Scott Cummings
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Scott Cummings (born January 18, 1974) was an Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League, and one of the leagues great "journeymen".
[edit] AFL career
Scott Cummings had one of the most impressive debuts in 1994 - kicking 8 goals at full-forward for the Essendon Football Club. With all of the makings for a great footballer, at 196 cm in height, if not for the fact that he played at so many different clubs over his career the talented footballer would be widely acknowledged as a great player of the modern era.
Injuries, poor form patches, suspension and weight problems (110 kg) saw him traded to Port Adelaide Football Club, West Coast Eagles and finally the Collingwood Football Club.
Playing for West Coast in Round 4 2000 against Adelaide at the WACA, Cummings kicked a career best 14 goals.
He retired from the elite level in 2002 at just 28 years of age, after a ravaged body allowed him just 5 games in his first and only season for Collingwood.
Cummings kicked 6 or more goals in a game 13 times, played 128 games for four clubs in three states for 349 goals and won the 1999 Coleman Medal with the most goals in the AFL (95) for the season.
[edit] Post-football
Since retiring, Cummings has played football in the EJ Whitten Legends Match [1] every year since 2003.
From 2004 to 2005, Cummings could be heard on Melbourne radio station SEN 1116's Ralphy, Serge and the Big Man on Saturday mornings.
In 2006 he has signed on with 3AW and the Fox Footy Channel in media roles.
| Preceded by: Derek Kickett |
Graham Moss Medal winner 1997 |
Succeeded by: Peter Bell |
| Preceded by: Tony Lockett |
Coleman Medallist 1999 |
Succeeded by: Matthew Lloyd |
