Wayne Carey

Wayne Carey
Personal information
Nickname(s) The King, Duck[1]
Date of birth (1971-05-27) 27 May 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Original team(s) North Wagga
North Adelaide
Height 192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 97 kg (214 lb)
Position(s) Centre half-forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1989–2001 North Melbourne 244 (671)
2003–2004 Adelaide 028 0(56)
Total 272 (727)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1990 New South Wales 1 (1)
1992 South Australia 1 (2)
1993 NSW/ACT 1 (1)
International team honours
1998 Australia 2 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2004.
Career highlights

Club

Representative

  • Captain of New South Wales/ACT: 1993
  • Vice Captain of Southern NSW/ACT Team of the Century
  • Captain of Australia: 1997
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Wayne Francis Carey (born 27 May 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

A dual-premiership captain at North Melbourne (1996 and 1999), four-time North Melbourne best-and-fairest (Syd Barker Medallist) and seven-time All-Australian, Carey is nicknamed "The King", or "Duck". In 2001, he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne's Team of the Century, and in 2008 was named as Australian football's greatest ever player, as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football.[2]

In 2002, he left North Melbourne in disgrace after it was revealed he had been having an extramarital affair with the wife of his then-teammate Anthony Stevens. He is also known for a string of legal problems, which include domestic violence charges and assault convictions.

From 2014, Carey has worked as a Friday night football commentator and Talking Footy panelist with Channel Seven. He has also written as a columnist for The Age[3] and is a regular fixture on Triple M's The Rush Hour segment called "The Midweek Rub", which has since been spun off as its own podcast.[4][5] He had previously worked for 3AW and Channel 9 before being fired for a glassing incident in Miami.[6] Carey worked at Channel 7, Triple M and The Age until 2022 when he was sacked from all three roles due to an alleged incident at the Perth Casino. Carey then started his own podcast in 2023 called “The Truth Hurts” - the original co-host was Ayrton Woolley in 2023 and then Tony Sheahan from 2024.

  1. ^ "Wayne Carey: How the affair began". News.com.au. News Corporation. Archived from the original on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Mike Sheahan's top 50 players". AFL.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 March 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  3. ^ "Wayne Carey". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Wayne Carey On 'Broken" North Melbourne". Triple M. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Triple M Rocks Footy AFL - Triple M Footy AFL". omny.fm. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
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