1. Guy Lindsay McKenna was born on 11 May 1969 and is a retired Australian rules football player and the former senior coach of the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League.
18 Facts About Guy McKenna
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Guy McKenna captained the club between 1999 and 2000 AFL season.
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Guy McKenna was recruited by the West Coast Eagles for the 1988 season with a pre-draft selection.
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Guy McKenna played for the Eagles from 1988 until 2000, notching up 267 games and booting 28 goals.
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Guy McKenna formed one of the most feared backlines in the AFL, along with John Worsfold, Ashley McIntosh, Glen Jakovich and Michael Brennan and was known for his cool demeanour and reliability.
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Guy McKenna was part of the club's 1992 and 1994 premiership sides.
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Guy McKenna won the Club Champion Award twice, once in 1989 and the other in 1999, finishing in the top three another five times.
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Guy McKenna was captain from 1998 until his retirement at the end of 2000.
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Guy McKenna kicked a memorable goal on the final kick of his career in Round 22 2000 which frenzied the crowd at Subiaco Oval.
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Guy McKenna joined Collingwood Football Club at the end of 2003 as an assistant coach under senior coach Michael Malthouse his former mentor.
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Guy McKenna left the Collingwood Football Club at the end of the 2008 season.
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In 2008, Guy McKenna was appointed the inaugural senior coach of the newly founded Gold Coast Suns Football Club.
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Guy McKenna oversaw their TAC Cup and VFL campaigns prior to their entrance in the AFL.
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Guy McKenna was then replaced by Rodney Eade as Gold Coast Suns Football Club senior coach.
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Guy McKenna coached Gold Coast Suns Football Club to a total of 88 games with 24 wins and 64 losses to a winning percentage of 27 percent.
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On 9 November 2015, Guy McKenna was appointed as an assistant coach in the position of line coach at Essendon under senior coach John Worsfold, who he previously played with as a former teammate at West Coast Eagles.
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Guy McKenna left the Essendon Football Club at the end of the 2017 season.
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On 15 November 2022, Guy McKenna was announced as the senior coach for the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association for the 2023 season.