21 Facts About Simon Goodwin

Simon Goodwin was born on 26 December 1976 and is an Australian rules football coach and former player.

Simon Goodwin has been the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club of the Australian Football League since 2017.

Simon Goodwin won two premierships with the Crows in 1997 and 1998, was a five-time All-Australian, and captained Adelaide for his final three seasons.

Simon Goodwin was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2017.

Simon Goodwin returned to the side in Round 14 to face West Coast, holding his position until he was omitted following the Round 18 victory over Carlton at Football Park.

Simon Goodwin earned a recall prior to the beginning of the 1997 finals series, returning solid performances in all four of Adelaide's wins, including 19 possessions and a goal in the victorious 1997 Grand Final.

The 1999 season was to be one of disappointment as Simon Goodwin's performances mirrored that of his club.

Simon Goodwin capped this watershed year with selection to the Adelaide Football Club Team of the Decade.

In 2002 Simon Goodwin struggled for consistency, in part due to the extra attention he was receiving from opposition taggers.

Individually Simon Goodwin capped a superb return to top form, winning his third All-Australian guernsey and capturing his second club champion award.

In early December 2007, Simon Goodwin was named the captain for Adelaide for the 2008 football season.

The move paid dividends with Simon Goodwin enjoying a career-best seven-goal haul in Adelaide's crushing Round 2 victory over the West Coast Eagles.

In later matches, Simon Goodwin was rotated between the forward and back half, increasingly the latter in order to allow young forwards to stake their claims for a permanent spot.

On 25 May 2010, Simon Goodwin announced he would retire at the conclusion of the 2010 AFL season.

Simon Goodwin served as the Australia international rules football team's goalkeeper for the 2004 International Rules Series.

On 30 September 2010, Simon Goodwin announced his appointment as assistant coach at Essendon Football Club.

On 27 August 2013, it was announced that Simon Goodwin would take over as Essendon's caretaker senior coach for the final round of the 2013 season, following the 12-month suspension handed to James Hird as a result of the Essendon supplements saga.

On 10 October 2013, Simon Goodwin was promoted to the role of senior assistant coach for the 2014 season, following Mark Thompson's appointment as interim senior coach for the period of Hird's suspension.

On 18 September 2014, Simon Goodwin signed a five-year contract with the Melbourne Football Club.

Simon Goodwin served for two years as an assistant coach under senior coach Paul Roos before taking over as senior coach for three years from 2017 in a succession plan.

On 1 March 2007, Simon Goodwin was fined a record $40,000 and ordered to undertake compulsory counselling for placing four bets involving AFL matches totalling $16,024.58.