Danyle Pearce

Not to be confused with former Western Bulldogs footballer, Daniel Pearce.
Danyle Pearce

Danyle Pearce playing for Port Adelaide
during the 2007 AFL Season
Personal information
Full name Danyle Pearce
Date of birth (1986-04-07) 7 April 1986
Place of birth Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s) Sturt (SANFL)
Height/Weight 178cm / 76kg
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current club Fremantle
Number 6
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2005–2012
2013–
Total		 Port Adelaide
Fremantle		 154 0(76)
078 0(43)
232 (119)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
2007–2015 Indigenous All-Stars 3 (0)
International team honours
2006 Australia 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2015 season.
2 State and international statistics correct as of 2015.
Career highlights

Danyle Pearce (born 7 April 1986) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays with the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Port Adelaide Football Club between 2005 and 2012.

Early life

Danyle is of Indigenous Australian descent and his ancestry can be traced to the Kokatha.[1]

Pearce began playing for the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also represented South Australia in basketball, as a point guard.

AFL career

Port Adelaide career (2005–2012)

Pearce was a selected as a rookie listed player by the Port Adelaide Football Club with the 16th selection in the 2005 Rookie Draft.

He made his AFL debut in Round 18, 2005 for the Port Adelaide Power. He was named Best First Year Player for the Power in 2005 and nominated in round 3, 2006 for the AFL Rising Star award.

Pearce won the 2006 NAB Rising Star with 43 votes out of a possible 45. Second place for this award was Andrew Raines with 35. This made Pearce become the first former rookie-listed player to win the award.[2] In his speech, Pearce said "My kneecaps were shaking" and "I loved the free food" since Pearce also admitted that he came to the awarding ceremony for the food and entertainment.

He played in the International Rules series against Ireland in 2006.

Pearce also won the Gavin Wanganeen Medal, being the first to receive the newly created 2006 award, for best up and coming rising star at the Port Adelaide Football Club, and the AFLPA's Marn Grook Award. He received 13 votes in the 2006 Brownlow Medal.

During the team's unsuccessful 2008 season Pearce suffered from a form slump and was dropped down to Sturt for a week, however, he showed a good display in round 22 with 28 possessions and a goal.

Fremantle career (2013-)

On 1 October 2012, the Fremantle Football Club used the newly introduced Free Agency Period to make a bid for Pearce, who was classified as a Restricted Free Agent.[3] Port Adelaide chose to not match Fremantle's offer, resulting in Pearce signing with Fremantle for the 2013 season.[4]

Pearce led the AFL for total inside 50's and inside 50's per game in the 2014 home and away season.

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2015 season [5]
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
Totals Averages (per game)
2005 Port Adelaide 41 7 6 5 49 23 72 25 6 0.9 0.7 7.0 3.3 10.3 3.6 0.9
2006 Port Adelaide 16 22 12 10 275 157 432 92 48 0.6 0.4 12.5 7.1 19.6 4.2 2.2
2007 Port Adelaide 16 21 14 14 271 144 415 105 36 0.7 0.7 12.9 6.9 19.8 5.0 1.7
2008 Port Adelaide 16 21 10 8 263 130 393 69 65 0.5 0.4 12.5 6.2 18.7 3.3 3.1
2009 Port Adelaide 6 22 13 16 277 174 451 78 53 0.6 0.7 12.6 7.9 20.5 3.6 2.4
2010 Port Adelaide 6 22 12 13 301 139 440 45 83 0.6 0.6 13.7 6.3 20.0 2.0 3.8
2011 Port Adelaide 6 19 5 4 260 142 402 43 51 0.3 0.2 13.7 7.5 21.2 2.3 2.7
2012 Port Adelaide 6 20 4 9 299 125 424 35 49 0.2 0.4 15.0 6.2 21.2 1.8 2.4
2013 Fremantle 6 25 10 21 326 182 508 90 85 0.4 0.8 13.0 7.3 20.3 3.6 3.4
2014 Fremantle 6 24 19 18 313 150 463 56 75 0.8 0.8 13.0 6.2 19.3 2.3 3.1
2015 Fremantle 6 23 14 10 317 143 460 86 61 0.6 0.4 13.8 6.2 20.0 3.7 2.6
Career 226 119 128 2951 1509 4460 724 612 0.5 0.6 13.1 6.7 19.7 3.2 2.7

References

  1. ↑ AFL Record. Round 9,2009. Slattery Publishing. pg 75.
  2. ↑ "Pearce NAB's the Rising Star" aboriginalfootball.com.au URL accessed 7 September 2006
  3. ↑ "Freo tables Pearce offer" afl.com.au URL accessed 1 October 2010
  4. ↑ Duffield, Mark (4 October 2012). "Danyle in the Dockers den". The West Australian.
  5. ↑ Danyle Pearce's player profile at AFL Tables

External links

Awards
Preceded by
Brett Deledio		 AFL Rising Star
2006 		Succeeded by
Joel Selwood
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