Tony Nesbit

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Tony Nesbitt
Playing career¹
WANFL Swan Districts (1958–1970) 235 games^[1]
Coaching career
Swan Districts Football Club
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1968 season.
Career highlights
Premiership Player (WANFL) 1961, 1962, 1963 WA State Team 1964, 1965, 1966 Swan Medal 1964

Anthony "Tony" Nesbit is a former Australian rules footballer who was highly successful in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) playing for the Swan Districts Football Club. Originally playing in the seconds for Swan Districts his long career began at the club in 1954 along with Keith Slater.

A lightly built player he started on the wing but developed later into a ruck rover. In his debut season in the league competition, 1958, Nesbit won the “Rookie of the Year” title.^[2] After having been the chopping block of Western Australian football between 1946 and 1960, Swan Districts entered a period of unprecedented success during the early sixties, which Nesbit was a part of. Nesbit played in the back pocket of all three premiership sides, and was co-captain of Swan Districts in 1965 and 1966.

In 1968 Nesbitt was appointed as captain/coach of the side but Swan Districts’ 1968 season was so bad that the team won only one game after the siren against East Fremantle - the closest any senior WAFL team between 1918 and 1998 came to a winless season. As a result, Nesbit was replaced by Bill Walker. Nesbit retired in 1970 after playing 235 games for the club, he is now a life member. He was selected as a ruck rover in the Swan Districts Team of the Century.

References

↑ "Swan Districts Football Club – Playertracker – Tony Nesbitt". 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
↑ "Swan Districts Football Club – History". 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-08-22. Retrieved 2007-08-26.

v t e Swan Districts Football Club – Team of the Century

FB Melrose Lawson Murray

HB Nowotny Castledine Bagley

C P. Narkle Baker Krepp

HF Manning Sidebottom Richardson

FF Bunton Holdsworth Boucher

R Slater Nesbit Walker

I Mullooly Holden K. Narkle Anderson Langsford Holmes Beecroft

Coach Todd

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Name	Nesbit, Tony
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Short description	Australian footballer
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