Ryan Burton

Ryan Burton
Burton playing for the Hawthorn Hawks in April 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-01-31) 31 January 1997 (age 27)
Original team(s) North Adelaide(SANFL)/PHOS Camden
Draft No. 19, 2015 national draft
Debut Round 21, 2016, Hawthorn vs. North Melbourne, at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 90 kg (198 lb)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current club Port Adelaide
Number 3
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2016–2018 Hawthorn 47 (5)
2019– Port Adelaide 107 (19)
Total 154 (24)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2024 season.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ryan Donald Burton (born 31 January 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early life

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Ryan Burton was raised in Adelaide, and attended Sacred Heart. He participated in the Auskick program at his primary school.[1] He later played his junior football at PHOS Camden and Sacred Heart.[2] In 2014, he played four games for North Adelaide in the SANFL, all at the age of 17.[3][4] He was still young enough to play in the 2014 NAB AFL Under-18 Championships.[citation needed] He kicked five goals in a game for South Australia against Western Australia.[citation needed]

Late 2014 Burton broke his leg while playing football in an interschool match. He required surgery for the injury, resulting in orthopedic surgeon Matthew Liptak, a former Adelaide Crows player, inserting a metal plate and 10 screws into his leg.[5] Burton spent 2015 in rehabilitation.[citation needed] Before he broke his leg, Burton was the state's hottest 2015 draft prospect.[6]

AFL career

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Hawthorn

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He was drafted by the Hawthorn Football Club with their first selection and nineteenth overall in the 2015 national draft.[7]

He played two games early for Box Hill before having an operation to remove the screws and plate in his leg. He came back to play two more Games for Box Hill before getting a call up to play for Hawthorn.

He made his debut in round 21, 2016.[8] He kicked a goal with his very first kick.[9] Burton played four games in a row but he suffered a calf injury during the 2016 Qualifying Final versus the Geelong Cats, and his season ended there.

Entering into his second season, Burton changed from number 35 to the number 5 guernsey following Sam Mitchell’s move to West Coast at the end of the 2016 season.

He earned a Rising Star nomination in round 2, 2017, in a 24 point loss to Adelaide at the MCG, with 26 possessions, nine marks and four tackles.[10]

On 17 July 2017 it was announced that Burton had signed a three-year contract extension to stay at Hawthorn until the end of 2020.[11]

Port Adelaide

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At the conclusion of the 2018 season and start of the AFL Trade Period, it emerged that Hawthorn were seeking to trade Burton to Port Adelaide in order to facilitate the arrival of Chad Wingard. Burton, who was overseas on holiday at the time, was reportedly unhappy with how Hawthorn was treating the trade with him and especially the circumstances with him being a contracted player. Nonetheless, Burton saw the opportunity to return home to South Australia and play for this boyhood club. Burton was officially traded to the Port Adelaide on 17 October.[12]

Family

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Burton is the son of dual North Adelaide premiership player Craig Burton.[4] This enabled him to transfer from Glenelg to North Adelaide under the SANFL father son rule.[13]

Statistics

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Updated to the end of 2023.

Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2016 Hawthorn 35 4 1 2 30 11 41 15 7 0.3 0.5 7.5 2.8 10.3 3.8 1.8 0
2017 Hawthorn 5 20 4 1 268 158 426 114 58 0.2 0.1 13.4 7.9 21.3 5.7 2.9 2
2018 Hawthorn 5 23 0 5 245 144 389 100 39 0.0 0.2 10.7 6.3 16.9 4.3 1.7 0
2019 Port Adelaide 3 16 4 4 220 95 315 61 33 0.3 0.3 13.8 5.9 19.7 3.8 2.1 0
2020[a] Port Adelaide 3 8 0 1 74 27 101 30 8 0.0 0.1 9.3 3.4 12.6 3.8 1.0 0
2021 Port Adelaide 3 24 0 1 320 113 433 133 61 0.0 0.0 13.3 4.7 18.0 5.5 2.5 0
2022 Port Adelaide 3 22 4 4 348 99 447 115 43 0.2 0.2 15.8 4.5 20.3 5.2 2.0 0
2023 Port Adelaide 3 22 8 6 278 80 336 80 46 0.4 0.3 12.6 3.6 15.3 3.6 2.1 0
Career[14] 139 21 24 1783 705 2488 648 295 0.1 0.2 12.8 5.1 17.9 4.7 2.1 2

Notes

  1. ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honours and achievements

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Team

Individual

See also

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References

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  1. ^ AFL Record. Round 3, 2022. pg 54
  2. ^ Going Places: The moment that could have ended Ryan Burton's AFL dream By Callum Twomey 4 November 2015
  3. ^ "NAFC History Database". North Adelaide Football Club. nafc.com.au. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Ryan Burton (Player Bio)". Australian Football. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Rooster Ryan Burton's AFL dream remains alive despite a horrific leg injury". The Advertiser. 26 June 2015.
  6. ^ "Rooster Ryan Burton's AFL dream remains alive despite a horrific leg injury". The Advertiser. 26 June 2015.
  7. ^ Warner, Michael (25 November 2015). "AFL draft 2015: Hawthorn happy to take a chance on Ryan Burton". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  8. ^ Quayle, Emma (11 August 2016). "Hawthorn Hawks to debut first-round draftee Ryan Burton". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  9. ^ King, Travis. "Five talking points: Hawthorn v North Melbourne". afl.com.au. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  10. ^ Twomey, Callum (3 April 2017). "Burton a star on the rise". AFL.com.au. Telstra. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  11. ^ "Burton puts pen to paper". Hawthorn Football Club. Telstra. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  12. ^ "Pick No.5 helps seal Chad-Burton trade". afl.com.au. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  13. ^ "The fact file: Ryan Burton". portadelaidefc.com.au. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  14. ^ Ryan Burton's player profile at AFL Tables
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