Jason Norrish

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**Jason Norrish**
Personal Info
Birth	January 26, 1972,
Recruited from	Claremont Football Club
Playing Career¹
Debut	Round 14, July 3, 1993, Melbourne vs. St Kilda, at Waverley Park
Team(s)	Melbourne (1993-1994) 20 games, 2 goals Fremantle (1995-2002) 128 games, 24 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season
Career Highlights
Fremantle FC Best and Fairest 1998 Vice-captain Fremantle 1999-2001

Jason Norrish (born January 26, 1972) is an Australian rules footballer. Norrish plays as a defensive midfielder and began his football career at the Claremont Tigers.

1 Early career
2 Melbourne Demons
3 Fremantle Dockers
4 External links

[edit] Early career

Norrish grew up in Bunbury where he attended Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School. He represented WA in the State Schoolboys national championships before moving to Perth to attend Hale School. In 1990 he made his debut for Claremont and the following year played in the Tiger's premiership side. At the 1991 national draft he was taken by Melbourne with the 5th selection, with 3 other Claremont teammates selected before him. Norrish stayed at Claremont for the 1992 season, before moving to Melbourne in 1993.

[edit] Melbourne Demons

Norrish made his debut towards the end of the 1993 season and played in 5 of their last 9 games. The following year he missed the first 7 games, before playing in most of the remaining games, including all three finals.

[edit] Fremantle Dockers

With the introduction of the Fremantle Dockers to the AFL, coached by Norrish’s Claremont premiership coach Gerard Neesham, he was targeted as a priority signing. He returned as an uncontracted player and Melbourne were able to select Don Cockatoo-Collins as compensation. Hampered by injury in his first three seasons at the new club, he played all 22 games in 1998 and won named the club champion award by one vote from Adrian Fletcher. He claimed it was an award that recognised that he was 'just doing his job properly'. His reputation and standing amongst the team was recognised in 1999 when he was named as a vice-captain, a position he held through to the 2001 season. In 2001 he became only the third player to play 100 games for Fremantle.

Following his retirement from AFL in 2002, he returned to Claremont and played for a further season before work commitments resulted in his retirement from all league football. In total he played 66 games for Claremont, 20 for Melbourne, 128 for Fremantle and 1 state game for Western Australia. He was inducted into the WA Two Hundred Club in 2003.