Eddie Sansbury

Eddie Sansbury

Personal information
Date of birth	(1983-12-26) 26 December 1983
Original team(s)	Central District (SANFL)
Debut	Round 1, 2004, Kangaroos v. Adelaide, at MCG
Height/Weight	183cm / 86kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2004-2008	North Melbourne	40 (21)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2008 season.

Edward (Eddie) Sansbury is an Australian rules football player who formerly played as a midfielder for the Kangaroos Football Club in the Australian Football League.

He was drafted to the Kangaroos as a third round selection at pick 40 in the 2003 AFL Draft from the Central District Bulldogs in the South Australian National Football League. In the 2003 SANFL grand final he kicked 5 goals against the future Brownlow Medalist Adam Cooney.

Eddie played as a forward midfielder during his career. In Round 22 of 2007, Sansbury kicked 5 goals in the 64 point win over the Western Bulldogs. He had his best season in Kangaroo colours to date. However Sansbury was delisted at the end of the 2008 season after only playing one game during the season. In 2009 he has returned to Adelaide and to Central District.

Sansbury is the cousin of Sydney's Michael O'Loughlin and Kangaroo team-mate Daniel Wells.

Achievements

Career Games - 40

Career Goals - 21

Draft History - Pick 40 (2003)

Brownlow Votes - 3

Career Finals - 3

	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
Games	1	12	7	10	10
Ave. Kicks	1	8.8	6.7	4.9	6.2
Ave. Handballs	3	6.3	7.4	3.8	3.1

External links

Eddie Sansbury's statistics from AFL Tables

2005 Indigenous All-Stars team

Burgoyne Bonson Cole Corrie Darcy Davey Farmer Faulkner Grover Headland C. Johnson (vc) M. Johnson Koops Krakouer Lovett-Murray McGrath McLeod Miller Motlop Murphy Murray Pickett Rusca Sansbury Tambling Wells Whelan White (c) Wilson Woods

Coach: McLean

2003 AFL national draft

First round	1. Adam Cooney (PP) 2. Andrew Walker (PP) 3. Colin Sylvia (PP) 4. Farren Ray 5. Brock McLean 6. Kepler Bradley 7. Kane Tenace 8. Raphael Clarke 9. David Trotter 10. Ryley Dunn 11. Beau Waters 12. Ryan Murphy 13. Brent Stanton 14. Fergus Watts 15. Troy Chaplin 16. Josh Willoughby 17. Billy Morrison 18. Llane Spaanderman

Second round	19. David Mundy 20. Sam Butler 21. Alex Gilmour 22. Cameron Thurley 23. Matthew Moody 24. Chad Jones 25. Harry Miller 26. Daniel McConnell 27. Adam Campbell 28. Jay Nash 29. Tim Schmidt 30. Brad Symes 31. Joshua Krueger 32. Brayden Shaw (F/S) 33. Jed Adcock

Third round	34. Luke Peel 35. Brent Hall 36. Chris Johnson (F/S) 37. Tom Roach (F/S) 38. Mark Blake (F/S) 39. Robert Forster-Knight 40. Eddie Sansbury 41. Zac Dawson 42. Matthew Spencer 43. Brett Peake (F/S) 44. Ricky Dyson 45. Amon Buchanan 46. Michael Pettigrew 47. Andrew Erikson 48. Heath Shaw (F/S) 49. Tom Logan

Fourth round	50. Izaac Tomson 51. Matthew Ball 53. Daniel Jackson 55. Sam Fisher 56. Brent LeCras 57. Ricky Mott 58. Ben Hudson 59. Matthew Davis 60. Julian Rowe 61. Michael Rischitelli

Fifth round	63. Glen Bowyer 64. Shane Morrison 65. Craig Callaghan

Sixth round	69. Jordan Bannister 70. Brent Hartigan

Seventh round	72. Adrian Deluca 73. Shane Tuck

Eighth round	75. Stephen Kenna 76. Andrew Raines

Ninth round	79. Simon Fletcher

Tenth round	81. Kyle Archibald

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