Anthony Stevens

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Anthony Stevens
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Stevo
Date of birth	(1971-07-02) 2 July 1971
Original team(s)	Waaia
Height/Weight	178 cm / 81 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1989-2004	North Melbourne	292 (127)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2004 season.
Career highlights
2x North Melbourne Premiership Player: (1996, 1999) All-Australian Team : (1998) Victorian State of Origin Player: (1998) 2x North Melbourne Best and Fairest: (1997, 1999) Named in the North Melbourne Team of the Century (Ruck Rover)

Anthony Stevens (born 2 July 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Kangaroos. He was named as ruck rover in the club's official 'Team of the Century'.

Stevens was a member of North Melbourne premiership sides in 1996 and 1999. In 1998 he was an All Australian and in the same year he represented Victoria at State of Origin football. He was a Best and Fairest winner for his club twice, in 1997 and 1999.

Stevens lost two litres of blood and had two operations after injuries caused when falling glass hit Stevens outside the Redback Brewery Hotel in North Melbourne on 11 March 2000. Stevens suffered a 20-centimetre gash from the corner of his mouth along his right cheek and down the side of his mouth.

In 2002 he was involved in a much publicised controversy involving Wayne Carey after it was revealed that Carey had been having an extramarital affair with his wife Kelli Stevens. The condemnation from Anthony Stevens and his teammates caused Carey to resign from the North Melbourne Football Club. He retired at the end of the 2004 season.

He and former Kangaroos teammate Glenn Archer got together to play one match for the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club.

He is described as:

"A tough, gritty on-baller from Shepparton who has always been willing to put his hand up for the hardest jobs."

"He's so determined that you have to slow him down sometimes. Anthony Stevens is a quality footballer and a quality person." - Denis Pagan - 12 May 1996.

"I think he was fairly low, but he's the sort of bloke who never lets that stuff show. He's very bubbly, always got a smile on his face, although shy and reserved to the people who don't really know him. He's still maintained that pretty much, but I know privately he was pretty low, firstly about missing such a long period of time and secondly how lucky he was in terms of the seriousness of the injury." - Former Kangaroo Football Manager Geoff Walsh on Stevens in the wake of the injury when a shard of glass almost killed him.

After he retired from the AFL Stevens accepted and ambassadorship with the VCFL. He played with Benalla in the Goulburn Valley FL for a number of years.

Statistics

Season	Team	#	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
			Totals								Averages (per game)
1989	North Melbourne	58	4	0	3	41	20	61	8	11	0.0	0.8	10.3	5.0	15.3	2.0	2.8
1990	North Melbourne	46	13	4	6	149	51	200	30	31	0.3	0.5	11.5	3.9	15.4	2.3	2.4
1991	North Melbourne	10	12	2	2	135	58	193	19	11	0.2	0.2	11.3	4.8	16.1	1.6	0.9
1992	North Melbourne	10	13	11	10	149	71	220	26	39	0.8	0.8	11.5	5.5	16.9	2.0	3.0
1993	North Melbourne	10	21	9	11	330	118	448	36	66	0.4	0.5	15.7	5.6	21.3	1.7	3.1
1994	North Melbourne	10	24	8	11	341	191	532	64	57	0.3	0.5	14.2	8.0	22.2	2.7	2.4
1995	North Melbourne	10	20	14	8	304	137	441	65	49	0.7	0.4	15.2	6.9	22.1	3.3	2.5
1996	North Melbourne	10	24	19	15	385	156	541	86	59	0.8	0.6	16.0	6.5	22.5	3.6	2.5
1997	North Melbourne	10	25	10	7	453	129	582	94	66	0.4	0.3	18.1	5.2	23.3	3.8	2.6
1998	North Melbourne	10	25	8	6	442	101	543	90	74	0.3	0.2	17.7	4.0	21.7	3.6	3.0
1999	Kangaroos	10	25	12	7	429	117	546	98	72	0.5	0.3	17.2	4.7	21.8	3.9	2.9
2000	Kangaroos	10	12	4	4	145	63	208	50	32	0.3	0.3	12.1	5.3	17.3	4.2	2.7
2001	Kangaroos	10	15	1	5	238	104	342	68	71	0.1	0.3	15.9	6.9	22.8	4.5	4.7
2002	Kangaroos	10	19	10	6	276	99	375	85	65	0.5	0.3	14.5	5.2	19.7	4.5	3.4
2003	Kangaroos	10	20	10	8	275	155	430	92	63	0.5	0.4	13.8	7.8	21.5	4.6	3.2
2004	Kangaroos	10	20	5	3	262	109	371	86	52	0.3	0.2	13.1	5.5	18.6	4.3	2.6
Career			292	127	112	4354	1679	6033	997	818	0.4	0.4	14.9	5.8	20.7	3.4	2.8

External links

• Anthony Stevens's statistics from AFL Tables