Ashley McIntosh (born 20 October 1972) is a former

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er who played for the

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in the

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(WAFL) and the

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in the

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(AFL). The son of John McIntosh, who played for Claremont and , McIntosh represented West Coast in 242 games between 1991 and 2003, playing in the club's 1992 and 1994 premierships, and was named in the

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in 1998.

Early life

The son of John McIntosh, who played football for and , McIntosh was the youngest of three children. His sister, Karlene, played

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for Western Australia, and his brother, Nathan, played senior football for , later spending two years on West Coast's list without playing a senior game. McIntosh attended Scotch College in Swanbourne, playing football for his school and the Dalkeith-Nedlands Junior Football Club. He also represented Scotch College in athletics, winning the state

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events over 200m and 400m.

Playing style

While capable at either end of the ground, McIntosh most famous for playing at full back, and in 2006 was named as the full-back in the club's best team ever over its 20-year existence (since 1987). He won a club

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in 1998, and has been an

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. McIntosh was a very athletic player, and it was often reported that he could run a 100 m race in 11.0 seconds. The wiry McIntosh was also deceptively strong.

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, on '' Talking Footy'', once credited him as the strongest opponent he'd ever played against, which surprised a lot of people, including the show's host Bruce McAvaney. He was well known for his battles with Wayne Carey. Fittingly, his final game was played against the Adelaide Crows, who Carey had signed with prior to the 2003 season. Continuing their war against each other, albeit older and slower, Carey regained vintage form and destroyed McIntosh head to head. In what would be McIntosh's final possession, he shanked a kick out of bound on the full after being laid out by Carey. Mercifully, McIntosh announced his immediate retirement following the game.

Statistics

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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engin ...

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1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McIntosh, Ashley 1972 births Living people All-Australians (AFL) Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Claremont Football Club players John Worsfold Medal winners West Coast Eagles players West Coast Eagles Premiership players West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Edith Cowan University alumni People educated at Scotch College, Perth Western Australian State of Origin players Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players