Ben Hudson

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Ben Hudson
Personal information
Full name	Benjamin Hudson
Date of birth	(1979-02-24) 24 February 1979
Original team	Werribee (VFL)
Draft	#58, 2003 National Draft, Adelaide
Height/Weight	199cm / 108kg
Position(s)	Ruckman
Club information
Current club	Collingwood
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2004–2007 2008–2011 2012 2013 Total	Adelaide Western Bulldogs Brisbane Lions Collingwood	055 0(6) 088 0(9) 018 0(3) 007 0(1) 168 (19)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2013 season.

Ben Hudson (born 24 February 1979) is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Collingwood Magpies. He played 55 games for the Adelaide Crows, 88 games for the Western Bulldogs and most recently 18 games for the Brisbane Lions. In November 2012 he joined Collingwood as a ruck coach, and was selected as a mature age rookie list player in the 2012 Rookie Draft.

Early life

Hudson was born in Victoria, but moved to Queensland at a young age where he grew up at Palm Beach, a suburb of the Gold Coast.^[1]

He played basketball until 2000, when he began driving to Brisbane to study at the University of Queensland where he played for the University of Queensland Australian Football Club at 21 years of age as a ruckman. His coach later recommended that he play for Mount Gravatt Football Club where he played under coach Danny Craven.

At Mount Gravatt, he won a Best and Fairest in 2001, before taking part in the club's 2002 premiership side. That year he represented Queensland against Western Australia.

He later returned to Victoria, where he tried out with the Werribee Football Club, where at the relatively late age of 24, Adelaide Football Club talent scouts recognized his skills and lured him to the AFL at pick number 58 in the 2003 AFL Draft.

AFL career

Adelaide Crows

As a mobile ruckman, Hudson enjoyed a successful debut before seriously injuring the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a fall on the eve of the 2005 finals series. He required a full knee reconstruction, which resulted in the return of veteran ruckman Matthew Clarke back from the brink of retirement.

Hudson recovered well from the injury to play in the SANFL late in 2006. He returned to the Crows in 2007 and performed well throughout the year, playing 22 games, garnering 366 hit-outs and finishing second overall in the AFL for hardball gets.^[2]

During the year he was suspended for one week by the club for breaking the team curfew.^[3] He was also allegedly upset by criticism from Adelaide coach Neil Craig.^[4]

On 19 September 2007 Hudson asked to be traded to the Western Bulldogs, after contract negotiations with Adelaide broke down.^[5]

Western Bulldogs

Hudson officially joined the Western Bulldogs on a three-year contract on 12 October 2007, after the Adelaide Football Club's hand was forced into a trade. Hudson has fitted in well at his new club and his superb performance against ladder leaders Hawthorn led coach Alastair Clarkson to name him the trade of the year.

Hudson was elected into the Western Bulldogs Leadership Group by the players for the 2009 Season, joining Captain Brad Johnson, Daniel Giansiracusa, Robert Murphy, Daniel Cross, Matthew Boyd, Dale Morris and Shaun Higgins.

In the Round 11 match against St. Kilda, Hudson was charged with a Level Two striking offence against Leigh Montagna during the second quarter, because the action was considered to be of intentional conduct (three points), low impact (one point) and body contact (one point). A Level Two offence draws 125 demerit points and a one-match sanction. However, because Hudson had no existing good or bad record, an early plea could reduce the penalty by 25 percent to a reprimand and 93.75 points towards his future record, which he accepted.^[6]

Brisbane Lions

On 24 August 2011 Ben Hudson announced that he was to retire from football at the end of the season and move to Queensland, however an offer from the Brisbane Lions talked him out of retirement, and the Bulldogs traded him to the Lions for Pick #70 in the AFL National Draft.

Collingwood Magpies

Hudson announced his intentions to again come out of retirement and started training with Collingwood on 27 November in hopes of them drafting him as a mature aged rookie. On the 11 December, Collingwood drafted him in the 2013 Rookie Draft. Hudson played his first game for Collingwood on 14 April, against Hawthorn.

References

↑ Ben Hudson
↑ Mark Stevens (10 October 2007). "Western Bulldogs get their man Ben Hudson". Herald Sun.
↑ AAP (8 August 2007). "Adelaide trio suspended".
↑ Michelangelo Rucci (6 October 2007). "McLeod proves his value". The Advertiser.
↑ Daniel Brettig (19 September 2007). "Crows resigned to losing Hudson". AAP.
↑ "Match review panel: round 11, 2008". 9 June 2008.

