Scott Nathan Welsh (born 7 December 1978) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the nephew of former Glenelg and

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, and cousin of former Glenelg and

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player Ben Moore. Debuting with North Melbourne in

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as a 17-year-old, Welsh was seen as a development player who started to get regular game time in

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 ...

. Though he was drafted as a half-back flanker, Welsh played with North Melbourne as a forward and was a part of North Melbourne's premiership side in

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 ...

before, citing homesickness, returning to Adelaide in

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 ...

to play for

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. Welsh played up forward for the Crows and is known for his occasional devastating displays in front of goals, twice scoring eight goals in a match. He was considered one of Adelaide's premier forwards. In

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, Welsh booted 58 goals; his best season in terms of goals scored. He also notched up his 100th game with Adelaide in 2004. Though injury problems forced him to miss many games throughout his career (injuries mainly began from 2002 onwards) and he had to wait until Round 19 for his first game for the Crows in 2006. In 2007 he played his 150th AFL game against

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in round 7. Welsh finished with 49 goals and 20 behinds for the season, topping the Crows goalkicking list for the fourth time. His fourth goal against Hawthorn on 8 September 2007 in the elimination final became his 300th goal in senior AFL football. On 13 November 2007, Welsh quit the Crows and was placed in the pre-season draft. He was drafted to the

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on 11 December 2007, who used their pick number 4 in the Pre-Season Draft to claim him. Ironically, the Western Bulldogs played Adelaide in the first round of the 2008 season. Welsh announced his retirement at the end of the 2009 season after missing out on the Grand Final with the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs were knocked out in the preliminary finals in two consecutive seasons and he had played in five losing preliminary finals after winning a premiership in 1999. Post AFL Welsh had a stint at the Encounter Bay Football Club notably leading the goal kicking in 2013 in a premiership year.

Statistics

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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 ...

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, style="text-align:center;", , 30 , , 22 , , 24 , , 6 , , 119 , , 44 , , 163 , , 57 , , 16 , , 1.1 , , 0.3 , , 5.4 , , 2.0 , , 7.4 , , 2.6 , , 0.7 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 22 , , 47 , , 31 , , 172 , , 54 , , 226 , , 88 , , 25 , , 2.1 , , 1.4 , , 7.8 , , 2.5 , , 10.3 , , 4.0 , , 1.1 , - ! 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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 18 , , 22 , , 12 , , 140 , , 48 , , 188 , , 49 , , 29 , , 1.2 , , 0.7 , , 7.8 , , 2.7 , , 10.4 , , 2.7 , , 1.6 , - 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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 13 , , 29 , , 8 , , 101 , , 51 , , 152 , , 38 , , 23 , , 2.2 , , 0.6 , , 7.8 , , 3.9 , , 11.7 , , 2.9 , , 1.8 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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– ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 10 , , 17 , , 11 , , 68 , , 19 , , 87 , , 34 , , 17 , , 1.7 , , 1.1 , , 6.8 , , 1.9 , , 8.7 , , 3.4 , , 1.7 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 16 , , 36 , , 25 , , 121 , , 37 , , 158 , , 66 , , 40 , , 2.3 , , 1.6 , , 7.6 , , 2.3 , , 9.9 , , 4.1 , , 2.5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 23 , , 58 , , 27 , , 159 , , 47 , , 206 , , 97 , , 35 , , 2.5 , , 1.2 , , 6.9 , , 2.0 , , 9.0 , , 4.2 , , 1.5 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006 , style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 6 , , 12 , , 7 , , 49 , , 10 , , 59 , , 37 , , 14 , , 2.0 , , 1.2 , , 8.2 , , 1.7 , , 9.8 , , 6.2 , , 2.3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 17 , , 21 , , 49 , , 19 , , 140 , , 68 , , 208 , , 91 , , 42 , , 2.3 , , 0.9 , , 6.7 , , 3.2 , , 9.9 , , 4.3 , , 2.0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 28 , , 24 , , 43 , , 25 , , 180 , , 86 , , 266 , , 124 , , 22 , , 1.8 , , 1.0 , , 7.5 , , 3.6 , , 11.1 , , 5.2 , , 0.9 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 28 , , 16 , , 20 , , 14 , , 120 , , 63 , , 183 , , 78 , , 25 , , 1.3 , , 0.9 , , 7.5 , , 3.9 , , 11.4 , , 4.9 , , 1.6 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 205 ! 363 ! 192 ! 1419 ! 553 ! 1972 ! 783 ! 297 ! 1.8 ! 0.9 ! 6.9 ! 2.7 ! 9.6 ! 3.8 ! 1.4

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Welsh, Scott Adelaide Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club Premiership players 1978 births Living people West Adelaide Football Club players Western Bulldogs players Australian rules footballers from Adelaide Marion Football Club players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players