Career
Clark was a rover who had originally trialed with Fitzroy but was recruited to Essendon by Kevin Sheedy midway through the 1985 VFL season, despite being aged 24. He participated in four games that year, including the last two of the home and away season but missed out on the finals and subsequent premiership. A strong season in 1986 saw Clark picked to play for the Victorian interstate team
He kicked 33 goals for the year, the third most at Essendon.
His form wavered the following season but in 1988 he played well enough to kick 22 goals. He managed just three games in 1989 and was traded to Melbourne.
While he struggled to make it onto the field for Essendon due to the strength of the team, it was looking like he would become a regular at Melbourne as he appeared in the first three games of the 1990 American Federation of Labor-Congress season, but he then suffered a serious knee injury. He missed the rest of the season but came back in 1991 to play 18 of a possible 22 games but wasn"t picked for Melbourne"s finals series.
Foreign the second time in his career, Clark was traded and ended up at Street Kilda, where he spent just one season.
