Will Brodie (born 23 August 1998) is a professional
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 playing for the
Fremantle Football Club
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL), having been initially drafted to the
Gold Coast Suns
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 th ...
.
Early career
He grew up in
Shepparton
Shepparton () ( Yortayorta: ''Kanny-goopna'') is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in northern Victoria, Australia, approximately north-northeast of Melbourne. As of the 2021 census, the estimated population of Shepparton, ...
before accepting a scholarship to attend
Scotch College in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
. He was drafted by Gold Coast with their third selection and ninth overall in the
2016 national draft.
AFL career
He made his debut in the thirty-five point loss against at
TIO Traeger Park in round ten of the 2017 season.
Brodie started to find some consistency with his football early in the
2019 AFL season, however, a hamstring injury caused him to miss the remainder of the year. Brodie played the first round of the
2020 AFL season but the
Covid-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
related shutdown of the competition saw him out of the side and unable to break back in that season.
Brodie played five games for Gold Coast in 2021. Following the
2021 AFL season, Brodie was traded to . Brodie made his debut for Fremantle during their one point win over at
Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby ...
in round one of the
2022 AFL season. Brodie played every game of the 2022 season a career best and established himself as an important part of Fremantle's midfield.
Statistics
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
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Notes
References
External links
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1998 births
Living people
Gold Coast Football Club players
Murray Bushrangers players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne
Fremantle Football Club players
Sportspeople from Shepparton
Peel Thunder Football Club players
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