Graham Wright

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Graham Wright
Personal information
Date of birth	(1968-06-06) 6 June 1968
Original team(s)	East Devonport
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1988–1998	Collingwood	201 (107)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998.
Career highlights
Harry Collier Trophy 1988 2nd Brownlow Medal 1990 3rd best and fairest 1990 (eq) Collingwood premiership side 1990

Graham Wright (born 6 June 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for Collingwood in the Australian Football League. Wright is the current recruitment manager for the Hawthorn Football Club.

Playing career

Wright was selected by Collingwood in the 1987 National Draft with their first round pick (no.3 overall) as a quick wingman, having shown great courage for Tasmanian side Devonport. Making his debut in 1988, Wright took his time to prove his value as a first-round draftee but in 1990 he had a fantastic year which saw him rise in ranking amongst the top wingmen in the league. Wright finished 2nd in the Brownlow Medal to Tony Liberatore by one vote in 1990, and would then finish equal 3rd in the Copeland Trophy. Perhaps more importantly, Wright was a valuable member of the 1990 premiership side. Wright would also represent Tasmania in State football.

A shock came to coach Leigh Matthews and players at the end of 1991 when Wright announced he wanted to return to Tasmania to play football, but was talked out of it by Matthews. In 1993 he was a victim of a disease which threatened his playing career, but he recovered in the pre-season to continue playing his damaging football on the wing. Consistent football followed in the mid-90's before suffering a knee injury in 1996 against Richmond where he would require a knee reconstruction. Following the season-ending injury, his main asset of pace was severely affected, and would play out his career in defence where his courage gave him an edge. Wright played his 200th game against Carlton in 1998, before retiring a week later at the end of the 1998 season.

Recruitment management

Wright was appointed as recruiting and list manager at Hawthorn in June 2011. He replaced Hawthorns' long-time list manager Chris Pelchen, who quit the club for a position at St Kilda. Wright had experience in recruitment at both Brisbane (2004-2007) and Hawthorn (since 2007). He also has an MBA in Sports Management.^[1]

When Hawthorn needed to reconstruct its team in recent years of the diluted drafts and then free agency. Wright was the man to find the players - teenagers and veterans who arrived to build the side. Wright was the person responsible for bringing Shaun Burgoyne, David Hale, Josh Gibson, Jack Gunston, Jonathan Simpkin and Brian Lake to the club and ultimately the 2013 to 2015 premierships.^[2]

References

↑ Bradshaw, Finn (2011-06-14). "Graham Wright takes over Hawks recruiting". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
↑ http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-building-of-a-machine-20130929-2umit.html

External links

Graham Wright's statistics from AFL Tables

Collingwood Football Club 1990 AFL premiers

Collingwood 13.11 (89) defeated Essendon 5.11 (41), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Monkhorst 2. Francis 3. Gayfer 7. Morwood 12. Banks 17. Barwick 19. Wright 21. Christian 22. Shaw (c) 23. Kelly 24. Turner 26. Brown 27. Starcevich 28. Crosisca 29. Russell 30. Manson 34. McGuane 35. Daicos 42. Millane 44. Kerrison

Coach: Matthews

Tasmanian team – 1990 State of Origin

Tasmania 20.14 (134) defeated Victoria 14.17 (101), at the North Hobart Oval, 20 May 1990

Alexander Atkins Barwick Byers Clayton Davies Fell B. Gale M. Gale Hudson Lynch MacPherson Mansfield Manson McCarthy Nichols Noonan Pritchard (c) Spearman Stephens Wade Wright

Coach: Shaw

Victorian team – 1990 State of Origin

New South Wales 13.8 (86) defeated Victoria 10.16 (76), at the SCG, 22 May 1990 Victoria 14.13 (97) defeated Western Australia 8.12 (60), at the WACA Ground, 26 June 1990

Both games	Brereton Collins Morwood O'Donnell Salmon Silvagni Stoneham Weightman

vs. New South Wales	Ayres Brown Crosisca Febey Gleeson Jeffrey Langford Lovett Lyon Malakellis Scott Stynes Wright

vs. Western Australia	Ablett Anderson Bruns Couch Daicos Ezard Frawley Loewe Madden McGuane Mitchell Rice Shaw Watson

Australian Football Alliance (The Allies) team – 1996 State of Origin

Tasmania	Bond Febey Fletcher Gale O'Connor Richardson Shanahan Wright

Queensland	Akermanis Ashcroft Cockatoo-Collins Crosisca Dunstall Voss

New South Wales	Crawford Doolan Roberts Stafford

Northern Territory	Buckley Burns Chisholm White

Coach: Daniher (NSW)

1987 VFL national draft

First round	1. Richard Lounder 2. Chris McDermott 3. Graham Wright 4. Andrew Brockhurst 5. Michael Quirk 6. Andrew Rogers 7. Darren Davies 8. Darren Jones 9. Michael Murphy 10. Michael Parsons 11. Tim McNeil 12. Grant Williams 13. Peter Bubner

Second round	14. Wayne Peters 15. Andrew Jarman 16. Chris Grumley 17. Chris Waterson 18. Patrick Browne 19. Jamie Cox 20. Stuart Wigney 21. Shane Korth 22. Scott Christie 23. Scott Salisbury 24. Mark Ducker 25. Damien Trezise 26. Steven Oliver

Third round	27. Brendon Gale 28. Andrew Bishop 29. Andrew Pascoe 30. Ashley Byrne 31. Jamie Keane 32. John Cook 33. Rod Gunn 34. Stephen Hewitt 35. Craig Patrick 36. Tony Virgona 37. Andrew Obst 38. John Polkinghorne 39. David Kernahan

Fourth round	40. Bevan Cox 41. Michael Kennedy 42. Tim Wilson 43. Darren Wheildon 44. Bob Jones 45. David Grenvold 46. Gary Gunn 47. Stephen McQueen 48. Liam Pickering 49. Jim Silvestro 50. Stephen Tingay 51. Anthony Dessent 52. Stephen Gemmill

Fifth round	53. Andrew Wisken 54. Adam Ladbrook 55. Brendan Tranter 56. Keith Allan 57. Damien Kitschke 58. Peter Bennett 59. Simon Tregenza 60. Pat Gribble 61. Darren Read 62. David Querzoli 63. Jay Viney 64. Peter Nunn 65. Dean Adams

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