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Phil Gilbert

Phil Gilbert

Australian rules footballer

For other people named Phil Gilbert, see Phil Gilbert (disambiguation).

Phil Gilbert (born 15 November 1969) is an Australian rules footballer. He played for both the Melbourne and Fremantle Football Clubs in the Australian Football League. He was drafted from Clarement in the WAFL by Melbourne with the 19th selection in the 1991 AFL Draft and played mainly as a defender.

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He is most frequently remembered as being the player traded by Melbourne to Fremantle in exchange for a pick in the 1994 AFL Draft which was used to recruit the 17-year-old Jeff Farmer, who would go on to become an All-Australian and score over 400 goals in AFL football.[1] Fremantle would only have 14 games from Gilbert.

After being delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 1996 season, Gilbert moved to Mandurah and became the inaugural captain of the Peel Thunder Football Club, an expansion team in the WAFL. He later became coach of the Pinjarra Tigers in the Peel Football League and in 2004 returned to Peel Thunder to be an assistant coach, working alongside head coach Garry Hocking.[2]

He is currently the director for Great Southern Football Academy (Clontarf) at North Albany Senior High School but previously worked as a real estate salesman in the Peel Region.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    1994 AFL Draft Details Archived 1 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    East, A; Coaching tactics pay handsome dividends Archived 18 June 2005 at archive.today; Mandurah Coastal Times; 25 August 2004
  3. [3]
    Phil Gilbert - aussiehome.com Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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