Rhett Biglands

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Rhett Biglands
Personal information
Full name	Rhett Biglands
Date of birth	(1977-09-04) 4 September 1977
Original team	Woodville-West Torrens (SANFL)
Height/Weight	198cm / 104kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2000 – 2008	Adelaide	134 (59)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2008 season.
Career highlights
Pre-season premiership player, 2003

Rhett Biglands (born 4 September 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

Career

He made his debut as an 18 year old in the SANFL with Woodville West Torrens kicking 5 goals in his first match. He was then drafted by Port Adelaide Power and placed on their inaugural list in 1997. After 2 groin reconstructions in the one year he returned to the SANFL. In the 1999 season he was equal 3rd in the Magarey Medal, played for South Australia against Victoria on the MCG and made The Advertiser SANFL team of the Year.

Selected by the Crows with their first pick and debuting in the AFL in 2000 as a full back playing on Alistair Lynch, Biglands then made his name as a ruckman with the Adelaide Crows. He was one of the Crows’ best ruckmen for many years in a successful finals era for the club. He played in the 2003 pre season premiership side and amassed 134 games including 59 goals and 11 Finals appearances.

But he suffered a serious knee injury in the first quarter of the 2006 preliminary final vs the West Coast Eagles at AAMI Stadium. Biglands and several other players dived for the ball in a desperate scramble in front of the interchange bench. As Biglands dived forward, his teammate Nathan Van Berlo dived heavily into his left leg snapping Biglands' left leg about 30 degrees causing him to clutch the knee and tearing the ACL inside his knee; he limped off and attempted to come back, but was to no avail. After missing the 2007 season due to reconstructive surgery of the knee, he sustained instability in the knee during a summer training session as the reconstructed ligament gave away. He had a second reconstruction on the knee in late February 2008.

On 18 August 2008, Rhett officially retired from AFL due to the prolonged recovery from the knee injury. He was given a lap of honour of AAMI Stadium, before the 2008 round 22 game against the Western Bulldogs.

Rhett then went on to work as a breakfast radio announcer with SAFM in Adelaide and is currently an AFL radio commentator with Triple M.

He then worked full-time at the Adelaide Crows in the Commercial Operations department and is a youth ambassador for "The Conservation Volunteers of Australia" and "Can Do for Kids".

He is still involved with Woodville West Torrens in the SANFL as an assistant coach.

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Rhett Biglands's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e 1999 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Josh Fraser 2. Paul Hasleby 3. Aaron Fiora 4. Matthew Pavlich 5. Leigh Brown 6. Damian Cupido 7. Danny Roach 8. Joel Corey 9. Caydn Beetham 10. Luke McPharlin 11. Darren Glass 12. Paul Koulouriotis 13. Robert Murphy 14. Travis Gaspar 15. David Spriggs 16. David Haynes 17. Ezra Bray

Second round	18. Rhyce Shaw 19. Brad Green 20. Paul Wheatley 21. Scott Stevens 22. Ezra Poyas 23. Daniel Foster 24. Jason Blake 25. Brett Johnson 26. Stephen Doyle 27. Cain Ackland 28. Brent Guerra 29. Adam Hunter 30. Jonathan Brown (F/S) 31. Paul Chapman 32. Daniel Giansiracusa 33. Tim Clarke 34. Leon Davis

Third round	35. Patrick Wiggins 36. Rhett Biglands 37. Mitch Hahn 38. Cameron Ling 39. Scott Homewood 40. David Hille 41. Kane Munro 42. Michael Clark 43. Lindsay Gilbee 44. Shane Morrison (F/S) 45. Marcus Pickett 46. Adam Butler 47. Corey Enright 48. Chance Bateman 49. Ben Cunningham 50. Matthew Whelan

Fourth round	51. Ricky O'Loughlin 52. Andrew Mills 53. Clayton Lassock 54. Murray Pitts 55. Tim Hazell 56. Ryan O'Keefe 57. Steven Brosnan 58. Patrick Bowden 59. John Barnes 60. Richard Kelly 61. Mark Ainley 62. Ben Johnson 63. Shannon O'Brien 64. Cameron Bruce 65. Justin Cicolella 66. Ryan Hargrave

Fifth round	67. Robert Shirley 68. Tony Delaney 69. Bill Nicholls 70. Brett Allison 72. Robert Forster-Knight 73. Ryan Houlihan 74. Matthew Burton 75. Dale Baynes 77. Lindsay Smith 78. Ty Zantuck 79. Balraj Singh 80. Jeremy Dukes 81. Troy Makepeace 82. Nick Stone

Sixth round	83. Matthew Shir 86. Trent Hotton 87. Christian Woodley 88. Michael Clark 90. Andrew Merrington 92. Adam Mathews 93. Joe Allen

Persondata
Name	Biglands, Rhett
Alternative names
Short description	Australian footballer
Date of birth	4 September 1977
Place of birth
Date of death
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