Mark Yeates (born 10 May 1960) 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

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

in the

Victorian Football League 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 ...

(VFL) during the 1980s. Yeates is best known for an incident in the

1989 VFL Grand Final The 1989 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1989. It was the 93rd annual grand final ...

when he felled

Dermott Brereton Dermott Hugh Brereton (born 19 August 1964) is an Australian former professional Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League (AFL) who is regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation. Of Irish descent (his ...

after the opening bounce which saw the Hawthorn forward suffer a bruised kidney and internal bleeding. He left Geelong at the end of the 1990 season and for the next two years was captain/coach of

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and led them to back-to-back

Tasmanian Football League The Tasmanian State League (TSL), colloquially known as the "Tasmanian Football League (TFL)" (formerly known as the "Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL)" and several other short-term names) is the highest ranked Australian ru ...

(TFL) premierships in 1991 and 1992 before announcing his retirement. Yeates was playing coach of Princetown in the Heytesbury Mt Noorat Football League for the 1996 season, but played minimal games due to injury. In 2000 Yeates coached Geelong's first all female side at the East Geelong Football Club. The club's women's team was entered into the

Victorian Women's Football League The Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) was the oldest and largest Australian rules football league for women in the world, consisting of 47 clubs from Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, across seven divisions and a total of ove ...

division two competition where they were only one game out of the finals on their debut season. His father

John Yeates John Yeates (born 30 August 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family His son Mark played at Geelong in the 1980s and became famous for his part in the 1989 VFL Grand ...

was captain of Geelong in 1961 and 1962 and played in Geelong's 1963 premiership side. His cousins Neville and Darryl Growden were also very skilful footballers, the latter playing for Port Adelaide throughout the 1980s.Mark Yeates expects another classic grand final
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yeates, Mark 1960 births Living people Geelong Football Club players North Hobart Football Club players North Hobart Football Club coaches Australian rules footballers from South Australia Victorian State of Origin players People from Mount Gambier, South Australia