Derek Kickett
| Derek Kickett | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Derek Kickett | ||
| Date of birth | 6 October 1962 | ||
| Original team(s) | West Perth | ||
| Height / weight | 180 cm / 88 kg | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1989 | North Melbourne | 12 (12) | |
| 1990 – 1993 | Essendon | 77 (94) | |
| 1994 – 1996 | Sydney | 63 (73) | |
| Total | 152 (179) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1996.
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| Career highlights | |||
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Leading Goal Kicker West Perth Football Club 1984 Claremont premiership side 1987 R/Up Best & Fairest Claremont Football Club 1987 Record number of votes (46) Most in the Sandover Medal count 1987 State Game WA vs SA, Best Player Award WACA 16 June 1987 State of Origin Game WA vs VIC, WACA 16 May 1989 State of Origin Game WA vs VIC, WACA 16 June 1990 State of Origin Game WA vs VIC MCG 26 May 1992 Leon Larkin Medal Winner WA vs VIC MCG 26 May 1992 Night Premiership Essendon vs Richmond 1993 State game WA vs Allies, Subiaco Oval 18 June 1995 State of Origin Game WA vs SA Football Park 2 June 1996 Graham Moss Medal Winner WA vs SA Football Park 2 June 1996 |
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Leading Goal Kicker West Perth Football Club 1984
Claremont premiership side 1987
R/Up Best & Fairest Claremont Football Club 1987
Record number of votes (46) Most in the Sandover Medal count 1987
State Game WA vs SA, Best Player Award WACA 16 June 1987
State of Origin Game WA vs VIC, WACA 16 May 1989
State of Origin Game WA vs VIC, WACA 16 June 1990
State of Origin Game WA vs VIC MCG 26 May 1992
Leon Larkin Medal Winner WA vs VIC MCG 26 May 1992
Night Premiership Essendon vs Richmond 1993
State game WA vs Allies, Subiaco Oval 18 June 1995
State of Origin Game WA vs SA Football Park 2 June 1996
Graham Moss Medal Winner WA vs SA Football Park 2 June 1996
Derek Thomas Kickett (born 6 October 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer. Kickett played with seven different VFL/AFL, WAFL and SANFL clubs through his career.
Derek is related to a number of other past and present high-profile AFL footballers from the Kickett family, including Dale Kickett and Lance "Buddy" Franklin, who are both his nephews. His other nephews are Byron Pickett and Jarrod Garlett and a well known cousin of his is Nicky Winmar.
Kickett began his senior career in the West Australian Football League with West Perth, and he was the leading goalkicker at West Perth in 1984. After falling out with the Falcons early in the 1986 season, Kickett along with veteran Peter Spencer applied for a clearance to Claremont, which at first was denied, but accepted a week later. Whilst Spencer played only two senior games for Claremont and returned for his last season to his original home at East Perth, Derek Kickett fitted in perfectly and was a key member of the Tigers’ record-breaking 1987 team that finished with twenty-one consecutive unbeaten matches and their sixth senior flag. Kickett polled 46 votes in the Sandover Medal in 1987, which was the most of any player that season, but was ineligible to win due a suspension for slapping an opponent. Kickett would have won the Sandover Medal by sixteen votes, had he been eligible.
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