List of Melbourne defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Melbourne in a VFL/AFL premiership. This list may be incomplete due to incomplete match player position records (from which these general player positions are generated).

Player List

No. Player Season(s) Match(es) Position(s) Detail(s)
1 Alf Wood 1897-1899 46 Defender Key Defender
2 Maurie Herring 1897-1904 68 Defender Half-Back Flanker
3 Stewart Geddes 1897-1902 81 Forward / Defender
4 Eddie Sholl 1897-1902 50 Defender Half-Back Flanker
5 Bill McClelland 1898-1904 75 Defender
6 Les Rippon 1898-1902 55 Defender Back Pocket
7 Jack Davidson 1898-1899 10 Defender Back Pocket
8 Charlie Illingworth 1899 14 Defender Half-Back Flanker
9 Curtis Reid 1899-1903 20 Defender Key Defender
10 Bill Bowe 1900-1906 74 Defender
11 Jack Purse 1900-1908 109 Defender
12 Harry Parkin 1900-1906 85 Defender
13 Paddy Mills 1903-1909 83 Defender Half-Back Flanker
14 Hugh Purse 1904-1915 84 Defender Key Defender
15 Henri Jeanneret 1904 4 Forward / Defender
16 Joe Pearce 1904-1913 152 Defender Key Defender
17 Ted Cordner 1905 7 Defender Key Defender
18 Willie Marshall 1905 1 Defender Back Pocket
19 Frank Boynton 1906 1 Forward / Defender
20 Bobby Monk 1907-1914 125 Defender Back Pocket
21 Bert Parke 1907-1912 30 Defender Half-Back Flanker
22 Frank Harris 1907-1912 61 Defender
23 Albert Bickford 1908-1909 9 Defender
24 Jim Cowell 1909 7 Defender Back Pocket
25 Tommy Crow 1910 7 Defender
26 Jack Geggie 1911 1 Forward / Defender
27 Doug Chapman 1913 10 Defender Half-Back Flanker
28 Len Incigneri 1913-1915 33 Defender
29 Jack Brake 1915-1921 17 Ruckman / Defender
30 Max Hislop 1915 1 Defender Key Defender
31 Harry Coy 1921-1928 115 Defender
32 Jim Abernethy 1923-1932 130 Forward / Defender
33 Bill Adams 1931-1932 16 Defender Half-Back Flanker
34 Denis Cordner 1943-1956 152 Ruckman / Defender
35 Noel McMahen 1946-1956 175 Defender
36 John Beckwith 1951-1960 176 Defender Back Pocket
37 Don Williams 1953-1968 205 Defender
38 Trevor Johnson 1955-1962 118 Forward / Defender
39 Alistair Nicholson 1997-2005 110 Defender Key Defender
40 Brent Grgic 1997-2001 77 Forward / Defender
41 Nathan Brown 1998-2007 146 Defender
42 Matthew Bishop 1998-1999 18 Defender Back Pocket
43 Daniel Ward 1998-2007 136 Defender Half-Back Flanker
44 Chris Lamb 1999-2003 21 Defender Key Defender
45 Peter Walsh 1999-2004 104 Defender
46 Luke Williams 1999-2005 51 Defender Half-Back Flanker
47 Paul Wheatley 2000-2009 135 Defender
48 Matthew Whelan 2000-2009 150 Defender Back Pocket
49 Clint Bizzell 2002-2007 88 Defender
50 Ryan Ferguson 2003-2007 47 Defender Key Defender
51 Nathan Carroll 2003-2008 71 Defender Key Defender
52 Jared Rivers 2003-2012 150 Defender Key Defender
53 Ben Holland 2004-2008 66 Forward / Defender Forward Pocket / Back Pocket
54 Daniel Bell 2004-2009 66 Defender
55 Chris Johnson 2005-2008 31 Defender Half-Back Flanker
56 Clint Bartram 2006-2012 103 Defender Back Pocket
57 Matthew Warnock 2006-2011 55 Defender Key Defender
58 Lynden Dunn 2006-2016 165 Defender Key Defender
59 Colin Garland 2007-2016 141 Defender
60 James Frawley 2007-2014 139 Defender Key Defender
61 Simon Buckley 2007-2009 21 Defender
62 Jack Grimes 2008-2016 100 Midfielder / Defender Midfielder / Half-Back Flanker
63 Jamie Bennell 2009-2012 57 Forward / Defender Forward / Back Pocket
64 Kyle Cheney 2009-2010 14 Defender Key Defender
65 Neville Jetta 2009-2021 159 Defender Back Pocket
66 Joel MacDonald 2010-2013 44 Defender
67 James Strauss 2010-2013 24 Defender
68 Luke Tapscott 2011-2014 48 Forward / Defender
69 Daniel Nicholson 2011-2014 32 Defender
70 Jeremy Howe 2011-2015 100 Defender Key Defender
71 Tom McDonald 2011-2022 202 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
72 James Sellar 2012-2013 23 Forward / Defender Forward / Key Defender
73 Tom Gillies 2013 2 Defender Key Defender
74 Dean Terlich 2013-2014 35 Defender Back Pocket
75 Mitch Clisby 2013 8 Defender Half-Back Flanker
76 Alex Georgiou 2014 7 Defender
77 Christian Salem 2014-2022 143 Defender Half-Back Flanker
78 Dom Barry 2014 5 Forward / Defender
79 Angus Brayshaw 2015-2022 143 Defender
80 Sam Frost 2015-2019 70 Defender Key Defender
81 Heritier Lumumba 2015-2016 24 Defender
82 Oscar McDonald 2015-2020 81 Defender Key Defender
83 Tomas Bugg 2016-2018 31 Defender
84 Josh Wagner 2016-2020 42 Defender
85 Jayden Hunt 2016-2022 114 Defender
86 Joel Smith 2017-2022 28 Defender
87 Michael Hibberd 2017-2022 101 Defender
88 Jake Lever 2018-2022 80 Defender Key Defender
89 Harry Petty 2018-2022 48 Defender Key Defender
90 Marty Hore 2019 14 Defender
91 Kade Kolodjashnij 2019 2 Defender
92 Jay Lockhart 2019-2020 22 Forward / Defender
93 Steven May 2019-2022 70 Defender Key Defender
94 Adam Tomlinson 2020-2022 28 Defender Key Defender
95 Trent Rivers 2020-2022 52 Defender
96 Jake Bowey 2021-2022 24 Defender Half-Back Flanker
97 Daniel Turner 2022 1 Defender Key Defender