Warren Dean (born 9 March 1964) is a former
Australian rules football
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er who played for
Melbourne
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in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL) during the late 1980s.
A forward from
Subiaco, Dean played 19 games with Melbourne in 1987. He featured prominently in the Elimination Final win over North Melbourne with three goals and four behinds. Dean also appeared in Melbourne's losing Preliminary Final team which missed out on the premiership decider when
Jim Stynes
James Stynes OAM (23 April 196620 March 2012) was an Irish-born footballer who converted from Gaelic football to Australian rules football. Playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), he went on to become o ...
gave away a free kick in the dying seconds. At times inaccurate in front of goals, he kicked six behinds for no goals in a game against Sydney the following season. He was a Western Australian State of Origin representative and played in the
1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival
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.
Dean was traded to West Coast in the
1990 Preseason Draft but could not break into their seniors.
References
Bibliography
*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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1964 births
Living people
Melbourne Football Club players
Subiaco Football Club players
Western Australian State of Origin players
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia