He played the next five matches before being omitted for the round ten match against Hawthorn. He played his first AFL match for the season in round four where he kicked two final quarter goals to help Melbourne defeat Greater Western Sydney by forty-one points at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when they were down by three goals at three quarter time. He played his first match in eighteen months when he played for Casey in a VFL pre-season match in late March. He had a delayed start to the 2013 season when he suffered a hamstring injury during the pre-season and he was placed on the long-term injury list in January. ĭuring the 2012 pre-season, Gawn suffered a knee injury, which was initially suspected as a meniscus tear in his right knee, but it was ultimately a tear in both his meniscus and ACL, which forced him to miss the entire 2012 season. He returned to the senior side for the seventy-six-point loss against Carlton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in round 20, but he was dropped the next week and managed four matches in his debut season. He played in the next two matches before being omitted for the round fourteen match. For his debut match, he had the number 37 jumper presented to him by 1991 Brownlow Medallist, Australian football and Melbourne hall of famer, Jim Stynes, who wore the same guernsey number in his first season.
After strong performances in the VFL for Casey in the first half of 2011, he made his AFL debut in the thirty-three-point win against Essendon at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in round eleven, where he played primarily as a forward and recorded eight disposals, ten hitouts and two behinds. He played a few matches at the end of the season for Melbourne's affiliate team, the Casey Scorpions, in the Victorian Football League (VFL) development league. After undergoing surgery in 2009 to repair his ACL, he missed the majority of the 2010 season. At the time of the draft, he was the second tallest player in the league at 208 cm, behind Aaron Sandilands at 211 cm.
Gawn was recruited by the Melbourne Football Club with their fifth selection and thirty-fourth overall in the 2009 national draft. AFL career 2010–2013: Early years and ongoing injury He was initially selected in Victoria Metro's squad for the 2009 AFL Under 18 Championships, but missed the entire championships due to his knee injury. In 2009, he played with the Sandringham Dragons in the TAC Cup and played the first three matches of the year before tearing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the match against the Geelong Falcons at Skilled Stadium. He attended McKinnon Secondary College and played his junior career with the Ormond Football Club. Australian rules football was his number one sport. Following his father's recommendation, he played rugby union in Under 10s for Powerhouse RUFC in Albert Park, Victoria. A few years later, his parents settled permanently in Melbourne.
A ruckman, 208 cm tall and weighing 108 kg, Gawn is capable of contributing in both the ruck and forward line.
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Max Gawn (born 30 December 1991) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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