Wayne Harmes

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Wayne Harmes
Personal information
Full name	Wayne Harmes
Date of birth	(1960-02-09) 9 February 1960
Original team	Oak Park
Height/Weight	177 cm / 85 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1977-1988	Carlton	169 (86)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1988 season.

Wayne Harmes (born 9 February 1960) is a retired Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.^[1]

Football career

Recruited from Oak Park, as a youngster Harmes was perceived to have a lot of talent, winning The Sun newspapers' "Sunkick" competition. Added to this was the fact he was a grandson of Len Smith and therefore, the great nephew of VFL legend Norm Smith. Harmes debuted in 1977 for the Carlton Football Club, going on to play 169 games for 86 goals until his retirement, forced by weight problems in his later career, in 1988. Throughout his career he was considered "hard at the ball" and his 176 cms, while not tall, was solid and very well-built (90 kg), which allowed him to throw around his considerable strength and made him a tough player. He represented Victoria in State of Origin in 1979 and 1986.

1979 VFL Grand Final

Harmes' crowning achievement as a player was in the 1979 VFL Grand Final where he won the inaugural Norm Smith Medal for best player on the ground during a Grand Final. The match itself became part of football folklore for the last minute heroics displayed by Harmes - he famously slid along the ground and knocked the ball back into play to set up the winning goal, scored by Ken Sheldon. A great debate emerged whether the ball went out of bounds or not at the point Harmes knocked it back in.

The match was the first of Harmes' three premiership wins, with him being a part of Carlton's 1981 and 1982 flags.

Post-playing career

After his playing career, Harmes has been widely outspoken for his views on the current state of Australian rules football, particularly the latest 2006 AFL rule changes. He has claimed that the game is starting to resemble basketball and bemoans the lack of contested possessions, which were commonplace in his playing days.

In 2006 Harmes appeared in a television commercial for Toyota's Memorable Moments series, where he was filmed in a recreation of the final moments of the 1979 Grand Final (with Stephen Curry and Dave Lawson). The commercial was filmed at a local park and took several takes to get right, which caused a large degree of pain for Harmes, he later said.

In 2006 Wayne Harmes coached the Macleod Football Club in Melbourne's Suburban Diamond Valley Football League (DVFL), Now known as the Northern Football League (NFL).

In October 2008, Wayne Harmes was appointed as Senior Coach of Lower Plenty Football Club in the Northern Football League (NFL).

References

↑ Trevor D. Jaques, Andrew McLeod (2005). Australian Football: Steps to Success. ISBN 0-7360-6005-7.

External links

Toyota memorable moments advertisement featuring Wayne Harmes re-enacting his part in the Sheldon goal of the 1979 Grand Final

v t e Carlton Football Club 1979 1981/1982 VFL Premiers

Captain (1981/1982): 3. Fitzpatrick 5. Sheldon 7. Johnston 11. Doull 16. Buckley 33. McConville 34. Marcou 36. Maclure 37. Harmes

v t e Norm Smith Medal winners

1979: Harmes 1980: Bartlett 1981: Doull 1982: Rioli 1983: Robertson 1984: Duckworth 1985: Madden 1986: Ayres 1987: Rhys-Jones 1988: Ayres 1989: Ablett 1990: Shaw 1991: Dear 1992: Matera 1993: Long 1994: Kemp 1995: Williams 1996: Archer 1997: McLeod 1998: McLeod 1999: Grant 2000: Hird 2001: Hart 2002: Buckley 2003: Black 2004: Pickett 2005: Judd 2006: Embley 2007: Johnson 2008: Hodge 2009: Chapman 2010 draw: Hayes 2010 replay: Pendlebury 2011: Bartel 2012: O'Keefe 2013: Lake

italics denotes the player won the Norm Smith Medal in a losing side

Persondata
Name	Harmes, Wayne
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	9 February 1960
Place of birth
Date of death
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