Shaun McManus
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| Birth | September 2, 1976 , |
| Recruited from | East Fremantle Football Club |
| Height and weight | 179cm / 82kg |
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| Debut | Round 5, 1995, Fremantle vs. Footscray, at Western Oval |
| Team(s) | Fremantle (1995 - present)
223 games 93 goals |
| ¹ Statistics to end of Round 9, 2008 season | |
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Shaun McManus (born 9 February 1976) is an Australian rules footballer. He is one of the most popular players to ever represent the Fremantle Football Club (The Dockers) and is often seen as an icon of the club; some artists' representations of team mascot "Johnny Docker", appear to resemble McManus. He was the second Docker to reach 200 games.
McManus was a player in the club's inaugural season in the AFL, 1995, and a co-club captain in 2000 and 2001.
In Round 3, 1997, he suffered a knee injury in the season's first Western Derby and required a full reconstruction. He returned for the start of the 1998 season, but suffered a recurrence of the injury and required a second reconstruction.
He has been a hard-working and consistent midfielder over the years, but struggled for selection in 2005. He had arguably his best year in 2006, playing all 22 home and away games and all three finals. In 2007 he was one of only five Fremantle players to play in all 22 matches.
His family is well-known in Fremantle: comedian Rove McManus, inaugural Fremantle coach Gerard Neesham and West Coast's Daniel Kerr are his cousins; he is also related to Con Regan and Melbourne Cup winning jockey J. J. Miller and he attended Corpus Christi College in Bateman, Western Australia [1]
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