Simon Taylor (born 18 August 1982) 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 ...

player who played with the

Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawth ...

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

. A ruckman, Taylor was selected by Hawthorn with pick 53 in the 2004 national draft. Taylor prior to playing for the Box Hill Hawks played for the Tasmanian Devils Football Club in the VFL After sharing the ruck responsibilities with Robert Campbell for most of the 2007 and 2008 seasons, he was overlooked for the 2008 AFL Grand Final, with the backup ruck position being taken by Brent Renouf. In 2009, he played 18 games, more than Campbell or Renouf, but was not as effective as earlier years, leading the Hawks to look to recruit a ruckman to replace Campbell who retired due to injury. Taylor broke his ankle during a pre-season game against North Melbourne, he missed most of the 2010 season. Because of persistent niggling injuries and never really demonstrating the qualities that were expected of him through his career, he was delisted from the club on 19 October 2010, along with fellow ruckman Wayde Skipper

Statistics

, - style=background:#EAEAEA ,

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, , , , 43 , 17 , , 8 , , 4 , , 39 , , 63 , , 102 , , 30 , , 20 , , 135 , , 0.5 , , 0.2 , , 2.3 , , 3.7 , , 6.0 , , 1.8 , , 1.2 , , 7.9 , , 0 , - ,

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, , , , 13 , 7 , , 0 , , 1 , , 14 , , 27 , , 41 , , 12 , , 5 , , 69 , , 0.0 , , 0.1 , , 2.0 , , 3.9 , , 5.9 , , 1.7 , , 0.7 , , 9.9 , , 0 , - style=background:#EAEAEA ,

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

, , , , 13 , 24 , , 4 , , 2 , , 83 , , 126 , , 209 , , 71 , , 58 , , 336 , , 0.2 , , 0.1 , , 3.5 , , 5.3 , , 8.7 , , 3.0 , , 2.4 , , 14.0 , , 0 , - ,

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

, , , , 13 , 18 , , 3 , , 0 , , 45 , , 120 , , 165 , , 43 , , 35 , , 270 , , 0.2 , , 0.0 , , 2.5 , , 6.7 , , 9.2 , , 2.4 , , 1.9 , , 15.0 , , 0 , - style=background:#EAEAEA ,

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

, , , , 13 , 18 , , 1 , , 2 , , 41 , , 118 , , 159 , , 43 , , 48 , , 419 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 2.3 , , 6.6 , , 8.8 , , 2.4 , , 2.7 , , 23.3 , , 0 , - ,

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, , , , 13 , 1 , , 0 , , 0 , , 1 , , 1 , , 2 , , 0 , , 1 , , 15 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 1.0 , , 1.0 , , 2.0 , , 0.0 , , 1.0 , , 15.0 , , 0 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 85 !! 16 !! 9 !! 223 !! 455 !! 678 !! 223 !! 167 !! 1244 !! 0.2 !! 0.1 !! 2.6 !! 5.4 !! 8.0 !! 2.6 !! 2.0 !! 14.6 !! 0

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Simon 1982 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Hawthorn Football Club players Box Hill Football Club players Tasmanian Devils Football Club players