People who tried a VFL/AFL career before becoming famous for something totally different

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The bass player (Chris Hollow) in local psych band the Sand Pebbles played 24 games for St Kilda.

David Polkinghorne who played in two premierships with Hawthorn is one of the top civil engineers in the world. He was responsible for the building of the Friendship Bridge which linked Laos and Thailand. He was also project manager on the new Parliament house.

John Winneke (ruckman in Hawthorn's 1961 premiership) became a Supreme Court Judge. Some of his high profile cases include defending Lindy Chamberlain at the Royal Commission into her convinction, being a Royal Commissioner into the BLF and defending the leader of the "Family" cult, Anne Hamilton-Byrne.
 
krakouers85 said:
He played a few games for West Perth too
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Between 1967-1971, Dennis Cometti was a player for the West Perth Football Club in the WAFL under West Perth captain coach of Polly Farmer.

He played 38 games for 70 goals, mostly at full forward although he started his career in the ruck.

He kicked 63 goals in 1968 ((5th highest in the WAFL) but was injured after the West Perth's first semi final and missed West Perth's 1968 Preliminary match where they lost to East Perth.

In 1971, he was selected to play for Footscray in VFL. Repeated hamstring injuries and media commitments, however, meant that he did not play a senior VFL match, only 4 reserves matches.

Returning to Perth in 1972, he played for Wanneroo in Perth and then became captain-coach of Maddington Bulls Football Club and led the team to 3 successive grand final victories in 1974, 75 & 76.

After retiring, he coached Osborne Park in 1978 and Kelmscott, winning a premiership with them in 1979.

He also had a stint coaching West Perth for 3 seasons (3rd, 6th and 6th in 1982-84) and was a Chair of Selectors for the Western Australia State of Origin team.

Dennis started his radio career in Perth in 1968 as a Top 40 disc jockey for radio station 6KY.

It was a chance phone call that led to an opportunity to commentate a state VFL game between Western Australia and Victoria at Subiaco Oval in 1971.

He joined the ABC in 1972 and concentrated on sport. In 1973 he broadcast his first Test Match (at 23 the youngest in ABC history) and for the next 13 years he broadcast Test Cricket alongside Alan McGilvray.

In 1986 Dennis joined the Seven Network as a television AFL commentator.
 
eggtardo said:
Good list.
Nick Jewell - cricket, maybe one game for the tigers?
(Edit as didn't read the above list properly).
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Yep, Nick Jewell played 1 senior game for Richmond in 1997, the club for whom his father Tony Jewell had played for. Nick Jewell also played for Under-18s football for Prahran. Between 2002-2010, Jewell played First Class Cricket for St.Kilda and represented Victoria.
 

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Kwality said:
As was 'Tubby' Taylor. played Teal Cup (U18*s national series)
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Yep, Mark 'Tubby' Taylor (Australian Cricket Captain) played Under 17’s Teal Cup for NSW (his football club was Parramatta) in 1981 and played in the same team as Hawks player James Morrissey and Collingwood player Paul Hawke.
 
Kwality said:
"Cricket legend Keith Miller remembered".

He had just died aged 84. Apart from being a great and sometimes outspoken cricketer, Miller had been an RAAF war-time pilot. The transcript contains the marvellous passage in which famous television interviewer Michael Parkinson said, and I quote from the transcript:

"I want this quote in every dressing room of every sporting event anywhere in the world - Miller's great quote when somebody asked him about pressure.

'Pressure,' he said. 'I'll tell you what pressure is.
Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not'."
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Been my signature for a couple of years, great quote


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kranky al said:
well he just settled a court action a few weeks ago

start with that and move backwards
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he never said anything racist. It was Don and Mike.

And saying that he dined out on that isn't racist. It's an opinion. Saying that at the time he thought he was pointing to his heart to show it was a tough win isn't racist.

Being taken to court for defamation isn't racist..
 
Prestigerrycomo said:
Been my signature for a couple of years, great quote


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Caused grief on the 1948 England tour, those who'd served in the war wanted to play for fun while Bradman, who didn't serve was treating the series as a matter of life and death.
 
