Tony Shaw (Australian rules footballer)

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Tony Shaw
Personal information
Full name Anthony Shaw
Date of birth (1960-07-23) 23 July 1960 (age 63)
Original team(s) Reservoir-Lakeside (NFL)
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Position(s) Rover/Centre
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1978–1994 Collingwood 313 (157)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
Victoria ? (?)
Coaching career3
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
1996–1999 Collingwood 88 (30–58–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1994.
3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1999.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Anthony Shaw (born 23 July 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality who played for the Collingwood Football Club.

Contents

Playing career

Collingwood Football Club

Shaw was recruited to Collingwood from Reservoir-Lakeside to make his debut in 1977 alongside brother Ray. He was a small midfielder at 170 cm who didn't have the natural ability or quality skills of others but his courage and determination made him a fine rover. He did struggle in his early years to cement a senior position in the team. Shaw played in the 1980–1981 losing Grand Final sides. [1] [2]

In 1984, Shaw won the Copeland Trophy as the Magpies best and fairest player for the season, as well as playing with second brother Neville. After another couple seasons of the club failing to make the finals, Shaw took over the captaincy left by Mark Williams in 1987, but the side failed in the new-look competition, finishing 12th. [3] [4]

In 1990, Shaw captained the club to a historic premiership, the club's first in 32 years, defeating Essendon. Shaw's 35 touches saw him earn the Norm Smith Medal as best on the ground. In the same season, Shaw won his second Copeland Trophy. [5] [6]

In 1991, against the Brisbane Bears, Shaw had 50 disposals, which was at the time the second most disposals recorded in a game by a single player (trailing Greg Williams' record of 53 set in 1989). [7] [8] [9]

Injuries got the better of him in years to come, but he continued impressing as a centreman despite the constant struggle of getting on the park injury-free. At the end of 1993, he was considering retirement but played on, despite handing the captaincy to premiership team-mate Gavin Brown. 1994 was his last year, but he broke several records. In round nine, against North Melbourne, he played his 300th game, and nine weeks later against Footscray, he broke Gordon Coventry's club VFL/AFL games record of 306 games. Shaw's last game was played at the WACA in an elimination final which the Magpies lost by two points. [10] [11]

Shaw retired in a tearful farewell with playing a total of 313 VFL/AFL games and kicked a total of 157 goals for Collingwood Football Club from 1978 until 1994. [12] [13]

Statistics

Playing statistics

[14]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals  
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds  
  H  
 Handballs  
  M  
 Marks
  #  
Played in that season's 
premiership team
SeasonTeamNo.GamesTotalsAverages (per game) Votes
GBKHDMTGBKHDMT
1978 Collingwood 56,3256242226410—1.20.48.44.412.82.0—0
1979 Collingwood 22158722711334041—0.50.515.17.522.72.7—0
1980 Collingwood 221814121908827835—0.80.710.64.915.41.9—0
1981 Collingwood 2225191841322764070—0.80.716.59.125.62.8—6
1982 Collingwood 222018829420650056—0.90.414.710.325.02.8—4
1983 Collingwood 2222141429921651586—0.60.613.69.823.43.9—0
1984 Collingwood 22231519396280676119—0.70.817.212.229.45.2—6
1985 Collingwood 22221110360240600114—0.50.516.410.927.35.2—10
1986 Collingwood 222010732821854684—0.50.416.410.927.34.2—5
1987 Collingwood 22163222115137249380.20.113.89.423.33.12.40
1988 Collingwood 222091031620351989340.50.515.810.226.04.51.74
1989 Collingwood 22146720814134956230.40.514.910.124.94.01.65
1990 # Collingwood 2226711459277736105550.30.417.710.728.34.02.113
1991 Collingwood 22188731620251857350.40.417.611.228.83.21.93
1992 Collingwood 22173224416240674300.20.114.49.523.94.41.84
1993 Collingwood 22121313311925236300.10.311.19.921.03.02.50
1994 Collingwood 22205214118032140280.30.17.19.016.12.01.42
Career31315714145873045763211212730.50.514.79.724.43.61.962

Head coaching record

TeamYearHome and Away SeasonFinals
WonLostDrewWin %FinishWonLostDrewWin %Result
COLL 1996 9130.40911th out of 16—————
COLL 1997 10120.45510th out of 16—————
COLL 1998 7150.31814th out of 16—————
COLL 1999 4180.18216th out of 16—————
30580.341000.000

