Ian Malcolm Dargie (born 15 November 1963) is a former

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er who played for and in the

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(AFL) and in the

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(WAFL) during the 1980s and 1990s.

Biography

Dargie was born in

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before emigrating to Australia as a child.

Playing career

Dargie began playing football for Sorrento Junior Football Club, later playing for Karrinyup Junior Football Club. After three years with North Beach in the

Western Australian Amateur Football League The Perth Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a ...

he joined . After making his league debut at the start of the

1986 WAFL season The 1986 WAFL season was the 102nd season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League. It was the last season before the introduction of the West Coast Eagles in the VFL which would relegate the WAFL to a second-level lea ...

, he played in three straight WAFL grand finals, winning premierships in 1986 and 1988. Dargie was picked up by at pick 85 in the

1988 VFL Draft The 1988 VFL draft, held on the 9th of November 1988, was the third annual national draft held by the VFL/AFL, Victorian Football League (now known as the Australian Football League). It consisted of a pre-season draft and a national draft. In 1 ...

and made his debut the following season in the Saints' Round 16 match against the Brisbane Bears. In 1990 he moved back to his home state of Western Australia and joined the West Coast Eagles but managed just one game and spent most of the season playing with Subiaco. His performances for Subiaco were so impressive that he won a

Sandover Medal The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and be ...

the following year, in the process breaking the longest-ever Sandover "drought" by any WA(N)FL club dating back half a century to the legendary Haydn Bunton senior. In 1994 Dargie won the award again to join Bunton senior as the only players from the Lions to win it twice. In 1995 Dargie joined

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in the

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. In three seasons in Queensland he played in two premierships.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dargie, Ian 1963 births Living people St Kilda Football Club players West Coast Eagles players Subiaco Football Club players Sandover Medal winners VFL/AFL players born in England Australian people of English descent Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Southport Australian Football Club players