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Rodney Maxwell Galt (9 October 1951 – 9 April 2019) was an Australian rules footballer 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) and
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(SANFL). A ruckman and forward, Galt made his debut for St Kilda in 1971 and played there for four seasons, before moving to Carlton in
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. He played only eleven games for Carlton in his first three seasons with the club, and was loaned to New South Wales Australian Football League club Western Suburbs in 1977, where he won a premiership. He was a regular in the Carlton forward line in 1978, winning the club's goalkicking with 49 goals. He played another 14 games in 1979, but was dropped from the team prior to the finals and was cleared at the end of the season. Galt then played for SANFL club West Torrens from 1980 until 1984, and then for
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in the
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(VFA) in 1985. He later was the head of surfwear company Byrning Spears and purchased a beachfront house on the
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for $17 million. He later sold it for only $9.5 million after falling in debt."Hedges Avenue mansion sells for $9.5 million"
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Carlton Football Club players St Kilda Football Club players West Torrens Football Club players Prahran Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian businesspeople 1951 births 2019 deaths {{AFL-bio-1950s-stub