Darren Milburn

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Full name Darren Milburn Height 1.89 m Nickname(s) Dasher Weight 89 kg		Date joined 1997 Name Darren Milburn Nominations AFL Rising Star

Date of birth (1977-04-15) 15 April 1977 (age 38) Original team(s) Kilmore / Calder U18 (TAC Cup) Draft 48th overall, 1995Geelong Role Australian Rules Footballer Similar People Matthew Scarlett, Cameron Mooney, David Teague, Scott Camporeale
Place of birth Victoria, Australia

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Darren Milburn (born 15 April 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A defender, 1.89 metres (6 ft 2 in) tall and weighing 92 kilograms (203 lb), Milburn was renowned for his competitiveness, decision-making and for both his physical and mental strength.

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Milburn was selected in the 2007 All-Australian Team, and was part of Geelong's AFL premiership-winning team in the same year, a feat which has seen him become the first premiership player to play 250 matches for Geelong. He has also represented the Victorian state team in the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match, as well as being selected to represent Australia in International rules football.

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Milburn was an assistant coach with Adelaide in the AFL from 2012 to 2015.

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Early life

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Darren Milburn grew up in the country town of Kilmore, Victoria, where he attended school and played for the Kilmore Football Club. Milburn met his future wife, Tania, in his teenage years whilst still at school, and also was school friends with another future AFL footballer, Barry Hall, whom he met at a high school he attended in Broadford, Victoria.

2007

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In season 2007 he received his first All-Australian guernsey in the back-pocket. Milburn played a pivotal role in Geelong's defence throughout the groundbreaking year, which ended with a Premiership medallion for the veteran.

2008

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In season 2008 Milburn once again was a regular fixture in the young Geelong side. In Geelong's round 16 game against the Western Bulldogs at Skilled Stadium, he racked up 19 disposals in the first quarter, breaking the record for the most number of dispsals in any quarter of football.

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At the end of Season 2011. Milburn retired after playing 292 games and Two premierships in 07 and 09 since his debut in 1997, Milburn was named as an emergency for the 2011 Premiership. Milburn then went into coaching straight away and Joined the Adelaide crows for season 2012 Joining New coach Brenton Sanderson a former team-mate and Assistant coach at Geelong. Darren Milburn quit the Adelaide football club at the end of 2015 to return home to Victoria.

Honours and achievements

Team:

AFL Premiership (Geelong): 2007, 2009

AFL McClelland Trophy (Geelong): 2007, 2008

AFL NAB Cup (Geelong): 2006, 2009

Individual:

AFL:

All-Australian: 2007

Australian representative honours in international rules football: 2005

All-Australian nomination: 2008

AFL Rising Star nomination: 1998

Geelong Football Club:

Member of the Geelong F.C. Hall of Fame

Geelong F.C. "Best team and most constructive player" award: 2005

TAC Cup:

Team of the Year: 1995

Milestones:

AFL debut: Round 1, 1997 (vs. Richmond) at the MCG (Geelong lost by 9 points)

Finals debut: Qualifying final, 1997 (vs. North Melbourne) at the MCG (Geelong lost by 18 points)

50th game: Round 4, 2000 (vs. North Melbourne) at the Telstra Dome (Geelong lost by 5 points)

100th game: Round 18, 2002 (vs. North Melbourne) at Skilled Stadium (Geelong lost by 64 points)

150th game: Round 8, 2005 (vs. Carlton) at Telstra Dome (Geelong won by 70 points)

200th game: Round 12, 2007 (vs. Brisbane Lions) at Skilled Stadium (Geelong won by 50 points)

250th game: Round 18, 2009 (vs. Adelaide) at Skilled Stadium (Geelong won by 2 points)

Tribunal history

Although he kept mostly out of trouble throughout his career, Milburn had two notable tribunal cases.

In 2001, he was suspended for three weeks for charging, after he knocked out Carlton's Stephen Silvagni with a hip to the head late in Geelong's last match for the year; there was also discussion of charging Milburn for 'bringing the game into disrepute', when he provocatively clapped to the Carlton crowd as it booed him from the ground, but he did not have to formally face this charge. He was never forgiven by Carlton fans, who booed him for the rest of his career.

In 2008, Milburn was suspended for one week for rough conduct against Richmond's Shane Edwards. In the incident, Milburn pinned Edwards' arms in a tackle and slung him into the ground, causing Edwards' unprotected head hit the ground. Milburn was able to successfully, but controversially, argue the contact should be viewed as body contact rather than head-high contact because Milburn never contacted Edwards' head himself; this reduced his suspension from three matches to one. This case was the most prominent of four cases which led directly to the establishment of "dangerous tackle" as a tribunal charge distinct from "rough conduct" from the 2009 season onwards.

Personal life

Milburn is married to his teenage sweetheart, Tania, with whom he has had two children: a daughter, Imogen, and a son, Jett.

References

Darren Milburn Wikipedia

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