Phil Narkle
| Phil Narkle | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Phillip Michael Narkle | ||
| Date of birth | 29 January 1961 | ||
| Place of birth | Boddington, Western Australia | ||
| Height / weight | 178 cm / 72 kg | ||
| Position(s) | Wing | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1978–83, 1988–93 | Swan Districts | 178 (178) | |
| 1984–86 | St Kilda | 48 (37) | |
| 1987, 90 | West Coast | 18 (18) | |
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 1980–1987 | Western Australia | 5 (3) | |
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Phillip Michael "Phil" Narkle (born 29 January 1961) is a former Australian rules football player of Indigenous Australian descent who played for St Kilda and West Coast in the Australian Football League (AFL) and Swan Districts Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) during the mid-late 1970s and early 1990s. Younger brother of Keith Narkle (by nine years) who also played for Swan Districts, Phil generally played on the wing position. Regarded as a highly skilled and determined footballer with tremendous pace, Phil was perfectly suited to the wing position where he could turn defence into attack.
Phil Narkle played colts in 1977 for Swan Districts in the WANFL and was awarded the Medallists Medal for being the fairest and best player for that year. He made his debut for Swan Districts in the league competition during 1978 and gradually established himself for a club that was emerging from a lean period since Haydn Bunton junior had left fifteen years beforehand.
Narkle had a sensational season in 1982 when he played in the WAFL premiership for Swan Districts, and during that year he also won the Sandover Medal for the best player in the WAFL. Narkle played one more year for Swan Districts playing in his second premiership for the club. The Grand Final was Narkle’s last game for Swans before moving onto St. Kilda in the then-VFL. He was seen as an acquisition for the struggling Saints but a succession of injuries meant Narkle did not show anything of his best form at Moorabbin until the latter part of the 1986 season.
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