Donald McDonald (footballer)

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Donald McDonald
Personal information
Full name	Donald McDonald
Date of birth	(1962-05-10) 10 May 1962
Original team	St. Brendan's
Height/Weight	191 cm / 97 kg
Position(s)	Ruck, key position
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1982–1992	North Melbourne	155 (165)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2004	Hawthorn	5 (2–3–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1992 season. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 2004.
Career highlights
North Melbourne leading goalkicker, 1984

Donald McDonald (born 10 May 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach.^[1]

Playing career

Recruited from St. Brendan's, McDonald debuted with the North Melbourne Football Club in the VFL in 1982. He was a tall player who could play key position or in the ruck, and in 1984 won the Kangaroos' leading goalkicker award. He played in the VFL until 1992, having amassed 155 games and 165 goals.

Coaching career

McDonald became captain-coach of Werribee in the VFA, and coached the club to a premiership victory in 1993.

From 2000 to 2002 he was non-playing coach of the Box Hill Hawks in the VFL, and coached the club to a premiership victory in 2001, defeating his former club Werribee in the grand final.

In 2004, McDonald took over from Peter Schwab when he was sacked from the Hawthorn Football Club coaching job late in the season following a dismal season. He was promoted from assistant coach to caretaker, with four matches left to go. Hawthorn won two of them. but was not retained for the 2005 season, instead, Alistair Clarkson took over the top job. McDonald became assistant coach at his old club, North Melbourne Kangaroos, for the 2005 season.

References

↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2003). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (5th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 468. ISBN 1-74095-032-1.

External links

Donald McDonald's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Coaches of the Hawthorn Football Club

1914: Gough 1915: P.Woods 1919: McKenzie 1920: Alley 1920-1921: Rademacher 1922-1924: Walton 1925: Hall 1926–1927: Minogue 1928: Sutton 1929: Chadwick 1930–1931: Harris 1932: Jackson 1933: Phillips 1933: Rademacher 1933–1934: Twomey 1935–1938: McAlpine 1939: Thomas 1940–1941: Mills 1942–1943: Cazaly 1944: Lahiff 1945–1946: Shea 1947–1949: Albiston 1950–1951: McCaskill 1952–1959: Hale 1960–1963: Kennedy 1964–1965: Arthur 1966: O'Donohue 1967–1976: Kennedy 1973: Simonds 1977–1980: Parkin 1981–1987: Jeans 1988: Joyce 1989–1990: Jeans 1991–1993: Joyce 1994–1995: Knights 1996–1999: Judge 2000–2004: Schwab 2001: Connolly 2004: McDonald 2005–: Clarkson

Italics denote caretaker coach

North Melbourne Football Club · Leading Goalkickers

1925: Woods
1926: Metcalf
1927: Tyson
1928: Nolan
1929: Dowling
1930: Mathews
1931: Lewis
1932: Fitzmaurice
1933: Fitzmaurice
1934: Fitzmaurice
1935: Lewis
1936: Cassidy
1937: Anderson
1938: Murray
1939: Murray
1940: Murray
1941: Murray
1942: Murray
1943: Findlay
1944: Findlay
1945: Findlay
1946: Dyer
1947: Dyer
1948: Condon
1949: Spencer
1950: Spencer
1951: Spencer
1952: Spencer
1953: Marchesi
1954: Spencer
1955: Spencer
1956: Spencer
1957: Dugdale
1958: Dugdale
1959: Schofield
1960: Dugdale
1961: Dugdale
1962: Dugdale
1963: Dugdale
1964: Dugdale
1965: Goode
1966: Goode
1967: G. Farrant
1968: D. Farrant
1969: Kekovich
1970: G. Farrant
1971: Kekovich
1972: Doolan/Kekovich
1973: Wade
1974: Wade
1975: Wade
1976: Schimmelbusch
1977: Crosswell
1978: Blight
1979: Blight
1980: Briedis
1981: Blight
1982: Blight
1983: P. Krakouer/J. Krakouer
1984: McDonald
1985: P. Krakouer
1986: J. Krakouer
1987: P. Krakouer
1988: J. Krakouer
1989: Fairley
1990: Longmire
1991: Longmire
1992: Longmire
1993: Longmire
1994: Longmire
1995: Carey
1996: Carey
1997: Allison
1998: Carey
1999: Carey
2000: Carey
2001: Rocca
2002: Rocca
2003: Harding
2004: Rocca
2005: Thompson
2006: Thompson
2007: Jones
2008: Hale
2009: Petrie
2010: Thomas
2011: Petrie
2012: Petrie
2013: Thomas

Persondata
Name	McDonald, Donald
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	10 May 1962
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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