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Ben McKinley
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| Statistics |
Career Snapshot |
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DOB:
4th Mar 1987 |
Career
Games |
48 |
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Debut:
2007 |
Career Goals |
89 |
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From:
Old Ivanhoe (Vic) / Northern Knights U18 (Vic) |
West Coast
Games |
46 |
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Height:
184 cm |
Weight:
82 kg |
West Coast
Goals |
89 |
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| Player Information |
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Ben McKinley joined the Eagles as a player with a reputation for kicking goals in the Victorian under 18s, but struggled to find form and ability in his initial two year contract, only getting a single game in a match where the Eagles had only 26 fit players to select from.
Widely tipped to be the last man delisted, McKinley was given a one year contract to remain with the club for 2008, and he took the opportunity with both hands, re-finding the potential up forward that he had shown in his under 18 days, leading the Eagles goal kicking and winning the Rookie of the Year award. On the back of this turn around, he was a popular target of Victorian clubs to return home at the end of the season, but elected to remain an Eagle much to the delight of fans hoping this is merely the beginning. |
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| Career Honours |
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2005: Drafted, Pick 29.
2008: AFL Rising Star Nominee.
2008: West Coast Eagles Rookie of the Year.
2008: West Coast Eagles Leading Goal-kicker (42 Goals).
2010: Traded to North Melbourne for pick 86 |
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| A lot
of thanks are due to other people for the stats on this
page. For all games from 1993-2002, thanks to Paul
at AFL Stats http://stats.rleague.com/afl/afl_index.html.
For the 1987-1992 stats, much thanks to carneagles
for providing me a copy of the stats created for corkintheocean,
probably the best footy blog out there. Go read it! |
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