Robert Neill (Australian rules footballer)

Robert Neill
Personal information
Full name	Robert Neill
Date of birth	(1974-01-05) 5 January 1974
Original team(s)	Southern Districts
Height / weight	184 cm / 90 kg
Position(s)	Defender/Ruck-rover
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1992 – 1994 1996 – 1997 Total	Sydney St Kilda	21 0(9) 23 0(7) 44 (16)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1997.

Robert Neill (born 5 January 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Sydney and St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s.

Originally from the ACT, Neill appeared sporadically for Sydney before cementing his spot in the team for the 1994 season when he managed 15 games. He however failed to appear in a single game for the seniors the following year and crossed to St Kilda.

Neill played in St Kilda’s 1996 AFL Ansett Australia Cup winning side - the club's first AFL Cup win.^[1]

He was a regular in the 1996 season and despite only playing the opening two games of 1997, he was selected on the bench for the 1997 AFL Grand Final. After being delisted he went to Norwood where he was used as a forward and topped their goal-kicking five times.

References

↑ "AFL 1996 Ansett Cup Grand Final - St Kilda v Carlton". Slattery Media Group. 23 March 1996. Retrieved 7 November 2009.

Robert Neill's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

New South Wales team – 1992 State of Origin (Australian rules football)

New South Wales 22.9 (141) defeated Queensland 6.12 (48), at the Sydney Cricket Ground, 12 May 1992

Barich Brownless Brunton Carroll Coleman A. Daniher T. Daniher Gayfer Gray Higgins Holmes Kelly Lawson Longmire Neill Nettelbeck Page Powell Thompson Toohey Werner Wheeler

Coach: Buckenara

New South Wales-ACT team – 1993 State of Origin (Australian rules football)

Victoria 19.16 (130) defeated New South Wales-ACT 8.17 (65), at the MCG, 1 June 1993, crowd: 22,409

New South Wales	Brownless Brunton Carey (c) Coleman Crawford A. Daniher C. Daniher Gayfer Kelly (vc) Lawson Longmire Morris Murphy Powell Roberts Toohey Wheeler

Australian Capital Territory	Allison Barich Hird Neill Pyke

Coach: T. Daniher (NSW)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.