Scott Selwood

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Scott Selwood
Personal information
Full name	Scott Francis Selwood
Date of birth	(1990-03-27) 27 March 1990
Place of birth	Bendigo, Victoria
Original team	Sandhurst
Draft	22nd overall, 2007 National Draft
Height/Weight	185 cm / 80 kg
Club information
Current club	West Coast
Number	10
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2008–	West Coast	110 (32)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2013 season.
Career highlights
West Coast Club Champion 2012

Scott Francis Selwood (born 27 March 1990) is an Australian rules footballer currently listed with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Bendigo, Victoria, Selwood is the youngest of four brothers (Adam, Troy, Joel, and himself) that have all played in the AFL. He played under-18 football for the Bendigo Pioneers in the TAC Cup before being selected by West Coast with the 22nd pick overall in the 2007 National Draft. Selwood made his debut for West Coast in round three of the 2008 season, and has played a total of 92 games for the club, mainly as a tagger or inside midfielder. He was the winner of West Coast's Club Champion Award in 2012 as the best and fairest at the club.^[1]

Career

Originally from Bendigo, Victoria, where he attended Catholic College Bendigo, Selwood was recruited from the Bendigo Pioneers with the West Coast Eagles' fourth pick and number 22 overall in the 2007 AFL Draft. He made his debut against Fremantle in the Round 3 Western Derby in 2008. He was retained in the team for the Round 4 match against the Sydney Swans, but was dropped after a poor performance, obtaining only nine possessions.

Selwood returned to the senior side in Round 16, three months after his previous game, against the Brisbane Lions at the expense of veteran Michael Braun. Although a poor performance, amassing a six possessions, he was retained for the unexpected win against St Kilda. This time he gave a greater output, gaining a career high 15 possessions and also scoring his first goal. Selwood is currently trying to have a regular place in the senior side.

Over his first four games, Selwood has averaged 11 possessions per game. In the 2011 football season he has averaged 19 disposals, and 8.4 tackles per game (the fourth highest tackle per game average in the AFL), for a total of 67, the third highest total in the AFL. Selwood finished the 2011 regular season with the highest amount of tackles made of any player for the season.

In his first four games of the 2012 season he made an immense contribution to a side in contention for the premiership, averaging 30.7 disposals, 8 marks, 4.3 tackles and 1.3 goals, as well as the 8th highest average Supercoach score in the league. He continued his outstanding form throughout the 2012 season, playing predominantly as a tagger and midfielder depending on the opposition. He capped off a stellar season by winning the West Coast Eagles club champion award, ahead of team mates Dean Cox and Shannon Hurn.

Selwood was widely regarded as being amongst the best taggers in the competition, with notable shut-down roles on Chris Judd, Dayne Beams and David Mundy however in recent seasons he has moved away from a tagger role and more into a lead midfielder role with many describing his and Luke Shuey's midfielder-ruckman combination with Nic Naitanui as similar to that of Daniel Kerr, Ben Cousins and Chris Judd with Dean Cox in the West Coast Eagles 2005 and 2006 teams.

Selwood along with brother Adam and teammates such as Luke Shuey and Ashton Hams have often been criticised by AFL commentators and coaches, and then eventually AFL fans, for supposedly 'ducking' in tackles to get free kicks.^[2] Selwood and his teammates have received some support from the AFL community, AFL boss Andrew Demetriou and their coach John Worsfold who all agree that there have not been rule breeches in this area by these players.^[3]

Personal life

Selwood has three elder brothers who are also footballers, the twins Adam (who previously played for West Coast) and Troy (who previously played for Brisbane) and Joel, who is currently the captain of Geelong. In June 2007, the Selwood brothers and their parents, Maree and Bryce, were named AFL celebrity ambassadors for Seeing Eye Dogs Australia.^[4] Selwood lived with teammates Luke Shuey and Brad Ebert until late 2011 when Ebert left the West Coast Eagles and moved home to South Australia to play for the Port Adelaide Football Club

References

↑ Young Selwood is best Eagle – West Coast Eagles. Published 5 October 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
↑ Chadwick, Justin (23 April 2012). "Hawks blast Eagles for ducking tactics". The Roar. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
↑ Smith, Martin (9 May 2012). "West Coast coach John Worsfold denies his players purposely duck to win high tackle free kicks". Fox Sports. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
↑ McClure, Geoff (15 June 2007). "Paddle Pops out, Jeff goes for the doctor". The Age. Retrieved 2008-03-21.

