Matthew Lappin (born 17 February 1976) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and the

Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Me ...

in the Australian Football League (AFL). He currently serves as an AFL coach for the JLC a
Hillcrest Christian College
Queensland. Debuting with St Kilda in 1994, Lappin was known as a half-back flanker. Lappin played in 17 of 22 matches in the 1997 season home and away rounds in which St Kilda qualified in first position for the 1997 Finals Series, winning the club's 2nd minor premiership and 1st

McClelland Trophy The McClelland Trophy is an Australian rules football trophy which has been awarded each year since 1951 by the Australian Football League (known prior to 1990 as the Victorian Football League) to the best-performing club in the home-and-away sea ...

. At the end of the 1998 season, Lappin moved to Carlton. Where in the first quarter of the club's round 1 match against he took a

specky A spectacular mark (also known as a specky, speckie, speccy, screamer or hanger) is a mark (or catch) in Australian rules football that typically involves a player jumping up on the back of another player. The spectacular mark has become a much ...

on the goal-line which would go on to win the

Mark of the Year The annual Australian Football League Mark of the Year competition (currently also known as the Four'N Twenty AFL Mark of the Year) is a sporting award that celebrates each season's best mark. A mark is the action of a player cleanly catchin ...

for 1999. Throughout his playing career, Lappin was recognized on the field due to his lightly built frame, for which he attracted the nickname "Skinny". Following his retirement from playing, Lappin remained with Carlton as an assistant coach, as well as acting as a playing assistant coach with the

Northern Bullants The Preston Football Club, which trades and plays as the Northern Bullants, is a long-established Australian rules football club based in Preston that plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL). It plays its home games at the Preston City Ov ...

(as a VFL- listed player). He served as Carlton's forward line coach from 2008 until 2010. In 2011, he shifted into an assistant coaching role at Collingwood. On August 22, 2015. Lappin played for the Gold Coast Suns reserves team as a result of the team's player shortages due to injuries.

Statistics

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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; Nelson ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 37, , 9, , 1, , 1, , 78, , 36, , 114, , 23, , 9, , 0.11, , 0.11, , 8.67, , 4, , 12.67, , 2.56, , 1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 22, , 3, , 0, , 0, , 23, , 14, , 37, , 7, , 3, , 0, , 0, , 7.67, , 4.67, , 12.33, , 2.33, , 1 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1996 , style="text-align:center;", , 22, , 7, , 0, , 0, , 60, , 51, , 111, , 28, , 9, , 0, , 0, , 8.57, , 7.29, , 15.86, , 4, , 1.29 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 22, , 20, , 20, , 19, , 154, , 135, , 289, , 57, , 35, , 1, , 0.95, , 7.7, , 6.75, , 14.45, , 2.85, , 1.75 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 22, , 20, , 20, , 19, , 154, , 135, , 289, , 57, , 35, , 1, , 0.95, , 7.7, , 6.75, , 14.45, , 2.85, , 1.75 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 25, , 33, , 21, , 246, , 149, , 395, , 115, , 25, , 1.32, , 0.84, , 9.84, , 5.96, , 15.8, , 4.6, , 1 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 24, , 33, , 21, , 280, , 145, , 425, , 114, , 44, , 1.38, , 0.88, , 11.67, , 6.04, , 17.71, , 4.75, , 1.83 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 23, , 49, , 33, , 301, , 139, , 440, , 128, , 37, , 2.13, , 1.43, , 13.09, , 6.04, , 19.13, , 5.57, , 1.61 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 21, , 22, , 20, , 207, , 120, , 327, , 77, , 32, , 1.05, , 0.95, , 9.86, , 5.71, , 15.57, , 3.67, , 1.52 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 22, , 10, , 3, , 284, , 119, , 403, , 103, , 47, , 0.45, , 0.14, , 12.91, , 5.41, , 18.32, , 4.68, , 2.14 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2004 , style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 22, , 23, , 7, , 323, , 122, , 445, , 114, , 42, , 1.05, , 0.32, , 14.68, , 5.55, , 20.23, , 5.18, , 1.91 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2005 , style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 22, , 25, , 14, , 239, , 132, , 371, , 104, , 45, , 1.14, , 0.64, , 10.86, , 6, , 16.86, , 4.73, , 2.05 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006 , style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 19, , 5, , 9, , 253, , 134, , 387, , 116, , 38, , 0.26, , 0.47, , 13.32, , 7.05, , 20.37, , 6.11, , 2 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2007 , style="text-align:center;", , 12, , 18, , 21, , 12, , 162, , 95, , 257, , 92, , 25, , 1.17, , 0.67, , 9, , 5.28, , 14.28, , 5.11, , 1.39 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career !251 !247 !167 !2715 !1472 !4187 !1121 !414 !0.95 !0.65 !10.31 !5.77 !16.09 !4.20 !1.57

Personal life

Lappin's first daughter Olivia was born on December 4, 1998.''Planet Blue'',

Fox Footy Channel The Fox Footy Channel was a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football. It was owned by Foxtel and operated out of their Melbourne based studios. From 2002 - 2006 it was available on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television, TransTV ...

, 2003. He is the cousin of

Nigel Lappin Nigel Lappin (born 21 June 1976) is a former professional Australian rules footballer. Lappin is currently serving as an assistant coach with the Geelong Football Club. Playing career Lappin was born in the locally based regional hospital at ...

, who played for the

Brisbane Bears The Brisbane Football Club, nicknamed the Bears, was a professional Australian rules football club based in Queensland on the Gold Coast (relocated to Brisbane in 1993). The club participated in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/ ...

and

Brisbane Lions The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Melbourne-based 1883 foundation VFL c ...

References

External links

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Matthew Lappin Profile in Blueseum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lappin, Matthew 1976 births Carlton Football Club players St Kilda Football Club players All-Australians (AFL) Preston Football Club (VFA) players Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australia international rules football team players