Darren Milburn


Darren Milburn is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. A defender, tall and weighing, Milburn was renowned for his competitiveness, decision-making and for both his physical and mental strength.
Milburn was selected in the 2007 All-Australian Team, and was part of Geelong's AFL premiership-winning team in the same year, a feat which has seen him become the first premiership player to play 250 matches for Geelong. He had also represented the Victorian state team in the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match, as well as being selected to represent Australia in International rules football.
Milburn was an assistant coach with the Adelaide Football Club from 2012 to 2015.

Early life

Darren Milburn grew up in the country town of Kilmore, Victoria, where he attended school and played for the Kilmore Football Club. Milburn met his future wife, Tania, in his teenage years whilst still at school, and also was school friends with another future AFL footballer, Barry Hall, whom he met at a high school he attended in Broadford, Victoria.

Career

2007

In season 2007 he received his first All-Australian guernsey in the back-pocket. Milburn played a pivotal role in Geelong's defence throughout the groundbreaking year, which ended with a Premiership medallion for the veteran.

2008

In season 2008 Milburn once again was a regular fixture in the young Geelong side. In Geelong's round 16 game against the Western Bulldogs at Skilled Stadium, he racked up 19 disposals in the first quarter, breaking the record for the highest number of disposals in any quarter of football.
At the end of Season 2011. Milburn retired after playing 292 games and Two premierships in 07 and 09 since his debut in 1997, Milburn was named as an emergency for the 2011 Premiership. Milburn then went into coaching straight away and Joined the Adelaide crows for season 2012 Joining New coach Brenton Sanderson a former team-mate and Assistant coach at Geelong. Darren Milburn quit the Adelaide football club at the end of 2015 to return home to Victoria.

Statistics

! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1997
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1998
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2001
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2002
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2003
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2004
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2005
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2006
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 2007
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2008
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 2009
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2010
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2011
! colspan=3| Career
! 292
! 94
! 60
! 3047
! 2476
! 5523
! 1687
! 674
! 0.3
! 0.2
! 10.4
! 8.5
! 18.9
! 5.8
! 2.3

Honours and achievements

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Although he kept mostly out of trouble throughout his career, Milburn had two notable tribunal cases.
Milburn is married to his teenage sweetheart, Tania, with whom he has had two children: a daughter, Imogen, and a son, Jett.