Clay Sampson

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Clay Sampson
Personal information
Full name	Clay Sampson
Date of birth	(1976-02-24) 24 February 1976
Original team	South Adelaide
Draft	51st overall, 1994 AFL Draft
Height/Weight	178 cm / 78 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1995–1996 1997–1998 1999–2000 Total	Melbourne Adelaide Richmond	13 (1) 24 (16) 27 (18) 64 (35)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2000 season.

Clay Sampson (born 24 February 1976) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Clay debuted for South Adelaide in 1994 before being drafted and going on to play 64 AFL games at three different AFL clubs.^[1]

He returned to South Adelaide in 2001, before officially retiring in 2008. He was appointed Assistant Coach at the start of the 2008 season, before being thrust into the head coaching position, when John "Jack" Cahill resigned midway through the season. Clay was appointed until the end of the 2009 season.

Clay now coaches Myponga-Sellicks Football Club in the Great Southern Football League.

Career

Melbourne: 1995–96, 13 games, 1 goal.^[1]
Adelaide: 1997–98, 24 games, 16 goals.^[1]
Richmond: 1999–2000, 27 games, 18 goals.^[1]
South Adelaide Football Club

Player honours

1997 Premiership player with Adelaide^[1]
2003–2006 South Adelaide captain
2001 South Adelaide leading goalkicker

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2003). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (5th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 643. ISBN 1-74095-032-1.

External links

Clay Sampson's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Adelaide Football Club 1997 AFL Premiers

Adelaide 19.11 (125) defeated St Kilda 13.16 (94), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 26. Bickley 3. Jarman 5. Koster 7. Smart 9. Edwards 10. Robran 11. James 13. Ellen 14. Connell 18. Bond 20. Keating 23. McLeod 24. Sampson 15. Pittman 28. Johnson 34. Hart 35. Jameson 36. Goodwin 42. Rintoul 44. Caven 52. Rehn

Coach: Blight

1994 AFL National Draft

1. Jeff White
2. Anthony Rocca
3. Shannon Grant
4. Scott Lucas
5. Joel Smith
6. Robert McMahon
7. Tony Brown
8. Daniel Harford
9. Ben Wilson
10. Blake Caracella
11. Damien Ryan
12. Shane Sikora
13. Chris Hemley
14. Michael Martin
15. Scott Camporeale
16. Adem Yze
17. Carl Steinfort
18. Robert Di Rosa
19. Ben Holland
20. Stuart Mangin
21. Matthew Nicks
22. Winston Abraham
23. John Rombotis
24. Matthew Manfield
25. Steven Sziller
26. Tim Elliott
27. Toby Kennett
28. Shawn Lewfatt
29. Jason Torney
30. Chad Liddell
31. Allen Nash
32. Simon Cox
33. Mark Cullen
34. Michael Polley
35. Marty Warry
36. Matthew Robbins
37. Ashley Blurton
38. Matthew Collins
39. Stephen Carter
40. Michael O'Loughlin
41. Adam White
42. Douglas Headland
43. Dean Matthews
44. Jeremy Dyer
45. Gary Moorcroft
46. Justin Charles
47. Robert Ahmat
48. Austinn Jones
49. Shaun Baxter
50. Brett Higgins
51. Clay Sampson
52. Danny Stevens
53. Mark Orchard
54. Ian Downsborough
55. Mark Belleville
56. Ryan Smith
57. Emil Parthenides
58. Peter Bird
59. Nathan Saunders
60. Brad Scott
61. Stephen Zavalas
62. Justin Blumfield
63. Ross Funcke
64. Robert Powell
65. Lee Fraser
66. Scott Taylor
67. Anthony Bourke
68. Luke Norman
69. Dean Helmers
70. Adam Benjamin
71. Jason Spinks
72. Dean Grainger
73. Sam McFarlane
74. Troy Luff
75. Gerard Jess
76. Todd McHardy
77. Ben Dixon
78. Daryl Griffin
79. Aaron Hamill
80. Ben Atkins
81. Tim Allen
84. Doug Hawkins
85. Michael Agnello
86. Shaun Gordon
87. Simon Arnott
88. Nathon Irvin
89. David Nicholson
90. Matthew Joy
93. Michael Murphy
94. Jade Rawlings
95. Kym Eyers

Persondata
Name	Sampson, Clay
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	24 February 1976
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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