Andrew Martin Siegert (born 18 January 1982) is an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er. He made his debut in 2002 for
Fremantle
Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi ...
in the
Australian Football League
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and was known for his hard approach as a
tagger or "run-with" player.
Recruited from the
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 ...
in the
TAC Cup
The Talent League (also known as the Coates Talent League under naming rights and previously as the NAB League and TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition based in Melbourne and run by the Australian Foot ...
and originally from
Colac, Victoria
Colac is a town in the Western District (Victoria), Western District of Victoria, Australia, approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac.
History
For thousands of years clans of the Gulidjan people ...
, he had a solid debut season in 2002, playing 21 games, but only managed a further 15 games over the next three seasons. At the end of the 2005 season, Fremantle delisted Siegert. He trained with Geelong, but was not picked up by an AFL club in the subsequent
pre-season draft.
He remained in Western Australia and continued to play for
South Fremantle 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) until retiring in 2010.
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WAFL playing statistics
1982 births
Living people
Geelong Falcons players
Colac Football Club players
Fremantle Football Club players
South Fremantle Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Colac, Victoria
21st-century Australian sportsmen
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