Nathan Lovett-Murray
Personal information
Full name Nathan Lovett-Murray
Date of birth (1982-11-18) 18 November 1982
Draft No. 33, 2001 Rookie Draft, Collingwood
No. 27 2004 Rookie Draft, Essendon
2005 Rookie elevation, Essendon
Height 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Position(s) Utility
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2004–2013 Essendon 145 (73)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2013.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Nathan Lovett-Murray (born 18 November 1982) is a former Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club.

Early life

Lovett-Murray has Indigenous Australian heritage and his tribal ancestry can be traced to the Wamba-Wamba and Gunditjmara.[1]

He began his football in Victoria playing country football with Heywood and the North Ballarat Rebels.

AFL career

Lovett-Murray was initially rookie listed by Collingwood, playing for the Williamstown Seagulls in the Victorian Football League.

After switching to the Bendigo Bombers, he was rookie listed by Essendon in the 2003 Rookie Draft.

Lovett-Murray was promoted to the senior list early in the 2004 season and played 20 games. He spent the 2005 season on the rookie list again, he was promoted again that season and stayed on the senior list since then.

In 2006, Lovett-Murray copped a three-game suspension from the AFL Tribunal for intentionally striking Fremantle midfielder Matthew Carr in the Bombers' round fourteen loss to the Dockers at Subiaco Oval.[2] This was one of many lowlights for the club, which finished 15th at the end of the season with just three wins and one draw from 22 matches played.[3]

Lovett-Murray, along with 33 other Essendon players, was found guilty of using a banned performance-enhancing substance, thymosin beta-4, as part of Essendon's sports supplements program during the 2012 season. He and his team-mates were initially found not guilty in March 2015 by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal,[4] but a guilty verdict was returned in January 2016 after an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency. He was suspended for two years which, with backdating, ended in December 2016; as a result, he served approximately fifteen months of his suspension and missed the entire 2016 season, when he had intended to play and coach for Rumbalara Football Club.[5]

Personal life

In August 2009, it was reported that Lovett-Murray's home had been raided by police on 3 August. He was charged with possession of a drug of dependency, after the search found a single tablet of ecstasy at his home.[6] However, on 11 December it was reported that the drug charge against him had been dismissed.[7][8]

On 22 May 2013, he was stabbed in a domestic incident by a girl's boyfriend and hospitalised.[9]

Lovett-Murray belongs to a sporting family and is the great-grandson of pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls, who played for Fitzroy Football Club. In addition, he is the cousin of former Essendon Football Club player Andrew Lovett.

Statistics

Statistics are correct to end of 2012 season.[10]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2004 Essendon422021111106517560341.00.65.53.28.83.01.7
2005 Essendon4217741349623046280.40.27.95.613.52.71.6
2006 Essendon4219710250111361112370.40.513.25.819.05.92.0
2007 Essendon42931895514441170.30.19.96.116.04.61.9
2008 Essendon42209517115933194590.40.28.68.016.64.73.0
2009 Essendon42149411816826652620.60.37.611.419.04.83.4
2010 Essendon42126211816828652620.50.29.814.023.84.35.2
2011 Essendon4214229912822738560.10.17.19.116.22.74.0
2012 Essendon42178711312323646530.50.46.67.213.92.73.1
Career 142 72 46 1191 1065 2256 556 394 0.5 0.3 8.4 7.5 15.9 3.9 2.8

References

  1. ↑ AFL Record. Round 9,2009. Slattery Publishing. pg 75.
  2. ↑ Hinds, Richard (11 July 2006). "Sore one for Eagles as Kerr cops ban". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  3. ↑ Bulldogs earn gritty win, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 1 September 2006
  4. ↑ Twomey, Callum (31 March 2015). "Thirty-four present and former Bombers cleared of all drug charges". AFL.com.au. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Travis King (12 January 2016). "Guilty: court bans the Essendon 34 for 2016". Australian Football League. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Jake Niall (4 August 2009). "Lovett-Murray on drugs charge". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
  7. ↑ Kate Jones. "Essendon's Nathan Lovett-Murray escapes conviction after drug charge dismissed". The Herald Sun. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  8. ↑ "Lovett-Murray cleared of drug charge". 11 December 2009.
  9. ↑ "Bomber Nathan Lovett-Murray stabbed in domestic spat". The Age. Melbourne.
  10. ↑ "Nathan Lovett-Murray statistics". AFL Tables. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
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