Honours and achievements

Team

Individual

Coaching career

Collingwood Football Club senior coach (1996-1999)

After Leigh Matthews was sacked as Collingwood Football Club senior coach at the end of the 1995 season, Shaw would be appointed the senior coach of Collingwood Football Club for the 1996 season, only two seasons after retirement. [15] A leader on the field, Shaw was unsuccessful off the field as a coach. In the 1996 season, he would guide Collingwood to finish in 11th place with nine wins and thirteen losses, and his best effort came in the 1997 season when the club finished 10th with ten wins and twelve losses. In the 1998 season, Collingwood under Shaw finished in 14th place with seven wins and fifteen losses. Shaw then coached the Pies to finish 16th, which is the last position on the ladder to the club's second wooden spoon in the 1999 season with four wins and eighteen losses, earning the accolade of being a premiership captain to coach a wooden spoon side. [16] After that, Shaw resigned as Collingwood Football Club senior coach. [17] [18] Shaw was then replaced by Mick Malthouse as Collingwood Football Club senior coach. [19] [20] [21]

Shaw coached Collingwood Football Club from 1996 until 1999 to a total of 88 games with 30 wins and 58 losses to a winning percentage of 34 percent.

Post-Football

Shaw became a media commentator after his coaching role, commentating on the radio for 3AW Football before joining the Fox Footy Channel as a commentator/special comments for several seasons.

In 1991, Shaw was appointed Moomba Monarch (popularly called King of Moomba). [22]

His son, Brayden, was drafted to Collingwood in 2003, but failed to play a game before being delisted in 2005, before moving on to Port Melbourne in the VFL.

In March 2006, Shaw returned to media focus when he publicly criticized the AFL for the consistent introduction of new rules. [23]

Shaw was selected to present the Norm Smith Medal to the best player in the 2008 AFL Grand Final, [24] which was Luke Hodge from Hawthorn. [25]

Racism

In 1991 Shaw told journalist Caroline Wilson of The Sunday Age that "I'd make a racist comment every week if I thought it would help win the game. If I think I can say something to upset someone, then I'll say it. I couldn't give a stuff about their race, religion or creed. If they react, you know you've got 'em". [26] However, in 2021, following an independent review of the Collingwood Football Club which found evidence of systemic racism, he denied that the club was racist, stating "I played there for 21 years and coached over that period of time … I never saw anything that meant that this whole club was racist". [27]

''I said it,'' Shaw said in a follow-up 2013 interview with The Age after 22 years of publicly avoiding the matter. ''I was naive and I was wrong. I had this view that what goes on the field, stays on the field. I erred and I've got to wear it.'' [28]

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  2. ↑ "Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "TONY SHAW" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "TONY SHAW" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  7. ↑ "AFL Tables - Collingwood v Brisbane Bears - Sat, 20-Apr-1991 2:10 PM - Match Stats".
  8. ↑ "TONY SHAW" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  9. ↑ "Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  10. ↑ "TONY SHAW" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  12. ↑ "TONY SHAW" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  13. ↑ "Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  14. ↑ "Tony Shaw". AFL Tables. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  15. ↑ "The coaches: Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  16. ↑ "The coaches: Tony Shaw" . Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  17. ↑ "Exposing the myth of Collingwood's succession plan". 23 June 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  18. ↑ "Sacked Podcast: Tony Shaw's mistakes at the Pies and the backstabbing he never saw coming". 4 September 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  19. ↑ "Guangzhou show takes the cake". 11 May 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  20. ↑ "The fire in McGuire: 15 years on as Collingwood president". 29 October 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  21. ↑ "The Presidents: Eddie McGuire" . Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  22. ↑ Craig Bellamy, Gordon Chisholm, Hilary Eriksen (17 Feb 2006) Moomba: A festival for the people. Archived 5 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine PDF pp 17–22
  23. ↑ Palmer, Scot (5 March 2006) Tony Shaw on 3AW: Rules robbing the game of soul and spirit; Sunday Herald Sun
  24. ↑ Shaw hopes Harley gets Norm Smith Medal
  25. ↑ Full Norm Smith voting
  26. ↑ Wilson, Caroline (20 April 2013). "Revisiting past controversy on racial taunts". The Age. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  27. ↑ Parker, Gareth (2 February 2021). "Collingwood great denies 'systemic racism' claims" . Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  28. ↑ Wilson, Caroline (19 April 2013). "Revisiting past controversy on racial taunts". The Age. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
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