Mark Keane (born 17 March 2000) is an Irish professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Adelaide Football Club after previously playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Keane grew up in Ireland and played Gaelic football before making a code switch to Australian rules football.
| Mark Keane | |||
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 Keane with Collingwood's VFL side in July 2021 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth | 17 March 2000 | ||
| Original team(s) | Cork GAA, Ballygiblin GAA, Mitchelstown GAA | ||
| Draft | 2019 rookie draft category B selection | ||
| Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Adelaide | ||
| Number | 48 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2019–2021 | Collingwood | 5 (0) | |
| 2023– | Adelaide | 9 (0) | |
| Total | 14 (0) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 5, 2024. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
AFL career edit
Keane joined Collingwood as a Category B rookie in 2018 after a two-week trial at the club.[1] He made his debut in the club's round 9 match in the 2020 AFL season against Fremantle, where the Magpies lost by 12 points.[2] In January 2022, Keane left Collingwood and the AFL,[3] before ultimately returning to Australia and signing with Adelaide. He made his debut with the Adelaide Crows in Round 20 in 2023 with a Showdown win against Port Adelaide.
GAA career edit
Keane returned to Ireland in 2020 and was brought on as a substitute for Cork against Kerry in the 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship. He scored the late goal that knocked Kerry out of the competition, in what was described as "one of the biggest upsets in recent championship history... a strike so late it had eerie echoes of Tadhg Murphy's 1983 goal at the same end of the ground that similarly put Kerry out of the championship".[4][5]
Statistics edit
- Statistics are correct to the end of the 2021 season[6]
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Behinds | H
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| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||
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| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | ||||
| 2019 | Collingwood | 47 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2020[a] | Collingwood | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | Collingwood | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 25 | 56 | 23 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 7.8 | 6.3 | 14.0 | 5.8 | 0.3 |
| Career | 5 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 27 | 63 | 24 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 7.2 | 5.4 | 12.6 | 4.8 | 0.6 | ||
Notes
- ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
References edit
- ^ "Pies lock in Irish youngsters". Collingwood. Telstra. 16 October 2018.
- ^ Colangelo, Anthony (31 July 2020). "Collingwood hand debut to Irishman Mark Keane". The Age. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ "Keane returns to Ireland". Collingwood. Telstra. 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Kerry's Championship dreams destroyed after stunning extra-time final act sees Cork triumph". Irish Independent. 8 November 2020.
- ^ "Murphy happy to share fame with new Cork hero Keane". RTÉ Sport. 9 November 2020.
- ^ "Mark Keane statistics". AFL Tables. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
External links edit
- Mark Keane's profile on the official website of the Adelaide Football Club
- Mark Keane's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Mark Keane at AustralianFootball.com
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