Greg Dear

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Greg Dear
Personal information
Date of birth (1963-04-17) 17 April 1963 (age 60)
Original team(s) Churchill
Height 200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight 99 kg (218 lb)
Position(s) Ruck
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1985–1993 Hawthorn 137 (18)
1994–1996 Richmond 053 0(9)
Total190 (27)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1996.
Career highlights

3x VFL Premiership (1986, 1988, 1989)

Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Greg Dear (born 17 April 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn and Richmond in the VFL/AFL.

A ruckman, Dear was a member of the strong Hawthorn sides of the late 1980s and a premiership player in 1986, 1988 and 1989. He could have had a fourth in 1991 but missed the entire season due to a serious knee injury. In 1994 he was traded to Richmond where he finished his career.

Dear had joined the senior Hawthorn side in 1985 after impressing in the reserve grade, winning the Gardiner Medal for the league's best reserve player. The following season he was selected in the VFL Team of the Year as first ruckman and he later went on to represent Victoria at the State of Origin.

Greg Dear is the brother of fellow Hawk Paul Dear.


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