Greg Packham (born 1 March 1959) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with St Kilda in the

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(VFL) during the 1980s. From Ballarat, Packham started his career at St Kilda in 1982 and kicked 24 goals from 12 appearances that year. He played just five further games for St Kilda and finished with an unusual statistic of having kicked at least one goal in every one of his 17 league games. The red haired forward then returned to his original club

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and in 1981 won the Henderson Medal, awarded to the best and fairest player in the

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. He was later named as a

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in Redan's official "Team of the 20th Century". In 1985, he played for Caulfield in the

Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

, and he finished second in the J. Field Medal for best and fairest of Division 2. In 1986, he tied for the

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, with Coorparoo's Brendan McMullen, in the 1986

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season with Kedron.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Packham, Greg 1959 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) St Kilda Football Club players Caulfield Football Club players Kedron Football Club players Redan Football Club players Living people