Shaun Jason Rehn (born 17 August 1971) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the

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and the

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in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early career

Rehn grew up on a farm near

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, playing junior football for Arno Bay in the

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. It wasn't until Rehn attended Immanuel College (Australia) that he believed he could play league football. Rehn was invited to try out for the West Adelaide Under 19s despite being from the

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zone. He made his senior debut for West Adelaide in 1990, playing two games for the season; Rehn was then selected in the Adelaide Crows inaugural 52-man squad wearing number 52.

AFL career

At 19 Rehn started his AFL career in 1991 with the

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in their inaugural year in the Australian Football League. After some eye catching performances for West Adelaide (who were making a late season charge to the SANFL finals), he made his debut for the Crows against in Round 18 of the 1991 AFL season at

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in Adelaide. At 6'8" (203 cm) he became a leading ruckmen, but suffered three ACL

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overall on both knees which limited his playing ability. The last of those injuries was sustained when his good knee buckled and twisted after running onto a small rubber circle installed in the centre of the turf ground; the circles had been installed onto grounds to assist umpires with centre bounces, but Rehn's injury, and subsequent legal action, saw the circles swiftly removed from all grounds. Rehn's injury kept him on the sidelines for most of the 1996 season after having spent much of the previous season out with the same injury. His knee injuries restricted him to just 6 games in those two seasons, three in each. Rehn played 134 games and kicked 55 goals for the Crows between 1991 and

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and was a member of the Crows

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and

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premiership teams, before moving to in

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in the twilight of his career. He played 33 games and kicked 7 goals with the Hawks between 2001–

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before retiring from AFL football. Throughout his whole career at both Adelaide and Hawthorn, Rehn wore the #52 guernsey, and holds the record for the most games wearing that number. Such high numbers are rare in Australian football, as players with numbers higher than 40 usually exchange them for lower numbers early in their careers. Rehn played in jumper #16 when he played for West Adelaide. Rehn also wore 46 when he started at West Adelaide.

Statistics

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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines ...

, , 52 , , 20 , , 5 , , 0 , , 131 , , 183 , , 314 , , 111 , , 13 , , 272 , , 0.3 , , 0.0 , , 6.6 , , 9.2 , , 15.7 , , 5.6 , , 0.7 , , 13.6 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

, , 52 , , 17 , , 6 , , 3 , , 104 , , 198 , , 302 , , 110 , , 19 , , 253 , , 0.4 , , 0.2 , , 6.1 , , 11.6 , , 17.8 , , 6.5 , , 1.1 , , 14.9 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 52 , , 21 , , 5 , , 8 , , 154 , , 236 , , 390 , , 149 , , 33 , , 401 , , 0.2 , , 0.4 , , 7.3 , , 11.2 , , 18.6 , , 7.1 , , 1.6 , , 19.1 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 52 , , 3 , , 4 , , 3 , , 25 , , 26 , , 51 , , 14 , , 2 , , 15 , , 1.3 , , 1.0 , , 8.3 , , 8.7 , , 17.0 , , 4.7 , , 0.7 , , 5.0 , - ! 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 ...

, , 52 , , 3 , , 2 , , 0 , , 12 , , 8 , , 20 , , 5 , , 1 , , 19 , , 0.7 , , 0.0 , , 4.0 , , 2.7 , , 6.7 , , 1.7 , , 0.3 , , 6.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, , 52 , , 22 , , 11 , , 15 , , 153 , , 112 , , 265 , , 93 , , 27 , , 264 , , 0.5 , , 0.7 , , 7.0 , , 5.1 , , 12.0 , , 4.2 , , 1.2 , , 12.0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" ,

, , 52 , , 26 , , 5 , , 11 , , 270 , , 176 , , 446 , , 148 , , 38 , , 566 , , 0.2 , , 0.4 , , 10.4 , , 6.8 , , 17.2 , , 5.7 , , 1.5 , , 21.8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! 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 ...

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, , 52 , , 16 , , 14 , , 8 , , 117 , , 92 , , 209 , , 67 , , 21 , , 189 , , 0.9 , , 0.5 , , 7.3 , , 5.8 , , 13.1 , , 4.2 , , 1.3 , , 11.8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, , 52 , , 16 , , 6 , , 4 , , 114 , , 69 , , 183 , , 63 , , 17 , , 177 , , 0.4 , , 0.3 , , 7.1 , , 4.3 , , 11.4 , , 3.9 , , 1.1 , , 11.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, , 52 , , 17 , , 1 , , 3 , , 84 , , 67 , , 151 , , 40 , , 34 , , 262 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 4.9 , , 3.9 , , 8.9 , , 2.4 , , 2.0 , , 15.4 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 167 ! 62 ! 56 ! 1206 ! 1202 ! 2408 ! 832 ! 208 ! 2465 ! 0.4 ! 0.3 ! 7.2 ! 7.2 ! 14.4 ! 5.0 ! 1.2 ! 14.8

Post-playing career

From 2003 to 2005, Rehn was the coach of the

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in the SANFL, leading them to the Grand Final in his debut season as coach. In 2006, Rehn joined the

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as ruck coach where he helped develop Brisbane's young ruck division including Jamie Charman,

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and

Matthew Leuenberger Matthew Leuenberger (born 7 June 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Leuenberger represented Western Australia i ...

. In 2011 Rehn coached South Australia in the 2011 State of Origin Slowdown to a 17.10 (112) to 17.9 (111) victory over Victoria in a charity match at the

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for the Little Heroes Foundation and the Reach Foundation youth charities started by former

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ruckman and 1991 Brownlow Meadallist

Jim Stynes James Stynes OAM (23 April 196620 March 2012) was an Irish-born footballer who converted from Gaelic football to Australian rules football. Playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), he went on to becom ...

. On 19 October 2011,

announced that Rehn would be an assistant coach at the club.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rehn, Shaun Adelaide Football Club players Adelaide Football Club Premiership players Malcolm Blight Medal winners 1971 births Living people All-Australians (AFL) Hawthorn Football Club players West Adelaide Football Club players West Adelaide Football Club coaches Australian rules footballers from South Australia South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Australia international rules football team players People educated at Immanuel College, Adelaide Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players