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Australian rules footballer and coach

Australian rules footballer
Andy Lovell
Lovell with Gold Coast in August 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-07-28) 28 July 1970 (age 54)
Original team(s) Glenorchy (TFL)
Debut Round 3, 1988, Melbourne vs. Geelong, at the MCG
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1988–1995 Melbourne 121 (146)
1996–1998 West Coast 043 0(20)
Total 164 (166)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
2015 Indigenous All-Stars (0–1–0)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998. Coaching statistics correct as of 2015.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Anthony Lovell (born 28 July 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and West Coast in the Victorian and Australian Football Leagues (VFL/AFL). Lovell currently serves as an assistant coach with the Gold Coast Football Club. Andy also has an uncanny ability to pick a winner in one of the last races in Alice most weeks

As a teenager Lovell had been a wood chopper which earned him the nickname 'Chopper' and his father Greg was a world champion at the sport. Lovell attended Melbourne High School for one year (1988) and was a member of the School's 1st XVIII alongside Matthew Knights, Stephen Tingay, Stephen Ryan and John Ahern, footballers who also later played in the VFL and AFL.

Lovell was recruited to Melbourne from Tasmanian club Glenorchy and in his debut season played in their losing Grand Final to Hawthorn Football Club. A ruck-rover, Lovell was handy near goals and in a game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) against Richmond in 1993 he kicked a career best eight goals as his side won by a record 121 points. The previous year he ran second in Melbourne's Best and fairest.

Lovell was traded to West Coast for the 1996 AFL season and spent three years in their midfield before retiring. He later became coach of the Sandringham Zebras and is currently an assistant coach at the Gold Coast Suns.

References

  1. "Football Staff". goldcoastfc.com.au. Gold Coast Football Club. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. "Andy Lovell joins Gold Coast Suns as assistant coach to Guy McKenna". Australian Associated Press. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  • Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

Tasmanian team – 1991 State of Origin
Victoria 17.14 (116) defeated Tasmania 14.20 (104), at the North Hobart Oval, 28 May 1991, crowd: 16,000
Coach: Shaw
Tasmanian team – 1993 State of Origin
Queensland/NT 16.14 (110) defeated Tasmania 10.13 (73), at Bellerive Oval, 6 June 1993, crowd: 9,660
Final vs. Queensland/NT
Coach: Shaw
2015 Indigenous All-Stars team
Coach: Lovell
Coaches of the Indigenous All-Stars
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