Darren Robert Jarman (born 28 January 1967) is a former

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er who played for the

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and Adelaide Football Club in the

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(AFL), and for the North Adelaide Football Club in the

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(SANFL).
Jarman is recognised, along with older brother

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, as one of the most skillful South Australian footballers of the late 1980s and 1990s. While Andrew was renowned for his constructive handball skills, Darren was regarded as one of the finest kicks on either foot, whether passing to a leading forward or shooting for goal.

SANFL career (1985–1990)

Jarman played 117 games and kicked 211 goals for

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in the SANFL between 1985 and 1990. The highlight of this period was playing in the 1987 SANFL Grand Final premiership victory with brother

. He was selected on the interchange in the club's Team of the Century at a gala dinner held on 7 October 2000. He also played 27 night series/pre-season competition matches for North Adelaide, in which he kicked 25 goals.

Hawthorn (1991–1995)

Jarman was initially drafted by

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with pick 55 in the inaugural 1986 VFL Draft., but chose to remain in Adelaide with the Roosters. Once the Demons' three-year rights to Jarman lapsed,

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claimed him with a concessional pre-draft selection in the 1989 VFL Draft. Once again Jarman chose to stay in his home state. In 1990 the turmoil that led to the creation of the Adelaide Crows and thereby automatically relegated the SANFL to secondary importance within South Australia caused Jarman to reassess his career. Following some friction with the Crows' football manager Neil Kerley, Jarman chose to head east, signing for Hawthorn after the club traded pick 10 in the 1990 AFL Draft to the Bears for his contractual rights. In Round 1, 1991 Jarman made his debut in an 86-point loss to Adelaide. Despite this early setback, the highly skilled midfielder made an immediate impact in his debut year, averaging 18 disposals and booting 41 goals before his infamous performance in the Hawks' winning side on Grand Final day, when he was restricted to just 5 touches on the big stage. Jarman bounced back in 1992, winning his first All-Australian selection (at centreman) and stamping himself as one of the game's elite players. Following his excellent 1995 season where he won his second All-Australian selection, Hawthorn's Best and Fairest Award and finished with the second-most votes behind

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's Paul Kelly in the

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count (although he was ineligible to place due to suspension), Jarman sought a return home to Adelaide to play with his brother Andrew at the Crows.

Homecoming (1996–2001)

In the 1995/6 offseason, Jarman was traded to the Adelaide Crows in a complex three-way deal that involved

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moving from Essendon to Hawthorn, promising defender Sean Wellman moving from Adelaide to Essendon and a handful of peripheral draft picks and players exchanged between the three clubs. As with his move to Glenferrie Oval five years earlier, Jarman had an immediate impact at his new club, winning his third All-Australian selection following a 400 disposal/46 goal season despite playing just 19 games. In the following years as he passed the age of 30, Jarman increasingly spent more time up forward, capturing the imagination of fans everywhere with remarkable performances in the Crows' back-to-back Grand Final wins, booting six goals against St Kilda in 1997 (five of which were in the last quarter) and five goals in the 1998 triumph over

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. Jarman's influence as a goalsneak in the twilight of his career was highlighted by his capture of the Crows' leading goalkicker award in 1998, 1999 and 2001. In 2000 Jarman was named in the forward pocket in Adelaide's Team of the Decade 1991–2000.

Playing statistics

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1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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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 Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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Retirement and recognition

An emotional Jarman retired after the 2001 Elimination Final loss to Carlton, closing the book on his playing career with a further 2 goals. After being inducted into the SANFL Hall of Fame in 2006, on 19 July 2007 Jarman's outstanding 17-season career of top-flight football was recognised with induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Jarman was awarded Life Membership of the Adelaide Football Club in March 2008.

Coaching career

From 2002 to 2004 Jarman re-joined the Adelaide Football Club as an assistant coach to Gary Ayres. In 2006 he was appointed assistant coach to brother

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at North Adelaide, ending in 2007.

Personal life

In March 2023, Jarman, alongside former AFL player Jay Schulz and the family of former AFL player Shane Tuck, launched a class action lawsuit in the

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against the AFL and the Richmond,

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, Hawthorn and

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football clubs, with the plaintiffs alleging that the defendants failed to ensure proper concussion management during the plaintiffs' playing careers.

References

External links

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Jarman inducted into Australian Football Hall of Fame

Demon Wiki profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jarman, Darren 1967 births Living people Adelaide Football Club players Adelaide Football Club premiership players All-Australians (AFL) Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Hawthorn Football Club players Hawthorn Football Club premiership players North Adelaide Football Club players Peter Crimmins Medal winners South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees South Australian State of Origin players Australian rules footballers from Adelaide Sportsmen from South Australia VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen