Conor Glass (born 28 September 1997) is a Gaelic footballer and former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the

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in the Australian Football League (AFL). He signed with Hawthorn as a category B rookie in October 2015 and was subsequently drafted with their fourth selection and sixty-second overall in the 2016 rookie draft. He retired at the end of the 2020 season and returned to Ireland.

Sporting career

Glass captained the Derry minors side in the All-Ireland semi-finals. Glass was recruited by Hawthorn as a class B rookie in 2015. Arriving in Australia in July 2016, Glass played 6 games for the Box Hill development squad that included the squad's victorious grand final team. After a full summer pre-season training regime, Glass had played 12 games in the Box Hill's senior team before getting a call up for the Hawthorn team.

AFL career

He made his debut for in their fifty-two point win against at

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in round eighteen of the 2017 season. Glass was widely seen as performing well in his debut. Glass performed well throughout the rest of the season, and on August 2, 2017, he signed a two-year rookie/player contract extension to stay on Hawthorn's rookie list until the end of 2018. Glass played only four senior games in 2018, but despite this was seen as having improved his skills during the year. Glass was elevated to the senior list in 2019. Glass kicked his first goal during the 2019 season, during Hawthorn's round 13 loss to . Glass played four games in 2020 and decided to return to Ireland at season's end.

GAA career

Glass made his debut for Derry against

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in the 2020 National Football League, a fixture delayed by many months due to the pandemic. During the first half of the

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semi-final game against

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, a Glass effort at scoring a point was ruled wide by

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. That decision came under scrutiny when Hawk-Eye was shown to have malfunctioned later in the game by overturning an umpire decision's to award a point to Galway player Shane Walsh. He won an All Star at the end of the season. On 21 January 2024, Glass scored 1-2 as Glen won the

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for the first time after a 2-10 to 1-12 win against St Brigid's in the final at

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Statistics

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Honours and achievements

Hawthorn * VFL premiership player (): 2018 * best first year player (debut season): 2017 Glen *

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Ulster Senior Club Football Championship The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition played between the top clubs in Ulster GAA. The trophy awarded to the winners is the Seamus McFerran Cup ( ga, Corn Shéamuis Mhic Fearáin). The winners and th ...

: 2 **

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Derry Senior Football Championship The Derry Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by the top sixteen Derry GAA clubs. The winners receive the John McLaughlin Cup and qualify to represent Derry in the Ulster Senior Club Football Champio ...

: 3 **

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, 2022, 2023 Derry *

Ulster Senior Football Championship The Ulster Senior Football Championship is an inter-county competition for Gaelic football teams in the province of Ulster. It is organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and begins in early May. The final is us ...

(2): 2022, 2023 * All Star (1): 2022

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glass, Conor 1997 births Living people All Stars Awards winners (football) Box Hill Football Club players Derry inter-county Gaelic footballers Glen Gaelic footballers Gaelic footballers who switched code Hawthorn Football Club players Irish players of Australian rules football VFL/AFL players born outside Australia