Garry Hocking

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Garry "Buddha" Hocking (born October 8, 1968), is a former Australian rules footballer and coach.

Hocking played 274 games for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL between 1987 and 2001. He was renowned as a tough midfielder.

In the late 1990's Hocking was part of a promotion with cat-food company Whiskas, where for a short period of time he changed his name by deed-poll to "Whiskas". He announced this on The Footy Show.

After his playing career, which ended in 2001, Hocking moved into the coaching arena. In 2005, he coached Peel Thunder Football Club in the WAFL, a team which was struggling and managed to win just 4 games for the year in 2005. In one match, Hocking employed a tactic where every player on the Peel team was stationed in defence for a centre-bounce. Known as a "full-flood", this was viewed as a farcical situation, and one that Hocking wanted to use with his team down by a massive margin. Hocking has promised never to use the tactic again, and has said that in this one instance, it was appropriate for the circumstance.

In 2006, Hocking has taken up the coaching reigns at Geelong Falcons Under 18s.

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• Flood reaches shocking level
• Flood Tactics a Blight on the Game

Preceded by Barry Stoneham	Geelong Best and Fairest winner 1991	Succeeded by Ken Hinkley
Preceded by Ken Hinkley	Geelong Best and Fairest winner 1993-1994	Succeeded by Paul Couch
Preceded by Paul Couch	Geelong Best and Fairest winner 1996	Succeeded by Liam Pickering