Garry Sidebottom

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Garry Sidebottom
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Personal information
Birth 21 November 1954 (1954-11-21) (age 53), Western Australia
Recruited from Swan Districts Football Club (WAFL) (1978-1983)
Height and weight 193cm / 98kg
Playing career¹
Debut Round 1, 1978, Saint Kilda vs. , at
Team(s) AFL Saint Kilda (1978-80 54 games) Geelong (1981 season 7 games) Fitzroy (1982-4 43 games)

WAFL Swan Districts (1973-1977,1985-19877 114 games [1]. AFL/VFL 104 games, 145 goals [2]. AFL/WAFL/State 233 games (1973-1997)
¹ Statistics to end of season
Career highlights

  • Swan Medal 1976,1985
  • WA State Team 1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1983,1984,1985
  • Leading goal kicker St Kilda 1979 56 goals[citation needed]
  • Leading Goal kicker Swan Districts 1985 77 goals

Garry Sidebottom is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Saint Kilda Football Club, Geelong Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the AFL and Swan Districts Football Club in the WAFL during the mid 1970s and early 1990s. Older brother of Allen Sidebottom who also played for Swan Districts and St Kilda. Sidebottom was a powerful and fearless player ideal for playing at centre half forward or as a ruckman. A versatile forward good in the air and hard in the clinches he kicked 227 goals while at Swan Districts and 145 goals while in the VFL. Sidebottom wore the number 2 guernsey at St Kilda, number 5 at Swan Districts, number 6 at Geelong and number 21 at Fitzroy. He played in the inaugural State of Origin team for Western Australia in 1977 when WA famously beat Victoria. In 1984 Sidebottom kicked 6 goals playing for WA against Victoria in another famous victory to the Sandgropers. He represented WA fifteen times in state games. [3]

Garry Sidebottom returned to Swan Districts as a coach of the reserves side in 2007. [4].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Swan Districts Football Club - Playertracker - Garry Sidebottom (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
  2. ^ AFL Tables - Garry Sidebottom (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
  3. ^ Full Points Footy (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
  4. ^ Swan Districts Football Club - Swans Legend Returns (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.