External links

Ben Hudson's profile on the official website of the Collingwood Football Club
Ben Hudson's statistics from AFL Tables

Collingwood Football Club – current squad

1 Fasolo
2 Dwyer
3 Macaffer
4 Grundy
5 Maxwell
6 Goldsack
7 Kennedy
8 Lumumba
9 Clarke
10 Pendlebury (c)
11 Blair
12 Ball
13 Adams
14 Young
15 Witts
16 Brown
17 Beams
18 White
19 Elliott
20 Reid
21 Lynch
22 Sidebottom
23 Keeffe
24 Thomas
25 Hudson*
26 Williams
27 Armstrong
28 Sinclair
29 Broomhead
31 Ramsay
32 Cloke
33 Karnezis
34 Toovey
35 Scharenberg
36 Swan
37 Martin*
38 Yagmoor*
39 Freeman
40 Seedsman
41 Langdon
43 Oxley
44 Gault*
45 Frost*
46 Marsh
48 Mooney*

Coach: Buckley

* denotes Rookie Listed players

v t e 2003 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Adam Cooney (PP) 2. Andrew Walker (PP) 3. Colin Sylvia (PP) 4. Farren Ray 5. Brock McLean 6. Kepler Bradley 7. Kane Tenace 8. Raphael Clarke 9. David Trotter 10. Ryley Dunn 11. Beau Waters 12. Ryan Murphy 13. Brent Stanton 14. Fergus Watts 15. Troy Chaplin 16. Josh Willoughby 17. Billy Morrison 18. Llane Spaanderman

Second round	19. David Mundy 20. Sam Butler 21. Alex Gilmour 22. Cameron Thurley 23. Matthew Moody 24. Chad Jones 25. Harry Miller 26. Daniel McConnell 27. Adam Campbell 28. Jay Nash 29. Tim Schmidt 30. Brad Symes 31. Joshua Krueger 32. Brayden Shaw (F/S) 33. Jed Adcock

Third round	34. Luke Peel 35. Brent Hall 36. Chris Johnson (F/S) 37. Tom Roach (F/S) 38. Mark Blake (F/S) 39. Robert Forster-Knight 40. Eddie Sansbury 41. Zac Dawson 42. Matthew Spencer 43. Brett Peake (F/S) 44. Ricky Dyson 45. Amon Buchanan 46. Michael Pettigrew 47. Andrew Erikson 48. Heath Shaw (F/S) 49. Tom Logan

Fourth round	50. Izaac Tomson 51. Matthew Ball 53. Daniel Jackson 55. Sam Fisher 56. Brent LeCras 57. Ricky Mott 58. Ben Hudson 59. Matthew Davis 60. Julian Rowe 61. Michael Rischitelli

Fifth round	63. Glen Bowyer 64. Shane Morrison 65. Craig Callaghan

Sixth round	69. Jordan Bannister 70. Brent Hartigan

Seventh round	72. Adrian Deluca 73. Shane Tuck

Eighth round	75. Stephen Kenna 76. Andrew Raines

Ninth round	79. Simon Fletcher

Tenth round	81. Kyle Archibald

v t e 2013 AFL Rookie Draft

First round	2. Leigh Osborne 3. Nathan Stark 4. Brett Goodes 5. Kane Mitchell 6. Nick Hayes 7. Ricky Petterd 8. Ariel Steinberg 9. Jaryd Cachia 10. Tim McGenniss 11. Matt Taberner 12. Callum Sinclair 13. Kyle Martin 14. Kyle Hartigan 15. John Ceglar 16. Jake Lloyd

Second round	19. Mitch Clisby 20. Justin Hoskin 21. Callum Bartlett 22. Sam Lonergan 24. Andrew Collins 25. Ben Speight 26. Alex Howson 27. Jamie Bennell 28. Sam Dwyer 30. Ciarán Kilkenny 31. Xavier Richards

Third round	36. Orren Stephenson 37. Cameron Richardson 39. Adam Oxley 40. Jack Osbourne 41. Dane Rampe

Fourth round	44. Cadeyn Williams 46. Jack Frost 47. Tim Klaosen

Fifth round	51. Craig Moller 52. Ben Hudson 58. Brandon Jack

Sixth round	54. Zachary Williams 56. Peter Yagmoor

Seventh round	62. Andrew Boston

Persondata
Name	Hudson, Ben
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	24 February 1979
Place of birth
Date of death
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