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Alastair Graeme Lynch (born 19 June 1968) is an Australian Football League full forward from Burnie, Tasmania who had a highly-successful career, despite chronic illness and injury. Australian Rules football at the MCG. The player taking the mark is Alistair Lynch of the Brisbane Lions, against Collingwood Football Club. ...
Australian Rules football at the MCG. The player taking the mark is Alistair Lynch of the Brisbane Lions, against Collingwood Football Club. ...
Shane Wakelin (born August 12, 1974) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. ...
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
This is a page about the national league in Australian Rules Football. ...
Burnie City Council, Tasmania Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia, originally settled in 1827 as Emu Bay. ...
Emblems: ? (please edit) Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Slogan or Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ...
Fitzroy Football Club
He began his senior football career at Fitzroy in 1988. He was an intimidating player in defence, playing fullback and centre half back. In his early years his notable abilities were strong marking (his outstanding aerial abilities recognised when he won the 1991 Mark of the Year award) and heavy tackling. His titanic battles with key forwards such as Tony Lockett were highlights, and Lockett has commented on Lynch being one of his toughest opponents. However, he was not a noteable goalkicker in his days at Fitzroy. The Fitzroy Football Club, latterly known as the Lions, was formed in 1883 and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897. ...
Luke McPharlins Mark of the Year 2005. ...
Anthony Howard Tony Lockett (born in Ballarat on March 9, 1966) is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in Australian Rules Football history. ...
Brisbane Bears Lynch was one of the first players to leave a struggling Fitzroy outfit in 1993 season, before the eventual merger. At the time, the Brisbane Bears were also struggling, but improving somewhat under the coaching of premiership coach Robert Walls. The term of his contract, ten years, was unprecedented and at the time considered by outsiders to be a great risk for the club. The Brisbane Bears Football Club was the first Queensland-based club in the Victorian Football League. ...
Robert Walls is a former premiership-winning Australian rules football player and coach who now works primarily as a television commentator and newspaper columnist on the sport. ...
Lynch came full of promise to the Bears. In the early years, he became a poster boy recruit for the struggling club which lacked big name players.
In his first few games of 1994 Lynch had suffered a broken collarbone and knee surgery, making him unable deliver his best. In 1995, he contracted a mystery virus which was later revealed that he was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome which sidelined him for the entire 1995 season. Some commentators believe that if Lynch had played that season, then the Bears could have won a premiership. Others believed that Lynch contracted chronic fatigue when overtraining during his rehabilitation from injury. Lynch was one of the first sportspeople in Australian to expirment with the ice bath which proved to assist in his recovery, and became a public figure for the illness which has struggling for credibility at the time. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) and various other names, is a syndrome of unknown and possibly multiple etiologies, affecting the central nervous system (CNS), immune, and many other systems and organs. ...
Cryosurgery is the application of extreme cold to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue. ...
In his return the following season, the Bears, struggling for forward line talent and with an emergingly talented backline, first experimented playing Lynch up forward to releive an ageing Roger Merrett with some success. Successive seasons saw him interchanged between the two opposite ends of the ground. Roger Merrett was an Australian rules footballer who played in two Victorian Football League premiership sides with the Essendon Football Club in the mid-1980s before moving to the fledging Brisbane Bears, later captaining the new club for seven seasons. ...
Brisbane Lions When Fitzroy merged with the Bears after the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions, Lynch was made a semi-permanent forward but was unable to perform at his peak for the next two seasons due to minor recurrence of his illness. The Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club (the trading name for the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club) are an Australian Football League club, formed from the post-1996 merger of the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy, the Lions. ...
Still struggling with intermittent lapses of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1998, Lynch discovered that the drug he had been prescribed at the beggining of the season, although with the permission of the Australian Sports Drug Agency (official AFL drug agents) had been added to the IOC list of banned substances. He took it upon himself to alert the AFL and was controversially charged for taking a prohibited substance before eventually being cleared. Alternative meanings at IOC (disambiguation) The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years. ...
A new beginning for Lynch and the Lions came in 1999, under champion coach Leigh Matthews. He played some games in defence but usually at full forward. Improvements in his strength, kicking for goal and positioning during marking contests made him one the most feared forwards in the competition. Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1999. ...
Leigh R. Matthews (born March 1, 1952) is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time and the most successful coach in the history of Australian Rules Football, in a long playing career with the Hawthorn Football Club. ...
Endured great success for the 2001, 2002, and 2003 seasons becoming a multiple goal kicker against the game's most prominent fullbacks including Stephen Silvagni, Matthew Scarlett and Shane Wakelin from Collingwood, Brisbane's on-going rivals. Lynch now has played in three winning premierships. In 2004, he was the competition's oldest player at 35 years of age. Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2001. ...
Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2002. ...
Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2003. ...
Stephen Silvagni (born 1967) is a former Australian rules champion for the Carlton Football Club. ...
Matthew Scarlett (born June 5, 1979) is an Australian rules footballer. ...
Shane Wakelin (born August 12, 1974) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. ...
Collingwood refers to a number of things: Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia The Collingwood Football Club of the Australian Football League Collingwood, a town in Canada Collingwood, a town in the South Island of New Zealand Collingwood College, at the University of Durham, England Edward Collingwood, a British mathematician...
Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2004. ...
Lynch retired after the 2004 AFL Grand Final in controversial circumstances. Straining a hamstring early in the match, he reacted to some typical sledging from Port Adelaide Football Club's Darryl Wakelin by swinging several punches. Despite none of them appearing to connect with Wakelin and the fact that he had already retired, Lynch was heavily fined and suspended for ten matches by the AFL tribunal. This added salt to the wound of losing and missing out on a record-equalling fourth consecutive premiership for the Lions. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This is a page about the national league in Australian Rules Football. ...
A Grand Final is the culmination of a series of final matches played between a number of sporting teams to decide the premier team. ...
In cricket, sledging is exchanging words with an opposition player which can put them off their usual game; it is an attempt to psych out an opponent. ...
The Port Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Power, is an Australian Rules Football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Despite this disappointing end to his career, Lynch will be remembered as a player who overcame great adversity to become one of the premier players with one of the greatest teams the game of Australian Rules Football has seen. Australian Rules and Aussie Rules redirect here. ...
Lynch is now enjoying his retirement, and is spending it as a match commentator on Brisbane Lions matches with Triple M radio as well as an occasional television commentary role with the Fox Footy Channel. Triple M is a network of radio stations owned by the Austereo Radio Network. ...
Fox Footy Channel is a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football, in particular the AFL. The channel was created after the Foxtel consortium won the rights to the AFL; formerly a key feature of Optus Vision programming. ...
He has also co-written a book with Peter Blucher titled, "Taking Nothing For Granted", which was released in 2005.
External Links - Alastair Lynch - a Tasmanian Football legend
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