Steven King (footballer)
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| Date of birth | 22 November 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Shepparton, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Murray Bushrangers (TAC Cup) | ||
| Debut | Round 5, 27 April 1996, Geelong vs. Richmond, at Skilled Stadium |
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| Height / weight | 202 cm / 105 kg | ||
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| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1996–2007 | Geelong | 193 (75) | |
| 2008–2010 | St Kilda | 47 (8) | |
| Total | 240 (83) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2010.
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AFL
Geelong Football Club
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
AFL
Geelong Football Club
Steven King (born 22 November 1978) is a former Australian rules footballer for Geelong and St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Western Bulldogs.
Debuting as a 17-year-old with the Geelong Cats in 1996, King is a gifted ruckman. He won All-Australian selection and won the Carji Greeves Medal in 2000 and again in 2002. He was captain of the club between 2003 and 2006. In 2005, King was hit by numerous injuries, which affected his form.
A moment of controversy occurred in King's career in the 2005 Elimination Final, when he accidentally kicked Melbourne's Jeff White in the head. Both men were contesting a boundary throw in, and it was knocked to the ground. King was the man in front, and when the ball bounced up to head height, he took a mighty swing at it with his right foot. He missed the ball completely, but connected with White's face, giving him injuries which have been described as "equivalent to those of a car accident victim," requiring White to have several plates and screws inserted.
Media commentators and fans were largely divided about whether King should have faced the tribunal for kicking, historically the most heavily penalised infringement whether accidental or intentional. Eventually, the Match Review Panel decided that he had no case to answer, and he was free to play in the semi-final against Sydney the following week. Somewhat ironically, a hamstring injury in the third quarter of that game coincided with a Sydney comeback, and eventually victory.
King fell out of favour in 2007, playing only a handful of AFL games and was dropped to the Victorian Football League in favour of Brad Ottens and Mark Blake. In Round 18, playing in the AFL when Ottens was rested, he took a mark over goal umpire Michael Hammond – an awkward half-speckie/half-collision which sent the umpire crashing to the ground; for the second time in his career, despite the AFL's generally strict application of the rule prohibiting contact with field umpires, King avoided tribunal action, with the Match Review Panel deeming that the goal umpire had contributed to the clash, due to the fact that he moved towards the ball as it began to fall.
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