Rhys Palmer

Rhys Palmer

Personal information
Full name	Rhys Palmer
Date of birth	(1989-02-13) 13 February 1989
Original team(s)	Bullcreek Leeming JFC / East Fremantle
Height/Weight	181cm / 82kg
Position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Greater Western Sydney
Number	7
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2008–2011 2012– Total	Fremantle Greater Western Sydney	53 (23) 57 (59) 110 (82)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2015 season.
Career highlights
Ron Evans Medal 2008 AFLPA Best First Year Player 2008 Fremantle Beacon Award 2008

Rhys Palmer (born 13 February 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Fremantle Football Club, and won the AFL Rising Star award in 2008.

Early life

Rhys Palmer

Palmer played junior football for the Bullcreek Leeming Junior Football Club.^[1]

He made his West Australian Football League (WAFL) debut for East Fremantle in 2007, playing 14 games, obtaining over 20 possessions in his final six games, include five goals in one game.^[2]

Palmer was a key member of Western Australia's victorious 2007 AFL Under 18 Championships side, averaging 32 possessions and 3 goals per game. He finished second by one vote behind Cale Morton in the Larke Medal and was named in the Under 18 All-Australian side.^[3]

Palmer gained attention again at 2007 AFL Draft Camp finishing second in the 3 km time trial with a time of 10min 25sec and fifth in the beep test with a score of 14.8.^[4]

AFL career

Palmer was taken at pick #7 overall in the 2007 AFL Draft by Fremantle.

He put in some impressive performances in the 2008 NAB Cup and after being named as an emergency for the opening round of the 2008 season, Palmer made his debut in Round 2 at Subiaco Oval against Hawthorn. Whilst his debut match was impressive individually, with 22 possessions and a goal, Fremantle lost the match by 15 points.^[5] In his second match he was awarded the AFL Rising Star nomination for his outstanding performance in the Western Derby,^[6] despite receiving a gash to his head in the opening quarter.^[7]

After being nominated in Round 3, Palmer won the 2008 AFL Rising Star ahead of Cyril Rioli from Hawthorn with 8 of the 9 judges voting him as the best emerging player. He missed the 2009 season because of a knee reconstruction.

Palmer joined Greater Western Sydney in September 2011, becoming the third uncontracted player, after Phil Davis and Callan Ward, to join the club in preparation for its entry into the AFL for the 2012 season.^[8]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to end of round 7, 2015 ^[9]

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
Season	Team	#	Totals								Averages (per game)
2008	Fremantle	10	20	10	8	270	192	462	100	47	0.5	0.4	13.5	9.6	23.1	5.0	2.4
2009	Fremantle	10	5	3	1	45	59	104	18	20	0.6	0.2	9.0	11.8	20.8	3.6	4.0
2010	Fremantle	10	13	4	3	113	136	249	46	52	0.3	0.2	8.7	10.5	19.2	3.5	4.0
2011	Fremantle	10	15	6	6	110	121	231	48	57	0.4	0.4	7.3	8.1	15.4	3.2	3.8
2012	GWS	7	15	9	9	158	128	286	66	34	0.6	0.6	10.5	8.5	19.1	4.4	2.3
2013	GWS	7	11	9	5	103	80	183	51	32	0.8	0.5	9.4	7.3	16.6	4.6	2.9
2014	GWS	7	17	23	12	147	136	283	54	49	1.4	0.7	8.6	8.0	16.6	3.2	2.9
2015	GWS	7	4	4	4	37	24	61	16	12	1.0	1.0	9.3	6.0	15.3	4.0	3.0
Career			100	68	48	983	876	1859	399	303	0.7	0.5	9.8	8.8	18.6	4.0	3.0

