Pearce Hanley

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Pearce Hanley
Pearce Hanley at a Brisbane Lions public training session in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Pearce Hanley
Date of birth	(1988-11-15) 15 November 1988
Place of birth	Ireland
Original team	Mayo (Gaelic football)
Draft	#38, 2008 Rookie Draft, Brisbane Lions #95 (RP), 2009 National Draft, Brisbane Lions
Height/Weight	185cm / 85kg
Position(s)	Midfielder / Defender
Club information
Current club	Brisbane Lions
Number	11
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2008–	Brisbane Lions	76 (29)
International team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	Ireland	2 (0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2013 season.

Pearce Hanley (born 1988 in Ireland) is an Australian rules footballer playing with the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). A former Gaelic footballer, he played for Mayo and Ballaghaderreen GAA club.

Gaelic football

Pearce made his senior debut in 2007 against Cavan.^[1] Hanley had previously won the Ron Barassi Medal for the best player of the International Rules Series for the Irish U-17 international rules team against Australia in 2005.^[2] It was there that he was first scouted by recruiters from Australia and he was targeted for recruitment by the Brisbane Lions as being a potential AFL player.

Australian rules football

In 2007, Pearce was signed by the Brisbane Lions, and put on the rookie list with a view of converting him to Australian rules football.^[3] At the Lions, he was mentored by fellow Irishman Colm Begley who had previously played with the club for a season. Hanley made rapid progress and his adaptation to Australian football was almost as rapid as Begley's. He impressed in an early intra-club hit-out and was a solid performer for the Suncoast Lions.

Called up by coach Leigh Matthews, he made his debut in the final Lions home match in 2008 against the Carlton Football Club in front of a crowd of 35,000 at the Brisbane Cricket Ground, ironically replacing Begley in the side.^[4] At the end of the 2009 season, Hanley was elevated to the lions senior list.

References

↑ http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/orourke-junior-gets-the-callup-for-meath-senior-start-993471.html
↑ http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2007/0801/hanleyp.html
↑ Lions ready to call up raw Irish rookie Pearce Hanley by Ben Dorries from couriermail.com.au 20 August 2008
↑ Ballaghaderreen’s Hanley makes his AFL debut from the Mayo News

External links

Pearce Hanley's profile on the official website of the Brisbane Lions
Pearce Hanley's statistics from AFL Tables

Brisbane Lions – current squad

1 McGuane
2 Harwood
3 Moloney
4 Aish
5 Crisp
6 Green
7 Adcock (c)
8 Bewick
9 McGrath
10 Rich
11 Hanley
12 Martin
13 West
14 Staker
15 Zorko
16 Brown (c)
17 Beams
18 Robertson
19 Lisle
21 Merrett (vc)
22 Paparone
23 Leuenberger
24 Patfull
25 McStay
26 Cutler
27 Gardiner
28 Taylor
29 Raines
30 Redden
31 Polkinghorne
32 Mayes
33 Close
34 Freeman
35 Lester
36 Maguire
37 Wearden
38 Rockliff (vc)
39 Paine
40 Conway*
41 Golby
42 Clarke
43 Hayes*
44 Smith*
45 Bourke*
46 Michael*
47 O'Brien*

Coach: Leppitsch

* denotes Rookie Listed players

v t e 2008 AFL Rookie Draft

First round	1. Clayton Collard 2. Aaron Joseph 3. Trent Zomer 4. James Mulligan 5. Rhys Magin 6. Brent Connelly 7. Phil Smith 8. Glenn Chivers 9. James Moss 10. Matthew O'Dwyer 11. Hugh Sandilands 12. Lewis Stevenson 13. Luke Casey-Leigh 14. Nathan Grima 15. Nick Salter 16. Brodie Moles

Second round	17. Jarrod Silvester 18. Lachlan Hill 19. Austin Wonaeamirri 20. Henry White 21. Jarrod Atkinson 22. Luke Pratt 23. Pat Garner 24. Luke Miles 25. Jared Petrenko 26. Brendan Murphy 27. Tim Walsh 28. Ashley Arrowsmith 29. Kevin Dyas 30. Cruize Garlett 31. Daniel Boyle 32. Jeremy Laidler

