Bob Farmer

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Bob Farmer
Personal information
Full name Robert Farmer
Date of birth (1947-06-02) 2 June 1947 (age 73)
Original team(s) Heidelberg H.S. [1]
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Position(s) Centre half forward
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1964–1969 Collingwood 56 (51)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1969.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Robert 'Bob' Farmer (born 2 June 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s.

A centre half forward, Farmer was aged just 16 years and 363 days when he made his senior VFL debut in 1964. He struggled to establish a place in the Collingwood team which made the finals in five of the six seasons that he was at the club, although he had a good season in 1968, kicking 22 goals and was chosen to represent Australia in the 'Galahs' World Tour that year.

The only final Farmer played was his final league game for Collingwood; the 1969 Preliminary Final loss to Richmond at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where he kicked two goals. Farmer then accepted a lucrative offer from South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club West Adelaide, which included "a fully furnished flat, a good position with a cigarette company and a weekly match payment 'too good to refuse'". [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Robert Farmer". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Smith, A. "Dollars lure another Magpie", The Age, 26 February 1970, p. 13.
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