External links

Scott Selwood's statistics from AFL Tables

West Coast Eagles – current squad

1 Brown
2 LeCras
3 Gaff
4 Sheed
5 Sheppard
6 Yeo
7 Masten
8 Waters
9 Naitanui
10 Selwood (vc)
11 Priddis
12 Wellingham
13 Shuey
14 Brennan
15 Cripps
16 Mackenzie
17 Kennedy (vc)
18 Ellis
19 Carter
20 Cox
21 Colledge
22 Sinclair*
23 Glass (c)
24 Rosa
25 Hurn
26 Butler
27 Darling
28 Smith
29 Lycett
30 Wilson
31 Schofield
32 Tunbridge
33 Hill
34 Hutchings
35 McGinnity
36 McInnes
37 Barrass
38 Newman*
39 Karpany
40 Main
41 Maginness*
42 McGovern
43 Powell*
44 Bennell

Coach: Simpson

*rookie-listed player

v t e Club Champion Award · John Worsfold Medal Winners

1987: Malaxos 1988: Worsfold 1989: McKenna 1990: Lewis 1991: Turley 1992: Kemp 1993: Jakovich/Pyke 1994: Jakovich 1995: Jakovich 1996: Banfield 1997: Matera 1998: McIntosh 1999: McKenna 2000: Jakovich 2001: Cousins 2002: Cousins 2003: Cousins 2004: Judd 2005: Cousins 2006: Judd 2007: Glass 2008: Cox 2009: Glass 2010: LeCras 2011: Glass 2012: Selwood 2013: Priddis

v t e 2007 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Matthew Kreuzer 2. Trent Cotchin 3. Chris Masten 4. Cale Morton 5. Jarrad Grant 6. David Myers 7. Rhys Palmer 8. Lachie Henderson 9. Ben McEvoy 10. Patrick Dangerfield 11. Patrick Veszpremi 12. Cyril Rioli 13. Brad Ebert 14. Jack Grimes 15. Robbie Tarrant 16. Matthew Lobbe 17. Harry Taylor 18. Alex Rance (PP)

Second round	19. Callan Ward 20. Tony Notte 21. Addam Maric 22. Scott Selwood 23. Tayte Pears 24. Clayton Hinkley 25. Tom Collier 26. Brett Meredith 27. Andy Otten 28. Marlon Motlop 29. Brendan Whitecross 30. Jarrhan Jacky 31. John McCarthy 32. Levi Greenwood 33. Matthew Westhoff 34. Dawson Simpson

Third round	35. Sam Reid 36. Steven Browne 37. Scott Thompson 38. Myke Cook 39. Darcy Daniher (F/S) 40. Chris Mayne 41. James Polkinghorne 42. Jack Steven 43. Easton Wood 44. Scott Simpson 45. Stuart Dew 46. Dennis Armfield 47. Toby Thoolen 48. Jarrad Boumann 49. Mitch Farmer 50. Dan McKenna

Fourth round	51. Dean Putt 52. Bradd Dalziell 53. Kyle Cheney 54. Cale Hooker 55. Mark Johnson 56. Matt Austin 57. Fraser Gehrig 58. Tony Armstrong 59. Craig Bird 60. Adam Donohue (F/S) 61. Jaxson Barham (F/S) 62. Josh Smith 63. Guy O'Keefe

Fifth round	66. Tom McNamara 69. Kepler Bradley 70. Eljay Connors 71. Aaron Kite 72. Blake Grima

Sixth round	75. Taylor Walker (NSWSP)

Persondata
Name	Selwood, Scott
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	27 March 1990
Place of birth	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Date of death
Place of death

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