Daniel Pratt (footballer)

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Daniel Pratt
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Pratt
Date of birth	(1983-03-21) 21 March 1983
Original team	Northern Eagles (QAFL)
Draft	#42, 2000 National Draft, Kangaroos #16, 2003 Rookie Draft, Brisbane Lions #74, 2004 National Draft. Kangaroos
Height/Weight	185 cm / 93 kg
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2004 2005–2011 Total	Brisbane Lions North Melbourne	3 (1) 116 (9) 119 (10)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2011 season.

Daniel Pratt (born 21 March 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early career

Pratt was taken at pick 42 in the 2000 National AFL Draft from the Northern Eagles in the AFL Queensland league to the Kangaroos. He did not play a game and was delisted at the end of the 2002 season.

Brisbane

Pratt was rookie-listed for 2003 by the Brisbane Lions and spent the year with Northern Eagles. He showed good form and was elevated for 2004. He played three games in 2004 and was not successful. He was subsequently delisted and he nominated for the draft.

North Melbourne

He did not expect that he would be drafted but the Kangaroos decided to take a punt and draft him at pick 74 for 2005. He played 17 games in his first season back at the Kangaroos and impressed Dean Laidley. In 2006 he played 18 games but chose to end his season after surgery which would enable him to start pre-season training with the team on 16 October. Daniel had an outstanding 2007 season gaining some consistency to his game. He ended up playing every game for the Roos and ended up finishing third in the Syd Barker Medal. Pratt was delisted by North Melbourne on 17 October 2011 possibly due to his form or his age, after playing 119 AFL matches.^[1]

Box Hill

With no offers from any AFL club forthcoming, Pratt accepted a two year contract with the Box Hill Hawks. His onfield leadership saw him appointed captain of the VFL team in 2013. Unfortunately due to injury he was not able to play in the 2013 Grand Final in which his team won.

Development coach

Daniel Pratt will join West Coast as a development coach in 2014. Pratt will fill the void left by Adrian Hickmott who has been promoted to a senior assistant role at the Eagles. Pratt is an ex-teammate Adam Simpson at North Melbourne.

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Positions

Daniel Pratt usually plays as a back pocket but can also be deploy as half back flanks or midfield.

Controversies

Chicken video scandal

Pratt was the club ringleader (along with teammate Adam Simpson) in a scandal which involved the uploading of a video to YouTube featuring a condom covered rubber chicken's head sexually penetrating a chicken corpse.^[3] In the video, locations inside North Melbourne club rooms and players names were identifiable. Several groups, including the AFL, the Victorian Women's Trust and National Council of Women of Australia labelled the content of the video highly offensive and sexist to women, treating them as sex objects and openly encouraging of rape.^[4]

Rushed behind incident, round 4 2009

Daniel Pratt was the first victim of the AFL's new rule in regards to deliberately rushed behinds, giving away a free kick for that offence in his side's match against Essendon. Despite this, the Kangaroos won the match.

References

↑ Schmook, Nathan (17 October 2011). "North culls seven". Australian Football League. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
↑ http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-11-04/pratt-joins-simpsons-roo-crew-at-west-coast
↑ "North Melbourne players to give $10,000 to charity over Chookgate". 9 April 2009.
↑ "Women's groups unhappy with North Melbourne's apology". 10 April 2009.

External links

Daniel Pratt's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e 2000 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Nick Riewoldt (PP) 2. Justin Koschitzke 3. Alan Didak 4. Luke Livingston 5. Andrew McDougall 6. Dylan Smith 7. Laurence Angwin 8. Daniel Motlop 9. Kayne Pettifer 10. Jordan McMahon 11. Trent Sporn 12. Shaun Burgoyne 13. Ashley McGrath 14. Daniel Harris 15. Simon Wiggins 16. Scott Thompson 17. James Davies

Second round	18. Daniel Kerr 19. Jason Cloke (F/S) 20. Kane Cornes 21. Nick Ries 22. Richard Hadley 23. Drew Petrie 24. Luke Ablett 25. Mark Coughlan 26. Shane Birss 27. Ted Richards 28. Steven Greene (F/S) 29. Jamie Charman 30. Sav Rocca 31. Blake Campbell 32. Sam Hunt

Third round	33. Martin Pike 34. Ryan Lonie 35. Allen Murray 36. Jeremy Humm 37. Guy Richards 38. Michael Handby 39. Adam McPhee 40. Chris Hyde 41. Andrew Krakouer 42. Daniel Pratt 43. Mark Williams 44. Josh Hunt 45. Trent Carroll 46. Sean O'Keeffe 47. Jordan Bannister 48. Matthew Smith

Fourth round	49. Shane Wakelin 50. Domenic Cassisi 51. Dion Woods 52. Amon Buchanan 53. Hayden Skipworth 54. Jarrad Sundqvist 55. Chris Newman 56. Daniel Cross 57. Steven Sziller 58. Nathan Lonie 59. Luke Hammond 60. Corey Jones 61. Callan Beasy 62. Daniel Breese 63. Marc Bullen

Fifth round	64. Mark Gale 66. Scott Thornton 67. Graham Johncock 70. Wayde Skipper 71. Daniel Lowther 73. Ross Funcke 74. Michael Davis

Sixth round	75. Robert Powell 79. Hamish Simpson 80. Mitchell Craig

Seventh round	82. Daniel Wulf

v t e 2004 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Brett Deledio (PP) 2. Jarryd Roughead (PP) 3. Ryan Griffen (PP) 4. Richard Tambling 5. Lance Franklin 6. Tom Williams 7. Jordan Lewis 8. John Meesen 9. Jordan Russell 10. Chris Egan 11. Adam Thomson 12. Danny Meyer 13. Matthew Bate 14. Angus Monfries 15. Lynden Dunn 16. Adam Pattison 17. Andrew McQualter 18. Cameron Wood 19. Ryan Willits

Second round	20. Dean Polo 21. Thomas Murphy 22. Jesse Wells 23. Sean Rusling 24. Nathan van Berlo 25. Adam Hartlett 26. Matthew Little 27. Pat Garner 28. Chad Gibson 29. Matt Rosa 30. Andrew Lee 31. Jarred Moore 32. Brent Prismall 33. Cain Ackland 34. James Ezard 35. Fabian Deluca

Third round	36. Luke McGuane 37. Mark LeCras 38. Damien McCormack 39. Travis Cloke (F/S) 40. Ivan Maric 41. Luke Blackwell (F/S) 42. Jesse W. Smith (F/S) 43. Michael Newton 44. Mitch Morton (F/S) 45. Justin Sherman 46. Henry Slattery 47. David Spriggs 48. Nathan Ablett (F/S) 49. Mark McGough 50. Jayden Attard 51. Ben Eckermann

Fourth round	52. Dean Limbach 53. Simon Taylor 54. Stephen Tiller 55. Adam Iacobucci 56. Chris Knights 57. Brad Smith 58. Brad Moran 59. Benet Copping 59. Paul Thomas 60. Heath James 61. Matthew Egan 62. James Gwilt 63. Luke Forsyth

Fifth round	65. Mark Graham 67. Toby Stribling 68. Ben Schwarze 69. Daniel Haines 73. Chris Bryan

Sixth round	74. Daniel Pratt 77. Anthony Raso

Persondata
Name	Pratt, Daniel
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	21 March 1983
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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