Phillip Michael Narkle was born on 29 January 1961 and is a former Australian rules football player of Indigenous Australian descent who played for St Kilda and West Coast in the Australian Football League and Swan Districts Football Club in the West Australian Football League during the mid-late 1970s and early 1990s.
10 Facts About Phil Narkle
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Younger brother of Keith Narkle who played for Swan Districts, Phil generally played on the wing position.
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Phil Narkle played colts in 1977 for Swan Districts in the WANFL and was awarded the Medallists Medal for being the fairest and best player for that year.
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Phil Narkle made his debut for Swan Districts in the league competition during 1978 and gradually established himself for a club that was emerging from a lean period since Haydn Bunton junior had left fifteen years beforehand.
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Phil Narkle had a sensational season in 1982 when he played in the WAFL premiership for Swan Districts, and during that year he won the Sandover Medal for the best player in the WAFL.
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Phil Narkle played one more year for Swan Districts playing in his second premiership for the club.
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Phil Narkle was seen as an acquisition for the struggling Saints but a succession of injuries meant Narkle did not show anything of his best form at Moorabbin until the latter part of the 1986 season.
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In 1987 Phil Narkle returned to Western Australia to play for the West Coast Eagles where he became the club's inaugural selection to the All Australian Team.
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Phil Narkle was re-drafted by the Eagles in 1990 and played nine senior games for the club, but was in and out of the rechristened WASFL and his experience was a vital component in Swans' grand final win over Claremont.
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At the age of thirty-two, Phil Narkle retired as a player at the end of 1993, but has continued to give service in administration.