Bernie Vince

Bernie Vince

Vince at training in July 2015
Personal information
Full name Bernard Vince
Date of birth (1985-10-02) 2 October 1985
Place of birth Yorke Peninsula, Australia
Original team(s) Woodville-West Torrens (SANFL)
Draft No. 32, 2005 national draft
Debut Round 1, 2006, Adelaide
v. Collingwood, at Telstra Dome
Height/Weight 186 cm / 90 kg
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current club Melbourne
Number 23
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2006–2013
2014–		 Adelaide
Melbourne
Totals		 129 0(80)
043 0(24)
172 (104)
International team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
2011 Australia 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 2015 season.
2 State and international statistics correct as of 2011.
Career highlights

Bernie Vince (born 2 October 1985) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from the Yorke Peninsula, he attended school at Minlaton District School until his senior years, which were spent in Adelaide at Prince Alfred College where he represented the school in the Open A Grade football and cricket teams.

Vince originally played Australian Rules football for the CMS Crows. After an unsuccessful stint in the SANFL, he returned to Stansbury, but eventually Woodville-West Torrens gave him a chance to play in the SANFL firsts—successfully played four games–including 3 finals. Vince was selected by the Adelaide Football Club in the 2005 national draft with pick 32.

Vince played all pre-season NAB Cup games in 2006, and debuted later that year—playing ten games in his first two seasons. He played six consecutive games early in 2007 before missing the rest of the season due to form and injury.

2008 saw Vince become a consistent member of Adelaide's young midfield, capable of going forward as well. One such performance earned him the Showdown Medal in Showdown XXIV against rivals Port Adelaide, despite being one of several Crows to take heavy knocks in the six-point victory. In round 11 against Richmond, he exceeded 30 disposals for the first time—also kicking 3 goals—as Adelaide won by 50 points. He has continued this form in 2009, being one of the club's, and league's, leading possession-getters. Vince topped a great season by winning the Adelaide Crows Best and Fairest award in 2009.[1]

In 2007 and 2010 Vince was suspended by Adelaide for missing curfews.[2][3] Prior to the start of the 2012 AFL season, Vince was reprimanded, but not suspended, after reportedly stripping down to his underwear in a pub after celebrating his cricket team winning the championship. Vince had played for the Stansbury, South Australia for most of the season, but Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson prevented him from playing in the final to avoid any chance of injury so close to the AFL season.[4]

Vince was traded to the Melbourne Demons in the 2013 Trade Period[5]

In 2015, he won the Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal as Melbourne's best and fairest, polling one vote ahead of Jack Viney.[6]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2015 season [7]
Legend
 G  Goals  B  Behinds  K  Kicks  H  Handballs  D  Disposals  M  Marks  T  Tackles
Season Team # Games G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
Totals Averages (per game)
2006 Adelaide 28 4 1 1 15 13 28 10 4 0.3 0.3 3.8 3.3 7.0 2.5 1.0
2007 Adelaide 28 6 1 4 28 31 59 15 15 0.2 0.7 4.7 5.2 9.8 2.5 2.5
2008 Adelaide 17 21 15 10 217 161 378 100 50 0.7 0.5 10.3 7.7 18.0 4.8 2.4
2009 Adelaide 17 24 14 10 336 323 659 142 66 0.6 0.4 14.0 13.5 27.5 5.9 2.8
2010 Adelaide 17 16 7 1 226 154 380 78 41 0.4 0.1 14.1 9.6 23.8 4.9 2.6
2011 Adelaide 17 17 11 8 227 163 390 69 33 0.6 0.5 13.4 9.6 22.9 4.1 1.9
2012 Adelaide 17 20 18 10 293 121 414 83 34 0.9 0.5 14.7 6.1 20.7 4.2 1.7
2013 Adelaide 17 21 13 11 284 148 432 87 68 0.6 0.5 13.5 7.0 20.6 4.1 3.2
2014 Melbourne 23 22 13 14 361 170 531 100 76 0.6 0.6 16.4 7.7 24.1 4.5 3.5
2015 Melbourne 23 21 11 6 307 212 519 57 101 0.5 0.3 14.6 10.1 24.7 2.7 4.8
Career 172 104 75 2294 1496 3790 741 488 0.6 0.4 13.3 8.7 22.0 4.3 2.8

References

  1. ↑ "Vince joins Adelaide club greats". The Advertiser.
  2. ↑ Brettig, Daniel (8 August 2007). "Adelaide trio suspended". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007.
  3. ↑ "Crows suspend three players for breaches". The Age (Melbourne). 17 May 2010.
  4. ↑ Rucci, Michelangelo (13 March 2012). "No Vince suspension but Crows unimpressed with boxer shorts incident". AdelaideNow.
  5. ↑ Ryan, Peter (18 October 2013). "Melbourne swoops on Vince". AFL Bigpond.
  6. ↑ Guthrie, Ben (11 September 2015). "Vince ends Jones' streak for maiden Demons crown". AFL.com.au (Bigpond). Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bernie Vince". AFL Tables. Retrieved 30 August 2014.

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