| | 4 || 18 || 4 || 1 || 158 || 146 || 304 || 110 || 24 || 252 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 8.8 || 8.1 || 16.9 || 6.1 || 1.3 || 14.0 || 18 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1997 | | 4 || 21 || 13 || 5 || 179 || 162 || 341 || 128 || 29 || 352 || 0.6 || 0.2 || 8.5 || 7.7 || 16.2 || 6.1 || 1.4 || 16.8 || 13 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1998 | | 4 || 20 || 7 || 3 || 176 || 155 || 331 || 110 || 26 || 549 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 8.8 || 7.8 || 16.6 || 5.5 || 1.3 || 27.5 || 14 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999 | | 4 || 17 || 9 || 5 || 150 || 88 || 238 || 84 || 8 || 380 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 8.8 || 5.2 || 14.0 || 4.9 || 0.5 || 22.4 || 6 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000 | | 4 || 24 || 8 || 4 || 198 || 101 || 299 || 135 || 14 || 443 || 0.3 || 0.2 || 8.3 || 4.2 || 12.5 || 5.6 || 0.6 || 18.5 || 4 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2002 | | 4 || 15 || 11 || 3 || 71 || 60 || 131 || 56 || 14 || 231 || 0.7 || 0.2 || 4.7 || 4.0 || 8.7 || 3.7 || 0.9 || 15.4 || 0 |- class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3| Career ! 324 ! 561 ! 303 ! 2906 ! 1445 ! 4351 ! 1966 ! 224 ! 3897 ! 1.7 ! 0.9 ! 9.0 ! 4.5 ! 13.4 ! 6.1 ! 0.8 ! 12.0 ! 109 |} Career after football Salmon has also worked in the media co-hosting Sportsworld for the Seven Network and Time Out for Serious Fun for the Nine Network, and he has released several books. He released an autobiography called The Big Fish: Paul Salmon's Own Story in 2001; Fish Tales, a book recalling humorous on- and off-field incidents, in 2002; and he followed up in 2003 with another book, called More Fish Tales: Favourite Yarns From A Footballing Life. He also worked as a coach of the First XVIII Football