Nathon Irvin (born 31 January 1973) is a former

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 who played with the

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in the

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(AFL).

Biography

Irvin came to Sydney from

Mangoplah Mangoplah is a town approximately south of Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2016 census, Mangoplah had a population of 309. The name of the town is believed to mean "Kooris singing" in the Wiradjuri ab ...

, near

Wagga Wagga Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 57,003 as of 2021, it is an important agricultural, m ...

. A defender, he played just one senior AFL game for the Swans, against Hawthorn in round two of the

1993 AFL season The 1993 AFL season was the 97th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured fifte ...

. In the 1994 National Draft he was secured by Footscray, but he would not make any league appearances for the club. He played for three

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clubs, first Norwood, followed by Sturt and then Glenelg. In 2003, he joined the Wagga Tigers, which he would both captain and coach from 2003 to 2005.''

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'', "AFL camp kicks goals in Wagga", 7 February 2005 Irvin later coached

from 2012 to 2014 and again in 2016.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Irvin, Nathon 1973 births Living people Australian rules footballers from New South Wales Sydney Swans players Norwood Football Club players Sturt Football Club players Glenelg Football Club players