Blake Acres

Blake Acres
Personal information
Full name	Blake Acres
Date of birth	(1995-10-07) 7 October 1995
Original team(s)	West Perth
Draft	19th overall, 2013 National Draft
Height / weight	190 cm / 87 kg
Club information
Current club	St Kilda
Number	8
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2014–	St Kilda	26 (7)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2016.
Career highlights
AFL Rising Star nominee: 2016

Blake Acres is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Acres was selected with the 19th pick in the 2013 AFL Draft.^[1] He made his debut in Round 7, 2014, against Hawthorn, in the match where St Kilda were defeated by 145 points.^[2]

He earned the AFL Rising Star nomination following a breakout performance against Melbourne in Round 6, 2016.^[3]

References

↑ McFarlane, Glenn (8 February 2014). "St Kilda recruits Jack Billings and Luke Dunstan shine in intra-club match". Herald Sun.
↑ Landsberger, Sam (2 May 2014). "St Kilda's plan of trading stars and blooding young guns is starting to pay dividends". Herald Sun.
↑ Guthrie, Ben (2 May 2016). "Saint Blake Acres proves worth to earn Rising Star nod". AFL.com.au. BigPond. Retrieved 2 May 2016.

External links

Blake Acres's profile on the official website of the St Kilda Football Club
Blake Acres's statistics from AFL Tables

St Kilda Football Club – current squad

1 Hickey
2 Carlisle
3 Steven
4 Gresham
5 Savage
6 Ross
7 Dunstan
8 Acres
9 Steele
10 Freeman
11 Montagna
12 Riewoldt
13 Lonie
14 Geary
15 Billings
16 Newnes
17 Roberton
18 Longer
19 Gilbert
20 Armitage
21 Long
22 Brown
23 Goddard
24 Dempster
25 Stevens
26 Battle
27 Bruce
28 Membrey
29 Webster
30 Phillips
31 White
32 McCartin
33 O'Kearney*
34 Wright
35 Sinclair
36 McKenzie
37 Rice
38 Coughlan*
39 Joyce*
40 Connellan*
41 Minchington
42 Pierce
43 Marshall*
44 Weller
45 Holmes

Coach: Richardson

* denotes rookie listed players

2016 AFL Rising Star nominees

Rd 1: Oliver Rd 2: Parish Rd 3: Weitering Rd 4: Daniel Rd 5: Papley Rd 6: Acres Rd 7: Harmes Rd 8: Hopper Rd 9: Petracca Rd 10: Byrne-Jones Rd 11: Blakely Rd 12: Weller Rd 13: Sicily Rd 14: Gresham Rd 15: Wright Rd 16: Mills Rd 17: Fantasia Rd 18: Clarke Rd 19: Moore Rd 20: Dunkley Rd 21: McDonald Rd 22: Rioli Rd 23: Barrass

Italics denote winner

2013 AFL national draft

First round	1. Tom Boyd 2. Josh Kelly 3. Jack Billings 4. Marcus Bontempelli 5. Kade Kolodjashnij 6. Matthew Scharenberg 7. James Aish 8. Luke McDonald (F/S) 9. Christian Salem 10. Nathan Freeman 11. Dom Sheed 12. Ben Lennon 13. Patrick Cripps 14. Cam McCarthy 15. Zak Jones 16. Darcy Lang 17. Michael Apeness 18. Luke Dunstan 19. Blake Acres 20. Jack Leslie

Second round	21. Jarman Impey 22. Darcy Gardiner 23. Matt Crouch 24. Billy Hartung 25. Daniel McStay 26. Zach Merrett 27. Sean Lemmens 28. Lewis Taylor 29. Rory Lobb 30. Trent Dumont 31. Malcolm Karpany 32. George Hewett 33. Tom Cutler 34. Nick Robertson 35. Toby Nankervis 36. Jarrad Jansen 37. Alex Pearce 38. Dayle Garlett

Third round	39. Cameron Giles 40. Jay Kennedy-Harris 41. Jake Kolodjashnij 42. Matt Fuller 43. Tom Barrass 44. Aliir Aliir 45. Mitchell Harvey 46. Riley Knight 47. Ben Brown 49. Dylan Main 50. Nathan Gordon 51. Nick Holman 52. Darcy Byrne-Jones 54. Josh Walker (RP) 55. Orazio Fantasia 56. James Sicily

Fourth round	57. Jayden Hunt 58. Brady Grey 59. Jonathon Ceglar (RP) 60. Mitch Honeychurch 61. Jamie Bennell (RP) 62. Jonathan Freeman (Academy selection) 63. George Burbury (RP) 64. Lauchlan Dalgleish (RP) 65. Tom Langdon 66. Sam Lloyd 68. Karl Amon 70. Matt Taberner (RP) 71. Will Langford (RP)

Fifth round	74. Jeremy McGovern (RP) 75. Justin Clarke (RP) 76. Kyle Hartigan (RP) 77. Jonathon Marsh 80. Brandon Jack (RP)

Sixth round	82. Mitch Clisby (RP) 83. Tom Curren (RP) 84. Brett Goodes (RP) 85. Simon Tunbridge (RP) 86. Rory Laird (RP) 87. Sam Dwyer (RP) 89. Ed Curnow (RP) 90. Dane Rampe (RP)

Seventh round	92. Adam Oxley (RP) 93. Ricky Petterd (RP) 94. Tom Bell (RP)

Eighth round	95. Zac Williams (RP)

Ninth round	97. Jake Barrett (NSW Zone)

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