Travis Johnstone (born 17 July 1980) is an

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er who has played for the

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and

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in the

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(AFL). He is the grandson of former

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player,

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AFL career at Melbourne

Johnstone was the first selection in the 1997 AFL Draft and made his debut in the 1998 season. Johnstone took time to develop into a star player for Melbourne, and for some time was criticised in the football media for underachieving as a number 1 draft selection. In 2002 he finished equal fourth in

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voting, and in 2005 he won his first Melbourne Best and Fairest Award, the

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, and he led the AFL in total kicks. Johnstone gradually developed into a midfielder possessing terrific vision and skill, who in 2006 for the second year in a row, led the team in the Brownlow Medal, with 11 votes. During the year he accumulated 469 disposals at 21 an outing, which included first for inside 50s (87) and third for rebounds from 50 (55), and was also 5th in tackles (77). In 2007 Johnstone struggled to capture his best form and was not helped by an Achilles tendon injury holding him to only 15 games. Johnstone produced a career-high 42 disposals in what would be his final game for the Demons in round 22 against

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. Throughout his career at Melbourne, Travis Johnstone was recognised as one of the AFL's most dangerous and talented midfielders; however, he often struggled for consistency, and finished in the Truscott Medal top ten only twice.

Trade to the Brisbane Lions

On 11 October 2007 it was confirmed that the

had acquired the 27-year-old midfielder from Melbourne for draft pick number 14 in the 2007 national draft, which the Lions had received from Collingwood in a trade for young ruckman

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. This came after weeks of speculation over Johnstone's future with the club. New coach

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was openly looking for high draft picks and Johnstone was considered a more expendable, yet of decent value. After the clubs confirmed Johnstone was now a Lion, the Melbourne Football Club was bombarded with phone calls from angry supporters who were furious that Johnstone was traded, proving that Johnstone was a very popular player among fans. In his debut for the Lions in Round 1, he amassed 20 disposals off the bench in their loss to the

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. The week after, Johnstone managed 22 disposals in Brisbane's nailbiting 2-point win against the

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. Arguably his finest game for Brisbane to date came in the Lions' Round 8, 2008 win over

where Johnstone amassed 32 disposals, six tackles and three goals. In round 11 2010, Johnstone managed a remarkable 37 disposals in a one-point loss to North Melbourne. On 28 October 2010, Johnstone was delisted from the Lions. Johnstone nominated for the 2010 AFL Draft, but began planning to play for the Palmerston Magpies.

Statistics

:Travis Johnstone's Player Profile at AFL Tables
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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 ...

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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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 16 , , 14 , , 15 , , 5 , , 136 , , 59 , , 195 , , 39 , , 18 , , 1.1 , , 0.4 , , 9.7 , , 4.2 , , 13.9 , , 2.8 , , 1.3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 16 , , 22 , , 10 , , 11 , , 355 , , 114 , , 469 , , 116 , , 77 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 16.1 , , 5.2 , , 21.3 , , 5.3 , , 3.5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 16 , , 15 , , 7 , , 5 , , 225 , , 69 , , 294 , , 54 , , 43 , , 0.5 , , 0.3 , , 15.0 , , 4.6 , , 19.6 , , 3.6 , , 2.9 , -style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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; ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 4 , , 18 , , 17 , , 11 , , 251 , , 97 , , 348 , , 85 , , 55 , , 0.9 , , 0.6 , , 13.9 , , 5.4 , , 19.3 , , 4.7 , , 3.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 4 , , 16 , , 6 , , 6 , , 185 , , 134 , , 319 , , 59 , , 41 , , 0.4 , , 0.4 , , 11.6 , , 8.4 , , 19.9 , , 3.7 , , 2.6 , -style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 4 , , 15 , , 1 , , 3 , , 205 , , 125 , , 330 , , 85 , , 42 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 13.7 , , 8.3 , , 22.0 , , 5.7 , , 2.8 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 209 ! 135 ! 87 ! 2650 ! 1035 ! 3685 ! 813 ! 473 ! 0.6 ! 0.4 ! 12.7 ! 5.0 ! 17.6 ! 3.9 ! 2.3

References

External links

Travis Johnstone at the Brisbane Lions website
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Statistics
{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnstone, Travis 1980 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Melbourne Football Club players Brisbane Lions players Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners Dandenong Stingrays players Palmerston Football Club players Chelsea Football Club (Australia) players Redland Football Club players Aspley Football Club players Sandringham Football Club players