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Debuting for the Bulldogs in 1969, he played 177 games for the club and while he was a strong Centre Half-forward (also occasionally playing as a Centre Half-back ), he didn't find consistency in his career until he moved to Fitzroy in 1978 , playing 189 games for the club, and going down as one of their all-time greats, before retiring in 1986 . He won the Brownlow Medal in 1981 , tying with Barry Round . He was a prodigious kick of the Football which earned him the nickname "superboot". He regularly featured in the '' World Of Sport '' kicking competions (a sports program which was popular in Melbourne for three decades) and is reported to have once kicked a goal from the wing at the Whitten Oval , Footscray (a distance approaching 100 metres). He also once appeared in an exhibition kicking challenge against the other football codes (including Soccer , Rugby Union , Rugby League and American Football , the latter representative actually throwing in the style of a quarter-back). He won the challenge with a kick approaching 90 metres. |
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