Height: 203 cm

Weight: 101 kg

DOB: 26-09-1992

Junior Club: Thevenard Magpies

Recruited from: Port Adelaide (SANFL)

AFL games: 75

AFL goals: 45

2018 AFL games: 25

2018 AFL goals: 10 

He just won an AFL premiership with West Coast but he’s just as familiar with Alberton Oval as he is with parts of Perth.

Port Adelaide’s newest recruit Scott Lycett played junior football with Port Adelaide and played six SANFL league games in the black and white prison bars in 2010 before being picked up in the 2010 AFL National Draft with pick 29.

The big man won the 2013 West Coast Rookie of the Year award after debuting in 2011.

He is South Australian born in Ceduna on the state’s west coast and he grew up in various country towns following his parents who worked in the hotel industry.

Lycett played his junior football with Thevenard, making his league debut at the age of 14 and his talent was identified by Port Adelaide, which organised to have him move to Adelaide in year 11 to complete his schooling at Henley High School, along with another young lad from country SA by the name of Sam Gray.

The pair even lived together, forming a strong friendship and they will be reunited at Alberton in 2019.

Having developed under the tutelage of six-times All-Australian Dean Cox once at West Coast, Lycett formed a formidable ruck partnership with Nic Naitanui.

His 2018 season was by far the best in his eight years in the west, averaging career-high numbers for disposals (12.5 up from 11.9) and hit-outs (20.1 up from 16.9).

He also had career-highs against Port Adelaide in Round 21 for kicks (13) and hit-outs (40).

The 26-year-old has also shown he can hit the scoreboard across his career with better than a goal every two games. He only kicked 10 goals in 2018 including bags of two on three occasions, but that was likely because his time in the forward line was diminished as he took on the lead ruck role. His career-high four goals came against Collingwood in Round 20, 2014.

A mobile and strong-marking big man, Lycett is equally comfortable in the ruck or up forward.

After playing just one AFL game last season because of a serious shoulder injury, he played every game (25) in 2018 and helped guide his side to the AFL premiership, even after his ruck partner Naitanui went down with a season-ending knee injury.

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