Matt Clape

Matt Clape
Personal information
Full name	Matthew Clape
Date of birth	(1969-05-28) 28 May 1969
Original team(s)	East Perth
Height/Weight	187 cm / 86 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1992–1994 1995–1998 Total	West Coast Eagles Carlton	29 (14) 58 (48) 87 (62)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998 season.

Matt Clape (born 28 May 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and West Coast in the Australian Football League.

Clape got his first chance at AFL football with the West Coast Eagles as a half back flanker but was delisted after three seasons. He was given a second chance by Carlton when they picked him in the 1995 AFL Pre-Season Draft.

In the club's premiership season of 1995, Clape featured prominently. Pushed up forward he kicked 7 straight goals and gathered 17 possessions in a round 15 game against Adelaide at Optus Oval. He played in the Grand Final and starred with 19 disposals. At the end of the year he had kicked 31 goals.

References

Matt Clape's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Carlton Football Club 1995 AFL premiers

Carlton 21.15 (141) defeated Geelong 11.14 (80), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Silvagni 2. Williams 4. Kernahan (c) 5. McKay 6. Clape 7. Ratten 11. Spalding 13. Hanna 14. Sexton 16. Camporeale 19. Pearce 20. Brown 21. Bradley 22. Manton 23. Rice 32. Whitehead 33. Hogg 35. Dean 39. Christou 43. Koutoufides 44. Madden

Coach: Parkin

Western Australian team – 1996 State of Origin

Ball Bandy Banfield Clape Connell Cummings Donnelly Hall Hart Jakovich Jones Dale Kickett Derek Kickett Laidley McIntosh McKenna (c) Merenda Mitchell O'Reilly Prior Schofield White

Coach: Glendinning

1990 AFL national draft

1. Stephen Hooper
2. James Cook
3. David Donato
4. Jason McCartney
5. Stewart Devlin
6. Allen Jakovich
7. Damian Hampson
8. Paul Gow
9. Matt Clape
10. David Ogg
11. Danny Sexton
12. Shane Porter
13. Todd Ridley
14. Andrew Hamer
15. Andrew Harrison
16. Todd Menegola
17. Brendan Hehir
18. Dan Miller
19. Gary Merritt
20. Robbie West
21. Richard Ambrose
22. Paul Sharkey
23. Ben Thomas
24. John Fidge
25. Peter Worsfold
26. Dale Hall
27. Brad Davis
28. Chris Smith
29. Byron Donnellan
30. Matthew Young
31. Nick Faull
32. Matthew Moylan
33. Matthew Kelly
34. Brad Read
35. Stuart Anderson
36. Matthew Burton
37. Glen Hoffman
38. Grant McFarlane
39. Nigel Palfreyman
40. Mark Collins
41. Mark Jenkinson
42. Mark McQueen
43. Glen Thomlinson
44. Scott Crow
45. Craig Jennings
46. Brian McInnes
47. Luke Chambers
48. Willie Rioli
49. Nick Daffy
50. Craig Ellis
51. Jarrod Carter
52. Brendon Retzlaff
53. Stephen Pears
54. Brian Stanislaus
55. Steven Byers
56. Matthew Clarke
57. Chris Barzon
58. Adrian Goldup
59. Cameron James
60. Rodney Harvey
61. Michael Scoon
62. Ben Herrald
63. Fabian Francis
64. Derek Hall
65. Stephen Fry
66. Bowden Hamilton
67. David Griffin
68. Peter Whyte
69. Gavin Cooney
70. Stuart Johnstone
71. Dennis Ryan
72. Brian Wilson
73. Anthony McDonald
74. Paul Campbell
75. Robert Panozza
76. Robert Bowden
77. Niall Buckley
78. Dean Harding
79. James Hird
80. Scott O'Donohue
81. Luan Morley
82. Leigh Campbell
83. Mark Williams
84. John Peter-Budge
85. Brad Dowling
86. Sam Jones
87. Danny Morgan
88. Peter Jacks
89. Simon Wood
90. Adam Ahern
91. Adam Rudd
92. Jamie Shanahan
93. Adam Houlihan
94. Chris Ryan

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