Clayton Collard

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Clayton Collard
Personal information
Full name Clayton Collard
Date of Birth December 4, 1988 (1988-12-04) (age 19)
Place of Birth Western Australia
Recruited from South Fremantle (WAFL)
Draft 31st overall, 2006
Fremantle
Height/Weight 182cm / 86kg
Position Forward/Midfielder
Club information
Current club Richmond
Number 27
Playing Career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2007
2008-
Total		 Fremantle
Richmond		 1 (1)
0 (0)
1 (1)
¹ Club statistics to end of 2007 season
² Representative statistics to end of {{{repstatsend}}}

Clayton Collard (born December 4, 1988) is an indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He plays as a midfielder or small forward and was selected by the Fremantle Football Club with selection 31 in the 2006 AFL National Draft. He now currently plays for the Richmond Football Club as a rookie listed player, after being selected in the 2007 Rookie Draft at pick 1.

Collard spent the 2006 season playing for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League. He represented Western Australia in the national under 18 championships and is a graduate of the AIS/AFL academy[1].

Clayton made his debut for the Fremantle Dockers against St Kilda in Round 9, 2007. This was extra special being the first game of the inaugural Indingenous Round[2]. He was given the opportunity due to good form in the WAFL for South Fremantle and Jeff Farmer, an idol and mentor of Collard, being suspended by Fremantle [3].

On 22 October 2007 Clayton Collard was delisted by the Fremantle Football Club.[4].

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Davini, Daniel. "Fremantle picks local talent", AFL.com.au, 25 November, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-05-26. 
  2. ^ Bousfield, Andrew. "Debut in Indigenous Round", Fremantlefc.com.au, 24 May, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-26. 
  3. ^ AAP. "Collard to fill Farmer's boots in Dockers debut", The West Australian, 24 May, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-26. 
  4. ^ Sportal. "Dockers dump five players", Sportal.com.au, 22 October, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-22. 
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Richmond Football Club – current squad

1 Newman • 2 Thursfield • 3 Deledio • 4 Raines • 5 Simmonds • 6 Polak • 7 Brown • 8 Riewoldt • 9 Cotchin • 10 Edwards • 11 J. Bowden • 12 Richardson • 13 McMahon • 14 Polo • 15 Pettifer • 17 Johnson • 18 Rance • 19 Putt • 20 Morton • 21 Tuck • 22 Meyer • 23 Jackson • 24 Coughlan • 25 Schulz • 26 Pattison • 27 Collard* • 29 Oakley-Nicholls • 30 Tambling • 31 Hyde • 32 Tivendale • 33 Gourdis • 34 Hughes • 35 White • 36 Silvester* • 37 Casserly • 38 Cartledge* • 39 Connors • 40 Moore • 41 Foley • 42 Collins • 43 Howat* • 44 Graham • 46 King • Coach: Wallace

* denotes Rookie Listed players
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