Danny Frawley

Danny Frawley

Personal information
Birth	8 September 1963 (1963-09-08) (age 48), Ballarat, Victoria
Recruited from	Bungaree / East Ballarat
Height and weight	191cm / 95kg
Playing career¹
Team(s)	St Kilda (1984–1995) 240 games, 13 goals
Coaching career¹
Team(s)	Richmond (2000–2004)
¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season
Career highlights
St Kilda Best and Fairest 1988 Victorian state representative 1987 All-Australian 1988 St Kilda captain 1987–1995

Danny Frawley (born 8 September 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach and a current football commentator with Fox Sports.

He is the nephew of Collingwood player Des Tuddenham and the uncle of current Melbourne Football Club player James Frawley.

Football career

Recruited from Ballarat, after attending St Patrick's College, Ballarat, where he was a potato farmer which led to his nickname of Spud, Frawley initially played as a forward but soon became a renowned full-back. He was the longest serving captain of the St Kilda Football Club and enjoyed a career from 1984–1995. He was inducted into the Saints' hall of fame in 2007.^[1]

Coaching career

Frawley took up the coaching reins at the Richmond Football Club in 2000. In his first year they just missed out of the finals finishing 9th. In 2001 he took the Tigers into the finals where in the preliminary finals they were eliminated by the Brisbane Lions who were the eventual premiers. In 2002, however, Richmond struggled and finished 14th. This continued in 2003, when, after a six wins and two losses start to the season, they lost 13 of their next 14 matches and finished 13th.

Frawley and Richmond kept struggling and finished 16th (the "wooden spoon" position) in 2004. Midway through the season, Frawley announced he would resign at the end of the season.^[2] Richmond lost their last fourteen matches of the season.

Since leaving coaching, Frawley has been a special comments man for Triple M.^[3] In June 2006, he coached a winning Victorian State of Origin side in the E. J. Whitten Legends Match and became the chief executive of the AFL coaches association.^[2]

Personal life

Frawley is married to Anita Frawley, who was a host of the Fox Footy Channel's Living with Footballers show.^[4] They have three daughters.

References

1. ^ Saints Hall of Fame list
2. ^ ^{a b} Robinson, Mark (14 April 2009) Former Richmond coach Danny Frawley feels Terry Wallace's pain
3. ^ Triple M team
4. ^ Sporting Life; The Age; 16 July 2003

External links

• Frawley profile on the St Kilda Football club website
• Danny Frawley's statistics from AFL Tables

Awards
Preceded by Tony Lockett	St Kilda Best and Fairest winner 1988	Succeeded by Nicky Winmar
Sporting positions
Preceded by Trevor Barker	St Kilda captain 1987–1995	Succeeded by Stewart Loewe, Nathan Burke
Preceded by Jeff Gieschen	Richmond Football Club coach 2000–2004	Succeeded by Terry Wallace

Persondata
Name	Frawley, Danny
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	8 September 1963
Place of birth	Ballarat, Victoria
Date of death
Place of death