Alex Forster
Alex Forster is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Norwood in the South Australian National Football League. He previously played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League.Football career
Originally from Edenhope, a small town in western Victoria, he played for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League as well as representing South Australia at the 2011 AFL Under 18 Championships.
He was drafted to with their third selection in the 2011 AFL Draft. Forster's close friend and former teammate from Kybybolite Junior Football Club, Lachie Neale, was also drafted by Fremantle with their next selection in the same draft. They join co-captain Jack Trengove as ex-Kybybolite players on AFL lists.
After spending the first half of the 2012 season recovering from a hip spur operation, he played the remainder of the year in Swan Districts reserves side in the West Australian Football League. In 2013 he transferred to Peel Thunder and made his WAFL league debut. Forster was one of ten players brought into the Fremantle side in the final round of the 2013 AFL season against St Kilda at Etihad Stadium, when many senior players were rested ahead of the finals matches.
Delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 2013 season, Forster returned to South Australia and rejoined Norwood.
