Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser
Fraser playing for Collingwood in 2006
Personal information
Full name	Joshua Fraser
Date of birth	(1982-01-05) 5 January 1982 (age 35)
Original team(s)	Healesville YVMDFL/Mansfield Murray Bushrangers (TAC Cup)
Draft	No. 1, 1999 National Draft
Height / weight	202 cm / 100 kg
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2000–2010	Collingwood	200 (156)
2011–2012	Gold Coast	018 0(12)
Total		218 (168)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
2008	Victoria	1
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2011. 2 State and international statistics correct as of 2008.
Career highlights
2000 AFL Rising Star nominee Collingwood best first year player, 2000 Collingwood vice-captain, 2008

Josh Fraser (born 5 January 1982) is a coach and former player of Australian rules football. He played professional football for 200 games for the Collingwood Football Club and 18 games for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently a development coach at the Carlton Football Club and the senior coach of its VFL-affiliate the Northern Blues.

From Mansfield via Murray U18, Fraser was the number one pick in the 1999 National Draft, going to Collingwood. Fraser played 21 games in his first season. He won an AFL Rising Star nomination in his debut year. He played all 25 games in 2002, kicked 37 goals and played in the Grand Final team where he kicked three goals, following a three-goal haul in the Preliminary Final. In 2003 he had over 340 disposals in the season, 300 hit outs and kicked 20 goals.

Fraser played all 23 games in 2006, having 341 hit outs for the year, his best return.He kicked 16 goals, averaged more than 17 touches a game, more than 7 marks a game, and 15 hit outs. He finished fourth in the Copeland Trophy, along with Heath Shaw, only three votes behind the eventual winner Alan Didak.

In 2007, Josh Fraser did not miss a game until Round 20 against Melbourne, his second last game for the season. He returned for the Elimination Final win against the Sydney Swans before withdrawing late against the West Coast Eagles the next week, his last game for the season.

In 2008, Fraser was named Scott Burns' vice-captain.

In 2010, Fraser played nine games for the club, and he lost his first-choice ruckman position to new recruit Darren Jolly. He played his 200th game for Collingwood in the round 22 clash against Hawthorn.