Campbell Brown (footballer)

Campbell Brown
Playing for Hawthorn during the 2007 AFL season
Personal information
Full name	Campbell Brown
Date of birth	(1983-08-28) 28 August 1983
Place of birth	Perth, Australia
Original team	Oakleigh Chargers (TAC Cup)
Draft	#32, 2001 National Draft, Hawthorn
Height/Weight	179cm / 81.5kg
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2002–2010 2011–2013 Total	Hawthorn Gold Coast	159 0(64) 046 0(45) 205 (109)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
2008	Victoria	1 (1)
International team honours
2006–2008	Australia	4
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 2013 season.
Career highlights
Hawthorn premiership side, 2008 All-Australian Team, 2007 AFL Rising Star nominee, 2002 International Rules series, 2006 & 2008 Inaugural Gold Coast team

Campbell Brown (born 28 August 1983) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was a member of Hawthorn's 2008 AFL Grand Final premiership winning team, but his career was abruptly ended when he was fired for an off field incident with a Gold Coast teammate during the 2014 pre-season.^[1]

AFL career

Brown is the son of Australian rules football player and 2004 West Australian Football League Hall of Fame inductee Mal Brown,^[2] and attended Scotch College, Melbourne and Deakin University where he studied Sports Management.^[3]

Hawthorn career (2002–2010)

Brown wore the number 30 guernsey and became noted for his overall aggression and toughness.^[4] He debuted for the Hawks in 2002, and received a nomination for the Rising Star award.

Brown was in the squad for the Australian international rules football team which competed in the International Rules Series in 2006.

In 2007, Brown held down the centre half back position for Hawthorn, a position usually held by a taller man; Brown being only 179cm. He was awarded a place in the All-Australian team for his efforts. The same year, Brown was fined $15,000 for giving misleading information to the AFL Tribunal about a misconduct charge involving West Coast's Chris Judd.^[5] Vision appeared to show Judd's hand on Brown's face with fingers around Brown's eyes. Brown's evidence at the Tribunal led to the charge against Judd being dropped.

He was part of the Hawthorn premiership team of 2008 that beat Geelong.

During trade week 2009, Brown was allegedly put up for trade, with Hawthorn supposedly chasing Port Adelaide star Shaun Burgoyne. Hawthorn fans and Brown reacted badly to this suggestion with club President Jeff Kennett and coach Alastair Clarkson subsequently confirming the story was untrue.^[6]

Gold Coast Suns (2011–2013)

On 7 September 2010 it was rumoured that Brown would be leaving the Hawks to join new AFL club, the Gold Coast Suns. On 14 September 2010, Brown declined a contract offer from Hawthorn, and he subsequently signed a contract with Gold Coast.

In his second game for Gold Coast, Brown was suspended for four weeks. The AFL match review panel handed Brown a two-match suspension for an off-the-ball elbow to Callan Ward's face and a further two for a high bump on Barry Hall as he bent over to gather the ball.^[7]

On 6 August 2011, Brown broke his pelvis while playing against Geelong at Skilled Stadium. The injury ended his 2011 season.^[8]

At the end of the 2011 AFL season, Brown was removed from the Suns' leadership group after being involved in a bar fight during the club's end of season trip to Thailand.^[9]

In November 2013, following a pre-season camp in Arizona, Brown was accused of breaking the jaw of a team mate, Steven May, during a fight in Los Angeles.^[10] May required an operation and had two plates implanted to repair the break in his left jaw. On 28 November 2013, Brown was suspended by the club pending the outcome of an investigation into this incident.^[11] On 4 December 2013 Brown was released from the Gold Coast Suns as a result of the incident with May.^[1]

Brown's career ended with a total of 28 weeks suspension.^[9]

References

External links

• Campbell Brown's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Australian squad – 2006 International Rules Series Captains: Fletcher & Hall Bateman Brown Crowley Davey Davis Fevola Fisher Gilbee Goddard Johncock Lappin McDonald Mundy O'Keefe Peake Pearce Raines Schneider Selwood Sherman Simpson Stanton Voss Coach: Sheedy

v t e Australian squad – 2008 International Rules Series Captain: Harvey Bock Boyd Brennan Brown Burgoyne Campbell Crowley Firrito Foley Hayden Montagna Motlop Murphy Osborne Pendlebury Petrie Rodan Rooke Sewell Simpson Selwood Thomas Thompson Wells Coach: Malthouse