Brett Cook | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Brett Cook | ||
Date of birth | 19 April 1973 | ||
Original team(s) | Broken Hill | ||
Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||
Weight | 97 kg (214 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1994–1996 | Fitzroy | 25 | (7)|
1997–1999 | St Kilda | 18 | (5)|
Total | 43 (12) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1999. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Brett Cook (born 19 April 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Fitzroy Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.
He was taken at pick 20 in the 1991 AFL Draft by Fitzroy but had to wait until 1994 before he made his AFL debut. Following the end of Fitzroy's time in the AFL in 1996, he moved to St Kilda in 1997, where he became best known as the replacement ruckman in the 1997 AFL Finals Series in the absence of Peter Everitt and Lazar Vidovic.
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