Darren Crocker

Darren Crocker
Crocker in 2007 as an assistant coach
Personal information
Full name	Darren Crocker
Date of birth	(1967-03-26) 26 March 1967
Original team(s)	Belgrave^[1]
Height / weight	189 cm / 88 kg
Position(s)	Half-forward/Forward pocket
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1985–1998	North Melbourne	165 (119)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2009, 2015, 2016	North Melbourne	15 (6–8–1)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of Round 11, 2016.
Career highlights
Premiership player, 1996

Darren Crocker (born 26 March 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer and former player of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). On 16 June 2009, he was appointed caretaker coach of the North Melbourne Football Club after the resignation of Dean Laidley. On 17 August 2009 the North Melbourne Football Club appointed Brad Scott as their senior coach, thus Crocker was not retained as North Melbourne coach for the 2010 season. However, he remained as assistant coach at North Melbourne Football Club. In 2015, Crocker again served as acting coach when Scott underwent back surgery,^[2] and again for one match in 2016 when Scott was ill.^[3]

Crocker played in the 1996 AFL Grand Final against the Sydney Swans.

He is married with four children.

References

↑ Sportingpulse: AFL/VFL Draftees
↑ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-01/brad-scott-to-miss-month-afl-back-surgery/6511590
↑ Laughton, Max (3 June 2016). "North Melbourne coach Brad Scott hospitalised with viral illness, won't coach Roos against Richmond in Round 11". Fox Sports Australia. Retrieved 4 June 2016.

External links

Darren Crocker's statistics from AFL Tables

North Melbourne Football Club 1996 AFL premiers

North Melbourne 19.17 (131) defeated Sydney Swans 13.10 (88), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

2. Schwass 3. Rock 4. Martyn 5. Anderson 6. Fairley 7. Laidley 8. Scott 10. Stevens 11. Archer 12. Blakey 16. Capuano 17. Freeborn 18. Carey (c) 22. Roberts 24. Sholl 26. Bell 27. Crocker 31. McKernan 33. Allison 34. King 37. Simpson

Coach: Pagan

Coaches of the North Melbourne Football Club

1925–1926: Eicke 1926: Donnelly 1926: S. Thomas 1927: Barker 1928–1929: Tyson 1929: Noonan 1930: Lewis 1931: Pemberton 1931: Clark 1932: Cameron 1932–1934: Taylor 1934: Fitzmaurice 1935–1937: Scanlan 1938–1939: Forbes 1940: L. Thomas 1940: Adamson 1941–1942: McCaskill 1942–1943: Findlay 1944–1947: McCaskill 1948–1953: Carter 1954–1955: McCorkell 1956–1957: Gaudion 1958–1962: Carter 1963–1966: Killigrew 1966–1970: McKenzie 1971–1972: Dixon 1973–1980: Barassi 1976: Jordon 1977: Dugdale 1981: Blight 1981–1984: Cable 1985–1989: Kennedy 1990–1992: Schimmelbusch 1993–2002: Pagan 2003–2009: Laidley 2009: Crocker 2010–: Scott 2015, 2016: Crocker

Italics denote caretaker coach

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