Tony McGuinness (footballer)
| Tony McGuinness | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth | 6 May 1964 | ||
| Place of birth | Adelaide, South Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | Glenelg (SANFL) | ||
| Draft | No. 10, 1981 interstate draft | ||
| Debut |
Round 1, Western Oval | ||
| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1981–85, 1998 | Glenelg (SANFL) | 103 (184)[1] | |
| 1986–90 |
Footscray (VFL/AFL ) | 109 (108) | |
| 1991–96 | Adelaide (AFL) | 113 (79) | |
| Total | 325 (371) | ||
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| South Australia | 12 (?) | ||
| Coaching career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1998–2000 | Glenelg | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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Club
Representative
Overall
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Anthony McGuinness (born 6 May 1964 in
SANFL career
McGuinness proved his skills early in his career with leading SANFL club
VFL/AFL Career
Like his Glenelg premiership teammate
After a particularly fine
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He became captain for the 1995 and 1996 seasons but along with a number of other older and experienced players, he was delisted at end of the 1996 season by newly appointed Crows coach Malcolm Blight, ending his AFL playing career. History shows that while Blight copped a lot of criticism for axing so many established players, Adelaide went on to win their first AFL Premiership in 1997 over St Kilda and repeated as premiers in 1998 by defeating North Melbourne.
In May 1996, Tony McGuinness and long time Glenelg, South Australian and Crows teammate Chris McDermott set up the McGuinness McDermott Foundation which was launched in memory of five-year-old Nicholas Berry, and seven-year-old Nathan Maclean who died of cancer. The Foundation raises funds to improve oncology treatment for South Australian children.
VFL / AFL Career Statistics Summary
- Statistics are correct as of the end of 2010
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Kicks | Marks
|
Handballs | Goals
|
Behinds
|
Disposals | Brownlow Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Footscray
|
11 | 22 | 273 | 32 | 108 | 28 | 381 | 6 | |
| 1987 | Footscray | 11 | 22 | 369 | 53 | 145 | 34 | 34 | 514 | 15 |
| 1988 | Footscray | 11 | 21 | 353 | 55 | 107 | 13 | 23 | 460 | 13 |
| 1989 | Footscray | 11 | 22 | 365 | 43 | 119 | 14 | 16 | 484 | 9 |
| 1990 | Footscray | 11 | 22 | 412 | 44 | 148 | 19 | 26 | 560 | 14 |
| 1991 | Adelaide | 11 | 21 | 348 | 25 | 145 | 17 | 11 | 493 | 8 |
| 1992 | Adelaide | 11 | 19 | 337 | 30 | 140 | 26 | 29 | 477 | 3 |
| 1993 | Adelaide | 11 | 23 | 477 | 59 | 180 | 12 | 21 | 657 | 11 |
| 1994 | Adelaide | 11 | 21 | 352 | 38 | 148 | 14 | 8 | 500 | 8 |
| 1995 | Adelaide | 11 | 11 | 136 | 10 | 45 | 4 | 5 | 181 | 1 |
| 1996 | Adelaide | 11 | 18 | 261 | 41 | 81 | 6 | 17 | 342 | 5 |
| Totals | 222 | 3683 | 430 | 1366 | 187 | 190 | 5049 | 93 | ||
Post-retirement
McGuinness returned to his original club Glenelg as a coach from 1998 to 2000, but had little success, finishing 9th, 4th, and 9th respectively. With the Tigers decimated by injuries in 1998 McGuinness came out of retirement for a game at the age of 34.
Subsequently, he commenced as an assistant coach at
McGuinness resigned from the McGuinness-McDermott Foundation on 17 August 2010.[5] He also ran a sports retail business, Rowe and Jarman, which he sold to Amart Sports in 2006.
References
- ^ These totals refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only.
- ISBN 1-86350-175-4.
- ^ Youtube – First Game Highlights: Crows v Hawks 1991
- ^ "Family first in balancing work and life". Sunday Mail (SA). 2 August 2009.
- ^ McGuire, Michael (18 August 2010). "Tony McGuinness parts ways with Chris McDermott". The Advertiser. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
External links
- Tony McGuinness's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Tony McGuinness at AustralianFootball.com
- SANFL Hall of Fame
