Patrick Dangerfield is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. He previously played for the Adelaide Crows. Dangerfield’s accomplishments include winning the Brownlow Medal, the Leigh Matthews Trophy, and the AFLCA Champion Player of the Year Award. He is also an 8-time All Australian and has represented Australia 4 times in the International Rules Series. He also co-hosts a weekly fishing program on Channel 7 and Fox Footy.
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Patrick Dangerfield is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. He previously played for the Adelaide Crows. He is widely perceived as one of the best players of the 2010s. Dangerfield’s accomplishments include winning the Brownlow Medal, the Leigh Matthews Trophy, and the AFLCA Champion Player of the Year Award. As well as receiving several media awards, he is also an 8-time All Australian and has represented Australia 4 times in the International Rules Series. In October 2007, he won the 100m and 400m titles at the Victorian Secondary Schools Athletics. While at school he was also a school captain at Oberon High School. He graduated from the AIS-AFL Academy and toured South Africa in early 2007. He also co-hosts a weekly fishing program on Channel 7 and Fox Footy. He won the AFL Rising Star nomination in round 3 for his performance against Fremantle at Subiaco Oval, Dangerfield recorded, 20 disposals, 1 goal, 5 inside-fifties, and 5 clearances in the game. In the 2012 AFL Season Dangerfield emerged as a star of the competition, playing the midfield full-time. He ended his first season as a forward by receiving his first ever All-Australian Team selection and winning the Showdown Medal in the Gold Coast Suns’ round 23 clash against Gold Coast.
He has also won the annual Final Sprint, and racking up 667 disposals for the season, ranked tenth in the AFL Grand Final. He was named in the All Australian Team for the first time in the 2013 AFL Grand final, where he kicked 26 goals in a win over the Sydney Swans. In 2014, he was selected to play in the VFL Grand Final against the Melbourne Renegades. He played in two finals, recording 11 disposals and 2 goals in the Crows 96-point win over Essendon in an elimination final, the following week he recorded 16 disposals in a 5-point loss to Collingwood in the semi-finals. In his first AFL season, he played in 19 of the 22 games during the home-and-away season, averaging 13.0 disposals and 1.0 goals a game. He increased his disposal average to 15. 7 and continued to average a goal a game, kicking 26 goals for the 2010 AFL Season. In 2012, he increased his average disposal count from 17. 1 to 26.7, but dropped to just under a goal per game, still kicking 23 goals for a season. In 2013, he recorded 39 disposals in a round 5 showdown against Port Adelaide, resulting in his first All-flanker selection. In 2015, he received his first selection for the AFL All-Flanker Team and won the Showdown medal in the round 23 Gold Coast Gold Suns clash against the Sydney Magpies.
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