Isaac Weetra

Isaac Weetra
Personal information
Full name	Isaac Weetra
Date of birth	(1989-02-27) 27 February 1989
Place of birth	Whyalla
Original team(s)	Port Adelaide Magpies
Height / weight	184cm/76kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2007–2008	Melbourne	2 (0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2008.
Career highlights
Under 18 Indigenous Australia tour to South Africa Naish Travers Medallist 2005

Isaac Weetra (born 27 February 1989) is a semi-professional Australian rules footballer.

He is notable for his brief Australian Football League (AFL) stint, playing with the Melbourne Demons.

Early life

In 2006 he represented Australia's indigenous youth on tour to South Africa with the "Flying Boomerangs" to play against the South African Buffaloes.^[1]

Weetra was recruited from Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) with selection number 62 in the 2006 AFL Draft. In 2005, he was awarded the Naish Travers Medal for best on ground during the Whyalla Football League Grand Final, playing for his club West Whyalla.

AFL

Weetra debuted in the AFL in round 1, 2008 against Hawthorn at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He was dropped after his second game against the Western Bulldogs and played the rest of the season for Melbourne's VFL-affiliate, Sandringham in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Weetra was delisted by Melbourne at the conclusion of the 2008 season.^[2]

Post AFL

Weetra returned to the Port Adelaide Magpies in the SANFL for the start of the 2009 season.

In more recent times he has been spotted at the Canning Tigers Football Club in Western Australia. Weetra won the best and fairest in 2013 after finishing a distant second behind Cameron Jackson, formerly of HBL in the south west, in 2012.

References

↑ AFL Record. Round 9, 2008. pg 10
↑ "Demons clearing the decks". Sportal. 4 September 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2010.

External links

Isaac Weetra's profile on the official website of the Melbourne Football Club
Isaac Weetra's statistics from AFL Tables

2006 AFL national draft

First round	1. Bryce Gibbs 2. Scott Gumbleton 3. Lachlan Hansen 4. Matthew Leuenberger 5. Travis Boak 6. Mitch Thorp 7. Joel Selwood 8. Ben Reid 9. David Armitage 10. Nathan Brown 11. Andrejs Everitt 12. James Frawley 13. Jack Riewoldt 14. James Sellar 15. Daniel O'Keefe 16. Mitch Brown 17. Shaun Hampson (PP) 18. Leroy Jetta (PP)

Second round	19. Shaun Grigg 20. Tom Hislop 21. Gavin Urquhart 22. Albert Proud 23. Paul Stewart 24. Brent Renouf 25. Nathan Djerrkura 26. Shane Edwards 27. Brad Howard 28. Chris Dawes 29. Eric Mackenzie 30. Ricky Petterd 31. Clayton Collard 32. Kurt Tippett 33. Jarryd Morton 34. Chris Schmidt

Third round	35. Mark Austin 36. Alwyn Davey 37. Todd Goldstein 38. James Hawksley 39. Nathan Krakouer 40. Josh Kennedy (F/S) 41. Tom Hawkins (F/S) 42. Bachar Houli 43. Tim Houlihan 44. Brad Dick 45. Brennan Stack 46. Colin Garland 47. Kyle Reimers 48. David Mackay 49. Daniel Currie 50. Will Schofield

Fourth round	51. Clint Benjamin 52. Brock O'Brien 53. Lindsay Thomas 54. Matt Tyler 55. Robbie Gray 56. Garry Moss 57. Simon Hogan 58. Daniel Connors 59. Jarryd Allen 60. Carl Peterson 61. Josh Hill 62. Isaac Weetra 63. Tyson Goldsack 64. Nick Gill 65. Peter Faulks 66. Malcolm Lynch

Fifth round	67. Joe Anderson 69. Ben Warren 70. Sam Sheldon 71. Justin Westhoff 73. Andrew Collins 74. Matthew Ferguson 76. Paul O'Shea 77. Calib Mourish 78. Bryce Campbell 79. Jesse White 80. James Thomson

Sixth round	82. Aaron Edwards 83. Ryan Williams

Seventh round	86. David Rodan

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