Kwality said:
www.ragtrader.com.au

Who's making $45 million a year? - Ragtrader

This Australian label launched three years ago with just $25,000 in the bank.
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Scott Wynd & Craig Coleman worked in the garbage business in their footy days, built a business, cashed it in, had a rest then started again.Got some sort of deal with a US private equity mob these days too.
Couple of good operators.
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Footscray players, Scott Wynd and Glen Coleman started a garbage disposal business that they sold for a reported $25 million.
 
Gough said:
Didn't Ronnie Biggs' son win the goal kicking for Fitzroy u19s one year?
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Yep, Chris Brent (son of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs) played for the Fitzroy Under 19's in 1981 alongside Paul Roos and Gary Pert. He kicked 91 goals for the season, a Lions' Under 19's record which placed him 2nd in the competitions Under 19's goal kicking behind Melbourne's David Cordner who kicked 111.
 
Kim Hughes (Australian Test Cricket Captain) played for Claremont reserves in 1973 and 1974 in the WAFL but never played senior football. Hughes played at full forward and in the centre. His brief football career was interrupted by injury, he broke his neck falling off a desk at Teachers College.

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Kim Hughes played underage and reserves for Claremont.
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BigRex said:
Between 1967-1971, Dennis Cometti was a player for the West Perth Football Club in the WAFL under West Perth captain coach of Polly Farmer.

He played 38 games for 70 goals, mostly at full forward although he started his career in the ruck.

He kicked 63 goals in 1968 ((5th highest in the WAFL) but was injured after the West Perth's first semi final and missed West Perth's 1968 Preliminary match where they lost to East Perth.

In 1971, he was selected to play for Footscray in VFL. Repeated hamstring injuries and media commitments, however, meant that he did not play a senior VFL match, only 4 reserves matches.

Returning to Perth in 1972, he played for Wanneroo in Perth and then became captain-coach of Maddington Bulls Football Club and led the team to 3 successive grand final victories in 1974, 75 & 76.

After retiring, he coached Osborne Park in 1978 and Kelmscott, winning a premiership with them in 1979.

He also had a stint coaching West Perth for 3 seasons (3rd, 6th and 6th in 1982-84) and was a Chair of Selectors for the Western Australia State of Origin team.

Dennis started his radio career in Perth in 1968 as a Top 40 disc jockey for radio station 6KY.

It was a chance phone call that led to an opportunity to commentate a state VFL game between Western Australia and Victoria at Subiaco Oval in 1971.

He joined the ABC in 1972 and concentrated on sport. In 1973 he broadcast his first Test Match (at 23 the youngest in ABC history) and for the next 13 years he broadcast Test Cricket alongside Alan McGilvray.

In 1986 Dennis joined the Seven Network as a television AFL commentator.
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No attribution?
 
freddy mercury said:
he never said anything racist. It was Don and Mike.

And saying that he dined out on that isn't racist. It's an opinion. Saying that at the time he thought he was pointing to his heart to show it was a tough win isn't racist.

Being taken to court for defamation isn't racist..
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Polly & John were close, Polly didnt ever call him Sam .... bit like Mal Brown, the comments come out as racist, but people close to them see through it.
 
freddy mercury said:
How is he racist? He is the greatest thing that has a voice that is heard since I can remember. All the snowflakes out there hate him. He just says what we all think. Simple as that.
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Keep telling yourself that. the man is a pillock and there is no way his voice represents me.
 
PhatBoy said:
Keep telling yourself that. the man is a pillock and there is no way his voice represents me.
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He is the greatest thing in the media at the moment.

I agree with a lot of what he says.

He upsets alot of people but they're all soft. And extremely fragile. That's okay though nothing wrong with that.
 
Apparently the guy that works on radio with Wippa used to play football. Think his name is Fritzy or something like that.

Mark Thompson now makes some lovely furniture, prior to this he was in land development
 
Damien Drum
63 games for Geelong
Coach of Fremantle (terribly)

Then member of Vic upper house for 12 years and a Minister.
Now in Federal Parliament - member for Murray.
 

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