Tony 'TJ' Jewell (born 8 December 1943) is a former

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player who played in the VFL between 1964 and 1970 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 ...

Playing career

Richmond Football Club

He was recruited from Oakleigh in the VFA where he had led the club's goalkicking in 1962 and was placed 4th in the VFA's best & fairest award, the J. J. Liston Trophy, in 1963. Jewell played for

, where he played a total of 80 games between 1964 and 1970.

Coaching career

His initial coaching experience after leaving Richmond was with Caulfield then in the second division of VFA. He led them to the 2nd division premiership and promotion to the top division in 1973.

Richmond Football Club

He was senior coach of

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from 1979 to 1981, which included winning the 1980 premiership, but was sacked to make way for

Francis Bourke Francis William Bourke (born 2 April 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach who represented Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1967 and 1981, and coached the club in 1982 and 1983. A key figure in a suc ...

. He later returned to coach the Richmond Football Club as senior coach in his second stint from 1986 to 1987.

St Kilda Football Club

He was also senior coach of St Kilda in 1983 and 1984.

References

* Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996
Richmond Football Club - Hall of Fame
*Fiddian, Marc: ''Devils at Play. A History of the Oakleigh Football Club'', Pakenham Gazette, Pakenham 1982

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