David Haynes (born 10 June 1981) is a former

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er who played with the

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known ...

and

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ...

in the

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(AFL), and

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in the

West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting f ...

(WAFL). Originally from

North Warrnambool Football Club The North Warrnambool Eagles Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Eagles'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based near the regional city of Warrnambool, Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Hampden Football Net ...

in the

Hampden Football League The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland. The league is a major country ...

, Haynes played for junior club

Geelong Falcons The Geelong Falcons is a youth Australian rules football representative club in the Talent League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition in Victoria, Australia. The club takes in talented junior players from the Geelong, Colac and Warr ...

before being drafted by West Coast with the 16th selection of the 1999 AFL draft, which the Eagles had secured from

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in exchange for Brendon Fewster. Haynes made his senior AFL debut in

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but spent most of his first two seasons in the WAFL with East Perth, where he was a member of their 2001 premiership team. A half forward flanker, he kicked 27 goals from 21 appearances for West Coast in

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. At the

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, Haynes was traded to Geelong, for the 20th draft pick with which West Coast drafted Sam Butler. In

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Haynes played 16 games, three of them in the finals series, but was delisted after registering just three appearances the following season. Haynes is a cousin of Australian international cricketer

Rachael Haynes Rachael Louise Haynes (born 26 December 1986) is an Australian former international cricketer who has won six world championships as a member of the national women's team. A left-handed batter, Haynes was vice-captain of Australia from 2017 to ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haynes, David 1981 births West Coast Eagles players Geelong Football Club players East Perth Football Club players Subiaco Football Club players Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Falcons players