Isaac Weetra

Isaac Weetra (born 27 February 1989) is a semi-professional Australian rules footballer.

Isaac Weetra
Personal information
Full name Isaac Weetra
Date of birth (1989-02-27) 27 February 1989
Place of birth Whyalla
Original team(s) Port Adelaide Magpies
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2007–2008 Melbourne 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2008.
Career highlights
  • Under 18 Indigenous Australia tour to South Africa
  • Naish Travers Medallist 2005
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

He is notable for his brief Australian Football League (AFL) stint, playing with the Melbourne Demons.

Early life

In 2006 he represented Australia's indigenous youth on tour to South Africa with the "Flying Boomerangs" to play against the South African Buffaloes.[1]

Weetra was recruited from Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) with selection number 62 in the 2006 AFL Draft. In 2005, he was awarded the Naish Travers Medal for best on ground during the Whyalla Football League Grand Final, playing for his club West Whyalla. Weetra’s older brother Paul won the 2007 T.A Evans medal for the reserves league best & fairest playing for his club South Whyalla.

AFL

Weetra debuted in the AFL in round 1, 2008 against Hawthorn at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He was dropped after his second game against the Western Bulldogs and played the rest of the season for Melbourne's VFL-affiliate, Sandringham in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Weetra was delisted by Melbourne at the conclusion of the 2008 season.[2]

Post AFL

Weetra returned to the Port Adelaide Magpies in the SANFL for the start of the 2009 season.

Weetra moved onto the Canning Tigers Football Club in Western Australia and later the successful Big Dawgs AFL 9's team. Weetra won the best and fairest in 2013 after finishing a distant second behind Cameron Jackson, formerly of HBL in the south west, in 2012. Jackson has gone on to win a further three of his own including a classic 2021 count where he knocked off current icon Billy Young. Jackson has also received life membership.


After some time away from the game and a stint at CBC in Kardinya, Weetra returned to the Canning South Perth footy club in 2022 as part of a wildly successful reserves team that went on to win the flag. Weetra dominated across half back on the big day and was pipped of best on ground honours by perennial umpires pet and local enforcer, ruckman Monte Pollard. Weetra confirm in a statement held at Brookfield Place that he will be returning to the field in 2023 stating he still has plenty to offer.

Weetra rightfully returned to half back in the league team in 2023, reportedly in an attempt to put a halt to Jackson’s run of best and fairest wins, currently sitting at 5 after taking the honours again in 2022. After a sparkling start to the season, things looked well on track for Weetra until a run of hamstring injuries interrupted the second half of the year.

There are whispers of heading to Kalamunda for 2024 to allow his son to watch him dominate closer to home, but the Tigers remain ever hopeful he’ll be back in the cage.

References
  1. AFL Record. Round 9, 2008. pg 10
  2. "Demons clearing the decks". Sportal. 4 September 2008. Archived from the original on 4 August 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
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