medium size, a muscular, hefty dog with a wrinkled face and a distinctive pushed-in nose.Brian Harris accidentally fell on Lloyd as he tried to mark the ball. Lloyd walked off the ground with the aid of trainers and did not return for the rest of the match. Following scans, a week later it was revealed that the hamstring tendon had been snapped off the bone. Surgery to repair the career-threatening injury took place which ruled him out for the rest of the season. Lloyd's absence from the team was felt hard, as the Bombers finished near the foot of the ladder at season's end. As Lloyd was captain of Essendon and was unable to play for the remainder of the season (his first year in fact),

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was promoted to team captain in Lloyd's absence. Lloyd made a successful comeback against

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in Round 1, 2007. He kicked two goals while working further up the ground, putting to rest any concerns about his injured hamstring. Essendon beat Adelaide by 31 points.

Brad Sewell incident

In Round 22, 2009, Lloyd hit

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with a heavy bump that left him unconscious and with facial injuries, and it led to a brawl between the two teams. In the bitter aftermath of the match, Hawthorn's Campbell Brown called Lloyd "one of the biggest snipers in the game" and said that "his time is coming". Hawthorn coach

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threatened Lloyd and abused an interchange steward and had to be restrained by Hawthorn football manager Mark Evans as the teams left the field. AFL CEO

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defended Lloyd's reputation; Clarkson was fined for his comments and later apologised for the outburst. Essendon went on to win the match by 17 points after trailing by 22 points at the time of the incident, and in the week after the match, Lloyd was given a six-match suspension by the match review panel for the hit on Sewell. This was reduced to four matches after he decided not to appeal the sanction. Lloyd only served one match of his suspension, Essendon's elimination final loss to at

, before announcing his retirement on 23 September 2009.

Statistics

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 18 , , 20 , , 63 , , 33 , , 212 , , 125 , , 272 , , 125 , , 17 , , 3.2 , , 1.7 , , 10.6 , , 3.0 , , 13.6 , , 6.3 , , 0.9 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 18 , , 22 , , 87 , , 40 , , 239 , , 54 , , 293 , , 142 , , 22 , , 4.0 , , 1.8 , , 10.9 , , 2.5 , , 13.3 , , 6.5 , , 1.0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

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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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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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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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Essendon Essendon may refer to: Australia *Electoral district of Essendon *Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington *Essendon, Victoria **Essendon railway station **Essendon Airport *Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League United King ...

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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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Honours and achievements

*Team **

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(

): 2000 **

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(

): 1999, 2000, 2001 **

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(

): 2000 *Individual **

: 2000, 2001, 2003 **

: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 ** Essendon F.C. Leading Goalkicker: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 ** Essendon F.C. Captain: 2006-2009 ** Australian Representative Honours in

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: 2001 **

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: 2001 ** Goal of the Year: 2007 ** Alex Jesaulenko Medal - Mark of the Year: 2008 ** AFL Rising Star Nominee: 1996 (Round 19) ** Champions of Essendon - No. 22 **

inductee

Retirement

On 23 September 2009, Lloyd announced his retirement to a packed media conference at the Essendon Football Club Hall of Fame. Although he had been offered another contract, Lloyd said that "now is my time from a physical and mental point of view" and that he would "...prefer to go a year too early than a year too late." To celebrate Lloyd's career, the Coventry End of

Docklands Stadium Docklands Stadium, also currently known by naming rights sponsorship as Marvel Stadium, is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction started in October 1997 and was ...

is renamed the Lloyd End for Essendon home games. In 2009, Lloyd was appointed assistant coach at the AIS-AFL Academy however he ruled out applying for an AFL coaching position.

Media work

Lloyd co-hosted children's AFL show ''Auskick'n Around'' on

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with Brad Johnson from the

from 2003 until it was cancelled at the end of 2005. In 2006 Lloyd had a weekly spot as a panelist on

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's ''White Line Fever'' and after being forced to spend extended time off the field because of injury, he became recognised for his informative views on all things football – his roles included being a special comments commentator on

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's football coverage as well as more regular appearances on ''

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'', as a panelist. In 2009 Lloyd appeared as a regular panelist on a new show, '' One Week at a Time'', as well as doing special comments on

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and writing a regular column for ''

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'' newspaper. Following his retirement Lloyd has been heavily involved in the media. Lloyd signed with the Network Ten AFL team as an expert commentator for the

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and 2011 AFL seasons on Channel Ten and One HD (he had already provided special commentary during various matches of the

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for the network), until

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lost the rights at the end of the

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. He also worked for radio station SEN, was a co-host of '' The Game Plan'' on One HD during 2011 and continued working for ''The Age''. Lloyd's autobiography (co-authored with Andrew Clarke), ''Straight Shooter'', was released in July 2011. After Network Ten lost the AFL broadcasting rights, Lloyd joined the

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for 2012 to be a panelist on '' The Footy Show'' and '' The Sunday Footy Show''. He also left SEN to join

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's AFL special comments team. In 2013, he joined '' Footy Classified'' as a panelist alongside

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, Craig Hutchison and Caroline Wilson; as well as continuing his regular roles on ''The Sunday Footy Show'' and 3AW Football. Lloyd is also a recurring panelist on ''The Footy Show'' and on occasion appears on ''

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'' to provide insights into the weekly round of matches.

Coaching career

On 14 November 2014 it was announced that Lloyd would return to the Essendon Football Club as a part-time forwards coach, working closely with the club's forwards.

Personal life

Lloyd's parents are

and Bev Lloyd. John Lloyd played 29 games for

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from 1965–1967 and coached the Braybrook Football Club to three premierships. The family moved to Scotland for three years because of John Lloyd's work and it was there that Lloyd played

and

for his

club. Lloyd has two older brothers, Simon, who is an assistant coach at the

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, and

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, who is a former

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player (and former captain of the

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) and now head of football at the

, as well as one older sister, Kylie, who is the Finance Manager at Nine Network Australia. On 9 November 2002, Lloyd married his childhood sweetheart, Lisa-Marie Caparello, usually known as "Lisa", at

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Chapel. Their wedding was covered by ''New Idea'' magazine and a documentary of the day, titled ''One Day in November'', was also aired on

Channel. Lisa Lloyd appeared on The Footy Show's singing competition, ''Screamers'', in 2005 and was also a regular presenter on

's ''Living With Footballers''. The Lloyds have three children; Jaeda Ruby (born December 2006), Kira Grace (born September 2009) and Jacob Matthew (born November 2012).

References

External links

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Essendon Past Players Profile: Matthew Lloyd
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Matthew Essendon Football Club players Essendon Football Club Premiership players Coleman Medal winners All-Australians (AFL) Victorian State of Origin players Champions of Essendon People educated at St. Bernard's College, Melbourne 1978 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Western Jets players Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Australia international rules football team players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players