Todd Viney (born 30 March 1966) is an Australian rules football executive and former player and coach. He is currently the General Manager of Football of the North Melbourne Football Club. Viney played 13 seasons with in the

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, and he later served as their caretaker senior coach for the final five games of the 2011 season.

Early life

As a youngster, Viney was a talented tennis player and held an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder from 1983 to 1984. At 18, however, he decided to switch and pursue a footballing career.

Playing career

Melbourne Football Club

A Sturt recruit, Viney was mostly a wingman and on-baller for Melbourne Football Club. After nine seasons with the Demons, he decided to retire from football in order to become the fitness coach and hitting partner of the young tennis star

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. However, Todd's standing with Mark's father/manager/coach Nick Philippoussis was very strained (as many people had warned him), and he soon resumed his football career with the Demons, midway through the 1996 season. Viney captained the Demons in 1998 and 1999. In 1998, Viney earned

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selection finished equal fifth in the 1998 Brownlow Medal. He also twice won the Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy as Melbourne's best and fairest. Viney announced his retirement before the end of the 1999 season due to nerve and hamstring related injuries. He is named in Melbourne’s Team of the Century, and is a member of the Club’s Hall of Fame. Viney's brother

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also played with Melbourne from 1988 to 1991.

Coaching career

Melbourne Football Club

In 2000, he joined the Melbourne Football Club coaching panel as an assistant coach in the role of midfield coach under senior coach

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. Viney was also part of the coaching panel in the club's 2000 Grand Final Loss. Viney didn't continue in the role for the 2001 season.

Moama Football Club

Viney then moved to

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coaching country club

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in 2003 and 2004.

Hawthorn Football Club

Former teammate and Hawthorn Football Club senior coach

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recruited Viney as an assistant coach at

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from 2005 to the end of 2008, including their 2008 premiership victory.

Adelaide Crows

Viney then moved to the

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as an assistant coach from 2009 to 2010. Viney resigned from his role as the assistant coach of Adelaide Crows at the conclusion of the 2010 season.

Return to Melbourne Football Club

In October 2010, Viney signed with to be in charge of Melbourne's player development program. With Viney's move back to the Demons, Adelaide conceded Viney's talented son,

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, to the Demons, under the father-son rule. After

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was sacked as senior coach in the middle of the 2011 season, the Melbourne Football Club announced that Viney would be caretaker senior coach for the remainder of the 2011 season. Melbourne under Viney, won one game and lost four games of the remaining five games left in the 2011 season, to finish in thirteenth place on the ladder. At the end of the 2011 season, Viney chose not to re-apply for the senior coaching job and was replaced by Mark Neeld as senior coach of Melbourne Football Club. Viney however remained with the club as the General Manager of Player Personnel. Viney left the Melbourne Football Club at the end of the 2019 season.

North Melbourne Football Club

After three years away from the AFL, Viney was appointed General Manager of Football at on 25 August 2022, to work alongside newly hired senior coach Alistair Clarkson.

Statistics

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 ...

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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;", , 12 , , 24 , , 13 , , 15 , , 412 , , 182 , , 594 , , 103 , , 36 , , 0.5 , , 0.6 , , 17.2 , , 7.6 , , 24.8 , , 4.3 , , 1.5 , , 7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1992 , style="text-align:center;", , 12 , , 22 , , 7 , , 4 , , 234 , , 162 , , 396 , , 76 , , 40 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 10.6 , , 7.4 , , 18.0 , , 3.5 , , 1.8 , , 1 , - ! 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 ...

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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;", , 12 , , 17 , , 4 , , 4 , , 179 , , 175 , , 354 , , 56 , , 35 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 10.5 , , 10.3 , , 20.8 , , 3.3 , , 2.1 , , 3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1996 , style="text-align:center;", , 12 , , 12 , , 1 , , 8 , , 123 , , 127 , , 250 , , 44 , , 21 , , 0.1 , , 0.7 , , 10.3 , , 10.6 , , 20.8 , , 3.7 , , 1.8 , , 2 , - ! 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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Coaching statistics

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Honours and achievements

*Individual **

Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal The Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player(s) adjudged the best and fairest at the Melbourne Football Club throughout the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League (VF ...

: 1993, 1998 ** Melbourne F.C. Captain: 1998-1999 **

: 1998 ** Melbourne F.C. Team of the Century ** AFL Rising Star Nominee: 1993 (Round 6) ** Melbourne F.C. Coach: 2011 (Caretaker)

References

External links

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DemonWiki profile
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