Nathan Vardy

DOB

25/6/1991

Height

199cm

Weight

101 kg

Junior club

Gippsland Power/Allies JFC

Arrived

Traded from Geelong at the end of the 2016 season for pick 71

Number

19 (2017 - )

Debut

Round 1 2017 vs North Melbourne
(232nd Eagles player)

Games

52

Goals

22

Honours

Premiership medal (2018)

B&F Top 10

0

Best Finish

19th (2017)

Last app.

Round 23 2021 vs Brisbane

Departed

Delisted at the end of the 2021 season

Other clubs

Gippsland Power (TAC Cup) 2009
Geelong (AFL) 2010-2016

Mobile forward-ruckman Nathan Vardy was recruited to boost the club's ruck stocks after an injury-plagued stint with Geelong.

Geelong career[]

Hailing from the tiny Gippsland town of Yarram, Vardy managed just 25 games in seven seasons with the Cats after being drafted in 2009. He battled numerous injuries during his time in Geelong, including a hip injury that kept him out for much of the 2012 season and a knee reconstruction that wrote off his entire 2014 campaign. He played just four senior games in his last two years.

West Coast career[]

With Nic Naitanui set to miss the entire 2017 season, West Coast cast a wide net to cover the ruck division, with the former Cat eventually agreeing to shift West. With Naitanui and his understudy Scott Lycett ultimately managing just one game between them, Vardy and his suspect body stood up superbly in the unfamiliar role of leading ruckman, with the big Victorian playing almost every game.

Expected to battle with Lycett for the role of back-up to Naitanui in 2018, Vardy suffered a groin injury during the pre-season that wrecked the first half of his year. He returned through East Perth, finding form just in time to replace Naitanui who had suffered another ruptured ACL, and played 10 of the last 11 games including the victorious Grand Final.

With Lycett at Port Adelaide and Naitanui still unavailable, Vardy started the 2019 season in partnership with newcomer Tom Hickey in the senior side, although he struggled to find his previous form and was dropped to the WAFL, where he spent most of the rest of the year.

Stats[]

AFL	Gm	G	B	K	M	H	D	T	Cl	WAFL	Gm	G	B	K	M	H	D	T
2017	22	10	6	99	52	87	186	64	37	EP	1	2	0	7	4	5	12	0
2018	10	7	4	37	26	44	81	29	13		7	5	4	25	18	27	52	20
2019	11	0	0	30	17	42	72	30	15	WCE	9	8	6	62	35	27	89	14
2020	0									N/A
2021	9	5	0	18	13	20	38	11	6	WCE	10	13	5	70	34	43	113	13
Tot	52	22	10	184	108	193	377	134	71
Avg		0.4		3.5	2.1	3.7	7.2	2.6	1.4