Robert 'Robbie' McGhie (born 18 August 1951) 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 ...
player who played in the
VFL
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between 1969 and 1972 and again in 1979 for the
Footscray Football Club
The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the ...
, from 1973 to 1978 for the
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...
and in 1980 and 1981 for the
South Melbourne Football Club. McGhie was appointed coach of the
Sunshine Football Club in the
VFA for the 1990 season, but the club was unable to convince the VFA to restore its licence to compete (it had been revoked about a month before McGhie's appointment) so he never coached the club in a game.
References
* Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996
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1951 births
Living people
Western Bulldogs players
Richmond Football Club players
Richmond Football Club premiership players
Sydney Swans players
Brunswick Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
VFL/AFL premiership players
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