1. Brendon Bolton was born on 18 April 1979 and is an Australian rules football coach who is currently serving as an assistant coach at the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.
19 Facts About Brendon Bolton
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At age 19, Brendon Bolton played in the 1998 TFL Grand Final.
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Brendon Bolton won the Darrel Baldock Medal for the best player on the ground that day.
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At twenty-four, Brendon Bolton was appointed Captain-coach of North Hobart and he led them to the 2003 premiership.
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Brendon Bolton's playing career was cut short by a hamstring injury in 2008.
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Brendon Bolton served as the head coach of Southern Football League club North Hobart, guiding the club to a Southern Football League Premiership in 2003.
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Brendon Bolton served as the head coach of Victorian Football League club the Tasmanian Devils in 2006, taking over from former Fitzroy and North Melbourne player Matthew Armstrong, who left the club due to internal pressure from the Devils' playing group.
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Brendon Bolton served as head coach for the remainder of the season, after which he was replaced with former Sydney Swans player Daryn Cresswell.
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In 2008, Brendon Bolton served as the head coach of the Clarence Football Club in the Tasmanian Football League.
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Brendon Bolton was appointed the head coach of the Box Hill Hawks on 6 November 2008.
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Brendon Bolton was appointed as an assistant coach at Hawthorn Football Club at the end of 2009, in the position of midfield under senior coach Alastair Clarkson.
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In 2014, Brendon Bolton coached the Hawthorn Hawks in a NAB Challenge Cup match against North Melbourne, with Hawthorn achieving a 65-point win.
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Brendon Bolton is the only senior coach in the club's history to coach the club to five successive victories in his first five games.
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On 25 August 2015, Brendon Bolton was announced as the senior coach of the Carlton Football Club for the 2016 season, succeeding caretaker senior coach John Barker who had been filling in for the sacked Mick Malthouse.
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On 3 June 2019, Brendon Bolton was sacked as senior coach of the Carlton Football Club after being defeated by the Essendon Football club in Round 11,2019.
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Brendon Bolton coached Carlton to a total of 77 games with 16 wins and 61 losses with a winning percentage at 20 percent.
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Brendon Bolton was replaced by assistant coach David Teague as caretaker senior coach of the Carlton Football Club for the rest of the 2019 season, who was eventually appointed full-time senior coach.
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Brendon Bolton would remain in the role until the end of 2020, when he took up an assistant coaching position in the midfield in 2021.
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Brendon Bolton served as Director of Coaching and as an assistant coach in the midfield position under senior coach McRae at Collingwood Football Club.