Tristan Lynch (1996 - 1998)

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Pick 11 in the 1996 Pre-Season Draft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_AFL_Draft)

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Merrett-Murray medal results:

1997: 41 votes (9th)
1998: 7 votes (=22nd)

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Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Lynch)

Tristan Lynch (born 22 August 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears, Brisbane Lions and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL). Lynch spent most of his career as a defender but was also used as a tagger on occasions. From Sale, he was initially recruited by Collingwood, with pick 85 in the 1992 AFL Draft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_AFL_Draft), before ending up at Richmond in 1994. He played reserves football with Richmond for two seasons and when the club's senior coach John Northey resigned and went to the Brisbane Bears in 1996, Lynch joined him.

Aged 22, Lynch made his belated AFL debut in 1996 with the Bears and appeared in all three finals that they played that year, including the preliminary final where he had 16 disposals. Despite finally breaking into the AFL, Lynch was forced to change clubs again when the Bears merged with Fitzroy. He was a regular fixture in the Brisbane Lions team in 1997 but added further games in 1998. Along with Scott Bamford, Lynch was traded by Brisbane to Geelong after the 1998 season, in return for Martin McKinnon. He was at Geelong for two seasons before being de-listed.

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Career statistics (http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/T/Tristan_Lynch.html)

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Number 42 guernsey (http://www.lions.com.au/tabid/5085/default.aspx?newsid=114358)

Tristan LYNCH (Bears/Lions) - 55
Terry M. BOARD (Fitzroy) - 15
Pearce HANLEY (Lions) - 12
Max MIERS (Fitzroy) - 7
Lex DWYER (Fitzroy) - 6
Anthony MELLINGTON (Fitzroy) - 6
David RANKIN (Fitzroy) - 6
Marcus ALLAN (Lions) - 5
Ken JONES (Fitzroy) - 5
Josh GREEN (Lions)* - 5
Paul TILLEY (Fitzroy) - 4
Adam KERINAIUA (Bears) - 3
Shane STREMPEL (Bears) - 3
Jonathan SOLOMON (Bears) - 2
Brent GREEN (Bears) - 1
Wayne EASTMAN (Fitzroy) - 1
Mark EAVES (Fitzroy) - 1
Peter WEIGHTMAN (Fitzroy) - 1

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/273/tristanlynch2.jpg

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Lions trade history (http://www.lions.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/5085/newsid/103664/default.aspx)

1998

Martin McKinnon
from Geelong for Tristan Lynch, Scott Bamford, draft select 17 (Peter Street) and draft selection 24 (David Wojcinski)

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Note: this (http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22471791&postcount=4) suggests the deal was (even) more complicated than that.

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Link (http://www.lions.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/5085/newsid/53904/default.aspx)

Brisbane Lions' first ever team (1997):

B: Ben Robbins Richard Champion Danny Dickfos
HB: Michael McLean Jarrod Molloy Andrew Gowers
C: Matthew Kennedy Adrian Fletcher Nigel Lappin
HF: Scott McIvor Dion Scott Michael Voss (c)
F: Darryl White Alastair Lynch (c) Chris Johnson
R: Matthew Clarke Marcus Ashcroft Shaun Hart
I/C: Justin Leppitsch Clark Keating Tristan Lynch

Emer: Nathan Chapman Simon Hawking
Scott Bamford Shane Clayton

Brisbane Lions' first ever finals team (1997):

B: Chris Johnson Alastair Lynch (c) Danny Dickfos
HB: Andrew Gowers Dion Scott Darryl White
C: Scott Bamford Adrian Fletcher Tristan Lynch
HF: Steven Lawrence Justin Leppitsch Nigel Lappin
F: Nick Trask Daniel Bradshaw Jason Akermanis
R: Matthew Clarke Shaun Hart Marcus Ashcroft
I/C: Craig Lambert Ben Robbins Nathan Chapman

Emer: Brett Voss Chris Scott Shane Clayton

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Richmond's 1994 supplementary draft picks (http://oneeyed-richmond.com/forum/index.php?topic=4179.0)

2 Paul King (Geelong Falcons) RICHMOND
17 Ben Glynn (Geelong Falcons) RICHMOND
32 Tim Scott-Branagan (Central Drgaons) RICHMOND
47 Adam Slater (East Burwood) RICHMOND
62 Jeremy Higgins (North Hobart) RICHMOND
77 Tristan Lynch (Sale) RICHMOND
92 Ashleigh Martin (Ballarat Rebels) RICHMOND
107 Adam Keriniaua (North Darwin) RICHMOND