Bob Lynch (footballer)

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Bob Lynch
Personal information
Full name Robert Lynch
Date of birth (1944-04-15) 15 April 1944 (age 77)
Original team(s) Launceston City [1]
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1965 Fitzroy 9 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1965.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bob Lynch (born 15 April 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A centreman, Lynch started out at Melbourne where he played reserves football. He was picked up by Fitzroy in 1965 and played the first nine games of the 1965 VFL season, kicking his only goal in their loss to North Melbourne at Brunswick Street. [2] He was then sent to the reserves to improve his unreliable disposal but wasn't able to make his way back into the seniors. [3]

Lynch spent the rest of the 1960s with New Norfolk in Tasmania. He represented Tasmania at the 1969 Adelaide Carnival. The following season, Lynch joined Clarence, coached by St Kilda premiership player John Bingley. [4]

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References

  1. "Brian Dixon Suffers from Infected Mouth". The Age . 8 April 1964. p. 20.
  2. "Bob Lynch". AFL Tables.
  3. The Age, "Fitzroy hopes please", 21 March 1966, p. 12
  4. "1969 Carnival Tas Player Details". Full Points Footy. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2010.