Daryl Bourke

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Daryl Bourke
Personal information
Full name Daryl Bourke
Date of birth (1965-04-07) 7 April 1965 (age 53)
Original team(s) Kyabram [1]
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1985–1986 Melbourne 18 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1986.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Daryl Bourke (born 7 April 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s.

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

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Melbourne Football Club Australian rules football club

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A centreman, Bourke played nine games in each of his two seasons at Melbourne. [2] He then joined the Brisbane Bears for their inaugural VFL season in 1987 but couldn't break into the team. Instead he became a leading player in the Queensland Australian Football League, with Morningside.

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Morningside Australian Football Club Australian Rules football club

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He had a knee reconstruction in 1988, his first year as captain, but played some of the best football of his career a year later to win the Grogan Medal. In 1991 he captained Morningside to a premiership and participated in two further premierships in 1993 and 1994. He gave up the captaincy in 1993 to become assistant playing coach and won another Grogan Medal that year, in a three way tie, to become the first Morningside player to win it twice. When he finally retired as a player he had amassed 187 QAFL games, with eight top two finishes in his club's "Best and Fairest", including three wins. He also represented Queensland on ten occasions. [3]

The Grogan Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the best and fairest player in home and away rounds of each season's QAFL/Queensland State League competition. From 2011 to present it is awarded to the best and fairest player in the North East Australian Football League Northern Conference. It was first awarded under the present name in 1946, previously being known as the De Little Medal.

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References

  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN   978-1-920910-78-5.
  2. "Daryl Bourke". AFL Tables.
  3. "Daryl Bourke - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 14 August 2015.