Paul Hills

Paul Hills
Personal information
Date of birth	(1972-09-20) 20 September 1972
Original team(s)	North Ballarat (Ballarat FL)
Height/Weight	185 cm / 78 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1991-1996	Essendon	63 (11)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1996 season.

Paul Hills (born 20 September 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Hills usually played on the wing and after being recruited from North Ballarat he joined Essendon for the 1991 season despite not having played a reserves game. In 1993 he was part of the premiership side, playing 20 games during the year for 357 disposals.

The following season he suffered form and injury problems and until he was delisted in 1996 he managed to add just 11 more games.

External links

Paul Hills's statistics from AFL Tables

Essendon Football Club 1993 AFL premiers

Essendon 20.13 (133) defeated Carlton 13.11 (89), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Harvey 2. Mercuri 3. Salmon 4. Wanganeen 5. Hird 7. Daniher 8. Bewick 10. O'Donnell 11. Hills 13. Long 19. Somerville 21. Wallis 24. Misiti 26. Thompson (c) 29. Grenvold 31. Fletcher 32. Watson 38. Denham 47. Olarenshaw 48. Calthorpe

Coach: Sheedy

1988 VFL national draft

First round	1. Alex McDonald 2. Todd Breman 3. Carl Dilena 4. John McNamara 5. Chris Naish 6. Ray Sterrett 7. Leon Cameron 8. Dion Scott 9. Michael Werner 10. Peter Higgins 11. Mark Bayliss 12. Brad Fox 13. Darren Bennett 14. Stephen Byers

Second round	15. Danny Craven 16. David Bain 17. Brad Edwards 18. Anthony Stevens 19. Matthew Francis 20. Adrian Fletcher 21. Anthony Reynolds 22. Paul Holdsworth 23. Michael Long 24. David Hynes 25. Colin Alexander 26. David Regan 27. Rod Keogh 28. Chris Martin

Third round	29. Tim Allen 30. Richard Champion 31. Brenton Klaebe 32. Brad Sholl 33. Bruce Lennon 34. Daryn Cresswell 35. John Georgiades 36. Nick Chigwidden 37. Michael Strickland 38. Jeremy Crough 39. Scott Russell 40. Glen Johnston 41. Michael Hobbes 42. Dion Rhook

Fourth round	43. Daryl Griffiths 44. Scott Williamson 45. Damian Simmonds 46. Simon McCarthy 47. Glen Leaf 48. Scott Jordon 49. Shannon Corcoran 50. Jim West 51. Adrian Burns 52. Darren Bartsch 53. Michael Smith 54. Michael Sexton 55. Andrew Ford 56. Justin McGrath

Fifth round	57. Pat Lambert 58. Lachlan Sim 59. Matthew Dundas 60. Derek Kickett 61. Julian Moloney 62. David Welsby 63. Scott Davies 64. Andrew Bishop 65. Rod Saunders 66. Matt Richardson 67. Peter Divenuto 68. Grant Povey 69. Matthew Mahoney 70. Russell Wilding

Sixth round	71. Graeme Kettle 72. Chris O'Sullivan 73. Stephen Walker 74. Steven Hamilton 75. Ty Esler 76. David Preston 77. Robert Bloom 78. Jamie Bond 79. Simon Jorgensen 80. Damian Berto 81. Nick Probert 82. Anthony Loone 83. Brian Stynes 84. Justin Crough

Seventh round	85. Ian Dargie 86. Ben Sexton 87. Dwaine Kretschmer 88. Justin Staritski 89. Adam Crudden 90. Kym Nicholls 91. Matthew Queen 92. Stephen Vizy 93. Paul Hills 94. Andrew Gedden 95. Tony Francis 96. Michael James (F/S) 97. Tom Grehan 98. Michael Barrett

Eighth round	99. Dermot McNicholl 100. David Kupsch 101. Leigh Funcke 102. Shaun Holloway 103. Sean Bowden (F/S) 104. Andrew Gribble 105. Chris Grant 106. Gareth John (F/S) 107. Darren Mead 108. Peter Melesso 109. Heath Shephard (F/S) 110. Chris Mulcair (F/S) 111. Tom Kavanagh (F/S) 112. Troy Reid

1996 AFL national draft

1. Michael Gardiner
2. Chris Heffernan
3. Rory Hilton
4. Mark Kinnear
5. Daniel McAlister
6. John Rombotis
7. Bowen Lockwood
8. Leigh Brockman
9. Mark Harwood
10. Nathan Brown
11. Brent Grgic
12. Heath Black
13. Tom Gilligan
14. Brett O'Farrell
15. Max Hudghton
16. Pat Steinfort
17. Rowan Warfe
18. Gerrard Bennett
19. Brent Tuckey
20. Matthew Dent
21. Tim Williams
22. Alistair Nicholson
23. Evan Hewitt
24. Josh Wooden
25. Andrew Bomford
26. Tim Notting
27. Troy Cook
28. Jason Johnson
29. Nathan Turvey
30. Hayden Lamaro
31. Jess Sinclair
32. Jim Plunkett
33. Will Sangster
34. Shannon Corcoran
35. Mark Chaffey
36. Jonathan Hay
37. Adam Kingsley
38. Sam Smart
39. Nick Stone
41. Matthew Manfield
42. Martin Pike
43. Paul Corrigan
44. Jacob Rhodes
45. Clayton Gardiner
46. Matthew Clucas
47. Brett Montgomery
48. Marty Warry
49. Jason Heatley
50. Luke McCormick
51. Robert McMahon
52. Damien Lock
53. Michael Braun
54. Mathew Watson
55. Steven McKee
56. Cameron Mooney
57. Trent Cummings
58. Paul Dooley
59. Anthony McDonald
60. Andrew Eccles
61. Stephen Powell
62. Andrew Thompson
63. Jason Baldwin
64. Darren Collins
65. Brad Cassidy
66. Paul Hills
67. Byron Pickett
68. Russell Robertson
69. Chad Rintoul
70. Adam Hay
71. Brett Knowles
72. Brent Frewen
73. Brett Howman
74. Chris Jackson
75. Mark Winterton
76. Greg Dempsey
77. Marcus Barham
78. Lucas Fleming
79. Daniel Donati
80. Chris Holcombe
81. Anthony Franchina
82. Duncan O'Toole
83. Ashley Gehling
84. Josh Mahoney
85. Brad Scott
86. Ben Parker
87. Brad Fuller
88. Phil Smith
89. Dwayne Griffin
90. Leigh Singline

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