Danny Morgan 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 with Essendon

Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL).

Morgan came to Carlton in the 1990 National Draft

1990 AFL Draft

The 1990 AFL Draft was the 5th annual draft of Australian rules footballers to the 14 clubs in the Australian Football League. It consisted of the national draft held at the end of the 1990 season, the pre-season draft, held before 1991 AFL season and a mid-season draft.Clubs receive picks based...

 but would only play for them at reserves level. While playing with the Preston Knights

Northern Knights

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, he was picked up by Essendon with the 23rd selection of the 1993 Mid-Season Draft

1993 AFL Draft

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. An on-baller, he won the Essendon reserves Best and Fairest

Best and Fairest

Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...

 award in 1994, an award he would also win in 1996. In just his second senior game, against Adelaide in the 1995 AFL season

1995 AFL season

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, Morgan had 24 disposals and earned two Brownlow Medal

Brownlow Medal

The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...

 votes.

He is the great-grandson of Fitzroy

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...

 premiership captain Gerald Brosnan

Gerald Brosnan

Gerald Brosnan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL. He played as a key position forward and had an accurate left foot kick....

.