Todd Curley (born 14 January 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for

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and the

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in the Australian Football League (AFL), and played and coached for the

West Perth Football Club The West Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is an Australian rules football club located in Joondalup, Western Australia. West Perth competes in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW) and is the oldest e ...

in the

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. He was appointed coach of the

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for the 2015 WAFL season. He was drafted in the 1991 AFL Draft to

at pick number 41 from

. He did not make his AFL debut for Collingwood until 1994, and played just 3 games for them in that season, acquiring 13 disposals and scoring 1 goal. He was delisted at the end of the season, and nominated for the 1995 national draft, in which he was picked up by the

at pick number 29 overall. He had a successful career at the Bulldogs, playing a total of 115 games for them across 6 seasons, including playing all games in 1998, 1999 and missing just one game in the 2000 season. In 2001 he was controversially banned for 4 matches for making contact with an umpire. The period of this ban was later halved on appeal, but his football career never recovered and by 2002 he was back playing for West Perth. He finished his AFL career with 118 games, and 48 goals. He continued playing football for West Perth in the

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, and was announced their captain for the 2005 WAFL season, although decided to retire at the end of that season. He played a total of 147 games for West Perth. In December 2005, he was announced as the new coach for West Perth, after being selected from a strong list of applicants. In October 2007, at the club's best and fairest night, it was announced that Todd had signed on for the next two years as head coach. In 2008, however, he left West Perth to be an assistant coach at under senior coach

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. In March 2012, four days before the first game of the

2012 AFL season The 2012 AFL season was the 116th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured e ...

he announced that he was resigning to take up a work opportunity outside of football.Fremantle Dockers assistant Todd Curley quits on eve of season
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Paul Hasleby Paul Andrew Hasleby (born 12 June 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the and South Fremantle Football Clubs in the West Australian Football Lea ...

during the 2014 WAFL season, Curley was announced as the senior coach of

for the 2015 season. 2017 sees Todd take the Bulldogs deep in to the WAFL Final Series

References

External links

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West Perth Football Club Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Curley, Todd 1973 births Living people Collingwood Football Club players Western Bulldogs players West Perth Football Club players West Perth Football Club coaches South Fremantle Football Club coaches Australian rules footballers from Western Australia