Jamie Lawson (Australian footballer)

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Jamie Lawson
Personal information
Full name Jamie Lawson
Date of birth (1971-10-05) 5 October 1971 (age 52)
Original team(s) Wentworth
Height/Weight 168 cm / 70 kg
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1991–1994 Sydney Swans 61 (29)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1994 season.

Jamie Lawson (born 5 October 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the early 1990s.

Lawson, a rover, was recruited from the Sunraysia Football League.[1] An Indigenous Australian, he arrived in what was a bad time for Sydney, with the club finishing with the wooden spoon in three of his four seasons. He had a career high 30 disposals, and two goals, against fellow cellar dwellers Brisbane at the SCG in 1992.[2]

Aged only 22, his career came to an end late in the 1994 AFL season when he broke his leg at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, playing against Richmond.[2] His fractured tibia led to compartment syndrome and he was forced to retire.[3] He had been in good form prior to the injury, polling Brownlow Medal votes in his previous two games.[2]

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 AFL Tables: Jamie Lawson
  3. Sydney Morning Herald, "The dark days of Hollywood", 22 April 2007, Daniel Lane.