Paul Sharkey (born 8 June 1974) 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 Collingwood in the

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(AFL) during the 1990s. Sharkey was only 16 when he came to Collingwood from

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, after being secured with the 22nd pick of the

1990 AFL draft The 1990 AFL draft was the fifth annual draft of Australian rules footballers to the 14 clubs in the Australian Football League. It consisted of the national draft held at the end of the 1990 season, the pre-season draft held before the 1991 AF ...

. He didn't make his league debut until 1994 and made ten appearances in total for the season, including a qualifying final against West Coast. A tall defender, he played just once in 1995 but added another ten games in 1996. He was traded to

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prior to the 1998 season, in exchange for

Shannon Gibson Shannon Gibson (born 7 November 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Collingwood in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Gibson was recruited by Hawthorn with the 23rd pick of the 1993 ...

. Sharkey however wouldn't play another AFL game and saw out the decade at the Bendigo Bombers. Appeared on an episode of ''

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'' alongside his wife, mother and daughter in 2011.

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