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Mark Jackson (Australian Footballer)
Mark Alexander Jackson (born 30 August 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club, St Kilda Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Known as "Jacko", Jackson's colourful and enigmatic personality often resulted in clashes with officials and teammates, which tended to overshadow the fact that he was also a capable full forward. Following his football career, Jackson became notable for several television appearances, including commercials for Jenny Craig, Energizer and Nutri-Grain, along with several feature films. Jackson has also written an autobiography, ''Dumb Like a Fox'', which was released in 1986. Early life Jackson was born at the Royal Women's Hospital as one of six children to George Jackson and his wife Frances, and grew up in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Nunawading. Football career Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig, Inc., often known simply as Jenny Craig, is an American weight loss, weight management, and nutrition company. At its peak, the company had more than 700 weight management centers in Australia, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. The program combined individual weight management counseling with a menu of TV dinner, frozen meals and other foods which were distributed through its centers or shipped directly to clients. Founded as an independent company, the business was purchased by Nestlé in 2006 for approximately $600 million. However, the business declined, and on 4 May 2023, the company announced that it was going out of business after 40 years. It was revived as an e-commerce store by Wellful (the parent company of Nutrisystem) sometime after this announcement in fall 2023. History Jenny Craig (entrepreneur), Jenny Craig and her husband, Sidney Craig, founded Jenny Craig, Inc. on 21 March 1983 in Melbourne, Australia and began operations in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi (27 February 1936 – 16 September 2023) was an Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality. Regarded as one of the greatest and most important figures in the history of the game, Barassi was the first player to be inaugurated into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a "Australian Football Hall of Fame#Legends, Legend", and he is one of four Australian rules footballers to be elevated to the same status in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards, Sport Australia Hall of Fame. When Barassi was five years old, his father, Melbourne Football Club player Ron Barassi Sr., died in action at Siege of Tobruk, Tobruk during World War II. Barassi was determined to follow in his father's footsteps at Melbourne, and heavy lobbying by the club to recruit him resulted in the introduction of the father–son rule, still in use by the Australian Football League, AFL today. Barassi subsequently lived with Norm Smith, Melbourne's then-coach and a former team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 VFL Season
The 1981 VFL season was the 85th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 28 March until 26 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs. The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club for the 13th time, after it defeated by 20 points in the 1981 VFL Grand Final. Night series defeated 9.11 (65) to 6.5 (41) in the final. Home-and-away season Round 1 , - style="background:#ccf;" , Home team , Home team score , Away team , Away team score , Venue , Crowd , Date , - style="background:#fff;" , , 21.19 (145) , , 12.25 (97) , Arden Street Oval , 19,437 , 28 March 1981 , - style="background:#fff;" , , 16.12 (108) , , 23.19 (157) , Western Oval , 19,101 , 28 March 1981 , - style="background:#fff;" , , 16.16 (112) , , 23.15 (153) , MCG , 32,202 , 28 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Record
The ''AFL Record'' is the official matchday programme of the Australian Football League (AFL). The publication began as the ''Football Record'' in Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ... in 1912, making it one of the oldest magazines in Australia. The ''Record'', in its current format, is owned and produced by Sports Entertainment Network. Physical editions are available for purchase at all nine weekly matches, and digital versions are available to access online. As of 2023, the outgoing editor of the ''AFL Record'' is Michael Lovett, who has edited the publication since 1997. History The publication began as the ''Football Record'' in Melbourne, Australia on 27 April 1912, making it one of the oldest magazines in Australia. It was initially formatted as a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Taylor (Australian Footballer)
Brian Wayne Taylor (born 10 April 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer and current Australian Football League (AFL) commentator on television for the Seven Network. He played with Richmond Football Club, Richmond and Collingwood Football Club, Collingwood from 1980 to 1990. Playing career Taylor was 16 when recruited from Mandurah, Western Australia, to the Richmond Football Club. The moustached Taylor, known as "BT" and "Bristle", began his Australian Football League, VFL career with Richmond Football Club, Richmond in 1980. He was a full-forward Taylor, and he played 43 games and kicked 156 goals at Richmond. However, playing at the same club as prolific forward Michael Roach (footballer), Michael Roach limited his senior playing opportunities; he was successful in the reserves grade, winning the VFL reserves leading goalkicker award in 1981 with 119 goals., but ultimately asked to be transferred to Collingwood after the 1984 season. In 1985, Taylor joined Collin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Roach (footballer)
