Chris Grant is a legend of the Western Bulldogs football club and is one of the very few players who have played more than 300 games. He scored more than 500 goals throughout his career, an astonishing feat considering he spent much of his career at centre halfback, playing on the game’s best key forwards. Grant won […]
Continue Reading
Few players have experienced triumph and trauma in their football careers to quite the same extent as Gary Dempsey. During his career, he was hospitalised with severe burns covering over fifty per cent of his body, caused by a failed attempt to repel bush fires threatening the family farm at Lara. Despite being told he would […]
Continue Reading
Bernie Quinlan was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s and 1980s. Quinlan was nicknamed “Superboot” because he had an amazing long kick and could goal from almost any position from 65 metres. His accuracy was phenomenal and a record of 817 goals from 366 games speaks for itself. Quinlan was a […]
Continue Reading
Ted Whitten was a legend of the game who played for the Footscray football club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and is recognised as one of the game’s all-time greatest players. Whitten was a player, coach and media personality for well over a quarter of a century and gave everything he had to the […]
Continue Reading