Daniel Harris (born 10 May 1982) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League between 2001 and 2009. He plays as a midfielder and is noted as one of the best centre clearance players in the league.^[1] He is also one of the league's best tacklers, making the top ten for most tackles in each season between 2006 and 2008.^[2][3][4] After being delisted by North Melbourne he was drafted with the first selection in the 2010 Rookie Draftas a mature age rookie to join the new Gold Coast Football Club in the Victorian Football League in 2010.

He was drafted with the 14th selection in the 2000 AFL Draft from the Bendigo Pioneers and has played 139 matches for the Kangaroos in his eight seasons at the club. Harris started strongly, winning an AFL Rising Star award nomination in only his second match. However, he only played the next four games before being dropped back to play for the Murray Kangaroos in the VFL. He played only a further two senior games in 2001 and only four games in 2002. The 2004 AFL season would see Harris cement his spot in the side and he only missed two games in the Kangaroo's next five seasons.

At the conclusion of the 2008 season, Harris requested to leave North Melbourne over an apparent feud with coach Dean Laidley.^[1]

But a trade was not forthcoming and Harris spent the start of the 2009 playing in the VFL, but returned to play ten games during the season. He was however, still delisted at the end of the season.^[5]

[edit] External links

• Biography from the Official AFL website of the Kangaroos
• Daniel Harris's statistics from AFL Tables

[edit] References

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