Almanac Footy Teams: A team of brothers
Here’s a team of brothers from Greig Norman:
Backs: Ian Nankervis Shane Wakelin Syd Coventry
Half Backs: Chris Scott Albert Collier Neale Daniher
Centres: Geoff Ablett Tony Shaw Brad Scott
Half Forwards: Shane Morwood Terry Daniher Ray Shaw
Forwards: Gary Ablett Gordon Coventry Tony Morwood
Rucks: Simon Madden Bruce Nankervis
Rover: Harry Collier
Interchange: Justin Madden Daryl Wakelin
Coaches: Norm Smith Len Smith
Very Collingwood-centric I know.
Surely there will be other brother sides to beat it.
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I like the brother combinations where one is much better known than the other:
Tim and Larry Watson
Richard and Graham Osborne
Steve and Michael Wright
Simon and Paul Atkins (identical twins)
Surely Anthony Daniher and Chris Daniher should be considered!
Wayne and Daryl Schimmelbusch
David and Peter Cloke
Graham and Barry Ion
Robbert and Kym Klomp
Barry and Mark Norsworthy
Michael & Brendan Gale from that quirky Tasmanian town of Penguin
Pretty handy team Greig. Full of skill and toughness.
Spiro and Tony Malekellis
Sav and Anthony Rocca
John and Peter Worsfold, Bill and Blair Brownless (Swish)
Peter and Phil Matera
Jim and Phil Krakouer must be in contention ?
Phil, you neglected to mention little Wally, the Gummo Marx of the Matera family
Gerard & Greg Healy, one a Brownlow Medallist, the other captain of Melbourne 1988-1990
Barrie and Rodney Robran
Matthew and Jon Robran
Michael and Andrew Aish includes the best player I have seen another champion and a lot of other super talent
( Neil and Craig Balme )
Paul and John Bagshaw
Stephen and David Kernahan
Tony and Phil McGuinness
What about Joel and Scott Selwood?
Mark, Anthony and Stephen Williams. Robert and Peter Oatey Ron and Terry Kneebone. Also there are numerous baseballing brothers. Probably the most famous are Peter, Dave and Gerry Roberts, then came Bruce, Graham and Max Harris, Fred and Kevin Medley, Dave and John Gooley and Claude and Adrian Pearce not to mention Neil and Russell Page.The list goes on and on..
More nanes have come to mind. Fos and Glyn Williams, Fos coached Port Adelaide , brother Glyn coached Sturt. Bob, Bill and Ray hank were all star players for West Torrens and John Abley was Port’s hard full back with brother Kevin Glenelg’s full back.
A few that immediately came to mind have already been mentioned. Here’s a couple more:
Richard Cochrane snr and Billy Cochrane CDFC
Richard Cochrane jnr and Stewart Cochrane. CDFC
Chad Cornes and Kane Cornes. The Filth
Chris and James Gowans (twins!) CDFC
Roger, Don and Brian Woodcock Nwd
Bob, Bill and Ray Hank (WT)
Daniel and Troy Menzel (CDFC, later AFL)
Shane and Troy Bond (Wharfies)
I’m certain there are many more.
And what about father/sons, or even cousins?
Some more old SANFL ones.
Fred and Wayne Phillis (Glenelg), Alan and Wayne Stringer (Glenelg), John and Darryl Cahill (Port), Fred and Brenton Bills (West Torrens)
The Coodabeens once had a team of “Dud Brothers”.
Terry Alderman was in it, as was Itchy Brother!
From North Melbourne:
Arnold and Robert Briedis
Wayne and Darryl Schimmelbusch
Dean and Glenn Dugdale (sons of John)
Brent and Shane Harvey
Jim and Phil Krakouer
Shannon and Daniel Motlop
Anthony and Michael Stevens
Garry and Doug Farrant
David and Anthony Dwyer
Shane and Rohan Robertson
Phil, john and martin Gallagher at Norwood. Hey Rabid, I’ve already mentioned the Hank brothers.
Almost forgot – Don Pyke, current Crows coach and his brother James who played for Norwood and played cricket for West Torrens. Matthew and Richard Kelly were good players for the Redlegs. Matt made the inaugural Crows squad but a bad knee injury ruined his career. centreman Richard, after a few years at Norwood, transferred to Glenelg as a defender.
