Dean Irving

Dean Irving
Personal information
Full name	Dean Irving
Date of birth	(1966-09-01) 1 September 1966
Original team(s)	South Fremantle
Height/Weight	200 cm / 102 kg
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1990 – 1993 1994 – 1997 Total	West Coast Melbourne	43 0(9) 23 0(4) 66 (13)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1997 season.
Career highlights
Simpson Medal 1998 (interstate)

Dean Irving (born 1 September 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles and Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s.

Irving, who came to West Coast from South Fremantle, played as a ruckman. He was one of four debutantes for West Coast in the opening round of the 1990 season, with two of them; Dean Kemp and Peter Matera, going on to have highly successful careers.

His best season came in 1991 when he played 25 games, including the 1991 AFL Grand Final, and gathered 10 Brownlow votes. He could only manage a single appearance in each of 1992 and 1993 and crossed to Melbourne to continue his career. At Melbourne he again struggled to make the seniors and retired in 1997.

He returned to Western Australia and won a Simpson Medal in 1998 for his performance in an interstate match against South Australia.

References

Dean Irving's statistics from AFL Tables
Demon Wiki profile
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

1989 VFL national draft

First round	1. Anthony Banik 2. Matthew Croft 3. Jody Arnol 4. Peter Matera 5. Brad Rowe 6. Mark Brayshaw 7. Stephen Edgar 8. Brad Tunbridge 9. Dale Kickett 10. Daryl Groves 11. Darren Smith 12. Gavin Wanganeen 13. Allister Scott 14. Ben Allan

Second round	15. Nathan Bower 16. Jason Shields 17. Gilbert McAdam 18. Robert Wren 19. Ashley Green 20. Brett Hawkey 21. Peter Doyle 22. Mathew Hanrahan 23. Roger Delaney 24. Mathew Styles 25. Paul Rouvray 26. Alister Carr 27. Joel Saunders 28. Jason Gibson

Third round	29. Wayne Campbell 30. Glenn Coleman 31. Darel Hart 32. Shaun Slater 33. Shaun Hart 34. Andrew Venner 35. Chris Bond 36. Rohan Smith 37. Shayne Stevenson 38. Gavin Rose 39. Peter Cransberg 40. Travis St Clair 41. Chris Waterworth 42. Matthew Robran 43. Chris Guerts 44. Jonathan Solomon 45. Sasha Dyson-Holland 46. Shane Radbone

Fourth round	47. Richard Gerke 48. Dennis Rapacholi 49. Greg Jones 50. Dean Irving 51. Joe Wilson 52. Rod Jameson 53. Derek Coghlan 54. Steven Bozicevic 55. Grant Coffee 56. Shayne Bennett 57. Tim Moreland 58. Jason Dullard 59. Daniel Frawley 60. Chris Sharp

Fifth round	61. Simon Eastaugh 62. John Brunner 63. Wayne Thornborrow 64. Tony Evans 65. Alan Schwartz 66. Shannon Bergmann 67. Ben Judd 68. Scott Tomlinson 69. Jamie Elliott 70. Paul Williams 71. Glenn Wilkins 72. Glenn Crawford 73. Tim Birthisel 74. Alistair Burke

Sixth round	75. Stephen Pearce 76. Shayne Ward 77. Christian Lister 78. Stephen Schwerdt 79. David Brown 80. Damien Murray 81. Sam Gross 82. Troy Lehmann 83. Mark Robinson 84. Matthew Kelly 85. Anthony Tohill 86. Gerrard Harrington 87. Ashley Coutts 88. Tim Leng

Seventh round	89. Jason Smith 90. Ben Cross 91. Grant Lawrie 92. Brett Heady 93. Tony Paynter 94. John Bingham 95. Jeremy Smith 96. Gary Stevens 97. Paul McConville 98. Kym Russell 99. Nick Tsiotanis 100. David Pittman 101. Richard Harrison 102. Dion Sheehan

Eighth round	103. Brett Chalmers 104. Tony Trigg 105. Stuart Annand 106. Ernie Hug 107. Sean Valenta 108. Eric Lissenden 109. Colin Corkery 110. Craig Budarick 111. David Noble 112. Ashley McIntosh 113. Shane Crothers 114. Jason Walscgott 115. Colum McManamon 116. Brendan Bicknall

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