Brendon Gale (born 18 July 1968) is a former

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er who played 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 ...

in the

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(AFL). After his AFL playing career, Gale practiced law with commercial law firm King Wood Mallesons, until serving as

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of the

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from 2005 to 2009. He was also a member of the AFL's " Laws of the Game" or Rules Committee. On 10 August 2009, he was appointed CEO of Richmond.

Playing career

Gale played for the

from 1990 to 2001 as a

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and later ruckman. For five seasons he played alongside his older brother,

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, who was a very skilled football player some may say even amazing, who transferred from the

Fitzroy Football Club The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzroy, the club was a member of the Vi ...

at the end of the 1993 season. Michael was also a very skilled pianist and flutist. Brendon was appointed vice-captain of the club between 1994 and 1997. Their father, Don Gale, was a champion

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n footballer who became the first player from the NWFU to achieve

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selection. Their grandfather, Jack Gale, played three games for

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in 1924. For a period during his playing days Gale played guitar in a small band called Trial By Video, which included other footballers Mark Zanotti, Tony Woods, and

Paul Bulluss Paul Bulluss (born 23 January 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Bulluss was picked up from Woodville-West Torrens with the 52nd pick of the 199 ...

Statistics

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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 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 ...

, , 25 , , 21 , , 16 , , 15 , , 159 , , 104 , , 263 , , 118 , , 16 , , 39 , , 0.8 , , 0.7 , , 7.6 , , 5.0 , , 12.5 , , 5.6 , , 0.8 , , 1.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 25 , , 18 , , 7 , , 9 , , 162 , , 112 , , 274 , , 103 , , 15 , , 51 , , 0.4 , , 0.5 , , 9.0 , , 6.2 , , 15.2 , , 5.7 , , 0.8 , , 2.8 , - ! 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 peace ...

, , 25 , , 16 , , 26 , , 21 , , 162 , , 91 , , 253 , , 134 , , 10 , , 64 , , 1.6 , , 1.3 , , 10.1 , , 5.7 , , 15.8 , , 8.4 , , 0.6 , , 4.0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 25 , , 21 , , 27 , , 24 , , 191 , , 101 , , 292 , , 144 , , 14 , , 62 , , 1.3 , , 1.1 , , 9.1 , , 4.8 , , 13.9 , , 6.9 , , 0.7 , , 3.0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

, , 25 , , 24 , , 30 , , 15 , , 210 , , 95 , , 305 , , 133 , , 28 , , 117 , , 1.3 , , 0.6 , , 8.8 , , 4.0 , , 12.7 , , 5.5 , , 1.2 , , 4.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 25 , , 22 , , 34 , , 25 , , 178 , , 88 , , 266 , , 129 , , 20 , , 42 , , 1.5 , , 1.1 , , 8.1 , , 4.0 , , 12.1 , , 5.9 , , 0.9 , , 1.9 , - ! 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 t ...

, , 25 , , 19 , , 12 , , 8 , , 168 , , 93 , , 261 , , 102 , , 26 , , 206 , , 0.6 , , 0.4 , , 8.8 , , 4.9 , , 13.7 , , 5.4 , , 1.4 , , 10.8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 25 , , 21 , , 4 , , 1 , , 191 , , 144 , , 335 , , 128 , , 22 , , 393 , , 0.2 , , 0.0 , , 9.1 , , 6.9 , , 16.0 , , 6.1 , , 1.0 , , 18.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 25 , , 18 , , 6 , , 3 , , 137 , , 77 , , 214 , , 93 , , 17 , , 297 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 7.6 , , 4.3 , , 11.9 , , 5.2 , , 0.9 , , 16.5 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, , 25 , , 20 , , 22 , , 3 , , 165 , , 86 , , 251 , , 107 , , 15 , , 239 , , 1.1 , , 0.2 , , 8.3 , , 4.3 , , 12.6 , , 5.4 , , 0.8 , , 12.0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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References

Bibliography

* Hogan P: ''The Tigers of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gale, Brendon 1968 births Living people VFL/AFL administrators Australian chief executives Richmond Football Club administrators Richmond Football Club players Burnie Hawks Football Club players Sandy Bay Football Club players Allies State of Origin players Tasmanian State of Origin players Australian rules footballers from Tasmania Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame inductees