Bill and Wes Barrot
Steve and Mark Pavlich
Michael and Noel Long
Greg, Gilbert and Adrian McAdam
Swish, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Steve to be Mark Pavlich’s father
Glynn (Lleyton’s father) and Daryl Hewitt
Peter and Bret Motley
Rodney and Daryl Seekamp
Lester junior and Jonathon Ross
Peter and Mick Minervini
PS Sorry folks, I’m getting forgetful in my old age, I left out John and Tom Warhurst and Ian and Robert Day
Russell and Craig Ebert were star Port magpies players. The list goes on and on.
Hey fellows, how about Andrew and Darren Jarman
Doug (Norwood) and Don (Sturt) Olds
Rodney (Rocket) and Brenton Maynard
Just thought of more brothers, all Essendon related.
Jackson and Zach Merrett
Corey and Shaun McKernan
Hey Fisho, Steve Pavlich is Matthew Pavlich’s father – Mark Pavlich is Steve’s brother.
Sorry Swish, I should have known better than to query you
Cheers Fisho
Michael & Brett Voss
Hope Swish and Fisho can help me out with this one:
World of Sport host Gordon Schwartz played 3 games for Norwood in the SANFL and had a brother Blair who commentated SANFL games on Channel 7 and played piano at the Pizza Hut.
Adelaide Advertiser football writer Merv Agars played 102 games for West Adelaide and has a son Graeme who is an international tennis and golf commentator.
Gordon’s sister married Merv’s brother and they have a son – legendary Adelaide sports journalist Gordon Agars. https://www.footyalmanac.com.au/1986-a-year-with-the-blacks-the-preseason/
No Hockings? Shocking!
Jim and Brian Stynes
Stephen and David Kernahan
The Houlihan clan
Sorry Pete, I will leave this one to Swish to help on this one.
Incidentally, I’ve become a big fan of Swish, even though he’s a Centrals’ man. I always look forward to reading his articles and look forward to reading his comments.
Cheers Fisho
We could raise the bar by ncluding twins.
Michael Kol, Geelong: Nigel Kol, Geelong/Melbourne.
Glen!
Going back a bit to find John ‘Bunny’ Daly and Anthony ‘Bos’ Daly. Bunny was considered the finest rover of his era while Bos was a full forward who once kicked 23.1 in a match (hitting the post)
The postal order is in the mail Fisho, thanks
http://www.redlegsmuseum.com.au/ON_FIELD/PLAYERS/SCHWARTZ__Gordon.aspx
Does that help PB
Shane and Justin Crawford
What about Leigh and Kelvin Matthews!
How about a team of test cricketing brothers
I’ll start the BALL ROLLING with Trevor, Greg and Ian Chappell,
Steve and Mark Waugh
Richie and John Benaud
Come on lads and lasses, help me out
Let’s give our team an international flavour with the following added to our squad
Jeff and Martin Crowe
Peter and Grahame Pollock
Sir Richard and Dayle Hadley
The Bedser Boys (as distinct from the Beagle Boys) actually they were identical twins, Alec and Eric
I bet the Beagles would be involved in illegal betting
Dave & Ned Gregory were in the first ever Test for Australia in March 1877, Charles & Alec Bannerman, and the Marshmallow brothers, Shaun & Mitch, are the only brothers to play Test cricket together for Australia, apart from the Chappells & Waughs.
Andy & Grant Flower (Zimbabwe) and Hanif & Mushtaq Mohammed (Pakistan) are some others.
Mohinder & Surinder Armanath both played for India in the 1970’s -80’s.
Their father also played test cricket for India post WW2.
Glen!
Hey Gerry, I believe both Benaud brothers played for Australia
yes indeed they did Fisho, but not together. John’s debut for Australia was 20 years after Richie’s.
Albie & Morne Morkel are another set of brothers to play test cricket
Neil and Merve Harvey – Merve played 1 test for Aust
You might like this team of brothers Greig
https://www.footyalmanac.com.au/the-family-team/
Thanks Noel. This is clearly a topic that has been addressed by masters.