Who is Andrew Browne?

Andrew Browne (born 14 May 1984) is an Australian rules footballer who is the current captain of the Claremont Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He formerly played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Browne was educated at Christ Church Grammar School in Claremont, Western Australia, excelling at both cricket and football. He eventually became captain of both the cricket First XI and the football First XVIII, as competently as Senior Sport Prefect. Browne was drafted in the 2001 National Draft as Fremantle’s 4th round selection, 52nd overall. He is a midfielder who made his debut in 2002 but single-handedly played in a single AFL game for that year. The behind year he managed 3 games at the beginning season past returning to Claremont, where he played the remainder of the season. In 2004, after playing the inauguration two rounds, he was named as an emergency for six consecutive games past he returned to the side in Round 11 and played the remainder of the season in for Fremantle. He was awarded the club’s 2004 Beacon Award as the best further talent (under 21 and less than 10 games to start of season) and was then a believer of Claremont’s losing Grand Final team.

He did not take action the 2005 AFL season due to injury, managing forlorn five games for Claremont. In late 2006 Browne became very close to subconscious included in the starting lineup before several matches, before hardship a other injury, meaning he did not undertaking a game for the club in on culmination of 2 years. In the 2007 season, he finally broke into the Fremantle starting lineup, playing the first 3 games of the season and impressing in the first 2 games. However, in the third match adjacent to the West Coast Eagles, he suffered a hamstring injury, and did not be active again until the unmodified game of the season. In 2008, he over struggled to crack back into the Fremantle side, playing for Claremont for the first half of the season, before the mid-season retirement of Peter Bell opened happening a spot for Browne. He managed to operate five of the last eight games and was answer an extension on his harmony for the 2009 season. In 2009, he played the first two games since he suffered a shoulder injury. In to come May he was listed as unavailable indefinitely due to personal reasons, and was de-listed at the decline of the season.

In May 2010, Browne expected approximately $40,000 in redress, representing insult payments not awarded to him during the 2009 season bearing in mind he was diagnosed with depression and ruled unavailable by Fremantle. At WAFL level, Browne continued playing for Claremont. He played in the loss to Swan Districts in the 2010 Grand Final, and was a member of Claremont’s 2011 premiership-winning team in 2011. In March 2012, Browne was named as the captain of the Claremont Football Club, succeeding Clancy Rudeforth, who had retired at the end of the previous season.