References

↑ "Bullcreek Leeming Junior Football Club Hall of Fame". www.bljfc.com.au. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ "Rhys Palmer". SportingPulse. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ Heinrich, Scott (2007-07-12). "West boys end title agony". foxsports.com.au. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ "2007 AFL draft camp results". Herald Sun. 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ Chadwick, Justin (2008-03-29). "Hawks get the job done". sportal.com.au. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ "Palmer handed Rising Star nomination". Herald Sun. 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ Walsh, Courtney (2008-04-07). "Bloodied Docker's 'dream' derby debut". foxsports.com.au. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ Palmer joins GWS – afl.com.au. Written by Nathan Schmook. Published 6 September 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
↑ Rhys Palmer's player profile at AFL Tables

External links

Rhys Palmer's profile on the official website of the Greater Western Sydney Giants
Rhys Palmer's statistics from AFL Tables

Awards
Preceded by Joel Selwood	Ron Evans Medal 2008	Succeeded by Daniel Rich

Greater Western Sydney Giants – current squad

1 Davis (c)
2 Hopper
3 Coniglio
4 Greene
5 Shiel
6 Whitfield
7 Palmer
8 Ward (c)
9 Scully
10 Smith
11 Steele
12 Patton
13 Ahern
14 Pickett
15 M. Kennedy
16 Wilson
17 Johnson
18 J. Cameron
19 Haynes
20 Tomlinson
21 Buntine
22 Kelly
23 Shaw
24 Patfull
25 McCarthy
26 Simpson
27 Himmelberg
28 Barrett
29 Williams
30 Flynn
31 Finlayson
32 Griffen
33 Hoskin-Elliott
34 Marchbank
35 Corr
36 Stewart
37 Lobb
38 Lloyd*
39 Mohr
40 A. Kennedy
41 Mumford
42 McKenna
44 Downie
50 Reid*

Coach: L. Cameron

* denotes rookie listed players

Inaugural Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL team

Full-back	Adam Kennedy Phil Davis (c) Tomas Bugg

Half-back	Jack Hombsch Tim Mohr Will Hoskin-Elliott

Centre	Rhys Palmer Callan Ward (c) Chad Cornes

Half-forward	Stephen Coniglio Israel Folau Nathan Wilson

Full-forward	Curtly Hampton Jeremy Cameron Devon Smith

Ruck	Jonathan Giles Dylan Shiel James McDonald

Interchange	Jacob Townsend Toby Greene Adam Tomlinson Sub: Dom Tyson

Coach	Kevin Sheedy

Greater Western Sydney defeated by Sydney 5.7 (37) to 14.16 (100), Round 1, 2012, at Stadium Australia

Fremantle Football Club · Beacon Award winners

1995: Chisholm 1996: Mitchell 1997: Gale 1998: Dodd 1999: Michael 2000: Hasleby 2001: Woods 2002: Medhurst 2003: Polak 2004: Browne 2005: Mundy 2006: Drum 2007: Warnock 2008: Palmer 2009: Hill 2010: Barlow 2011: Mzungu 2012: Spurr 2013: Sutcliffe 2014: Taberner 2015: Pearce

Ron Evans Medal • AFL Rising Star winners

1993: Buckley 1994: Scott 1995: Holland 1996: Cousins 1997: Wilson 1998: Pickett 1999: Goodes 2000: Hasleby 2001: Koschitzke 2002: Riewoldt 2003: Mitchell 2004: Rivers 2005: Deledio 2006: Pearce 2007: Selwood 2008: Palmer 2009: Rich 2010: Hannebery 2011: Heppell 2012: Talia 2013: O'Meara 2014: Taylor 2015: Hogan

2008 AFL Rising Star nominees

Rd 1: Houli Rd 2: Hill Rd 3: Palmer Rd 4: Jack Rd 5: McKinley Rd 6: Rioli Rd 7: Wonaeamirri Rd 8: Tippett Rd 9: Ibbotson Rd 10: Brown Rd 11: Kreuzer Rd 12: Cotchin Rd 13: J. Morton Rd 14: Garland Rd 15: Riewoldt Rd 16: Reimers Rd 17: Ebert Rd 18: Urquhart Rd 19: Grigg Rd 20: C. Morton Rd 21: Dalziell Rd 22: Carlile

Italics denote winner

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)

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