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Stewart Crameri
Stewart Crameri
	Crameri with the Western Bulldogs in February 2017
Personal information
Full name	Stewart Crameri
Date of birth	10 August 1988 (age 36)
Original team(s)	Bendigo Bombers (VFL)
Draft	No. 43, 2009 rookie draft
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Position(s)	Forward
Playing career1
Years	Club
2010–2013	Essendon
2014–2017	Western Bulldogs
2018	Geelong
Total
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2018.
Career highlights
	3× Essendon leading goalkicker: 2011, 2012, 2013; Western Bulldogs leading goalkicker: 2014;
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Stewart Crameri (born 10 August 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon, Western Bulldogs and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early life

Crameri was selected by Essendon with the forty-third pick in the 2009 rookie draft. After spending three seasons with the Bendigo Bombers, Crameri was finally given a chance at senior football after strong rumours in 2008 that he would be drafted by Essendon.

In 2009, he was one of the few shining lights in a very dark year for the Bendigo Bombers who went through the season rooted to the bottom of the ladder and winless.^[1] He originally played for Maryborough Football Club in the Bendigo Football League, and unlike most Victorians in the AFL, did not play in the TAC Cup as a junior.^[2]

AFL career

Crameri made his AFL debut for Essendon against Collingwood in Round 20 of the 2010 AFL season.^[3]

Crameri has had a great 2011 season up forward for Essendon, kicking 34 goals and was the club's leading goalkicker. At the Crichton Medal, Essendon FC Best & Fairest, he was awarded the Matthew Lloyd Leading Goal Kicking Award, and was the Essendon Football Club Most Improved player for 2011.

For the 2012 season, Crameri has inherited the #12 guernsey formerly worn by Andrew Welsh, who retired at the end of the 2011 season.^[4]

The Goldfields Region Sports Association awarded Crameri the Jack Worrall Medal for the region's most outstanding sportsperson for 2011.

On Thursday 24 October 2013, it was announced that Crameri had been traded from Essendon to the Western Bulldogs in exchange for pick number 26 in the National Draft.

Crameri, along with 33 other past and present Essendon players, was found guilty of using a banned performance-enhancing substance, thymosin beta-4, as part of Essendon's sports supplements program during the 2012 season. He and his teammates were initially found not guilty in March 2015 by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal,^[5] but a guilty verdict was returned in January 2016 after an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency. He was suspended for two years which, with backdating, ended in November 2016; as a result, he served approximately fourteen months of his suspension and missed the entire 2016 AFL season,^[6] including the Bulldogs' premiership win in October.

Crameri played just two matches in 2017, before undergoing hip surgery which would ultimately sideline him for the remainder of the season.^[7]

Crameri was delisted by the Bulldogs at the conclusion of the 2017 AFL season, but was taken by the Geelong Cats in the 2017 rookie draft.^[8]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2012 season.^[9]

**Legend**
G	Goals	K	Kicks	D	Disposals	T	Tackles
B	Behinds	H	Handballs	M	Marks


Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)
Season	Team	No.	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
2010	Essendon	45	3	0	1	20	33	53	8	6	0.0	0.3	6.7	11.0	17.7	2.7	2.0
2011	Essendon	45	20	34	22	167	156	323	104	48	1.7	1.1	8.4	7.8	16.2	5.2	2.4
2012	Essendon	12	18	32	29	132	116	248	75	40	1.8	1.6	7.3	6.4	13.8	4.2	2.2
Career			41	66	52	319	305	624	187	94	1.6	1.3	7.8	7.4	15.2	4.6	2.3

References

^ afl.com.au (15 December 2009). "What the clubs said". afl.com.au. Archived from the original on 18 December 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
^ CRAMERI'S IN – Former Magpie and Bendigo Bomber to make AFL debut
^ "No contest as Magpies dominate". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 August 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
^ "Crameri handed Welsh's No.12". AFL.com.au. 22 January 2012. Archived from the original on 23 January 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
^ Twomey, Callum (31 March 2015). "Thirty-four present and former Bombers cleared of all drug charges". AFL.com.au. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
^ Travis King (12 January 2016). "Guilty: court bans the Essendon 34 for 2016". Australian Football League. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
^ "Stewart Crameri to miss rest of 2017 season". Western Bulldogs. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
^ "Another Dogs forward departs with ex-Don cut". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
^ "Stewart Crameri statistics". AFL Tables. Retrieved 23 September 2012.