Alipate Carlile

Alipate Carlile
Carlile with Port Adelaide in 2009
Personal information
Nickname(s) Bobby, Pate
Date of birth (1987-04-30) 30 April 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Lautoka, Fiji
Original team(s) Wangaratta Rovers
Murray Bushrangers
Draft 2005: Pick 44 (Port Adelaide)
Height 192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 98 kg (216 lb)
Position(s) Defender
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2006–2016 Port Adelaide 167 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2016.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Alipate Carlile (born 30 April 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer for who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Carlile was born in Lautoka to mother Asenaca of Batiki.[1] He was brought to Australia at the age of one.[2] Carlile is a cousin of former Australian rules footballer David Rodan.[2]

Carlile often played basketball and soccer as a junior before beginning his Australian rules career in his home town with the Wangaratta Rovers. The big-bodied 192 cm and 98 kg Carlile was selected by Port Adelaide at pick 44 in the 2005 AFL Draft from the Murray Bushrangers.

Carlile is married to ex Adelaide Thunderbird netballer Joanna Sutton.

  1. ^ Makaba, Jo Carlile backs countrymen Fiji Times. 15 October 2008
  2. ^ a b "Alipate Carlile". Australia Post. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013.