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Guy McKenna
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Career Snapshot |
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DOB:
11th May 1968 |
Career
Games |
267 |
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Debut:
1988 |
Career Goals |
28 |
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From:
Claremont |
West Coast
Games |
267 |
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Height:
184 cm |
Weight:
88 kg |
West Coast
Goals |
28 |
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A superb rebounding defender, Guy McKenna joined the Eagles at the 1987 draft to become one of the all time great Eagles players. His key role was as the attacking player out of the outstanding half-back trio of John Worsfold, Glen Jakovich and McKenna at West Coast through the 1990s, playing a large part in the Eagles premierships in 1992 and 1994.
On Worsfold's retirement, McKenna, then the vice-captain was promoted to club captain, but was only able to see out another two seasons, as injury took its toll and saw him bow out at the end of the 2001 season with a then club-record 267 games to his name. He later returned to the club as an assistant coach under Worsfold, but eventually moved eastward to an assistant's role at Collingwood under his former Eagles coach Mick Malthouse. In 2009, he gained the role of the inaugural coach of the Gold Coast Suns, coaching them initially in the Queensland league in 2010 then in the AFL when the club started playing AFL level in 2011. |
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| Career Honours |
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1987: ex-Draft selection
1988: Rookie of the Year
1989: Club Champion
1991: All-Australian (back pocket)
1992: 100th AFL game
1992: Premiership Player
1993: All-Australian (half-back flank)
1994: All-Australian (half-back flank)
1994: Premiership Player
1994: Best Clubman
1995: 100th AFL game and life membership
1997-1998: Vice Captain
1997: 200th AFL game
1999: Club Champion
1999-2000: Club Captain
1999: 250th AFL game
2002-2004: Assistant Coach
2005-2009: Assistant Coach, Collingwood
2011- : Senior Coach, Gold Coast Suns |
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| Career Statistics
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| A lot
of thanks are due to other people for the stats on this
page. For all games from 1993-2002, thanks to Paul
at AFL Stats http://stats.rleague.com/afl/afl_index.html.
For the 1987-1992 stats, much thanks to carneagles
for providing me a copy of the stats created for corkintheocean,
probably the best footy blog out there. Go read it! |
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