Michael Terrence Roach (born 9 October 1958) is a former Australian rules football player who represented Richmond Football Club, Richmond in the VFL/AFL, Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1977 to 1989. Remembered for his long, accurate kicking for goal and strong marking, for a brief period Roach was the best forward in Australian rules football, Australian football. The second of four key forwards recruited by Richmond from Tasmania (the others being Royce Hart, Matthew Richardson (Australian rules footballer), Matthew Richardson and Jack Riewoldt), Roach was an enormously popular player whose career did not quite live up to expectation because of injury and constant shuffling of his position by the club. Nevertheless, he achieved many honours in the game and became one of the first players from Tasmania to play 200 VFL games. Early career As a junior player at Westbury, Tasmania, Westbury in Tasmania, Roach won state representation and he was selected to play senior f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 WANFL Grand Final
The 1979 WANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the East Fremantle and South Fremantle Football Clubs, held at Subiaco Oval on 22 September 1979. It was the 49th annual Grand Final of the Western Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1979 WANFL season. The match, attended by 52,781 spectators, the record crowd for a football match at Subiaco, was won by East Fremantle by a margin of 33 points, marking that club's 25th premiership victory. Build up Throughout the 1979 season, Claremont was the strongest side in the league, winning the minor premiership and defeating both Fremantle clubs during the home and away season. When finals came around though, both East Fremantle and South Fremantle hit form. Souths defeated the minor premiers in the second semi final to advance directly to the Grand Final, whilst East narrowly (2pts) overcame East Perth in the first semi final before comfortably (4 goals) beating C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Bauskis
Raymond Valdi Bauskis (born 17 June 1954) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Fremantle Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) between 1972 and 1980. He was the Bernie Naylor Medal, leading goalkicker in the league for the 1977 WANFL season, 1977 and 1978 WANFL seasons, and played in losing grand finals in 1975 and 1979. Bauskis made his senior debut for South Fremantle in round thirteen of the 1972 WANFL season, 1972 season. His first full season was 1974 WANFL season, 1974, where he kicked 34 goals from 13 games to finish as the club's leading goalkicker. He repeated this feat for another five consecutive seasons, ending his career in 1980 with 436 goals from 117 games. The most goals Bauskis ever kicked in a single game was 13, against in round 11 of the 1979 WANFL season, 1979 season. He twice won the Bernie Naylor Medal as the league's leading goalkicker, with 107 goals in 1977 and 83 goals in 1978. Bauskis only ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mal Brown
Malcolm Gregory "Mal" Brown (born 26 October 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL, Victorian Football League and West Australian Football League, West Australian National Football League. He is described as "one of the most colourful and controversial characters" of the game. He was a highly controversial character not only for his many visits to the tribunal during his playing career but also for a number of incidents when coaching as well. Career Brown played in the WAFL (West Australian Football League ) for East Perth Football Club, East Perth, Claremont Football Club, Claremont and South Fremantle Football Club, South Fremantle. His honours as a player include the Sandover Medal in 1969 and three best and fairests at East Perth (1969, 70, 72). He was made captain/coach of East Perth in 1970 and in this capacity he led them to their 1972 premiership. At the celebrations after the game as captain he was invited to drinks with the club hierarchy. Up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 WANFL Season
The 1979 WANFL season was the 95th season of the West Australian National Football League in its various incarnations, and the last of forty-nine (including three under-age wartime seasons) under that moniker. The season set many records for high scoring due to the still-ongoing drying of Perth's climate and the new “interchange’ rule. The all-time record aggregate score of 60.18 (378) was set in the third last round between and and has never been approached since. However, the overall average score of 112.52 points per team per game was not nearly so high as in the following few years under the ‘WAFL’ moniker. A major highlight of the 1979 season was the all-time record attendance for local West Australian football of 52,781 in the Grand Final, beating narrowly the previous record of 52,322 set in the 1975 decider.Devaney; ''Full Points Footy’s WA Football Companion''; pp. 126-129 The 1979 season was a critical turning point in the fortunes of many WANFL clubs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunawading, Victoria
Nunawading () is an Eastern suburbs (Melbourne), eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 18 km (11 miles) east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Whitehorse and City of Manningham Local government areas of Victoria, local government areas. Nunawading recorded a population of 12,413 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Most of Nunawading is located in the City of Whitehorse, although the City of Manningham governs part of it. It is centred at the intersection of Maroondah Highway, Whitehorse Road and State (Bell/Springvale) Highway, Springvale Road, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs and is the site of the main office of the City of Whitehorse, as well as large retail (e.g. furniture, auto dealerships, hardware, and electrical) and wholesale businesses, along Whitehorse Road. History The name Nunawading, thought to be derived from an Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
