John Neville Northey was born on 29 June 1943 and is a former Australian rules football player and coach.
21 Facts About John Northey
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John Northey played from 1963 to 1970 with the Richmond Football Club.
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John Northey played 118 games and kicked 192 goals for Richmond from 1963 until 1970.
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John Northey was a member of Richmond's 1967 and 1969 premiership teams.
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John Northey coached NSW against a VFL Reserves team in 1972 and then Redan to five BFL premierships between 1975 and 1980.
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John Northey was serving as an assistant coach with St Kilda under Mike Patterson.
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John Northey was appointed as senior coach with the Sydney Swans for one season in 1985 where he was sacked after a year when he didn't fit into flamboyant owner Geoffrey Edelsten's vision of a higher profile coach.
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John Northey then went to be the senior coach of Melbourne from 1986 to 1992; his most successful year was when he took the Demons to the 1988 VFL Grand Final, eventually losing to Hawthorn.
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John Northey was then replaced by Neil Balme as Melbourne Football Club senior coach.
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John Northey was then replaced by Robert Walls as Richmond Football Club senior coach.
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John Northey was then appointed Brisbane Bears senior coach for the 1996 season, when he replaced Robert Walls.
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John Northey led the Bears to their best ever season in making the preliminary final, before being eliminated by eventual premiers North Melbourne.
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John Northey was then appointed as the inaugural senior coach of the Brisbane Lions for the 1997 season.
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John Northey led the club into the finals in their inaugural season in 1997, where they finished eighth with ten wins, eleven losses and one draw.
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The Lions under John Northey were then eliminated by eventual runners-up St Kilda in the first week of the qualifying finals.
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However, after disappointing results in the 1998 season, when the Lions under John Northey sat last on the ladder, he was sacked after the Lions suffered a 71-point loss to Fremantle in Round 11,1998.
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John Northey was then replaced by assistant coach Roger Merrett as caretaker senior coach for the rest of the 1998 season.
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John Northey was awarded the Australian Sports Medal by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 October 2000 for his contributions to Australian football.
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John Northey went on to coach South Fremantle Football Club for the 2002 and 2003 seasons in the WAFL.
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John Northey returned to Ballarat, he coached the Ballarat Swans from 2005 and to a premiership in 2008.
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John Northey is the coach of the Learmonth Football Club.