Conor Glass (born 28 September 1997) is a Gaelic footballer and former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He signed with Hawthorn as a category B rookie in October 2015 and was subsequently drafted with their fourth selection and sixty-second overall in the 2016 rookie draft.[1] He retired at the end of the 2020 season and returned to Ireland.[2]
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Sporting career edit
Glass captained the Derry minors side in the All-Ireland semi-finals.[3] Glass was recruited by Hawthorn as a class B rookie in 2015.[4] Arriving in Australia in July 2016, Glass played 6 games for the Box Hill development squad that included the squad's victorious grand final team. After a full summer pre-season training regime, Glass had played 12 games in the Box Hill's senior team before getting a call up for the Hawthorn team.
AFL career edit
He made his debut for Hawthorn in their fifty-two point win against Fremantle at Domain Stadium in round eighteen of the 2017 season.[3] Glass was widely seen as performing well in his debut.[5] Glass performed well throughout the rest of the season,[6] and on August 2, 2017, he signed a two-year rookie/player contract extension to stay on Hawthorn's rookie list until the end of 2018.[7]
Glass played only four senior games in 2018, but despite this was seen as having improved his skills during the year.[8]
Glass was elevated to the senior list in 2019. Glass kicked his first goal during the 2019 season, during Hawthorn's round 13 loss to Essendon.[9]
Glass played four games in 2020 and decided to return to Ireland at season's end.[2]
GAA career edit
Glass made his debut for Derry against Longford in the 2020 National Football League, a fixture delayed by many months due to the pandemic.[10]
During the first half of the 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final game against Galway, a Glass effort at scoring a point was ruled wide by Hawk-Eye. That decision came under scrutiny when Hawk-Eye was shown to have malfunctioned later in the game by overturning an umpire decision's to award a point to Galway player Shane Walsh.[11][12][13] He won an All Star at the end of the season.[14]
On 21 January 2024, Glass scored 1-2 as Glen won the 2023–24 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship for the first time after a 2-10 to 1-12 win against St Brigid's in the final at Croke Park.[15]
Statistics edit
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| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
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| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 2016 | Hawthorn | 44 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| 2017 | Hawthorn | 44 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 31 | 76 | 20 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 5.2 | 12.7 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 0 |
| 2018 | Hawthorn | 44 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 17 | 48 | 11 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.8 | 4.3 | 12.0 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 0 |
| 2019 | Hawthorn | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 57 | 38 | 95 | 25 | 10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 13.6 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0 |
| 2020[a] | Hawthorn | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 16 | 42 | 13 | 10 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 4.0 | 10.5 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0 |
| Career[16] | 21 | 2 | 1 | 159 | 102 | 261 | 69 | 50 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 4.9 | 12.4 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0 | ||
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.
Honours and achievements edit
Hawthorn
- VFL premiership player (Box Hill): 2018
- Hawthorn best first year player (debut season): 2017
Glen
- All Ireland Senior Club Football Championship: 1
- Ulster Senior Club Football Championship: 2
- Derry Senior Football Championship: 3
- 2021, 2022, 2023
- AIB All Ireland Club Championship Player Of The Year: 2023
- AIB All Ireland Club Championship Team Of The Year: 2023
Derry
- National Football League (1): 2024
- Ulster Senior Football Championship (2): 2022, 2023
- All Star (1): 2022
References edit
- ^ King, Travis (28 October 2015). "Hawks sign rising Irish star Conor Glass as B rookie". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Homesick Hawk retires, returns to Ireland". 23 September 2020.
- ^ a b Duffy, Emma (20 July 2017). "Derry youngster Conor Glass set to make AFL debut on Saturday". TheJournal.ie. Distilled Media. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ King, Travis (28 October 2015). "Hawks sign rising Irish star Conor Glass as B rookie". Australian Football League. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Casey, Gavan (22 July 2017). "Australians rave about Derry's Conor Glass after impressive AFL debut". The 42. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Season review: Conor Glass". Hawthorn Football Club. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Young Hawks sign on". Hawthorn Football Club. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "Season snapshot: Conor Glass". Hawthorn Football Club. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ O'Brien, Kevin (14 June 2019). "Derry's Conor Glass scores first ever AFL goal for Hawthorn". The 42. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Derry shine as Glass returns". 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Is there a problem with HawkEye? Shane Walsh's free late in the half was deemed wide by the technology at Croke Park, but the replay would suggest otherwise". The Sunday Game. 9 July 2022.
- ^ "'The technology got it wrong' — Jim McGuinness slams Shane Walsh Hawkeye decision". JOE.ie. 9 July 2022.
- ^ "More Hawkeye Controversy After Conor Glass Shot Appeared To Go Over". Balls.ie. 11 July 2022.
- ^ Roche, Frank (27 October 2022). "Kerry lead way as 11 rookie All Stars signal the changing landscape". Irish Independent.
- ^ "Glen go one better with dramatic win over St Brigid's in All-Ireland final". RTE Sport. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ "Conor Glass' player profile at AFL Tables". AFL Tables.
External links edit
- Conor Glass's playing statistics from AFL Tables