Bernard Francis Quinlan was born on 21 July 1951 and is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League.
21 Facts About Bernie Quinlan
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One of a handful of players to have won a Brownlow Medal and Coleman Medal, Bernie Quinlan was an inaugural inductee in the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Bernie Quinlan was recruited from Traralgon, which was in Footscray's zone, and arrived at Footscray halfway through the 1969 VFL season.
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Bernie Quinlan played 177 games for the club, playing mostly at centre half-forward.
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Bernie Quinlan was cleared to Fitzroy in 1978 for 70,000 dollars.
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In October 1979, Bernie Quinlan was fined $500 for missing two training sessions with the Victorian squad the previous month.
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Bernie Quinlan had recently moved to Baxter and complained that he had not been notified in time by Fitzroy, but the VFL's administration manager Alan Schwab dismissed these as "inadequate excuses".
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In December 1979, the Lions and the football public were shocked when it was announced by club president Frank Bibby that Bernie Quinlan had told the committee he wanted to devote more time to his farm.
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Bernie Quinlan won the Brownlow Medal in 1981, tying with his former Bulldog teammate Barry Round.
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Bernie Quinlan twice kicked more than 100 goals in a season: 1983 and 1984.
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Bernie Quinlan led a formidable forward line in the mid-1980s with the likes of Michael Conlan, Garry Wilson, David McMahon and Gary Sidebottom.
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Bernie Quinlan was a prodigious kicker of the football which earned him the nickname "Superboot".
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Bernie Quinlan regularly featured in the World of Sport kicking competitions.
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Bernie Quinlan was picked up in the January 1972 national service intake and posted to Puckapunyal with Footscray teammate Peter Welsh.
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Bernie Quinlan served in the Service Corp unit and rose to the rank of Lance Corporal.
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Bernie Quinlan said in later years that he considered it a "dead-end job" and wished he had taken up a trade instead.
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Bernie Quinlan worked as a commentator with the Seven Network until 1995.
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Bernie Quinlan returned to Fitzroy as senior coach for the 1995 AFL season, when he replaced Robert Shaw, who left at the end of the 1994 season.
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Bernie Quinlan was then replaced by Alan McConnell as caretaker senior coach of Fitzroy Football Club for the rest of the 1995 season.
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In 2017, Bernie Quinlan joined former footballers Don Scott and Tony Jewell to form a landscaping and gardening crew, doing odd jobs around the Mornington Peninsula.
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Bernie Quinlan has worked as a weights coach with VFL team Port Melbourne.