Lewis Jetta

DOB

4/5/89

Height

181cm

Weight

75 kg

Junior club

Swan Districts/Carey Park JFC

Arrived

Traded from Sydney at the end of the 2015 season for Callum Sinclair

Number

23

Debut

Round 2 2016 vs Hawthorn
(226th Eagles player)

Games

75

Goals

17

Honours

Premiership medal (2018)
Best Clubman (2018)
Premiership medal (2012, Syd)

B&F Top 10

0

Best Finish

19th (2018)

Last app.

Round 16 2020 vs Western Bulldogs

Departed

Delisted at the end of the 2020 season

Other clubs

Swan Districts (WAFL) 2007, 2009
Bridgetown (Lwr SW FL) 2008
Sydney (AFL) 2010-2015

Quick outside midfielder Lewis Jetta joined West Coast after 127 games with Sydney, but struggled initially before finding a new role as a sweeping half-back.

Sydney career[]

Originally from Bunbury, Jetta won a colts premiership with Swan Districts in 2007 but was overlooked in that year's draft. After a season with the Bridgetown Bulldogs, he returned to Swans in 2009 and became a top prospect in the draft. West Coast reportedly considered him at pick 7 but opted for Brad Sheppard, with Jetta going seven picks later to the Swans.

Jetta's best season with Sydney came in 2012, when he led the Swans' goalkicking with 45 majors and played an important role in the side's premiership run. He achieved some notoriety with West Coast fans when the sides clashed at Subiaco in 2015 when he performed a "spear-dance" after a goal in protest of the crowd's treatment of Sydney's Adam Goodes.

West Coast career[]

At the end of 2015 Jetta, who was out of contract, told Sydney that he wished to return to Western Australia and was traded to West Coast in a straight swap for ruckman Callum Sinclair.

The big-name recruit failed to live up to his billing in his first season at the Eagles, managing just 12 games, struggling to have any impact on games and getting dropped back to East Perth on multiple occasions.

Those struggles continued early in 2017 and Jetta had an extended run at East Perth. Once recalled, he finally began to show the scintillating running for which he was recruited, averaging 22 possesions and a goal a game in his first month back. While he continued to fade out of games at times, Jetta also had some big moments, kicking a crucial goal late in Round 23 2017 to lift the Eagles into the top eight.

A move to defence worked wonders for Jetta in 2018, with the speedster finding a new lease of life and providing creative dash out of the backline. Despite battling calf issues, he played 20 games and again bobbed up for a vital goal in the qualifying final against Collingwood, before becoming a dual premiership player three weeks later. He was also awarded the Chris Mainwaring Best Clubman trophy in recognition of his work with the Wirrpanda Foundation and his mentoring of young indigenous teammates Liam Ryan and Willie Rioli.

He continued in his role as a sweeping defender and senior mentor in 2019, playing 22 games. Unfortunately, he was dropped during the team's poor first Queensland hub stay in 2020 (immediately after playing his 200th game), and could not force his way back into a settled defence, making just two more appearances as a makeshift forward. With the improved form of fellow defenders Liam Duggan, Tom Cole and Jackson Nelson, the offseason arrival of Alex Witherden and a reduction in list sizes, Jetta found himself without a contract for 2021.

Stats[]

AFL	Gm	G	B	K	M	H	D	T	Cl	WAFL	Gm	G	B	K	M	H	D	T
2016	12	6	4	98	39	54	152	24	12	EP	6	0	3	75	15	38	113	16
2017	15	9	5	158	57	81	239	33	18		6	1	7	78	20	50	128	12
2018	20	1	1	227	91	101	328	32	15		0
2019	22	0	0	283	82	93	376	33	12	WCE	0
2020	6	1	2	62	22	24	86	16	5	N/A
Tot	75	17	12	828	291	353	1181	138	62
Avg		0.2		11.0	3.9	4.7	15.7	1.8	0.8