Matthew Allan (born 26 February 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He joined with 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 ...

in 1992, and debuted in 1994 as the 1000th player to represent Carlton. He played as a ruckman, reaching his peak in 1999, when he won the John Nicholls Medal, won

All-Australian The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, led by ...

selection and was selected for the

International rules International rules football ( ga, Peil na rialacha idirnáisiunta; also known as international rules in Australia and compromise rules or Aussie rules in Ireland) is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was develop ...

series. He was traded to the

Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their ...

following some foot injuries and made his debut with the club in 2004. He had a solid year, playing 20 games and helping Essendon to the finals (along with Justin Murphy, another recycled player). In 2005, he played one game before knee soreness resurfaced (which had kept him out of action for four games in 2004), and following this, at the end of the season Allan confirmed his retirement.

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 Ma ...

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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 strike ...

, , 24 , , 10 , , 6 , , 5 , , 51 , , 28 , , 79 , , 38 , , 7 , , 48 , , 0.6 , , 0.5 , , 5.1 , , 2.8 , , 7.9 , , 3.8 , , 0.7 , , 4.8 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

, , 24 , , 19 , , 3 , , 4 , , 84 , , 76 , , 160 , , 55 , , 9 , , 145 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 4.4 , , 4.0 , , 8.4 , , 2.9 , , 0.5 , , 7.6 , , 0 , - ! 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 ...

, , 24 , , 21 , , 8 , , 10 , , 178 , , 129 , , 307 , , 113 , , 10 , , 263 , , 0.4 , , 0.5 , , 8.5 , , 6.1 , , 14.6 , , 5.4 , , 0.5 , , 12.5 , , 3 , - 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 ...

, , 24 , , 22 , , 15 , , 7 , , 156 , , 126 , , 282 , , 118 , , 14 , , 471 , , 0.7 , , 0.3 , , 7.1 , , 5.7 , , 12.8 , , 5.4 , , 0.6 , , 21.4 , , 4 , - ! 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 s ...

, , 24 , , 26 , , 19 , , 14 , , 208 , , 197 , , 405 , , 162 , , 13 , , 716 , , 0.7 , , 0.5 , , 8.0 , , 7.6 , , 15.6 , , 6.2 , , 0.5 , , 27.5 , , 20 , - 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 ...

, , 24 , , 19 , , 17 , , 11 , , 143 , , 128 , , 271 , , 106 , , 10 , , 373 , , 0.9 , , 0.6 , , 7.5 , , 6.7 , , 14.3 , , 5.6 , , 0.5 , , 19.6 , , 6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

, , 24 , , 8 , , 3 , , 2 , , 53 , , 41 , , 94 , , 34 , , 4 , , 126 , , 0.4 , , 0.3 , , 6.6 , , 5.1 , , 11.8 , , 4.3 , , 0.5 , , 15.8 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, , 27 , , 20 , , 1 , , 1 , , 107 , , 91 , , 198 , , 65 , , 9 , , 309 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 5.4 , , 4.6 , , 9.9 , , 3.3 , , 0.5 , , 15.5 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

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* Essendon Football Club players Carlton Football Club players Victorian State of Origin players John Nicholls Medal winners All-Australians (AFL) 1975 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Australia international rules football team players {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub