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Conor Glass

Conor Glass

Australian rules footballer

Conor Glass (born 28 September 1997) is a Gaelic footballer and former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He signed with Hawthorn as a category B rookie in October 2015 and was subsequently drafted with their fourth selection and sixty-second overall in the 2016 rookie draft.[1] He retired at the end of the 2020 season and returned to Ireland.[2]

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Sporting career

Glass captained the Derry minors side in the All-Ireland semi-finals.[3] Glass was recruited by Hawthorn as a class B rookie in 2015.[4] Arriving in Australia in July 2016, Glass played 6 games for the Box Hill development squad that included the squad's victorious grand final team. After a full summer pre-season training regime, Glass had played 12 games in the Box Hill's senior team before getting a call up for the Hawthorn team.

AFL career

He made his debut for Hawthorn in their fifty-two point win against Fremantle at Domain Stadium in round eighteen of the 2017 season.[3] Glass was widely seen as performing well in his debut.[5] Glass performed well throughout the rest of the season,[6] and on August 2, 2017, he signed a two-year rookie/player contract extension to stay on Hawthorn's rookie list until the end of 2018.[7]

Glass played only four senior games in 2018, but despite this was seen as having improved his skills during the year.[8]

Glass was elevated to the senior list in 2019. Glass kicked his first goal during the 2019 season, during Hawthorn's round 13 loss to Essendon.[9]

Glass played four games in 2020 and decided to return to Ireland at season's end.[2]

GAA career

Glass made his debut for Derry against Longford in the 2020 National Football League, a fixture delayed by many months due to the pandemic.[10]

During the first half of the 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final game against Galway, a Glass effort at scoring a point was ruled wide by Hawk-Eye. That decision came under scrutiny when Hawk-Eye was shown to have malfunctioned later in the game by overturning an umpire decision's to award a point to Galway player Shane Walsh.[11][12][13] He won an All Star at the end of the season.[14]

On 21 January 2024, Glass scored 1-2 as Glen won the 2023–24 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship for the first time after a 2-10 to 1-12 win against St Brigid's in the final at Croke Park.[15]

Statistics

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Notes

  1. The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honours and achievements

Hawthorn

Glen

Derry

References

  1. [1]
    King, Travis (28 October 2015). "Hawks sign rising Irish star Conor Glass as B rookie". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Homesick Hawk retires, returns to Ireland". 23 September 2020.
  3. [3]
    Duffy, Emma (20 July 2017). "Derry youngster Conor Glass set to make AFL debut on Saturday". TheJournal.ie. Distilled Media. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  4. [4]
    King, Travis (28 October 2015). "Hawks sign rising Irish star Conor Glass as B rookie". Australian Football League. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  5. [5]
    Casey, Gavan (22 July 2017). "Australians rave about Derry's Conor Glass after impressive AFL debut". The 42. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  6. [6]
    "Season review: Conor Glass". Hawthorn Football Club. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Young Hawks sign on". Hawthorn Football Club. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  8. [8]
    "Season snapshot: Conor Glass". Hawthorn Football Club. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  9. [9]
    O'Brien, Kevin (14 June 2019). "Derry's Conor Glass scores first ever AFL goal for Hawthorn". The 42. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  10. [10]
    "Derry shine as Glass returns". 19 October 2020.
  11. [11]
    "Is there a problem with HawkEye? Shane Walsh's free late in the half was deemed wide by the technology at Croke Park, but the replay would suggest otherwise". The Sunday Game. 9 July 2022.
  12. [12]
    "'The technology got it wrong' — Jim McGuinness slams Shane Walsh Hawkeye decision". JOE.ie. 9 July 2022.
  13. [13]
    "More Hawkeye Controversy After Conor Glass Shot Appeared To Go Over". Balls.ie. 11 July 2022.
  14. [14]
    Roche, Frank (27 October 2022). "Kerry lead way as 11 rookie All Stars signal the changing landscape". Irish Independent.
  15. [15]
    "Glen go one better with dramatic win over St Brigid's in All-Ireland final". RTE Sport. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  16. [16]
    "Conor Glass' player profile at AFL Tables". AFL Tables.
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