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1979 Brownlow Medal
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The 1979 Brownlow Medal was the 52nd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Peter Moore of the Collingwood Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-two votes during the 1979 VFL season. Leading votegetters * The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year. References 1979 in Australian rules football 1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Cross Tower
Southern Cross Tower, also known as 121 Exhibition Street, is a 161-metre (530 ft) skyscraper in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The tower was built in 2004 and comprises 39 levels of office accommodation. The complex is a twin tower. The SX1 (or East tower) delivers 76,700 square meters of space over 39 floors. The SX2 (or West Tower) provides 45,200 square metres and 22 levels. The tower was once the location of Melbourne's prestigious Southern Cross Hotel. History Before development of Southern Cross, the Government of Victoria, Victorian Government was concerned because its key departments were scattered among more than 15 office buildings throughout the Melbourne central business district. It decided to consolidate financially and allow the bureaucracy closer access to Spring Street, giving it access to the Parliament of Victoria, Parliament and Victorian Treasury, Treasury. A consortium of private bodies, including Multiplex (company), Multiplex and Babcock & Brown, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Flower
Robert Alan Flower (5 August 1955 – 2 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer with Melbourne Football Club. His first game was against Geelong in 1973 and he captained the team from 1981 until his final game in 1987. He held the record for the number of games for his club, 272, until overtaken by David Neitz in 2006. Football career In a radio interview in July 2006 conducted by the Coodabeen Champions, Flower stated that the club secretary Jim Cardwell rang to offer him the number 2 guernsey before his first senior game, an unofficial statement that the club saw great potential in the seventeen-year-old. Known as "Tulip", he was a wingman for most of his career and was characterised by his ability to create space for himself and kick and handpass the ball with extraordinary accuracy. He possessed speed, sure-footedness and unrivalled tactical awareness. In the documentary ''Red & Blue: The History of the Melbourne Football Club (1939–2005)'', Ian Ridley sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Tribunal
The AFL Tribunal is the disciplinary tribunal of the Australian Football League (AFL), an Australian rules football competition. The Tribunal regulates the conduct of players, umpires, and other officials associated with the AFL and its clubs. Points system Prior to 2005, any player who was reported would face a hearing at the AFL Tribunal. This process had become problematic, and in 2005, a new system (similar to that used by the NRL Judiciary at the time) was adopted. The changes were primarily made to reduce the number of tribunal hearings, and to improve the consistency of penalties. The current tribunal process is as follows: Match Review Panel On-field umpires and certain off-field observers can report players for incidents which occur during games. On the Monday after the round of football, each incident is then reviewed by the Match Review Panel, a small panel of former players and umpires. Within the review, the Match Review Panel grades the severity of the incid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rene Kink
Rene Kink (born 22 November 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club, Essendon Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kink played in a variety of positions during his career but was mainly used as a half forward flanker or full forward. He played in the 1973 preliminary final at the age of 16, becoming the youngest person to play in an AFL/VFL final, and went on to appear in 21 more finals matches in his career although he never got a premiership. Kink played in five losing grand finals however, in 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1983. The last of those was with Essendon who he had transferred to during the season. Essendon won the flag the following year but Kink missed out, a serious knee injury preventing him from playing a game in 1984. Kink finished his VFL career playing one year at St Kilda before retiring at the end of 1986. In his fourteen-year career 1979 was his most successful s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Dunne
Jeffrey Dunne (14 May 1956 – 14 September 2020) was an Australian rules footballer who played 102 games for St Kilda and Richmond in the top tier Victorian Football League during the 1970s and 1980s. Recruited from the North Ballarat Football Club in the Ballarat Football League, he played for St Kilda as a hard running back pocket and later represented Victoria in State of Origin matches. He won the club's best and fairest award in 1979 and 1980. He went on to coach East Launceston and North Launceston in the Tasmanian Football league in the mid 1980s. Dunne died of a heart attack in September 2020, aged 64. References External links Bio at Saints Hall of Fame* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunne, Jeff Trevor Barker Award winners St Kilda Football Club players Richmond Football Club players 1956 births 2020 deaths Australian rules footballers from Ballarat North Launceston Football Club coaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbert Klomp
Robbert Klomp (born 14 May 1955) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Sturt in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and with Carlton and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Klomp was born in the Netherlands and raised in South Australia. He began playing for Sturt in 1973 and was a key contributor to their premierships in 1974 and 1976. He was one of the best players on the ground in the 1976 SANFL Grand Final, kicking 2 goals from centre half forward and creating several more for his teammates with clever handpasses. Klomp was signed by VFL club, Carlton during the summer of 1978/79 and made an immediate impact in his first season with the Blues on the half back flank. He played every game of Carlton's 1979 premiership season, finishing equal 7th in the Brownlow Medal with 13 votes and accumulating 20 possessions in both finals while minding dangerous opponents, Russell Ebert and Rene Kink. He suffered a severe hamstrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Maclure
