Shane Birss

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Shane Birss
Personal information
Date of birth	(1983-03-11) 11 March 1983
Original team	Sale/Gippsland U18
Debut	Round 2, 2002, Western Bulldogs v. Kangaroos, at Docklands Stadium
Height/Weight	183 cm / 80kg
Playing career
Western Bulldogs (2002–2006) 51 games, 20 goals St Kilda (2007–2008) 20 games 13 goals
Career highlights
St Kilda AFL NAB Cup winning side 2008 ^[1]^[2]

Shane Birss (born 11 March 1983) is an Australian rules football player.

Birss played for both St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Western Bulldogs from the Gippsland Under 18s in the 2001 AFL Draft. Debuting in 2002, Birss was unable to play consistently to establish himself in the Bulldogs' senior side, playing 51 games and kicking 20 goals in five seasons.

Birss was traded to St Kilda during the 2006 Trade period for their fourth Round draft selection at Number 59. He played two seasons for St Kilda before being delisted at the end of the 2008 AFL season. Birrs was then recruited by South Australian Football League (SANFL) club West Adelaide but was hospitalised in December 2008 after suffering a depression-related breakdown which he attributed to his delisting by St Kilda.^[3] He initially quit West Adelaide after one match due to his battle with depression but later returned to the club.^[3]

References

↑ "Saints are NAB Cup Champions in 2008". Jeld-Wen. 8 March 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
↑ "St Kilda wins NAB cup". The Age. 8 March 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
↑ 3.0 3.1 Homfray, Reece. "Shane Birss - My Private Battle". Weekly Times Messenger. News Limited. Retrieved 19 June 2012.

AFL Record 2006 Season Preview, ed. Michael Lovett, AFL Publishing.

External links

Shane Birss's profile on the official website of the Western Bulldogs
Shane Birss's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e 2002 AFL Rising Star nominees

Rd 1: Medhurst Rd 2: Judd Rd 3: Armstrong Rd 4: Bartel Rd 5: Riewoldt Rd 6: Cloke Rd 7: Clarke Rd 8: Rodan Rd 9: Birss Rd 10: McGough Rd 11: Hargrave Rd 12: Kelly Rd 13: Burgoyne Rd 14: Coughlan Rd 15: Hodge Rd 16: Didak Rd 17: Ries Rd 18: McMahon Rd 19: Kennelly Rd 20: Zantuck Rd 21: Charman Rd 22: Brown

v t e 2000 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Nick Riewoldt (PP) 2. Justin Koschitzke 3. Alan Didak 4. Luke Livingston 5. Andrew McDougall 6. Dylan Smith 7. Laurence Angwin 8. Daniel Motlop 9. Kayne Pettifer 10. Jordan McMahon 11. Trent Sporn 12. Shaun Burgoyne 13. Ashley McGrath 14. Daniel Harris 15. Simon Wiggins 16. Scott Thompson 17. James Davies

Second round	18. Daniel Kerr 19. Jason Cloke (F/S) 20. Kane Cornes 21. Nick Ries 22. Richard Hadley 23. Drew Petrie 24. Luke Ablett 25. Mark Coughlan 26. Shane Birss 27. Ted Richards 28. Steven Greene (F/S) 29. Jamie Charman 30. Sav Rocca 31. Blake Campbell 32. Sam Hunt

Third round	33. Martin Pike 34. Ryan Lonie 35. Allen Murray 36. Jeremy Humm 37. Guy Richards 38. Michael Handby 39. Adam McPhee 40. Chris Hyde 41. Andrew Krakouer 42. Daniel Pratt 43. Mark Williams 44. Josh Hunt 45. Trent Carroll 46. Sean O'Keeffe 47. Jordan Bannister 48. Matthew Smith

Fourth round	49. Shane Wakelin 50. Domenic Cassisi 51. Dion Woods 52. Amon Buchanan 53. Hayden Skipworth 54. Jarrad Sundqvist 55. Chris Newman 56. Daniel Cross 57. Steven Sziller 58. Nathan Lonie 59. Luke Hammond 60. Corey Jones 61. Callan Beasy 62. Daniel Breese 63. Marc Bullen

Fifth round	64. Mark Gale 66. Scott Thornton 67. Graham Johncock 70. Wayde Skipper 71. Daniel Lowther 73. Ross Funcke 74. Michael Davis

Sixth round	75. Robert Powell 79. Hamish Simpson 80. Mitchell Craig

Seventh round	82. Daniel Wulf

Persondata
Name	Birss, Shane
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	11 March 1983
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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