Rex Liddy is a former professional
Australian rules football player at the
Gold Coast Football Club
The Gold Coast Suns is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based on Queensland's Gold Coast in the suburb of Carrara.
The club has been playing in the AFL since the ...
.
Early life
Liddy was raised in
Hopevale
Hope Vale (also known as Hopevale) is a town within the Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale and a coastal locality split between the Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale and the Shire of Cook, both in Queensland, Australia. It is an Aboriginal community. I ...
and
Cairns, Queensland
Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...
, the nephew of
Matt Bowen, he was raised Indigenous and speaking
Guugu Yimithirr language
Guugu Yimithirr, also rendered Guugu Yimidhirr, Guguyimidjir, and many other spellings, is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Guugu Yimithirr people of Far North Queensland. It belongs to the Pama-Nyungan langu ...
.
[Cairns junior Rex Liddy on Saturday night will become the 11th Queenslander to debut in the AFL this year](_blank)
10 June 2011 Liddy was identified by talent scouts and entered into the AFL KickStart program.
He began playing with North Cairns Tigers in
AFL Cairns
AFL Cairns is a semi-professional Australian rules football league that includes clubs from the Cairns region in Queensland, Australia. It is widely regarded as the strongest regional Australian rules football league in Queensland and has a lar ...
. He joined the
Flying Boomerangs in South Africa in 2008 before moving to Brisbane, where he studied at
St Peters Lutheran College
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and played with the
Kenmore Bears.
Liddy was one of the Gold Coast's zone priority selections.
AFL career
Liddy debuted in the Gold Coast's first season, in
2011. He made his debut in Round 12, against . At the end of the 2011 season, Liddy announced he had "lost the passion to train and play at the elite level".
Personal life
Liddy is the nephew of leading
Rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 11 ...
player
Matt Bowen.
Statistics
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2011
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, 33 , , 4 , , 0 , , 0 , , 10 , , 14 , , 24 , , 7 , , 4 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 2.5 , , 3.5 , , 6.0 , , 1.8 , , 1.0
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! 4
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! 14
! 24
! 7
! 4
! 0.0
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! 2.5
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! 6.0
! 1.8
! 1.0
References
External links
*
Rex Liddy Player Profile, Gold Coast Suns
1992 births
Living people
Gold Coast Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Queensland
Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football
Australian rules football players from Cairns
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