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Brett Peake (born 5 July 1983) is an Australian rules footballer who will play for the St Kilda Football Club after being traded from the Fremantle Football Club during the 2009 trade week. A quick midfielder, he began his senior football career at East Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

AFL career

Fremantle

Peake was the first player to be drafted by Fremantle under the father-son rule, utilising selection 43 in the 2003 AFL Draft.^[1] His father, Brian Peake, played over 400 senior games with East Fremantle, Geelong, Perth and Western Australia between 1972 and 1990.

Peake spent the entire 2004 season playing with East Fremantle. Good form in the WAFL and an extensive injury list at Fremantle saw him make his debut in Round 13 in 2005 against the Kangaroos. He ended the season having played nine of the last ten games. In 2006 Peake became a regular with the Dockers' side, playing 20 games and finishing the season with 10 Brownlow Medal votes.^[1] He missed six games in early 2007 with a broken collarbone; the team missed his pace and ability to run and carry the ball through the midfield.

In 2009 he was suspended in June for a discipline breach and was also dropped for the last two games of the season.^[2] This led to him requesting to leave Fremantle at the end of the year.^[3]

Like his father did in most of his 300 games for East Fremantle, Peake wore the number 7 guernsey for Fremantle.
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St Kilda

During the 2009 trade week he was traded to St Kilda in return for selection 48.^[4]

As of the end of the 2009 AFL Premiership Season, Peake had played in 3 AFL Finals Series matches.

References

External links

• Brett Peake profile on the Official AFL Website of the Fremantle Football Club
• Brett Peake's statistics from AFL Tables