Steven Clark (Australian footballer)

Steven Clark
Personal information
Full name	Steven Clark
Date of birth	15 May 1961
Date of death	12 November 2005(2005-11-12) (aged 44)
Original team(s)	Bulleen-Templestowe
Height / weight	173 cm / 76 kg
Position(s)	Rover
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1985–89 1990–91 1992 Total	Essendon Melbourne St Kilda	53 (73) 21 (17) 06 0(7) 80 (97)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1992.

Steven Clark (15 May 1961 – 12 November 2005) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon, Melbourne and St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL), previously Victorian Football League (VFL).

Clark was a rover who had originally trialed with Fitzroy but was recruited to Essendon by Kevin Sheedy midway through the 1985 VFL season, despite being aged 24. He participated in four games that year, including the last two of the home and away season but missed out on the finals and subsequent premiership.

A strong season in 1986 saw Clark picked to play for the Victorian interstate team. He kicked 33 goals for the year, the third most at Essendon. This included a career best five goals in a win over Geelong at Windy Hill. His form wavered the following season but in 1988 he played well enough to kick 22 goals. He managed just three games in 1989 and was traded to Melbourne.^[1]

While he struggled to make it onto the field for Essendon due to the strength of the team, it was looking like he would become a regular at Melbourne as he appeared in the first three games of the 1990 AFL season, but he then suffered a serious knee injury. On his debut with Melbourne he had received two Brownlow Medal votes for three goals and 20 disposals against North Melbourne. He missed the rest of the season but came back in 1991 to play 18 of a possible 22 games but wasn't picked for Melbourne's finals series. For the second time in his career, Clark was traded and ended up at St Kilda, where he spent just one season.^[2]

References

↑ "Steven Clark". AFL Tables.
↑ "Essendon Football Club – Team Players – Steven Clark". Essendonfc.com.au.

Victorian team – 1986 State of Origin

South Australia 18.17 (125) defeated Victoria 17.13 (115), at Football Park, 13 May 1986, crowd: 43,143 Western Australia 21.11 (137) d Victoria 20.14 (134), at Subiaco Oval, 8 July 1986, crowd: 39,863

Both games	Alvin Brereton Carroll DiPierdomenico Foulds Gerard Healy Pert Poole Salmon Weightman Williams

v South Australia	Clark Dean Harvey Hawker Heard Loveridge Meldrum Merrett (c) Raines Walsh Yeates

v Western Australia	Bews T. Daniher (c) Harmes R. Kennedy J. Madden Millane A. Morwood Roos Royal Taylor Thompson

1992 AFL pre-season draft

1. Ashley Green
2. Gavin Exell
3. Mark McQueen
4. Damien Mellow
5. Mark Athorn
6. Greg Jones
7. Alex Ishchenko
8. Ross Napoli
9. Alan Schwartz
10. Michael Ford
11. Wayne Henwood
12. Tim McGrath
13. Tim Watson
14. Ricky Nixon
15. Jason Jones
16. Danny Sexton
17. David Honybun
18. Alan Thorpe
19. Paul McCormack
20. Mark Majerczak
21. Marty Christensen
22. Ross Johns
23. Paul McMaster
24. Steven Clark
25. Andy Goodwin
26. Garry Phillips
27. David Ogg
28. Ernie Hug, Jr.
29. Darren Bartsch
30. Simon Taylor
31. Brad Gwilliam
32. Allan McKellar
33. Rohan Welsh
34. Paul Satterley
35. Leigh Tudor
36. Paul Docherty
37. Glenn Fitzpatrick
38. Dale Kickett
39. Ben Judd
40. Ben Graham
41. Jason Disney
42. Austin McCrabb
43. Matthew Clarke
44. Simon Dennis
45. Andrew Peck
46. Paul Tuddenham
47. Glenn Page
48. Derek Percival
49. Justin Peckett
50. Cristian O'Brien
51. Campbell Black
52. Adam Jones
53. Phil Krakouer
54. Jeremy Smith
55. Michael Scoon

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