Shane Harvey 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.

Career

He was drafted by the

Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCrac ...

in the

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at pick 18 in the first round from the Northern Knights. He played 11 games with Essendon before being delisted after the 2003 season. The

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picked him at pick 6 of the 2004 Pre-Season Draft after they had promised his brother

Brent Harvey Brent Harvey (born 14 May 1978), often known by his nickname "Boomer", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He holds the record for most matches played ...

that they would select Shane if he was available. He played 3 games for the Kangaroos and finished his AFL career at the end of the 2004 season. He has since played for country and suburban clubs, including

Wakool Football Club Wakool is a town in the western Murray region of New South Wales, Australia. Wakool is in the Murray River Council local government area, south west of the state capital, Sydney and north-west of Melbourne. At the , Wakool had a population of ...

in the

Golden Rivers Football League The Golden Rivers Football Netball League (GRFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in north-central Victoria and the western Riverina area of New South Wales. History The league, formed in 1919, was known as th ...

, in which he helped Wakool win the premiership in 2006, and then

North Heidelberg Football Club North Heidelberg Football Club (North Heidelberg Sporting Club) is an Australian rules football club in Heidelberg West, Victoria, currently competing in Division 1 of the Northern Football League (Australia), Northern Football Netball League; ...

in 2008 and 2009. He played for

Barooga Barooga is a border town in the Murray region of New South Wales, Australia, located in the Berrigan Shire local government area. It is situated just north of the Murray River which forms the border with Victoria. Barooga's population at the 2 ...

in the

Murray Football League The Murray Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league affiliated with the Victorian Country Football League. The league covers a large area of northern Victoria and southern New South Wales from Shepparton in ...

in 2010. Shane has the ability to kick a lot of goals in the local competitions. He kicked 116 goals for Wakool in 2006 and 107 in 2007, scored 108 goals for North Heidelberg in 2008 and 102 in 2009, and scored 102 goals at Barooga in 2010. His Junior club was Preston R.S.L. Football Club. Playing for North Heidelberg against Hurstbridge in 2021, he scored his 1000th

Northern Football League The Northern League is a British men's association football, football league in North East England, north east England. Having been founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest football league in the world still in existence after the English Footb ...

goal, becoming the first player to do so.

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* Essendon Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players 1983 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Northern Knights players North Heidelberg Football Club players 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1980s-stub