Tony Antrobus
DOB: 08/06/1962
Height: 174 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Playing number: 2 (1987-1989), 10 (1990)
Arrived: Drafted with pick 20 from North Adelaide in the 1982 VFL Draft, arrived in 1987
Debut: Round 1 vs West Coast, 1987
Games: 22
Goals: 26
Won: Margarey Medal - 1983
North Adelaide Team of the Century
Departed: Left for St Kilda at the end of 1990
Tony "The Ant" Antrobus is one of football's 'What if?' stories. An astonishingly quick midfielder-forward with excellent skills and good goal sense, Antrobus made his mark on the SANFL in his debut year, judged best afield in all three games he played for North Adelaide. It was a sign of things to come, for, although his 1982 was marred by injuries (also a sign of things to come), in 1983 he was the Margarey Medallist, winning by one vote over Bernie Conlon. He had already caught the eye of Essendon, who drafted him in the 1982 VFL draft, but it took until 1987 for the club to invite him to play for them, following his first injury free year since '83.
During his four years with the Bombers he could only get fit to play 22 games, not helped by six tribunal appearances, extending his nickname to "The Angry Ant". He played just the one game in his first year, and no games in '88. 1989 was his best year, playing 13 games, including all three finals. He was further injury riddled in 1990, and moved to St Kilda for 1991, where he played six more games. He returned to North Adelaide for one more season in 1992, but by this point his body could no longer let him be the player he should've been, and he retired at the end of the year.
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