Drew Banfield

Drew Banfield
Banfield at the 2006 AFL Grand Final Parade
Personal information
Date of birth	27 February 1974
Original team(s)	Subiaco (WAFL)
Debut	Round 16, 18 July 1993, West Coast Eagles v. Essendon, at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Height/Weight	184cm / 88kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1993–2006	West Coast Eagles	265 (76)
^1 Playing statistics correct to end of 2006 season.
Career highlights
West Coast Eagles premiership team 1994, 2006 West Coast Eagles Best and Fairest 1996

Drew Banfield (born 27 February 1974) is a former AFL football player.

Selected as the number 1 pick in the 1992 AFL Draft, Banfield was recruited to the West Coast Eagles, where he became one of their best clubmen and hardest-working defenders and utility players.

He won the Eagles' Club Champion Award in 1996, as well as playing in the Eagles' 1994 premiership side. He was not the flashiest of players, but his hard-working attributes and constant presence in the team for over a decade qualifies him as a more than worthy number one draft pick. In 2006 the West Coast Eagles were celebrating their 20th anniversary, and a best team from the club's history was chosen. Consideration was based on playing 100 games for the West Coast Eagles, career longevity, finishes in the Club Champion Award, impact and other individual accolades. Drew Banfield was named on the interchange bench in this side and will go down as one of the Eagles' greats.

In 2006, Banfield was struggling for selection and fought his way into the side in Round 9, but remained on the fringes of selection throughout the season. He missed out on the semi-final against the Bulldogs but was recalled for the preliminary final against Adelaide, and retained for the Grand Final against Sydney due to his experience. It was his second AFL premiership, twelve years after his first, and made him the only player to appear in both West Coast's 1994 and 2006 premiership teams. On Friday 6 October 2006, Banfield announced his retirement from AFL football at the West Coast Eagles Club Champion awards, having played 265 games.

Drew is married to Amber Lee-Steere and has one son, named Bailey. Drew went to Scotch College Perth,and still plays games against the Scotch 1st XI, as part of a Scotch tradition which occurs each year.

Statistics

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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)
1993	West Coast	31	7	2	2	57	19	76	14	9	0.3	0.3	8.1	2.7	10.9	2.0	1.3
1994	West Coast	6	24	7	4	192	116	308	39	46	0.3	0.2	8.0	4.8	12.8	1.6	1.9
1995	West Coast	6	23	6	7	180	179	359	53	48	0.3	0.3	7.8	7.8	15.6	2.3	2.1
1996	West Coast	6	24	9	3	240	220	460	72	48	0.4	0.1	10.0	9.2	19.2	3.0	2.0
1997	West Coast	6	21	14	8	229	176	405	70	53	0.7	0.4	10.9	8.4	19.3	3.3	2.5
1998	West Coast	6	22	11	4	217	148	365	60	51	0.5	0.2	9.9	6.7	16.6	2.7	2.3
1999	West Coast	6	24	6	8	259	173	432	59	18	0.3	0.3	10.8	7.2	18.0	2.5	0.8
2000	West Coast	6	17	6	3	162	138	300	44	40	0.4	0.2	9.5	8.1	17.6	2.6	2.4
2001	West Coast	6	9	4	1	76	69	145	24	23	0.4	0.1	8.4	7.7	16.1	2.7	2.6
2002	West Coast	6	22	1	2	168	123	291	55	56	0.0	0.1	7.6	5.6	13.2	2.5	2.5
2003	West Coast	6	22	3	4	145	142	287	54	38	0.1	0.2	6.6	6.5	13.0	2.5	1.7
2004	West Coast	6	11	2	0	110	56	166	42	21	0.2	0.0	10.0	5.1	15.1	3.8	1.9
2005	West Coast	6	25	3	2	197	145	342	90	46	0.1	0.1	7.9	5.8	13.7	3.6	1.8
2006	West Coast	6	14	2	0	106	88	194	53	27	0.1	0.0	7.6	6.3	13.9	3.8	1.9
Career			265	76	48	2338	1792	4130	729	524	0.3	0.2	8.8	6.8	15.6	2.8	2.0

References

1. Drew Banfield's player profile at AFL Tables

External links

• Drew Banfield's statistics from AFL Tables