Mark Maclure (born 14 July 1955) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Originally from New South Wales club East Sydney, Maclure was recruited by Carlton and made his senior VFL debut in Round 13, 1974. He retired from the game in 1986 after playing 243 games for the club. Maclure was captain of Carlton for the 1986 season. He currently works as a football commentator for ABC Radio and appears once a week on AFL 360, Fox Footy Fox Footy (stylised as FOX FOOTY) is an Australian rules football subscription television channel dedicated to screening Australian rules football matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited, operated out of their Me ...'s Monday to Thursday television program. Career Maclure played 243 games and booted 327 goals in a career that saw him become a 3 time Premiership player and an integral part of a magnificent era. Plucked from East Sydney in 1973, Maclure began his senior caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Daniher
Terrence "Terry" John Daniher (born 15 August 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the South Melbourne and Essendon Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Terry was also an assistant coach for the Essendon, Collingwood, St Kilda and Carlton Football Clubs. Terry's brothers, Neale, Anthony and Chris, also played for Essendon in the AFL. He is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and the Wagga Wagga Sporting Hall of Fame and is a Champion of Essendon. Terry is currently the owner of Terry Daniher Cleaning Services, a cleaning company based in Melbourne. Early life and childhood Terry was born the first child of James "Jim" Daniher and Edna Daniher (née Erwin) on 15 August 1957 at West Wyalong Base Hospital. Terry attended St Joseph's Catholic School, Ungarie for his primary education before going to Ungarie Central School until year ten, after which he became a farmer. It was during his childhood that Terry showed his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Glendinning
Ross William Glendinning (born 17 September 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the East Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) and for the North Melbourne Football Club and the West Coast Eagles in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Solidly built but agile and skilful in equal measure, Glendinning was considered one of the finest key-position players of his era. Inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2000, he was West Coast's inaugural captain. The Ross Glendinning Medal is named in his honour and is awarded to the player judged best afield in the Western Australian derby between West Coast and Fremantle each AFL season. Playing career Glendinning started his senior football career with East Perth in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). He joined under the father–son rule, his father Gus having played 69 games for the ''Royals'' from 1941 to 1951. Ross played 56 games for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Dempsey (Australian Footballer)
Gary Dempsey (born 22 November 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A fine ruckman known for his strong marking, Dempsey won the Brownlow Medal in 1975 and had a total of thirteen top-10 finishes in the vote count. He is also one of a handful of players to have played at least 100 games and won a best-and-fairest award at two different clubs. Playing career Dempsey made his debut for Footscray in 1967. In 1969, he spent six weeks in hospital after being badly burnt by a bushfire near his home in Truganina Truganina is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melton and Wyndham local government areas. Truganina recorded a population of 36,305 at the 2021 census. ... and was told he would never play football again. Despite this, he defied the odds to return to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Round
Barry James Round (26 January 1950 – 24 December 2022) was an Australian rules footballer. He played for and South Melbourne/Sydney in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1969 and 1985. He played 328 games (135 for Footscray and 193 for South Melbourne/Sydney), won a Brownlow Medal in 1981 (tying with his former teammate Bernie Quinlan) and was the Swans' first captain during the Sydney era. Round's height and weight was and . After retirement from VFL football, he played and coached for several years for Williamstown in the Victorian Football Association, the second-highest level of football in Victoria, where he participated in their 1986 and captain-coached their 1990 premiership teams. He won the association best and fairest award, the J. J. Liston Trophy, in 1987 and won the 1990 Norm Goss Memorial Medal for best on field in the Grand Final. Round captained the Williamstown Football Club in the 1989–1991 seasons, and he coached the club from 1989 to 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Wilson
Garry J. "Flea" Wilson (born 17 July 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Background Wilson, during his playing days, was described by ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers'' as having "limitless courage" as a wispy rover, with a playing weight of only 64 kg. He played wearing a headguard after several concussions. Many considered him one of the most technically gifted players ever to play the game, and he was renowned for his hard training ethic.Full Points Footy (2008)''Garry Wilson (Fitzroy)''. Retrieved on 5 May 2008. Debuting in 1971 with the Fitzroy Football Club, Wilson came from Preston Swimmers and forged a successful career, winning best and fairest awards with the Lions in 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1980. He finished third in the Brownlow Medal count of 1978. Always amongst the Brownlow votes, his best season was 1979, when he finished just one vote behind the eventual winner, when a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |