Ashley Fernee is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL). He was selected for the Adelaide Football Club in the 1995 draft, having previously played with the Calder Cannons

Calder Cannons

The Calder Cannons are an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia.The club competes in the TAC Cup and fields squads in the U15, 16 and most importantly the U18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs...

. Fernee only played two games for the Adelaide Football Club in 1996, debuting against Fitzroy Football Club

Fitzroy Football Club

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

 in round 17. In spite of those two games, he was not selected to play in 1997, and in 1998 things were not looking promising, with Michelangelo Rucci

Michelangelo Rucci

Michelangelo Rucci is an Australian sports journalist, and writer.Of Italian descent, is an award-winning sports writer in Adelaide, South Australia. He is the chief Australian rules football writer for The Advertiser, Adelaide's only daily newspaper. He is a long-standing supporter of the Port...

 stating that the "wait will go on unless a long injury list strikes again". Fernee did not play in 1998, and he was delisted by the Adelaide Football Club in October of that year. He played for the SANFL

South Australian National Football League

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 team, South Adelaide Football Club

South Adelaide Football Club

South Adelaide Football Club competes in the South Australian National Football League . Known as the Panthers, their home ground is Hickinbotham Oval , located in Noarlunga Downs in the southern suburbs of Adelaide....

, in 1999, and nominated for the AFL draft at the end of the season. Unsuccessful, Fernee left Adelaide

Adelaide

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 to return to Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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, where he played for the East Keilor Football Club

East Keilor Football Club

East Keilor Football Club is an Australian rules football club located 16 km northwest of Melbourne in the suburb of Keilor. The club was founded in 1967 as a junior club....

.