1. Matthew Scarlett was born on 5 June 1979 and is a former Australian rules footballer, who formerly played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League.
36 Facts About Matthew Scarlett
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Matthew Scarlett played predominantly as a fullback, and has garnered a long list of individual accolades.
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Matthew Scarlett is a triple premiership player from Geelong's premiership-winning teams of 2007,2009 and 2011, has won a Carji Greeves Medal and been selected to six All-Australian sides, the most selections for a Geelong player.
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Matthew Scarlett is currently serving as a development coach with the Geelong Football Club.
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Matthew Scarlett grew up in Geelong, Victoria, the son of former Geelong Football Club player John Scarlett.
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Matthew Scarlett entered the next phase of his junior career when he was selected to play for the Geelong Falcons in the under 18 TAC Cup competition in 1997.
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Matthew Scarlett did not play again until midway through the following season where he was matched against Lloyd.
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Matthew Scarlett made a further four senior appearances during the season, including scoring his first goal in round 17.
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Matthew Scarlett played a further 20 games and scored another two goals in 2001, a season in which had three games with 20 or more disposals.
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Matthew Scarlett was rewarded for his efforts by finishing runner-up in the club's best and fairest award, the Carji Greeves Medal.
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Matthew Scarlett celebrated his 50th game in the third round of the 2002 season with a victory over Kangaroos.
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Matthew Scarlett was awarded his first Brownlow Medal votes after achieving 26 possessions in a match against Port Adelaide in round eight.
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Matthew Scarlett played in every game for the second successive season in 2003, and had a career-high of 15 marks in round 16 against the Western Bulldogs.
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Matthew Scarlett made twenty-five appearances in total over the course of the season, participating in every match.
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Matthew Scarlett shared his 100th match with fellow Geelong defender Tom Harley in a 23-point victory over Essendon in the ninth round of the season.
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Matthew Scarlett finished the year ranked high within the league for total marks, placing equal eleventh.
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Matthew Scarlett gathered further individual accolades, finishing runner-up in club best and fairest voting, as well as earning an All-Australian selection for the second-consecutive season.
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Matthew Scarlett's consistency, reflected with his appearance in twenty-five games during the year and ranking equal twelfth for total marks within the league, was rewarded with a runner-up finishing in the club best and fairest award.
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The club's 2006 campaign began successfully when, captained by Matthew Scarlett, they captured the pre-season NAB Cup, winning their first pre-season premiership since 1961.
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Matthew Scarlett had a career-best 34 possessions in round 16, which was a one-point win over the Western Bulldogs, and garnered 13 or more possessions in 17 of his games.
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Matthew Scarlett finished the season unusually, playing as a forward in the final two matches, managing three goals for a season-total of four.
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Matthew Scarlett helped the Cats finish the home-and-away campaign first on the ladder to win the McClelland Trophy.
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Matthew Scarlett played in 24 games for the year and gathered a range of individual accolades.
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Matthew Scarlett had at least 10 disposals in every match for the season, with nine of these totals above 20.
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Matthew Scarlett helped the Cats achieve a record-equalling 21-win season and secure the McClelland Trophy for the second successive year in 2008.
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Matthew Scarlett made his 200th senior appearance for the club in round eighteen against Richmond, surpassing his father's total of 183 games for the club.
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Matthew Scarlett set a career-best total of 14 handpasses in round 16 against the Western Bulldogs, finishing with 32 possessions.
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Matthew Scarlett performed consistently, but failed to have a massive impact in the final, gathering 11 disposals and one mark, as well as laying two tackles.
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Matthew Scarlett was vital in Geelong's 2009 Grand Final triumph where he produced some magic play with less than five minutes to go, kicking the stationary ball off the ground from the centre square and setting up the match and premiership-winning goal by Paul Chapman.
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Matthew Scarlett was involved in Geelong's 2011 Grand Final victory over Collingwood, making him one of the twelve Geelong players to participate in all three premierships of the era.
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Matthew Scarlett retired after Geelong's 2012 season ended with an elimination final loss to Fremantle.
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Matthew Scarlett was joined on the coaching team by former teammates Cameron Mooney and Steven King, as well as being reunited with Brendan McCartney, who was an assistant coach for Geelong from 2000 to 2010.
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Matthew Scarlett additionally signed a deal to play in the Geelong Football League for South Barwon in 2013.
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In 2016, Matthew Scarlett joined the Geelong Cats as an assistant coach.
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Matthew Scarlett resigned from the role at the end of the 2021 season.
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Matthew Scarlett married his longtime partner Milla Warren in October 2007, which capped off his premiership-winning year and the addition of the couple's first child, a daughter Charlie, to the family in May Matthew Scarlett has another daughter from a previous relationship with Jodie Nankervis, the daughter of former Geelong player Bruce Nankervis, and is eight years older than Charlie.