Scott Welsh

Infobox afl player | firstname = Scott 'Welshy'
lastname = Welsh
nickname= Welshy




birthdate = Birth date and age|1978|12|7|df=y
birthplace = Adelaide, South Australia
originalteam = West Adelaide
heightweight = 188cm / 89kg
dead = alive
deathdate =
deathplace =
debutdate = Round 12, 23 June 1996
debutteam = Kangaroos
debutopponent = Essendon
debutstadium = MCG
playingteams = Kangaroos (1996-1999)

36 games, 30 goals

Adelaide Crows (2000-2007)

129 games, 270 goals

Western Bulldogs (2008-present)

22 games, 41 goals
coach = notcoach
coachingteams =
statsend = Round 18 2008
careerhighlights =

*Kangaroos premiership side 1999
*12 Career Brownlow Medal votes (8 in 2005)
*Adelaide Leading Goalkicker 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007

Scott Nathan Welsh (born 7 December 1978) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

Debuting with the Kangaroos in 1996 as a 17-year-old, Welsh was seen as a development player who started to get regular game time in 1998. Though he was drafted as a half-back flanker, he began playing with the Kangaroos up forward. He played at the premiership side for the Kangaroos in 1999 and shot a goal back then, before homesickness and the desire to be closer to his family moved him back home to Adelaide to play with the Adelaide Football Club in 2000.

Welsh played up forward for the Crows and is known for his occasional devastating displays in front of goals - he has twice scored 8 goals in a match. He has sometimes been criticised for his lack of consistency but was nevertheless considered one of Adelaide's premier forwards.

In 2005 he booted 58 goals, which remains his best season in terms of goals scored to date. He also notched up his 100th game with Adelaide in 2004. Though injury problems has forced him to miss many games throughout his career (injuries mainly began from 2002 onwards) and he had to wait until Round 19 for his first game for the Crows in 2006.

In 2007 he played his 150th AFL game against Brisbane in round 7. Welsh finished with 49 goals and 20 behinds for the season, topping the Crows goalkicking list for the fourth time. His fourth goal against Hawthorn on 8 September 2007 in the elimination final became his 300th goal in senior AFL football.

Welsh and his partner Nikki Higgins had their first child, Tyler Shane Welsh on 15 August 2006. The couple are expecting their second child in September 2008.

On 13 November 2007, Welsh, frustrated after Adelaide would only offer him a one year contract, quit the Crows and was placed in the pre-season draft.

Welsh was drafted to the Western Bulldogs on 11 December 2007, who used their pick number 4 in the Pre-Season Draft to claim him. Fittingly, the Western Bulldogs played Adelaide in the first round of the 2008 season, with Welsh contributing in a big way to a Bulldogs upset win.

External links

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