Full name Clinton Jones Name Clinton Jones Spouse Jessica Jones Years Club Career start 2007 | Position(s) Midfielder Weight 83 kg Height/Weight 183cm / 83kg Height 1.83 m | |
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Date of birth (1984-02-02) 2 February 1984 (age 31) Draft No. 9, 2007 Rookie Draft, St Kilda Role Australian Rules Footballer Original team South Fremantle Football Club | ||
Marriage location Perth, Australia | ||
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Clinton Jones (born 2 February 1984) is an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 2007 to 2014. He is currently signed as a player for the Perth Football Club in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).
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AFL career
Jones was recruited from South Fremantle in the WAFL with the 9th selection in the 2006 AFL Rookie Draft. At South Fremantle he had won consecutive best and fairest awards and was a part of South's 2005 premiership winning team. Following that Grand Final, he was mistakenly announced as the winner of the Simpson Medal, before it was corrected and the true winner Toby McGrath was awarded the medal.
Jones was drafted to the Saints at the age of 22, which is unusually old for an AFL draftee.
Jones played in St Kilda’s 2008 NAB Cup winning side, the club’s third pre-season cup win.
Jones played in 21 of 22 home and away matches in the 2009 AFL season, which resulted in St Kilda topping the premiership ladder, winning the club’s third minor premiership. He won the 2009 Robert Harvey Most Professional Player Award. He was also named in Mike Sheahan's top 50 AFL players for 2009, coming in at 49th. Before the start of the 2010 season he changed his number from 38 to 4, which had previously been worn by club legends Barry Breen and Tony Lockett.
In September 2013 at the club's Mad Monday celebrations Jones lit a dwarf entertainer on fire with a cigarette lighter. He later apologised and was issued with a A$3000 fine by the club.
In February 2015, Jones was given a short-term contract by Essendon to play in the 2015 NAB Challenge as a "top-up" player, due to 26 Essendon players withdrawing from the NAB Challenge because of the ongoing Essendon Football Club supplements controversy.