Laurence Angwin 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 is infamous for being sacked by his team, the Carlton Football Club

Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

 after turning up to training having used recreational drugs.

The grandson of former Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...

 Peter Crimmins Medal

Peter Crimmins Medal

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list Andy Angwin

Andy Angwin

Andrew "Andy" Angwin was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League ....

, Angwin was drafted by Adelaide Football Club in the first round of the 2000 AFL Draft

2000 AFL Draft

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. Angwin lasted only season with Adelaide, facing injuries and emotional issues, and returned to Melbourne

Melbourne

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Angwin was drafted by Carlton at pick 17 in the 2003 Rookie draft

2002 AFL Draft

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 and he made his AFL debut in Round 14, 2003. By the end of the 2003 AFL season

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 Angwin was considered a future star at Carlton. However, continuing off-field problems, including charges being laid against him from stealing from team mate Karl Norman

Karl Norman

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, meant he remained a controversial player.

In 2004 it was claimed that Angwin and Norman arrived at a Carlton training session under the influence of ecstacy. While Norman admitted to taking the drug, Angwin denied it but a subsequent drug test proved positive and Angwin was sacked by Carlton.

Angwin has now signed with the Wyndhamvale Falcons in the Western Region Football League's division two for the 2009 season.