Harry McKay

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Harry McKay
File:Harry McKay 2018.1.jpg
McKay playing for Carlton in April 2018
Personal information
Full name Harrison McKay
Nicknames H, Big H, Feathers
Born (1997-12-24) 24 December 1997 (age 28)
Warragul, Victoria
Original team Gippsland Power (TAC Cup)/Warragul Football Club
Draft No. 10, 2015 national draft
Debut Round 18, 2017, Carlton vs. Brisbane Lions, at the Gabba
Height 204 cm (6 ft 8 in)
Weight 106 kg (234 lb)
Position Key forward
Club information
Current club Carlton
Number 10
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2016– Carlton 140 (274)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2025 season.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Harrison McKay (born 24 December 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). In 2021, McKay won the Coleman Medal, awarded to the league's leading goalkicker for the season.

Career

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A key forward, McKay played junior football at Warragul and state under-18s football with the Gippsland Power. He was drafted by Carlton with a first-round selection (No. 10 overall) in the 2015 national draft.[1] He missed much of the 2016 season—his first season in the professional system—with stress fractures in his back,[2] and he made his senior debut for the club in Round 18, 2017.[3]

McKay began to command a regular place in the Carlton forward line in 2018, and he was soon the club's primary spearhead. He won his first club leading goalkicker award in 2019 with 26 goals and was named forward pocket in that season's 22under22 team;[4] he then led the club's goalkicking again in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season with 21 goals. He had a breakout season in 2021, serving as a deep full-forward. He was among the strongest contested marks in the league. He kicked 58 goals for the season to be named in the 2021 All-Australian team and winning the Coleman Medal by a four-goal margin. This was both the most goals and first Coleman Medal by a Carlton player since 2009.

A natural left-foot kick, McKay's has gone through phases of both high and low goalkicking accuracy throughout this career. In 2021, he adopted a style of taking his set shots from the right side of the ground with a perpendicular run-up and snap kick, even from relatively narrow angles, while continuing to favour the conventional drop punt from the left side of the ground,[5] and won the Coleman Medal with 58.33; but his proficiency with the snap declined over subsequent years, culminating in a 2023 season tally of 29.29 from 77 attempts (across all kick types) which drew extensive negative coverage.[6] McKay significantly reduced his use of narrow angle snap shots from 2024,[7] finishing that season with a greatly improved return of 49.21.

In Opening Round 2024, McKay kicked the match winner with a minute and a half to go to win the game for the Blues after trailing by 46 points against the Lions at the Gabba.

Family

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McKay is the mirror image twin brother of fellow professional footballer Ben McKay, who plays as a key defender at Essendon and previously at North Melbourne. It was not until 2024, their ninth seasons in the league, that they played an AFL game against each other, often as a result of one of the two being suspended or withdrawn late with injury,[8][9] leading to internet jokes that they were the same player running a fake-twin gambit.[10] The twins grew up in the Victorian town of Warragul and played local football for Warragul Football Club.[11]

Statistics

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Statistics are correct to the end of the 2025 season[12]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
  †  
 Led the league for 
the season
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2017 Carlton 10 2 3 2 11 4 15 7 1 1.5 1.0 5.5 2.0 7.5 3.5 0.5 0
2018 Carlton 10 13 21 11 103 35 138 70 23 1.6 0.9 7.9 2.7 10.6 5.4 1.8 0
2019 Carlton 10 20 26 30 161 46 207 125 32 1.3 1.5 8.1 2.3 10.4 6.3 1.7 1
2020 Carlton 10 13 21 15 76 21 97 57 20 1.6 1.2 5.8 1.6 7.5 4.4 1.5 2
2021 Carlton 10 19 58† 33 154 31 185 113 27 3.1† 1.7 8.1 1.6 9.7 6.0 1.4 8
2022 Carlton 10 19 45 31 169 48 217 114 25 2.4 1.6 8.9 2.5 11.4 6.0 1.3 7
2023 Carlton 10 21 29 29 190 57 247 141 34 1.4 1.4 9.1 2.7 11.7 6.7 1.6 2
2024 Carlton 10 21 49 21 207 67 274 143 52 2.3 1.0 9.8 3.2 13.0 6.8 2.5 6
2025 Carlton 10 12 22 10 111 61 172 75 31 1.8 0.8 9.3 5.1 14.3 6.3 2.6 10
Career 140 274 182 1182 370 1552 845 245 2.0 1.3 8.4 2.6 11.1 6.0 1.8 36

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