Dale Weightman was born on 3 October 1959 and is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League.
20 Facts About Dale Weightman
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Dale Weightman experienced success at the beginning of his playing career, but won respect at Richmond for staying loyal to the club during their crisis period in the late 1980s.
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Dale Weightman is one of six children born to Brian "Reggie" Dale Weightman and his first wife Maureen, and has three brothers and two sisters.
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Dale Weightman played 289 games with the Mildura Imperials in the Sunraysia Football League, winning six club best and fairests and playing in four premierships.
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Dale Weightman later coached various junior football teams and was recognised for his service to various local sporting associations with life membership.
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Dale Weightman would follow in his father's footsteps at the Imperials, playing for the junior teams and winning competition best and fairest awards at under 15 and under 17 level, as well as three consecutive premierships.
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Dale Weightman enrolled at Melbourne High School and played for the school team, which won the schoolboy "Herald Shield".
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Dale Weightman was selected for his senior debut in the opening round of 1978 against arch-rivals Carlton at the MCG, along with John Einsiedel and Greg Strachan, who had been a premiership teammate of Dale Weightman the previous season and would be part of the senior premiership side two years later.
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Dale Weightman was now sharing the roving duties with West Australian Robert Wiley.
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Dale Weightman was named starting rover in the 1980 Grand Final, and kicked the first goal of the game at the 5-minute mark after making position in open space up the ground to mark a pass from Jim Jess, then playing on and steering his shot through from a slight angle.
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Dale Weightman ended the game with 20 disposals and was rated among Richmond's best players on the day.
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Dale Weightman played well in the losing 1982 VFL Grand Final against Carlton.
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Dale Weightman pleaded not guilty at the VFL tribunal hearing, but was suspended for two matches.
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Jeff Hogg kicked a career-best ten goals, and Dale Weightman played a captain's game, combining with Craig Lambert and Matthew Knights to set up many scoring chances; he was credited with 33 disposals and kicked two goals.
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Dale Weightman pleaded guilty at the Tribunal hearing and was suspended for three weeks.
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Dale Weightman represented the Australian state of Victoria, and was state captain in 1987 and 1988 v Western Australia, and against New South Wales in 1990.
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Dale Weightman is a type 1 diabetic, however this has not stopped him from being active, and in 2005, Dale Weightman continued to have an impact in the EJ Whitten Legends Game at the Telstra Dome with competitors that were mostly around five or six years his junior.
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Dale Weightman continues to be a regular face at the Richmond Football Club, and has been one of the Richmond runners on match day on and off for the past few years.
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In January 2017, it was reported that Dale Weightman had collapsed due to a drop in his blood sugar level and fractured his left ankle during an early morning round of golf in Mildura.
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Dale Weightman had emergency surgery to remove some bone and insert screws into the ankle before spending a further 7 weeks in a moon boot.