Third round	33. Tristan Cartledge 34. David Ellard 35. Jake Spencer 36. John Shaw 37. Calib Mourish 38. Pearce Hanley 39. Andrew McQualter 40. Ed Curnow 41. Jake Orreal 42. Alex Grima 43. Will Sullivan 44. Alan Obst 45. Ryan Willits 46. Chris Kangars

Fourth round	47. Cameron Howat 48. Michael Shields 49. Shane Valenti 50. Ryley Dunn 51. Khan Haretuku 52. Brodie Martin 53. Matthew Beckmans 54. Cameron Stokes 55. Callum Wilson 56. Michael Wundke 57. Shane Mumford

Fifth round	58. Aaron Bruce 59. Beau Wilkes

Sixth round	60. James Wilsen 61. Dean Terlich 62. Ryan Davis

v t e 2009 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Tom Scully (PP) 2. Jack Trengove 3. Dustin Martin 4. Anthony Morabito 5. Ben Cunnington 6. Gary Rohan 7. Brad Sheppard 8. John Butcher 9. Andrew Moore 10. Jake Melksham 11. Jordan Gysberts 12. Kane Lucas 13. Daniel Talia 14. Lewis Jetta 15. Christian Howard 16. Jasper Pittard 17. Daniel Menzel

Second round	18. Luke Tapscott 19. Ben Griffiths 20. Nathan Fyfe 21. Ryan Bastinac 22. Gerrick Weedon 23. Koby Stevens 24. Jake Carlisle 25. Aaron Black 26. Travis Colyer 27. Callum Bartlett 28. Mitch Duncan 29. Jack Gunston 30. Luke Ball 31. Jason Tutt 32. Nicholas Winmar 33. Anthony Long

Third round	34. Max Gawn 35. David Astbury 36. Joel Houghton 37. Jamie Macmillan 38. Sam Reid 39. Sam Grimley 40. Allen Christensen 41. Ayden Kennedy 42. Nathan Vardy 43. Marcus Davies 44. Matt Dea 45. Sam Shaw 46. Ben Stratton 47. Ryan Harwood 48. Jesse Crichton 49. Dylan Roberton

Fourth round	50. Jack Fitzpatrick 51. Troy Taylor 52. Justin Bollenhagen 53. Brayden Norris 54. Byron Sumner 55. Trent Dennis-Lane 56. Josh Cowan 57. Jordan Williams 58. Rhan Hooper 59. Rohan Kerr 60. Jesse W. Smith 61. James Craig 62. Ben Sinclair 63. Lukas Markovic 64. Adam Pattison 65. Jeremy Laidler (RP)

Fifth round	67. Jeromey Webberley 69. Taylor Duryea 70. Matt Suckling (RP) 71. Ben Nason 72. Sam Jacobs (RP) 73. Jesse O'Brien 74. Brodie Martin (RP) 75. Josh Thomas 76. Shane Thorne 77. Will Johnson

Sixth round	79. Greg Broughton (RP) 80. Cruize Garlett (RP) 82. Daniel Stewart (RP) 83. Aaron Joseph (RP) 84. Bryce Retzlaff (RP) 85. Simon Buckley 86. Liam Picken (RP) 87. Zac Dawson (RP) 88. Wade Thompson (RP)

Seventh round	89. Robin Nahas (RP) 90. Kristin Thornton (RP) 91. Matt Maguire 92. James Mulligan (RP) 93. Luke Miles (RP)

Eighth round	94. Andrew Browne (RP) 95. Pearce Hanley (RP)

RP = Rookie Promotion

v t e Ireland football team – 2011 International Rules Series

1 Cluxton (c) 2 Begley 3 Bolton 4 Cadogan 5 Callaghan 6 Donaghy 7 Glynn 8 F. Hanley 9 P. Hanley 11 Hughes 13 Kelly 14 Kennelly 15 Lacey 16 McDonnell 18 McKeever (vc) 19 McKernan 20 McMahon 21 McGee 22 B. Murphy 23 M. Murphy 27 Reilly 28 Tuohy 31 Walsh Coach Tohill

Persondata
Name	Hanley, Pearce
Alternative names
Short description	Gaelic and Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	15 November 1988
Place of birth	Ireland
Date of death
Place of death

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Pearce Hanley

Gaelic football

Australian rules football

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