Mark Yeates (born 10 May 1960) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL) during the 1980s. Yeates is best known for an incident in the 1989 VFL Grand Final when he felled

Dermott Brereton Dermott Hugh Brereton (born 19 August 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club, Sydney Swans and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Born to Irish immigrant parents, ...

after the opening bounce which saw the Hawthorn forward suffer a bruised kidney and internal bleeding. He left Geelong at the end of the 1990 season and for the next two years was captain/coach of

North Hobart North Hobart is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. As its name suggests, it lies directly north of the Hobart City Centre. The main street of North Hobart is Elizabeth Street, which extends northward from the Elizabeth Stre ...

and led them to back-to-back

Tasmanian Football League The Tasmanian State League (TSL), colloquially known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), was the highest-level Australian rules football competition in the state of Tasmania. It disbanded following the end of the 2024 TSL season, 2024 season ...

(TFL) premierships in 1991 and 1992 before announcing his retirement. Yeates was playing coach of Princetown in the Heytesbury Mt Noorat Football League for the 1996 season, but played minimal games due to injury. In 2000 Yeates coached Geelong's first all female side at the East Geelong Football Club. The club's women's team was entered into the

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division two competition where they were only one game out of the finals on their debut season. His father John Yeates was captain of Geelong in 1961 and 1962 and played in Geelong's 1963 premiership side. His cousins Neville and Darryl Growden were also very skilful footballers, the latter playing for Port Adelaide throughout the 1980s.Mark Yeates expects another classic grand final
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yeates, Mark 1960 births Living people Geelong Football Club players North Hobart Football Club players North Hobart Football Club coaches Australian rules footballers from South Australia Victorian State of Origin players Sportspeople from Mount Gambier, South Australia