Scott Watters

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Scott Watters
Personal information
Full name	Scott Watters
Date of birth	(1969-01-25) 25 January 1969
Original team	South Fremantle (WAFL)
Height/Weight	175cm / 82kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1989–1992 1993–1994 1995–1996 Total	West Coast Sydney Fremantle	046 (13) 037 (11) 026 0(6) 109 (30)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	Western Australia
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2007–2009 2012–2013	WAFL Subiaco AFL St Kilda	44 (17–27–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1996 season. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 2013.
Career highlights
Inaugural Fremantle AFL team Fremantle vice-captain 1995

Scott Watters (born 25 January 1969) is a former Australian rules football player and coach. As a player, he was drafted from the South Fremantle Football Club in the WAFL to the West Coast Eagles in the AFL in 1988, before later playing for the Sydney Swans and Fremantle. He was a member of the 1985 Teal Cup winning side, the first year that Western Australia had won the national championships. As a coach, he started his career in 2006 with WAFL minor league team Subiaco, followed by a stint as an assistant coach with the Collingwood Football Club from 2010 to 2011. Watters then became the senior coach of the St Kilda Football Club, following Ross Lyon's departure, for two seasons from 2012 to 2013.^[1]

Playing career

West Coast Eagles

Watters was selected as a pre-draft selection in the 1988 VFL Draft by West Coast after he won the fairest and best award for South Fremantle in 1987. He played 46 games for the Eagles over the next four seasons, including their first ever grand final appearance in 1991. However, when he was not selected in the 1992 premiership team, he was traded to Sydney as part of a deal which gave the Eagles the Number 1 draft pick, which they used to select Drew Banfield.

Sydney Swans

The reduction in public pressure in a non-AFL city and an injury free period saw Watters play some of his best football in the 37 games for the Swans. His good form in his first season was recognised with being runner-up in the Swans' best and fairest award.^[2]

Fremantle

With the entry of the second Western Australian team in 1995, Watters returned to join the Fremantle Dockers and was the first vice-captain of the club. Injuries, however, would take their toll and at the end of the 1996 season he retired from AFL football. He continued to play for South Fremantle until the 1998 season, when he retired with a total of 207 senior games, 109 in the AFL, 92 in the WAFL and six for Western Australia. He is a member of the West Australian Football Two Hundred Club.^[3]

Commentating career

After retiring as a player, Watters spent time as a radio commentator with Perth radio station 6PR.

Coaching career

In 2006, Watters was appointed the coach of the Subiaco Football Club colts team. In November 2006 he was appointed the league coach, after Peter German accepted an assistant coaching position with the Fremantle Football Club.^[4]

In late 2009, Watters signed with the Collingwood Football Club as an assistant coach for seasons 2010 and 2011. At the conclusion of the 2011 season, he was appointed the senior coach of the St Kilda Football Club following the resignation of Ross Lyon but was sacked from that position on 1 November 2013.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Scott Watters sacked" by Sam Edmund, Herald Sun, 1 November 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
↑ "The day a pitch-invading porker made Plugger feel pig sick - AFL - Sport". Smh.com.au. 15 July 2006. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
↑ WAFL - West Australian Football League
↑ http://www.sfclions.com.au/ArchivedNews/WeeklyNews2006/club_weeklynews-07.11.06.html

External links

Scott Watters's statistics from AFL Tables
AFL profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by Ross Lyon	St Kilda Football Club coach 2012-2013	Succeeded by Incumbent

v t e Inaugural Fremantle Football Club AFL team

Full-back	Jason Norrish Stephen O'Reilly Phil Gilbert

Half-back	Dale Kickett Peter Mann Quenton Leach

Centre	Scott Chisholm Ben Allan (c) Scott Edwards

Half-forward	Tony Delaney Craig Burrows Winston Abraham

Full-forward	Peter Bell Chris Groom Brendan Krummel

Ruck	Matthew Burton Todd Ridley Scott Watters

Interchange	Gary Dhurrkay Jamie Merillo David Muir

Coach	Gerard Neesham

Fremantle lost to Richmond 12.13 (85) to 12.18 (90), Round 1, 1 April 1995 at the MCG (Reference: Footystats)

v t e Coaches of the St Kilda Football Club

1906: Hall 1908: Grace 1909: J. Smith 1911: Drohan 1913: Sparrow 1914: McNamara 1915; 1918:* J. Smith 1919: Eicke 1920: Sparrow 1920–1921: Ricketts 1922–1923: McNamara 1924: Eicke 1925–1926: Clark 1927: Heinz 1928–1929: Sparrow 1930: Cubbins 1931–1932: Hardy 1932: King 1933: Deane 1934: C. Watson 1935–1937: Minogue 1938–1940: Clarke 1938: B. Patterson 1941: Knight 1942–1943: Garvin 1944–1945: H. Thomas 1946–1947: Hird 1948–1950: Froude 1951: Green 1952–1953: Williamson 1954–1955: Foote 1956–1958: Killigrew 1959–1960: Francis 1961–1976: Jeans 1972; 1974: Guy 1977: R. Smith 1978–1980: M. Patterson 1980–1982: Jesaulenko 1983–1984: Jewell 1984–1986: Gellie 1987–1989: Baldock 1987: Davis 1990–1993: Sheldon 1994–1998: Alves 1999–2000: T. Watson 2001: Blight 2001–2006: G. Thomas 2007–2011: Lyon 2012–2013: Watters 2014–: Richardson

St Kilda did not participate in the VFL from 1916–1917 due to World War I Italics* denote caretaker coach

Persondata
Name	Watters, Scott
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth	25 January 1969
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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