Past Brett Chandler (1995-1996)

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1994 Pre-Draft Supplementary Selection

Recruited from the Fitzroy Reserves

 

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Footyinfo

Full name: Brett Chandler
Born: July 11, 1975
Teams: Collingwood 1993, Fitzroy 1995-96, North Melbourne 1997-2000
Height: 173cm
Weight: 73kg
Debut: Fitzroy vs Essendon Round 1, Whitten Oval, 1 April 1995

Wikipedia

Brett Chandler (born 11 July 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and North Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL). Chandler made his way into the Fitzroy team from the reserves, after originally coming to the club from the Eastern Ranges Under 18s. He played his first AFL season in 1995 and in 1996 averaged 16 disposals.

A merger with the Brisbane Bears meant that many players had to be culled from both teams and Chandler found himself at reigning premiers North Melbourne. He made his way into the senior immediately and played the first 14 games of the 1997 AFL season, missed round 15, then played every game for the rest of the year including three finals.

Chandler was not able to participate in the Kangaroos 1999 premiership winning season as he spent all year on the sidelines with a broken leg. He returned in 2000 but could only manage four games, the last of which was a 125 point loss to Essendon in a qualifying final.

Statistics:

afl tables
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final siren
all the stats

 

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Worst side on paper in the last 15 years...
Post at 2011-5-25 06:36

Fitzroy R9, 1996

B:      Adam McCarthy    Stephen Paxman   Brad Cassidy
HB:     Trent Cummings   Matthew Dent     Jason Ramsey
C:      Scott Bamford    Chris Johnson    Frank Bizzotto
HF:     Darren Holmes    John Barker      Nick Carter
F:      Martin Pike      Jarrod Molloy    Anthony Mellington
Foll:   Matthew Primus   John Rombotis    Simon Atkins
INT:    [U]Brett Chandler[/U]   Jeff Hogg        Simon Hawking

 

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Fitzroy's last game

B:       [U]Brett Chandler[/U]   Jarrod Molloy   Stephen Paxman
HB:      Martin Pike      Rowan Warfe     Shane Clayton
C:       John Barker      Simon Atkins    Nick Carter
HF:      Brad Boyd (c)    John McCarthy   Chris Johnson
F:       Marty Warry      Simon Hawking   John Rombotis
Foll:    Matthew Primus   Matthew Dent    Scott Bamford
Int:     Peter Doyle      Jeff Hogg       Danny Morton
Coach:   Alan McConnel

 

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Pick 11 in the 1997 Pre-Season Draft

 

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broken leg

But the Roos knew that Kent was a talent and had been hampered by back problems in 1998. They thought long and hard, placed him on the rookie list at the start of 1999 and hoped the lifeline would work.

Luck, or bad luck in the case of teammate Brett Chandler, finally smiled on Kingsley. Chandler, who had broken a leg during the 1999 pre-season, had the misfortune to break the leg again at training before the Roos’ round 10 clash against Port Adelaide.

Finally, after two-and-a-half seasons, the selectors turned to the young forward from Woodville-West Torrens. He was placed back on the senior list, immediately called up for the game against Port and proceeded to slam through six goals on debut.

 

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North Melbourne board

Sat next to Brett's mum at the Collingwood game yesterday - my son and I had our North gear on so we got chatting. I remember him as a feisty little player and now I see where he gets it from! Not often I hear a woman of her years yelling things like "Franklin, you're a FLOG!" even at Collingwood games.

She was sitting with a friend who is a lifelong Pies fan but has been a North member since Brett was drafted. It's nice to meet good-hearted, normal people like that when you're trying to work across club divides.

Very gutsy little goer was Brett.

This. I'll always speak highly of players who give it their all. Bretty was one. It sounds like his mum will be highly spoken of by me too, if I ever sit near her at the footy.

Very gutsy player.

I remember one time he threw his head between the ball and someones boot just to stop them kicking at goal. No free kick of course but he just got up rubbed his head and got on with it. Amazing.

I real Pagan type player.

 

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Lessons learned are put to good use
23 Apr 09 @ 04:00am
by MEGAN HUSTWAITE

PERSONAL experience helped Old Trinity coach Brett Chandler curb former St Kilda star Robert Harvey’s influence in the opening round of the VAFA B Section season. Chandler tagged the dual Brownlow Medallist several times during his 72-game career with Fitzroy and North Melbourne and passed-on his knowledge to his on-ballers in the lead-up to Saturday’s match against Harvey’s Old Haileybury.
“I’d played on him four or five times when I was at North and I knew not to waste a player tagging him,” Chandler said.
“He’s going to get 20-30 possessions anyway so I rotated our best on-ballers on him during the game.
“Our only plan, really, was to tap the ball as far away as possible at the ruck contests because he is so damaging at stoppages.”

 

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East is best

• by: Conor Ryan
• From: Leader
• October 11, 2010 11:25AM

NEW Croydon coach Brett Chandler is happy to be back in the Eastern Football League, a league he says is "the best suburban competition Melbourne".

The Blues appointed Chandler to the position of senior coach, two weeks ago, and he will take over a side that went from losing grand finalists in 2009 to fifth place and a first-week finals exit in 2010.

The club opted for Chandler over a strong field of potential candidates.

Chandler, 35, comes to the Blues with a wealth of coaching and playing experience under his belt, including 80 senior AFL matches and a year as a forward scout for St Kilda.

He's no stranger to the EFL either, having won a premiership as a player with Vermont in 2001 and coaching Doncaster from 2003-06.

 

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Good gutsy player. At the time I was surprised and disappointed that he hasn't picked up by Brisbane. My thinking was, he had to have been a better prospect than the 35th player on the bears '96 list. Same with Paxman and a few others.

Note: If I recall correctly, Brisbane weren't restricted to 8 Fitzroy players (as was the common belief), this was a minimum.


On an aside in the early 90's , he used to umpire senior mixed netball at East Doncaster and he seemed to be up there every night prompting the comment "when does this kid do his homework".