Matthew Bode

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**Matthew Bode**
Personal information

Birth	June 29, 1979(1979-06-29),
Recruited from	Glenelg (SANFL)
Height and weight	178cm / 77kg
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 1, March 29, 1998, Port Adelaide vs. Sydney Swans, at Football Park
Team(s)	Port Adelaide (1998-2000) 29 games, 25 goals Adelaide (2001-2007) 79 games, 47 goals
¹ Statistics to end of Round 2, 2007 season
Career highlights

Matthew Bode (born June 29, 1979) was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

Debuting in 1998 with the Port Adelaide Football Club, he played as a small forward before moving to the Adelaide Football Club in 2001. He played just one game that year due to injury before having what was easily his best season to date in 2002. 2002 saw Bode boot 22 goals and play all 25 games and he followed this up with another solid year in 2003.

2004 saw him suffer with injury, while in 2005 he had shoulder surgery which sidelined him after Round 2. In 2006 after an average pre-season, he found a niche in the side as Adelaide's main small forward at the start of the premiership season, booting 9 goals in the first 5 rounds. He ended up playing 23 games for the year, scoring a total of 32 goals for the season.

In 2007, he managed just the one game against the Western Bulldogs in Round 2. In this match, he suffered a knee injury that forced him to miss the rest of the season. He was then delisted at the end of the 2007 season. He has returned to play for Glenelg in the 2008 season.