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Dean Brogan
Brogan in 2007
Personal information
Full name Dean Scott Brogan
Nickname(s) Brogs
Date of birth (1978-12-14) 14 December 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s) Christies Beach (SFL)
South Adelaide (SANFL)
Draft No. 26,
2000 Rookie Draft, Port Adelaide
Height 201 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight 100 kg (220 lb)
Position(s) Ruckman
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2000–2011 Port Adelaide 174 (50)
2012–2013 Greater Western Sydney 19 (3)
Total 193 (53)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2013.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Dean Brogan
Personal information
Listed height201 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Listed weight100 kg (220 lb)
Career information
Playing career1998–1999
Position
Power forward
Number42
Career history
1998Adelaide 36ers
1998–1999Newcastle Falcons
Career highlights and awards

Dean Scott Brogan (born 14 December 1978) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Brogan is the younger brother of former

Australian Opals basketball player Michelle Brogan
.

NBL career

Adelaide 36ers

Dean Brogan attended the

Power forward
when he played basketball.

By Brogan's own admission, he was a "bit of a punk back then" and he thought that coming out of the AIS he would walk into the 36ers starting line up. However, Adelaide had both Perth Wildcats 1995 championship player Martin Cattalini as well as club legend Mark Davis in front of him for the Power forward position. That and, again by his own admission, that he was a poor shooter of the ball, meant he was used as a bench / development player by Phil Smyth in his rookie NBL season.

Brogan was part of the 36ers team that won the 1998 NBL championship over the South East Melbourne Magic with a 2–0 clean sweep of the Grand Final series. Brogan didn't get on the court in Adelaide's 100–93 home win at the Powerhouse, and was only subbed on late in Game 2 at the National Tennis Centre with the 36ers holding an unbeatable lead. Within moments of coming on, Brogan was fouled and described his two free throws as "almost air balled" (teammate Rupert Sapwell later jokingly asked "what differentiates that from any other game?"). However, after missing his second shot, he then hustled back on defence and took a charge from the Magic's Frank Drmic causing a turnover and giving the ball straight back to the 36ers. Adelaide won the game over the Magic (who were the minor premiers with an imposing 28–6 record) 90-62 for their second NBL title.

Newcastle Falcons

With Cattalini and Davis still with the 36ers for the

forward David Stiff to the squad, Brogan felt his chances of breaking into the Adelaide starting line up were limited and he moved to play for the struggling Newcastle Falcons
after the 36ers 1998 championship win. Ironically by leaving Adelaide he missed out on the 36ers back-to-back championships as his former team also won the 1998–99 NBL championship..

Following his season with the Falcons, at the age of 20, Brogan decided to give up basketball to focus on Australian rules football. His former 36ers teammates jokingly claimed that Brogan made the correct decision to concentrate on football with Martin Cattalini saying on the 1990s club DVD entitled "Title Town" that "He made the absolute right decision to play football. As a basketball player he made a very good footballer but as a footballer he made a shit basketball player.".[2]

Dean Brogan played 43 NBL games, 17 with Adelaide and 26 with Newcastle.

AFL career

Port Adelaide (2000–2011)

Following his season with the Newcastle Falcons, Brogan was introduced to

Mark Williams the Power became just that in the AFL and qualified for their first ever AFL Grand Final in 2004 where they defeated three-time defending champions the Brisbane Lions to win the 2004 Premiership in front of 77,671 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
. As the team's starting ruckman Brogan became the first sportsman to win national titles in both the NBL and AFL.

With the recurrent injuries and subsequent retirement of

Adelaide Crows in Showdown XXVI.[3]
He was named as vice-captain of the club in the lead up to the 2010 season.

Greater Western Sydney (2012)

In June 2011, at the age of 32, Brogan announced his retirement from AFL football at the conclusion of the 2011 season. However, he later decided against retirement and was traded to the new expansion Greater Western Sydney Giants.

Off field controversies

In 2006, Brogan was involved in an incident at Adelaide airport in which he punched Adelaide Crows fan Dale Mortimer after being insulted, breaking Mortimer's nose.[4] He pleaded guilty and was fined $750.[5]

In July 2007, Brogan pleaded guilty to assaulting an Adelaide surgeon in October 2005,[6] and was fined $1000.[7]

Career statistics

National Basketball League

[8]

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
† Denotes season(s) in which Brogan won an NBL championship
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1998† Adelaide 36ers 17 0 7.3 .613 .000 .200 1.5 1.0 0.1 0.1 2.4
1998–99 Newcastle Falcons 26 0 11.7 .381 .000 .333 1.9 1.1 0.3 0.0 2.1
Career 43 0 10.0 .457 .000 .278 1.7 1.0 0.2 0.0 2.2

Australian Football League

[9]

Legend
  G  
Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
Behinds
 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
Marks
H/O
 Hit-outs
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T H/O G B K H D M T H/O
2001 Port Adelaide 42 7 3 1 11 25 36 14 11 51 0.4 0.1 1.6 3.6 5.1 2.0 1.6 7.3
2002 Port Adelaide 20 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2003 Port Adelaide 20 23 5 2 97 149 246 95 28 396 0.2 0.1 4.2 6.5 10.7 4.1 1.2 17.2
2004 Port Adelaide 20 23 14 3 120 153 273 111 44 328 0.6 0.1 5.2 6.7 11.9 4.8 1.9 14.3
2005 Port Adelaide 20 14 7 3 71 66 137 51 27 136 0.5 0.2 5.1 4.7 9.8 3.6 1.9 9.7
2006 Port Adelaide 20 15 2 5 70 93 163 63 32 162 0.1 0.3 4.7 6.2 10.9 4.2 2.1 10.8
2007 Port Adelaide 20 18 0 4 70 146 216 89 41 222 0.0 0.2 3.9 8.1 12.0 4.9 2.3 12.3
2008 Port Adelaide 20 21 7 4 101 174 275 98 53 397 0.3 0.2 4.8 8.3 13.1 4.7 2.5 18.9
2009 Port Adelaide 20 20 9 1 98 144 242 73 51 432 0.5 0.1 4.9 7.2 12.1 3.7 2.6 21.6
2010 Port Adelaide 20 20 1 2 133 134 267 68 62 475 0.1 0.1 6.7 6.7 13.4 3.4 3.1 23.8
2011 Port Adelaide 20 12 2 1 84 83 167 27 38 249 0.2 0.1 7.0 6.9 13.9 2.3 3.2 20.8
2012 Greater Western Sydney 10 9 0 0 58 42 100 35 12 142 0.0 0.0 6.4 4.7 11.1 3.9 1.3 15.8
2013 Greater Western Sydney 50 10 3 3 55 50 105 31 23 179 0.3 0.3 5.5 5.0 10.5 3.1 2.3 17.9
Career 193 53 29 968 1261 2229 755 422 3169 0.3 0.2 5.0 6.5 11.5 3.9 2.2 16.4

References

  1. ISBN 174013060X
    .
  2. ^ 1998 NBL Finals
  3. ^ Port take Showdown
  4. ^ Questions Over Police Action Involving AFL Footballer
  5. ^ Brogan admits to punching Crows supporter
  6. ^ Brogan pleads guilty to assault
  7. ^ Off-field behaviour puts football careers at risk
  8. ^ Dean Brogan - NBL career statistics
  9. ^ "Dean Brogan". AFL Tables.
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