Brent Prismall

Brent Prismall
Brent Prismall in action
Personal information
Full name	Brent Prismall
Date of birth	(1986-07-14) 14 July 1986
Original team(s)	Werribee (VFL) Western Jets (TAC Cup)
Draft	#32, 2004 National Draft, Geelong
Height / weight	186 cm, 88 kg
Career highlights
Geelong Geelong NAB Cup 2006 Best First-year Player 2006 Representative Honours Victoria Metro U18 2004 TAC Cup Western Jets Runner-up Best & Fairest 2004 TAC Cup Team of the Year 2004
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Brent Prismall (born 14 July 1986) is a former Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Career

Early career

Prismall grew up in Werribee, Victoria. He was drafted from the Western Jets Under 18s. He was Geelong's first pick in the 2004 draft, pick 32 overall, coincidentally this is the number he wore on his guernsey. The number 32 was made famous by Geelong player Garry Hocking. Prismall spent all of the 2005 season playing in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for Geelong's VFL team.

Geelong: 2006–2008

At the start of 2006, he moved out of his Werribee home and moved to Geelong to live with teammates Corey Enright and Henry Playfair, with whom he would later go on to start a personal training organisation. He then set his sights on playing a senior game for Geelong and, after playing in the team that had earlier won the pre-season cup, he was selected to play in Round 5. Only minutes into his debut, on 29 April against the Sydney Swans, he broke his arm and only played eight games for the year.

After a solid pre-season, he played the first five games of 2007 before being omitted and then broke his wrist while playing for the Geelong VFL side on 8 July 2007. As a result Prismall was unable to play for several weeks but recovered in time to play finals for the VFL side.

In 2008, Prismall played in 11 home and away games and was selected to play in the qualifying final against St Kilda on 7 September 2008, which was to be his 25th game and finals debut. However, midway through the first quarter, he was stretchered off and did not return after landing awkwardly and badly injuring his right knee. It was later confirmed that he would have to undergo a full knee reconstruction after scans revealed a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

After the 2008 season, Prismall declined the new two-year contract offered to him by Geelong and asked the club to be traded to get a better chance of playing more regularly in the AFL. On the final day of trade week, he was traded to the Essendon Football Club for national draft pick number 39. Essendon drafted Prismall in order to improve their young, developing list. Prismall was given the Number 9 guernsey which was vacated when Adam Ramanauskus' retired.

Essendon: 2008-2012

Prismall returned from injury towards the second half of the 2009 season for the Essendon Bombers and had an injury free return. He played 13 games for the club in 2009 and was a regular contributor, kicking five goals.

In the 2010 season, Prismall was in and out of the Essendon team. His performances were not consistent and his ball skills were lacking. Towards the end of the season, however, his form improved considerably, despite the team's poor performances on the field. After a reconstruction on his right knee in 2008, he injured his left knee in the opening minutes of Round 19, 2011 against Collingwood and was out for the rest of the season.

2012

Prismall was delisted from the Essendon Football club along with Brendan Lee, Anthony Long, Henry Slattery, Sam Lonergan, Kyle Reimers, Michael Ross, Ricky Dyson and Ariel Steinberg.

2013

Prismall is currently a runner for the Western Bulldogs. He also plays for the Bulldogs' VFL affiliate, the Williamstown Seagulls.

Post-AFL career

On 12 January 2016 Prismall was named as one of 34 past and present Essendon players found guilty over their use of illegal supplements during the 2012 AFL season. As a result, Prismall was suspended from playing at all levels for twelve months, effective from November 2015.

Statistics

Statistics are correct to end of 2012 season.

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)
				G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
2006	Geelong	32	8	4	2	72	34	106	30	11	0.5	0.2	9.0	4.2	13.2	3.8	1.4
2007	Geelong	32	5	3	3	48	41	89	23	12	0.6	0.6	9.6	8.2	17.8	4.6	2.4
2008	Geelong	32	12	8	1	110	147	257	55	24	0.7	0.1	9.2	12.2	21.4	4.6	2.0
2009	Essendon	9	13	5	4	161	137	298	74	47	0.4	0.3	12.4	10.5	22.9	5.7	3.6
2010	Essendon	9	15	4	4	197	137	334	84	76	0.3	0.3	13.1	9.1	22.3	5.6	5.1
2011	Essendon	9	8	1	1	66	64	130	26	24	0.1	0.1	8.2	8.0	16.2	3.2	3.0
2012	Essendon	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Career			61	25	15	654	560	1214	292	194	0.4	0.2	10.7	9.2	19.9	4.8	3.2

External links

• Brent Prismall's profile on the official website of the Geelong Football Club
• Brent Prismall's playing statistics from AFL Tables