Jim Manson (died 20 May 2010) was an

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player and local government politician from Tasmania,

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. Manson played 210 games for Glenorchy Football Club, winning the club's best and fairest award in 1964. He played as a ruckman and forward. Manson was a member of the Glenorchy City Council from 1996, and was the council's deputy mayor from 2005 until his death. His son James played 167

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games and was a member of the 1990

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club w ...

team that won the

1990 AFL Grand Final The 1990 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 6 October 1990. It was the 94th annual grand fin ...

. Jim Manson was inducted into the

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in 2009.
Manson was also a television commentator with Hobart television station, TVT6 (later known as Tas-TV and WIN) from the 1970s until the early 1990s, commentating on Tasmanian Football League matches on their World Of Sport program which ended in 1993.

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