Past John Klug (1993)

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Pick 62 in the 1993 Pre-Season Draft

 

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Footyinfo

Full name: John Klug
Born: September 28, 1965
Teams: Richmond 1984-85, Adelaide 1991-92
Height: 188cm
Weight: 98kg
Debut: Adelaide vs Hawthorn Round 1, Football Park, 22 March 1991

Wikipedia

John Klug (born 28 September 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League for the Adelaide Football Club in their early years. Klug, originally from Glenorchy Football Club in Tasmania, was recruited from the Woodville Football Club in the SANFL when the Crows first started in 1991. In the Crows first year Klug played at Centre Half Forward, although slightly built and against much bigger opponents for most of the season Klug performed well and ended up finishing eighth in the Crows' Best and Fairest that year. In 1992 Klug only played a handful games with the club due to niggling injuries he was then delisted and picked up in the Pre-Season draft by the Brisbane Bears where he didn't play a game.

Statistics:

afl tables
footywire

 

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Glenorchy Profile

John was drafted to the Crows at the age of 25 in their first year in the competition, 1991, after a career up until then spent at Glenorchy, and Woodville in the SANFL from 1988. John was known for being a player with an incredible amount of natural talent, but particularly for his monster handball, which some folks at Glenorchy today believe travelled at least 50 metres when he unloaded. John finished 8th in Adelaide’s Best & Fairest in ’91, but only managed 6 games the following year before a serious post-operative infection to his knee more or less ended his AFL career. He returned to Glenorchy as coach in 2003 and 2004, and still remains in the area today, working with the disabled and as an assistant coach at Lauderdale.

 

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Adelaide Profile

Guernsey number: 20.
Crows debut: Round 1 v Hawthorn, 1991.
AFC games: 26. AFC goals: 35.
Recruited from: Woodville.
DOB: September 28, 1965.
Original squad selection 1991.

Klug took some time to push through to the highest level but was an immediate success with the Crows. The clever centre half-forward played 30 reserves games for VFL club Richmond in 1984-85 but then returned to his home club Glenorchy before joining SANFL club Woodville in 1988. Club best and fairest in Woodville’s final season, Klug kicked four goals in Adelaide’s first game against Hawthorn in 1991 and played 20 games to finish 8th in the best-and-fairest. But he played only six games in 1992 before a serious infection following knee surgery ended his AFL career. Later coached in Queensland and then Tasmania.

 

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Link ....

Here's Detto next to Ralphy "Zippity Zap" Sewer on the shoulders of John Klug, Peter Shwartz and Alex Lunn, Woodville's last ever game.

 

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The definitive list of Non-Senior Richmond Players

* J Klug (3rd Eighteen 1984 / 2nds 1984-85)

 

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Adelaide's first team

B:       Scott Lee        Nigel Smart       Rodney Maynard
HB:      Bruce Lindsay    Tom Warhurst      Robbie Thompson
C:       Simon Tregenza   Andrew Jarman     David Marshall
HF:      Darren Smith     [U]John Klug[/U]         Grantley Fielke
F:       Bruce Lindner    Peter McIntyre    Darel Hart
R:       Romano Negri     Chris McDermott   Tony McGuinness

Inter:   Rod Jameson      Eddie Hocking

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The list of Crows ‘firsts’ started with Negri winning the first tap, Klug the first handball and Tregenza the first (and second) kicks.

 

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Adelaide Best and Fairest Voting

1991

1.    Mark Mickan       37 votes
2.    Tony McGuinness   35 votes
3.    Nigel Smart       32 Votes
4.    Andrew Jarman     39 votes
5.    Chris McDermott   25 votes
6.    David Marshall    24 votes
7.    Simon Tragenza    20 votes
8.    [U]John Klug[/U]         16 votes
9.    Grantley Fielke   13 votes
10.   Sean Tasker       11 votes

 

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28th February 1992

John Klug (Center Half Forward) has had arthroscopic surgery on his knee to remove bone fragments.

 

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January 1993

ADELAIDE CROWS centre-forward JOHN KLUG quits AFL footy at 27 after 12 knee operations in five years.

 

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16th March 1993

Other players with AFL experience picked up by Brisbane were John Klug (62nd overall) and Danny Craven from St.Kilda (78th overall). Klug, 27, retired from league football after two years with the Crows after persistent knee injuries. In the summer he took a position as coach of local Queensland side Mayne, but the AFL itch got the better of him and he decided to take the Bears up on the offer of playing center half-forward.

 

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BigFooty Thread

Source: Glenorchy Football Club

The Glenorchy Football Club has confirmed that John Klug will lead the Club in season 2004. The club signed Klug at the end of the 2002 season when Leigh McConnon resigned from the senior position because of work commitments.

"The club signed John Klug to a two-year contract and will honour that agreement. John is extremely disappointed with the 2003 season and is determined to turn things around in 2004". said general manager Shayne Stevenson.

Ah, a blast from the past, mighty Woodville Warrior John Klug, how is he going there, a legend at Woodville and one of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet, tragically struck down in his prime by a sickening knee injury

John Klug was a very clever and highly skilled footballer; a master of the long handball across traffic to hit a teammate on the chest. If not for injury, despite a lack of pace, he would have been a top line AFL footballer.

 

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Klug forced to step down
31st October 2004

Glenorchy coach John Klug has resigned from his senior coaches role at Glenorchy Football Club due to increased workload and family commitments, effective immediately. Klug, who coached the Magpies for the past two seasons, agreed to another year at KGV last month but has been forced to stand down.

Klug fit and well
10th November 2004

The rumour that former Magpie senior coach John Klug has cancer and he is going to die are absolutely untrue. The GDFC is unsure of where this rumour started, but the man himself has categorically put these rumours to rest and stated that he is fit and well.

He has recently had a back operation and will be out of action for about three months. This is why he stood down from coaching Glenorchy Football Club. He has also has had a procedure to relieve pressure on his sinuses (as he has had before), which have literally been causing a few headaches. The story about the brain tumour is completely untrue.

 

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Glenorchy Team of the Century

[B]B:[/B]    Roland Curley    Roy Witzerman       Alan Leitch
[B]HB:[/B]   Trevor Sprigg    Barry Strange       Robbie Dykes
[B]C:[/B]    Michael Styles   Neil Conlan         Ben Atkin
[B]HF:[/B]   [U]John Klug[/U]        Max Griffiths       David Pearce
[B]F:[/B]    Danny Ling       Peter Hudson        Gary Linton
[B]R:    [/B]Jack Rough       Rex Garwood         Ron Marney
[B]I:[/B]    John Chick       Matthew Mansfield   Kevin Morgan, 
      Denis Lester     Kevin Baker         Adrian Fletcher
      Max McMahon