Former West Coast AFL participant Adam Hunter has died on the age of 43.
Hunter performed 151 video games for the Eagles between 2000 and 2009, successful the 2006 premiership with the well-known staff.
His physique was reportedly discovered on Wednesday morning at a house south of Perth.
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His demise comes at some point after former Brisbane Lions participant Troy Selwood died at the age of 40.
Essendon’s VFL coach Dale Tapping additionally died on the age of 59 on Tuesday following a most cancers battle.
Adam Hunter of the Eagles in 2006. Getty
Hunter – a Western Australian – was drafted by West Coast with choose 29 within the 1999 draft.
He debuted within the final recreation of the 2000 AFL season, and performed 9 the next 12 months.
The proficient defender established himself because the staff’s first-choice centre halfback in 2005 and helped the facet make it to the grand last that 12 months, which they misplaced to the Swans.
The identical groups met within the 2006 decider a 12 months later and this time West Coast triumphed.
Hunter was pivotal in that title.
He kicked 11 objectives all through the finals collection and booted the final objective of the grand last, sealing the outcome.
In an announcement from West Coast, grand last successful coach and now Eagles head of soccer, John Worsfold, described it as an “iconic second”.
“He was an integral a part of a beautiful footy staff that performed and gained that 2006 premiership,” Worsfold mentioned.
“One of many iconic moments on this membership’s historical past is the objective he kicks in that grand last, and that simply sums up who he was. He did not search any recognition, even from that objective.”
Adam Hunter of the Eagles celebrates kicking the successful objective of the 2006 AFL grand last. Getty
Hunter suffered severe knee and shoulder accidents and was pressured to retire in 2009.
In paying tribute to Hunter, Worsfold revealed one among his former’s gamers last moments.
“I used to be fortunate sufficient to teach ‘Hunts’ for a very long time and he was simply a kind of gamers who put in 100 per cent the whole lot he did on the membership,” Worsfold mentioned.
“All he wished to do was play footy along with his mates and share success with them.
“I do know a whole lot of his teammates are reflecting on what he delivered to them as a bunch and as footballers.
“Out of all my time in footy, which is a very long time now, he is most likely the participant that cherished the sport greater than any participant I’ve seen.
“I perceive that he went to footy coaching final evening and had a kick for South Bunbury, as a result of that is simply what he does.
“It makes me smile inside to know that one of many final issues he did was he went to footy coaching, and he would’ve cherished it I can assure that.”
West Coast confirmed gamers wore black armbands at coaching on Wednesday and joined workers for a second’s silence.
