Full name Simon White Name Simon White Current club Carlton Career start 2010 | Position(s) Defender Weight 91 kg Height/Weight 190 cm / 88 kg Height 1.90 m | |
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Date of birth (1988-06-17) 17 June 1988 (age 27) Draft 56 (2010 AFL Rookie Draft) Role Australian Rules Footballer Profiles | ||
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Simon Peter White (born 17 June 1988), is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League.
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Originally from the Carine Junior Football Club, White joined the Subiaco Football Club in the WAFL. He made his senior debut there in 2009, playing 19 games, earning the club's Rising Star Award and playing in their Grand Final loss to South Fremantle. White plays as a versatile defender who has been compared to former Subiaco teammate Greg Broughton and former West Coast Eagle Adam Hunter.
White was recruited by the Carlton Football Club with its fourth round selection in the 2010 AFL rookie draft (No. 56 overall). At the age of 21, White was among the more experienced new rookies selected in the draft. He was quickly called up for his AFL debut, in Round 4, 2010 against the Adelaide Crows. In his first four seasons, White played 26 matches for Carlton, with regular injures limiting his availability – he suffered a hip injury in 2010, knee and hamstring injuries in 2011, a medial ligament knee injury in 2012, the return from which was delayed by complications arising from the use of a synthetic ligament to augment the natural ligament (a LARS procedure), and a fractured C3 vertebra from an on-field collision in 2013. A clearer run without injuries saw White play 33 games over the following two years.