Gary Pert
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Gary Pert | ||
| Date of birth | 28 May 1965 | ||
| Original team(s) | Bulleen | ||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 97 kg (214 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Full back | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1982–1990 | Fitzroy | 163 (42) | |
| 1991–1995 | Collingwood | 70 (4) | |
| Total | 233 (46) | ||
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| Victoria | 6 | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1995.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Gary Pert (born 28 May 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Fitzroy and Collingwood in the Australian Football League (AFL). Tall, well-built and strong in the air, Pert played over 200 league games, despite suffering two serious knee injuries in the prime years of his career.
The son of Brian Pert, a former Fitzroy utility player, Pert was educated at Templestowe High School.
Besides representing Bulleen in junior football, Pert also played for the Victorian Football League (VFL) schoolboys team in Ireland in 1981. He was recruited to Fitzroy, as Bulleen was in Fitzroy's recruiting zone, and made his senior debut in Round 4 of the 1982 season at only 16 years of age. Also making his debut was Paul Roos, with whom Pert formed a great partnership for Fitzroy through the 1980s.
He played State of Origin for Victoria in 1984 at the age of just 18, and was a champion full-back for the Lions (who could be switched to the forward line). In 1985 he won All-Australian selection.
Pert missed much of the first half of the 1987 VFL season due to a knee injury, but was playing again by the end of the season. Prior to the start of the 1988 VFL season, Paul Roos was named captain of Fitzroy, and Pert was chosen as his deputy. On the strong bond between Roos and Pert, David Parkin, who was coach of Fitzroy at the time, said:
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