He came off the bench late in Adelaide’s first game against Hawthorn but then settled into a key forward role and was the club’s leading goalkicker in its first season. His tally of 49 goals included a career-best bag of eight goals against North Melbourne in the last minor round and he kicked a goal after the siren in round 12 to defeat Fitzroy.
But Jameson struggled through his second season and by 1993 he was spending more time at the other end of the ground taking on some of the competition’s gun forwards. He was at full back in the 1997 grand final until tearing a hamstring before the first break.
Jameson struggled with some leg injuries in his last couple of years at AFL level and he was only 29 when he retired at the end of the 1999 season with 153 games to his name. In his last game, also a farewell for team-mate Matthew Liptak and coach Malcolm Blight, Jameson found time for a drop kick.
Rod Jameson at the Crows
Guernsey number: 35
Crows debut: Round 1 v Hawthorn, 1991.
AFC games: 153. AFC goals: 113.
Recruited from: Glenelg (SANFL)
Original squad selection 1991.
DOB: June 30, 1970
Random info:
• He played in six finals with the Crows - and they were all wins.
• The night he kicked a goal after the siren to beat Fitzroy (1991) was also
Rod’s 21st birthday party.
• He is on the board of the Crows Foundation
Crows career:
Year | Games |
1991 | 19 |
1992 | 14 |
1993 | 19 |
1994 | 20 |
1995 | 21 |
1996 | 17 |
1997 | 22 |
1998 | 9 |
1999 | 12 |
