Nathan Burke (born 6 February 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the team in the

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competition (AFLW). A tough

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he is considered the most courageous footballers to play for the St Kilda Football Club. He set the club record for most games at his retirement, with 323 games which was broken by former team-mate Robert Harvey in round 7, 2006.Love and respect, heart and soul: Burke enters Australian Football Hall of Fame
by Chris Nice for Saints.com.au 24 August 2021 Dozens of concussions during his career led to him using a helmet. In 2021 he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

VFL/AFL playing career

Burke was co-captain in St Kilda's 1996 AFL Ansett Australia Cup winning side – the club's first AFL Cup win. He started his football playing career with the Pines Football Club. His professional career spanned 1987–2003 despite missing most of 2002 with a knee injury, with Burke deciding to retire late in the season, in the Round 19 clash with Richmond, which the Saints won by 80 points. It was also notable for the fact that the coaching panel of Richmond that day included fellow St Kilda teammates

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and Stewart Loewe, who stayed on the ground in honour of Burke following his parade lap (with

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's "Amazing" played at the ground).

Post-playing career

Burke had been a director of the St Kilda Football Club from 2008 to 2015. He had joined the board with fellow player Andrew Thompson. He is also a regular expert commentator on ABC Grandstand football coverage, an AFL analyst for Fox Sports News, and co hosts the Sunday Session on ABC radio. He is a feature article writer for Inside Football magazine also. This work complements his corporate guest speaking and school programs. In 2015 he rejoined the AFL Match Review Panel, a role he held prior to joining the Board at St Kilda. In September 2019, Burke was due to become assistant coach in the

with St Kilda, but was instead appointed by the

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to their head coach role from the

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Personal life

Burke's daughter, Alice, plays for in the

competition, and made her playing debut against the , whom he coaches. Burke's uncle Nick Bloom also played for St Kilda.

Playing statistics

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1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...

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1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 29 , , 21 , , 12 , , 4 , , 265 , , 143 , , 408 , , 66 , , 38 , , 0.6 , , 0.2 , , 12.6 , , 6.8 , , 19.4 , , 3.1 , , 1.8 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 29 , , 23 , , 3 , , 1 , , 316 , , 180 , , 496 , , 64 , , 53 , , 0.1 , , 0.0 , , 13.7 , , 7.8 , , 21.6 , , 2.8 , , 2.3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1992 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 24 , , 9 , , 6 , , 296 , , 158 , , 454 , , 64 , , 69 , , 0.4 , , 0.3 , , 12.3 , , 6.6 , , 18.9 , , 2.7 , , 2.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 22 , , 7 , , 3 , , 335 , , 173 , , 508 , , 84 , , 77 , , 0.3 , , 0.1 , , 15.2 , , 7.9 , , 23.1 , , 3.8 , , 3.5 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 18 , , 9 , , 7 , , 318 , , 122 , , 440 , , 75 , , 49 , , 0.5 , , 0.4 , , 17.7 , , 6.8 , , 24.4 , , 4.2 , , 2.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1996 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 22 , , 15 , , 9 , , 434 , , 146 , , 580 , , 92 , , 64 , , 0.7 , , 0.4 , , 19.7 , , 6.6 , , 26.4 , , 4.2 , , 2.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 22 , , 8 , , 7 , , 363 , , 141 , , 504 , , 92 , , 52 , , 0.4 , , 0.3 , , 16.5 , , 6.4 , , 22.9 , , 4.2 , , 2.4 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 10 , , 10 , , 2 , , 127 , , 82 , , 209 , , 28 , , 22 , , 1.0 , , 0.2 , , 12.7 , , 8.2 , , 20.9 , , 2.8 , , 2.2 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 3 , , 3 , , 0 , , 22 , , 16 , , 38 , , 11 , , 10 , , 1.0 , , 0.0 , , 7.3 , , 5.3 , , 12.7 , , 3.7 , , 3.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 18 , , 6 , , 10 , , 132 , , 89 , , 221 , , 57 , , 38 , , 0.3 , , 0.6 , , 7.3 , , 4.9 , , 12.3 , , 3.2 , , 2.1 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 323 ! 124 ! 92 ! 4674 ! 2269 ! 6943 ! 1119 ! 841 ! 0.4 ! 0.3 ! 14.5 ! 7.0 ! 21.5 ! 3.5 ! 2.6

Coaching statistics

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2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...

, , 6 , , 1 , , 5 , , 0 , , 17% , , 6 (conf.) , , 7 (conf.) , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

, , 9 , , 5 , , 4 , , 0 , , 56% , , 8 , , 14 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=2, Career totals ! 15 ! 6 ! 9 ! 0 ! 40% ! colspan=2,

Honours and achievements

*Team **

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( St Kilda):

** Pre-Season Cup ( St Kilda): 1996 *Individual **

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: 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999 ** Herald Sun Player of the Year Award: 1996 ** Trevor Barker Award (St Kilda F.C. Best & Fairest): 1993, 1996, 1999 ** St Kilda F.C. Captain: 1996-2000 ** Australian Representative Honours in

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: 1999 ** Victorian Representative Honours

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burke, Nathan Trevor Barker Award winners All-Australians (AFL) St Kilda Football Club players Victorian State of Origin players 1970 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Australia international rules football team players