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Gary Keane (born 4 January 1964) 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 Fitzroy 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). Keane, a forward, was recruited to Fitzroy from
Koroit Koroit is a small rural town in western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia a few kilometres north of the Princes Highway, north-west of Warrnambool, Victoria, Warrnambool and west of Melbourne. It is in the Shire of Moyne local govern ...
. He had his best season in 1987, when he kicked 23 goals, took 105 marks and earned 10
Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the f ...
votes (equal most by a Fitzroy player).AFL Tables: Gary Keane
/ref> At the end of the 1989 season, in which Keane didn't play a game, Fitzroy traded him to
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 exchange for a second round selection in the 1989 VFL Draft. He was sacked by Geelong without playing a senior game. He later played for Frankston in the
Victorian Football Association 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 ...
.


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1964 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players Frankston Football Club players Koroit Football Club players Living people 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1960s-stub