Anthony Shaw (born 23 July 1960) is a former

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er, coach and media personality who played for the

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Playing career

Collingwood Football Club

Shaw was recruited to Collingwood from

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-Lakeside to make his debut in 1977 alongside brother Ray. He was a small midfielder at 170 cm who didn't have the natural ability or quality skills of others but his courage and determination made him a fine rover. He did struggle in his early years to cement a senior position in the team. Shaw played in the 1980–1981 losing Grand Final sides. In 1984, Shaw won the

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as the Magpies best and fairest player for the season, as well as playing with second brother Neville. After another couple seasons of the club failing to make the finals, Shaw took over the captaincy left by Mark Williams in 1987, but the side failed in the new-look competition, finishing 12th. In 1990, Shaw captained the club to a historic premiership, the club's first in 32 years, defeating

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. Shaw's 35 touches saw him earn the

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as best on the ground. In the same season, Shaw won his second

. In 1991, against the Brisbane Bears, Shaw had 50 disposals, which was at the time the second most disposals recorded in a game by a single player (trailing Greg Williams' record of 53 set in 1989). Injuries got the better of him in years to come, but he continued impressing as a centreman despite the constant struggle of getting on the park injury-free. At the end of 1993, he was considering retirement but played on, despite handing the captaincy to premiership team-mate Gavin Brown. 1994 was his last year, but he broke several records. In round nine, against

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, he played his 300th game, and nine weeks later against Footscray, he broke

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's club VFL/AFL games record of 306 games. Shaw's last game was played at the WACA in an elimination final which the Magpies lost by two points. Shaw retired in a tearful farewell with playing a total of 313

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games and kicked a total of 157 goals for

from 1978 until 1994.

Statistics

Playing statistics

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1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

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1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

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1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

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1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

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1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...

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1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

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1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

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1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

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1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

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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, k ...

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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 Australian ...

, , , , 22 , 20 , , 9 , , 10 , , 316 , , 203 , , 519 , , 89 , , 34 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 15.8 , , 10.2 , , 26.0 , , 4.5 , , 1.7 , , 4 , - , scope=row , 1989 , , , , 22 , 14 , , 6 , , 7 , , 208 , , 141 , , 349 , , 56 , , 23 , , 0.4 , , 0.5 , , 14.9 , , 10.1 , , 24.9 , , 4.0 , , 1.6 , , 5 , - style=background:#EAEAEA , scope=row bgcolor=F0E68C ,

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 Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

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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 Phil ...

, , , , 22 , 18 , , 8 , , 7 , , 316 , , 202 , , 518 , , 57 , , 35 , , 0.4 , , 0.4 , , 17.6 , , 11.2 , , 28.8 , , 3.2 , , 1.9 , , 3 , - style=background:#EAEAEA , scope=row ,

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

, , , , 22 , 17 , , 3 , , 2 , , 244 , , 162 , , 406 , , 74 , , 30 , , 0.2 , , 0.1 , , 14.4 , , 9.5 , , 23.9 , , 4.4 , , 1.8 , , 4 , - , scope=row ,

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 peace ...

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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 Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

, , , , 22 , 20 , , 5 , , 2 , , 141 , , 180 , , 321 , , 40 , , 28 , , 0.3 , , 0.1 , , 7.1 , , 9.0 , , 16.1 , , 2.0 , , 1.4 , , 2 , - class=sortbottom ! colspan=3 , Career ! 313 !! 157 !! 141 !! 4587 !! 3045 !! 7632 !! 1121 !! 273 !! 0.5 !! 0.5 !! 14.7 !! 9.7 !! 24.4 !! 3.6 !! 1.9 !! 62

Coaching statistics

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 22 , , 9 , , 13 , , 0 , , 40.9% , , 11 , , 16 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal" ,

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 t ...

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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 ...

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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 shootin ...

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Honours and achievements

Team * AFL premiership player (): 1990 (c) Individual *

* AFL Premiership Captain:

* Collingwood Captain: 1987–1993 * AFLPA Best Captain Award: 1990 * 2×

* 4×

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(

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): 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992 * Collingwood Team of the Century 1897-1996 – Interchange * Collingwood F.C. Hall of Fame: 2004 inductee * VFL/AFL Team of the Year: 1984, 1990 (c)

Coaching career

Collingwood Football Club senior coach (1996-1999)

After

Leigh Matthews Leigh Raymond Matthews (born 1 March 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and coached and the . Squat, short-legged and barrel-chested, Matthews earned the ic ...

was sacked as Collingwood Football Club senior coach at the end of the 1995 season, Shaw would be appointed the senior coach of Collingwood Football Club for the 1996 season, only two seasons after retirement.A leader on the field, Shaw was unsuccessful off the field as a coach. In the 1996 season, he would guide Collingwood to finish in 11th place with nine wins and thirteen losses, and his best effort came in the 1997 season when the club finished 10th with ten wins and twelve losses. In the 1998 season, Collingwood under Shaw finished in 14th place with seven wins and fifteen losses. Shaw then coached the Pies to finish 16th, which is the last position on the ladder to the club's second

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in the 1999 season with four wins and eighteen losses, earning the accolade of being a premiership captain to coach a wooden spoon side. After that, Shaw resigned as Collingwood Football Club senior coach. Shaw was then replaced by

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as Collingwood Football Club senior coach. Shaw coached Collingwood Football Club from 1996 until 1999 to a total of 88 games with 30 wins and 58 losses to a winning percentage of 34 percent.

Post-Football

Shaw became a media commentator after his coaching role, commentating on the radio for

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Football before joining the

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as a commentator/special comments for several seasons. In 1991, Shaw was appointed ''

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Monarch'' (popularly called ''King of Moomba''). His son, Brayden, was drafted to Collingwood in 2003, but failed to play a game before being delisted in 2005, before moving on to

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in the VFL. In March 2006, Shaw returned to media focus when he publicly criticized the AFL for the consistent introduction of new rules. Shaw was selected to present the

to the best player in the 2008 AFL Grand Final, which was

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from .

Racism

In 1991 Shaw told journalist Caroline Wilson of ''

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'' that "I'd make a racist comment every week if I thought it would help win the game. If I think I can say something to upset someone, then I'll say it. I couldn't give a stuff about their race, religion or creed. If they react, you know you've got 'em". However, in 2021, following an independent review of the Collingwood Football Club which found evidence of systemic racism, he denied that the club was racist, stating "I played there for 21 years and coached over that period of time … I never saw anything that meant that this whole club was racist". ''I said it,'' Shaw said in a follow-up 2013 interview with ''The Age'' after 22 years of publicly avoiding the matter. ''I was naive and I was wrong. I had this view that what goes on the field, stays on the field. I erred and I've got to wear it.''

References

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