14 Facts About Grantley Fielke

From his debut in 1979 until the end of the 1986 SANFL season, Grantley Fielke had played 171 games.

Grantley Fielke battled back and regained his place in the side shortly before the finals, for which West had easily qualified as the minor premier, winning 18 of their 22 regular season games.

Grantley Fielke then became a member of West Adelaide's first premiership win since 1961 when he came off the bench in their 21.16 to 16.12 win over Sturt in the Grand Final in front of 47,129 fans at Football Park.

West Adelaide obtained the services of former Port Adelaide premiership coach John Cahill in 1985 and Grantley Fielke continued to blossom.

Grantley Fielke was recruited by VFL club Collingwood for the 1987 VFL season and impressed at the club, playing 16 games as a wingman for the Magpies.

However, the 30-year-old Grantley Fielke suddenly found himself on the outer with coach Graham Cornes and he played only two games in 1992.

Grantley Fielke returned to West Adelaide once more in 1993 and became club captain in 1994, a position he would hold until he announced his retirement at the end of the 1997 season.

Grantley Fielke finished his SANFL career having played a club record 327 games for West Adelaide: as of the end of the 2022 SANFL season, he is the only West Adelaide player to have played over 300 senior games for the club.

Grantley Fielke was an inaugural inductee into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

Grantley Fielke was at one time married to former Australian netball team captain Michelle den Dekker but is married to Cheryl Grantley Fielke and has three children Callum, Bailey, and Abbey.

Grantley Fielke owned a sporting goods store between 1981 and 2003 at the Arndale Shopping Centre in Adelaide.

Two of his brothers, Craig and Tony Grantley Fielke, played league football for West Adelaide in the SANFL, and in 1986 all three players played several league games together.

In September 2019, Grantley Fielke was violently attacked and severely injured when two men invaded his home in the early hours of the morning.

Grantley Fielke underwent facial reconstruction surgery, having six metal plates inserted in his face and spent four days in hospital.