Darrin Pritchard

Darrin Pritchard
Personal information
Date of birth	(1966-03-21) 21 March 1966
Place of birth	Hobart, Tasmania
Original team(s)	Sandy Bay
Height/Weight	178cm / 74kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1987-1997	Hawthorn	211 (94)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1997 season.
Career highlights
Premiership player 1988, 1989, 1991 State Of Origin 3 times Tasmania Captain

Darrin Pritchard (born 21 March 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.

Pritchard played in 3 VFL/AFL Premierships with Hawthorn in 1988, 1989 and 1991. Recruited from Sandy Bay in Tasmania, he represented both his home and adopted states at state of origin level, skippering the former on three occasions and was named in the 1989 VFL Team of the Year. After sustaining a broken leg in 1995 he made a creditable comeback but was never quite the same player. He retired after the 1997 season having played 211 VFL/AFL games.

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Darrin Pritchard's statistics from AFL Tables

Hawthorn Football Club 1988/89 VFL premiers

1988: Hawthorn 22.20 (152) defeated Melbourne 6.20 (56), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1989: Hawthorn 21.18 (144) defeated Geelong 21.12 (138), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

2. Mew 7. Ayres 9. DiPierdomenico 10. Wittman 11. Buckenara 14. Dear 17. Tuck (c) 18. Pritchard 19. Dunstall 20. Maginness 23. Brereton 24. Langford 34. Kennedy 35. Morrissey 40/4. Collins 44. Platten

Hawthorn Football Club 1991 AFL premiers

Hawthorn 20.19 (139) defeated West Coast Eagles 13.8 (86), at Waverley Park

1. Jencke 2. Mew 3. Condon 4. Collins 6. Hall 7. Ayres 8. Anderson 11. Jarman 12. Lawrence 13. Dear 15. Allan 16. Gowers 17. Tuck (c) 18. Pritchard 19. Dunstall 23. Brereton 24. Langford 33. Hudson 35. Morrissey 44. Platten

Coach: Joyce

Victorian team – 1989 State of Origin

Victoria 19.12 (126) defeated Western Australia 10.12 (72), at the WACA Ground, 16 May 1989, crowd: 20,993 Victoria 22.17 (149) defeated South Australia 9.9 (63), at the MCG, 1 July 1989, crowd: 91,960

Both games	Bews Brown Collins Daniher Dunstall Langford Lovett Lyon Madden (c) Murphy Scott Stoneham Weightman Coach: Goggin

vs. Western Australia	Ablett Armstrong Ayres Lambert Larkin Maginness Schwass Stynes Williams

vs. South Australia	Brereton Bruns Couch Darcy Lockett Mitchell Morwood Pritchard Watson

Coach: Goggin

Tasmanian team – 1990 State of Origin

Tasmania 20.14 (134) defeated Victoria 14.17 (101), at the North Hobart Oval, 20 May 1990

Alexander Atkins Barwick Byers Clayton Davies Fell B. Gale M. Gale Hudson Lynch MacPherson Mansfield Manson McCarthy Nichols Noonan Pritchard (c) Spearman Stephens Wade Wright

Coach: Shaw

Tasmanian team – 1991 State of Origin

Victoria 17.14 (116) defeated Tasmania 14.20 (104), at the North Hobart Oval, 28 May 1991

Alexander Atkins Barwick Bond Cole Fletcher Gale Grant Hudson Kline Klug Lovell Lynch McCarthy MacPherson Minton-Connell Nichols Noble Pritchard Shanahan G. Williams P. Williams

Coach: Shaw

Tasmanian team – 1993 State of Origin

Queensland-NT 16.14 (110) defeated Tasmania 10.13 (73), at Bellerive Oval, 6 June 1993, crowd: 9,660

Final vs. Queensland-NT	Atkins Bond Buckley M. Febey S. Febey Fletcher B. Gale M. Gale Hudson Lovell Lynch (dvc) MacPherson (vc) Mansfield Manson McCarthy Nichols Plain Pritchard (c) Richardson Scott Shanahan Williams

Coach: Shaw

Australian Football Alliance (The Allies) team – 1995 State of Origin

Tasmania	Bond M. Febey S. Febey Gale Minton-Connell O'Connor Pritchard Shanahan Taylor Williams

Queensland	Ashcroft Cockatoo-Collins Crosisca

New South Wales	Brownless Kelly

Northern Territory	Buckley Dhurrkay McAdam McLean White

Australian Capital Territory	Allison Pyke

Tasmanian Team of the Century

Defenders	Verdun Howell Tassie Johnson Ivor Warne-Smith Barry Lawrence Laurie Nash Brent Crosswell

Midfielders	Rodney Eade Ian Stewart Arthur Hodgson

Forwards	Darrel Baldock (captain) Royce Hart Daryn Cresswell Horrie Gorringe Peter Hudson Alastair Lynch

Followers	Peter Jones John Leedham Terry Cashion

Interchange	Rex Garwood Michael Roach Neil Conlan Darrin Pritchard Paul Williams Matthew Richardson Len Pye

Coach	Roy Cazaly

Assistant coach	Robert Shaw

1986 VFL national draft

First round	1. Martin Leslie 2. Steven Sims 3. Steven Febey 4. Richard Anderson 5. Michael Taylor 6. Richard Cousins 7. Chris Lindsay 8. Grantley Fielke 9. Andrew Payze 10. John Brinkkotter 11. Jason Taylor 12. Dominic Fotia 13. Clayton Lamb

Second round	14. Scott Adams 15. Andrew Wickham 16. Matthew Febey 17. Trent Nichols 18. Mark O'Keefe 19. Matthew Mansfield 20. Brenton Harris 21. David Robertson 22. Kieran Sporn 23. Lyndon Dakin 24. Matthew Armstrong 25. Doug Smart 26. Darrin Pritchard

Third round	27. Adam Garton 28. Darren Mansell 29. Craig Walker 30. Matthew Sexton 31. Glen Keast 32. Wayne Mahney 33. Malcolm Shippen 34. Craig Kelly 35. Peter Reid 36. Donald Thompson 37. Chris Duthy 38. Simon Minton-Connell 39. Matthew Queen

Fourth round	40. Stephen Williams 41. Brett Jaffray 42. Anthony Lovell 43. Andrew Gray 44. Tim Britt 45. James Pyke 46. Gary Brooker 47. Brendan Hogan 48. Stephen Riley 49. Craig Elias 50. Alastair Lynch 51. Andrew Herring 52. Robin McKinnon

Fifth round	53. Michael Templeton 54. Paul Page 55. Darren Jarman 56. Greg Whittlesea 57. Michael Billman 58. Perry Meka 59. Wayne Morrissey 60. Wayne Tanner 61. Andrew Underwood 62. Laurie Menhenut 63. Peter Winter 64. Darren Newlan 65. Tony Symonds

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