| Stewart Crameri | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Crameri with the Western Bulldogs in February 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Stewart Crameri | ||
| Date of birth | (1988-08-10)10 August 1988 (age 36) | ||
| Original team(s) | Bendigo Bombers (VFL) | ||
| Draft | No. 43,2009 rookie draft | ||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2010–2013 | Essendon | 57(96) | |
| 2014–2017 | Western Bulldogs | 42(70) | |
| 2018 | Geelong | 4(5) | |
| Total | 103 (171) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2018. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Stewart Crameri (born 10 August 1988) is a former professionalAustralian rules footballer who played forEssendon,Western Bulldogs andGeelong in theAustralian Football League (AFL).
Crameri was selected by Essendon with the forty-third pick in the2009 rookie draft. After spending three seasons with theBendigo Bombers, Crameri was finally given a chance at senior football after strong rumours in 2008 that he would be drafted byEssendon.
In 2009, he was one of the few shining lights in a very dark year for theBendigo Bombers who went through the season rooted to the bottom of the ladder and winless.[1] He originally played forMaryborough Football Club in theBendigo Football League, and unlike most Victorians in the AFL, did not play in theTAC Cup as a junior.[2]
Crameri made his AFL debut for Essendon against Collingwood in Round 20 of the 2010 AFL season.[3]
Crameri has had a great 2011 season up forward for Essendon, kicking 34 goals and was the club's leading goalkicker. At the Crichton Medal, Essendon FC Best & Fairest, he was awarded the Matthew Lloyd Leading Goal Kicking Award, and was the Essendon Football Club Most Improved player for 2011.
For the 2012 season, Crameri has inherited the #12 guernsey formerly worn byAndrew Welsh, who retired at the end of the 2011 season.[4]
The Goldfields Region Sports Association awarded Crameri the Jack Worrall Medal for the region's most outstanding sportsperson for 2011.
On Thursday 24 October 2013, it was announced that Crameri had been traded from Essendon to the Western Bulldogs in exchange for pick number 26 in the National Draft.
Crameri, along with 33 other past and present Essendon players, was found guilty of using a banned performance-enhancing substance,thymosin beta-4, as part ofEssendon's sports supplements program during the 2012 season. He and his teammates were initially found not guilty in March 2015 by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal,[5] but a guilty verdict was returned in January 2016 after an appeal by theWorld Anti-Doping Agency. He was suspended for two years which, with backdating, ended in November 2016; as a result, he served approximately fourteen months of his suspension and missed the entire2016 AFL season,[6] including the Bulldogs'premiership win in October.
Crameri played just two matches in2017, before undergoing hip surgery which would ultimately sideline him for the remainder of the season.[7]
Crameri was delisted by the Bulldogs at the conclusion of the 2017 AFL season, but was taken by theGeelong Cats in the 2017 rookie draft.[8]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | ||||
| 2010 | Essendon | 45 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 33 | 53 | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 6.7 | 11.0 | 17.7 | 2.7 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | Essendon | 45 | 20 | 34 | 22 | 167 | 156 | 323 | 104 | 48 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 8.4 | 7.8 | 16.2 | 5.2 | 2.4 |
| 2012 | Essendon | 12 | 18 | 32 | 29 | 132 | 116 | 248 | 75 | 40 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 7.3 | 6.4 | 13.8 | 4.2 | 2.2 |
| Career | 41 | 66 | 52 | 319 | 305 | 624 | 187 | 94 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 15.2 | 4.6 | 2.3 | ||
