Scott Welsh

Scott Welsh
Personal information
Full name	Scott Nathan Welsh
Nickname(s)	Welshy
Date of birth	(1978-12-07) 7 December 1978
Place of birth	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s)	West Adelaide
Draft	19th overall, 1995 AFL Draft 19th overall, 2007 Pre-Season Draft
Height/Weight	188 cm / 89 kg
Position(s)	Forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1996 – 1999 2000 – 2007 2008 – 2009 Total	North Melbourne Adelaide Western Bulldogs	036 0(30) 129 (270) 040 0(63) 175 (363)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2009 season.
Career highlights
Premiership player: 1999 Adelaide leading goalkicker: 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007

Scott Nathan Welsh (born 7 December 1978) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the nephew of former Glenelg and North Melbourne player Kym Hodgeman, and cousin of former Glenelg and Richmond player Ben Moore.

Debuting with North Melbourne in 1996 as a 17-year-old, Welsh was seen as a development player who started to get regular game time in 1998. Though he was drafted as a half-back flanker, Welsh played with North Melbourne as a forward and was a part of North Melbourne's premiership side in 1999 before, citing homesicknese, returning to Adelaide in 2000 to play for Adelaide Football Club.

Welsh played up forward for the Crows and is known for his occasional devastating displays in front of goals, twice scoring eight goals in a match. He has sometimes been criticised for his lack of consistency but was nevertheless considered one of Adelaide's premier forwards.

In 2005, Welsh booted 58 goals; his best season in terms of goals scored. He also notched up his 100th game with Adelaide in 2004. Though injury problems has forced him to miss many games throughout his career (injuries mainly began from 2002 onwards) and he had to wait until Round 19 for his first game for the Crows in 2006.

In 2007 he played his 150th AFL game against Brisbane in round 7. Welsh finished with 49 goals and 20 behinds for the season, topping the Crows goalkicking list for the fourth time. His fourth goal against Hawthorn on 8 September 2007 in the elimination final became his 300th goal in senior AFL football.

Welsh and his partner Nikki Higgins had their first child, Tyler Shane Welsh on 15 August 2006. Two years later, on 31 August 2008, Tyler became a big brother to Sonny Luke Welsh.

On 13 November 2007, Welsh, frustrated after Adelaide would only offer him a one-year contract due to their age policy but more so his numerous disciplinary breaches, quit the Crows and was placed in the pre-season draft.

Welsh was drafted to the Western Bulldogs on 11 December 2007, who used their pick number 4 in the Pre-Season Draft to claim him. Ironically, the Western Bulldogs played Adelaide in the first round of the 2008 season, with Welsh contributing in a big way to a Bulldogs win.

Welsh announced his retirement at the end of the 2009 season after missing out on the Grand Final with the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs were knocked out in the preliminary finals in two consecutive seasons and he had played in five losing preliminary finals after winning a premiership in 1999.

Statistics

Season	Team	#	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
			Totals								Averages (per game)
1996	North Melbourne	30	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1997	North Melbourne	30	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
1998	North Melbourne	30	12	6	7	49	26	75	24	9	0.5	0.6	4.1	2.2	6.3	2.0	0.8
1999†	Kangaroos	30	22	24	6	119	44	163	57	16	1.1	0.3	5.4	2.0	7.4	2.6	0.7
2000	Adelaide	17	22	47	31	172	54	226	88	25	2.1	1.4	7.8	2.5	10.3	4.0	1.1
2001	Adelaide	17	18	22	12	140	48	188	49	29	1.2	0.7	7.8	2.7	10.4	2.7	1.6
2002	Adelaide	17	13	29	8	101	51	152	38	23	2.2	0.6	7.8	3.9	11.7	2.9	1.8
2003	Adelaide	17	10	17	11	68	19	87	34	17	1.7	1.1	6.8	1.9	8.7	3.4	1.7
2004	Adelaide	17	16	36	25	121	37	158	66	40	2.3	1.6	7.6	2.3	9.9	4.1	2.5
2005	Adelaide	17	23	58	27	159	47	206	97	35	2.5	1.2	6.9	2.0	9.0	4.2	1.5
2006	Adelaide	17	6	12	7	49	10	59	37	14	2.0	1.2	8.2	1.7	9.8	6.2	2.3
2007	Adelaide	17	21	49	19	140	68	208	91	42	2.3	0.9	6.7	3.2	9.9	4.3	2.0
2008	Western Bulldogs	28	24	43	25	180	86	266	124	22	1.8	1.0	7.5	3.6	11.1	5.2	0.9
2009	Western Bulldogs	28	16	20	14	120	63	183	78	25	1.3	0.9	7.5	3.9	11.4	4.9	1.6
Career			205	363	192	1419	553	1972	783	297	1.8	0.9	6.9	2.7	9.6	3.8	1.4

External links

• Scott Welsh's statistics from AFL Tables