Steven Armstrong (born 12 January 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League and current coach of the Subiaco Lions colts team. He has played for the Melbourne Football Club and the 2006

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Footbal ...

premiership team. He was injured in the

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, and bears a scar on his leg from this incident.

Football career

Drafted in the

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at pick 25 in the second round, Armstrong made his debut for

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in 2002. He was known for his tenacity around the ball and being a team player. However, after being omitted from the starting line-up several times (playing only 12 games between 2004–2005), he was delisted at the end of the 2005 season. In 2006 he was thrown a lifeline by the

by being added to their

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. He finally made his debut for the Eagles in round 13 against the

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where he was one of the Eagles' best players for the match. Despite only having 15 disposals for the match, his ferocity on and off the ball was recognised. With tough competition in the Eagles lineup, he was dropped the next week. He made a return in round 17 in the Eagles' 82 point win over minor premiers

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, kicking three goals. Armstrong was selected for the first match of the 2006 finals after kicking four goals the week before. He played in the

2006 AFL Grand Final The 2006 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 2006. It was the 110th annual grand final of the Aust ...

, and kicked the Eagles' penultimate goal in the final quarter to help his team win by one point. In 2007, Armstrong had an indifferent season. He started off the season in fine fashion, impressing as a small forward, a position the club has struggled to fill since the departure of

Phil Matera Phillip Matera (born 27 November 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer. Career Beginning his career in 1996, the 171 cm forward pocket was one of the Australian Football League's best small forwards. Matera is the brother of f ...

in 2005, including a three-goal performance in the round 3

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against

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. However, one sub-par performance in the club's first loss of the season against

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in round 7, saw him lose his place in the team. He was brought back in as a replacement as early as round 9 against Hawthorn, however struggled to cement a regular spot in the team, only filling in for injuries and spent the rest of the season playing for

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in the

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(WAFL). He played 14 games for the Eagles in the disappointing 2008 season. He was delisted by the club at the end of the season. In 2009, Armstrong was signed to play full-time for Perth Demons in the WAFL. In late 2011, after a career spanning 10 seasons, Armstrong announced that he was retiring from football to concentrate on his coaching career. He previously held the position of Claremont League Assistant.

Statistics

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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 ...

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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– ...

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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 ...

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

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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;", , 35, , 12, , 8, , 10, , 96, , 71, , 167, , 38, , 28, , 0.7, , 0.8, , 8.0, , 5.9, , 13.9, , 3.2, , 2.3 , - style="background:#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;", , 35, , 14, , 9, , 11, , 107, , 109, , 216, , 55, , 43, , 0.6, , 0.8, , 7.6, , 7.8, , 15.4, , 3.9, , 3.1 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career !79 !48 !43 !535 !445 !980 !246 !185 !0.6 !0.5 !6.8 !5.6 !12.4 !3.1 !2.3

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Steven 1984 births Living people Melbourne Football Club players West Coast Eagles players West Coast Eagles Premiership players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Perth Football Club players Sandringham Football Club players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players