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Rory O'Brien (born 28 June 1986) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the
Peel Thunder Football Club The Peel Thunder Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The team is based in Mandurah, Western Australia, with their home ground being Rushton Park. T ...
in the
West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL) 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 from March to September ...
(WAFL). He is the older brother of Brock O'Brien. O'Brien made his league debut for Peel Thunder in round 1 of the 2005 season and was voted the club's
best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
player in 2006. He spent the 2008 season at
North Adelaide Football Club North Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed The Roosters, is an Australian rules football club affiliated with the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and SANFL Women's League (SANFLW). The club plays its home games at Prospect Ova ...
in the
South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as th ...
, before returning to Peel Thunder in 2009. After winning Peel's best and fairest award for a second time in 2010, he transferred to
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for the 2011 season. 2011 also saw O'Brien make his state debut for Western Australia. During his time at East Fremantle, O'Brien has been awarded the Lynn Medal for the club's best and fairest on three occasions; in 2011 and 2014 he was the sole winner, while he shared the award with Andrew Stephen in 2013. In
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, O'Brien won the
Sandover Medal The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and ...
for the best and fairest player in the WAFL with 55 votes. After five years and 105 games with East Fremantle, O'Brien returned to his original club Peel Thunder for the 2016 season.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:OBrien, Rory Living people 1986 births Peel Thunder Football Club players North Adelaide Football Club players East Fremantle Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Sandover Medal winners