Tony Lockett

Tony Lockett
Personal information
Full name	Anthony Howard Lockett
Nickname(s)	"Plugger"
Date of birth	(1966-03-09) 9 March 1966 (age 50)
Place of birth	Ballarat, Victoria
Original team(s)	North Ballarat Roosters
Height / weight	191 cm / 118 kg
Position(s)	Full-forward
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1983–1994,	St Kilda	183 0(898)
1995–1999, 2002	Sydney	098 0(462)
Total		281 (1360)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	Victoria	5 (19)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2002.
Career highlights
Club Brownlow Medal: 1987 VFLPA MVP (Leigh Matthews Trophy): 1987 4× Coleman Medal: 1987, 1991, 1996, 1998 5× All-Australian team: 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998 2× St Kilda Best & Fairest: 1987, 1991 Sydney Best & Fairest: 1995 Australian Football Hall of Fame - Legend Status Sydney Team of the Century - Full Forward St Kilda Team of the Century - Full Forward Representative E. J. Whitten Medal: 1995

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Representative

Anthony Howard "Tony" Lockett (born 9 March 1966) is a former Australian rules football player. Nicknamed "Plugger", Lockett is the highest goalscorer in the history of the VFL/AFL with 1,360 goals in a career of 281 games, starting in 1983 with the St Kilda Football Club and ending in 2002 with the Sydney Swans. Lockett won the coveted Brownlow Medal in 1987, becoming the first and only full forward to ever win the award. He is a four-time Coleman Medallist, kicked more than 100 goals in a season on six occasions (an AFL record) and is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame. In 1999, Lockett broke the all-time goals record when he kicked his 1300th goal, surpassing Gordon Coventry's record of 1299 which had stood for 62 years. Lockett's new record remains unbeaten.

At 191 cm tall and weighing 118kg, Lockett was a unique footballer. His aggression, strong hands, acceleration, high leap and accurate kicking made him a formidable player.

Tony Lockett was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to his father Howard (a country footballer who played over 500 games and a North Ballarat Football Club Hall of Famer and his mother Liz. He was educated at Ballarat Secondary College and Ballarat Grammar School.

Lockett began playing Australian Rules with the Under 12s team of his father's club, North Ballarat Football Club, in 1974. He played a total of 120 junior games with the club. He had played just five senior games as a 16-year-old in 1982 with North Ballarat before he was recruited by VFL club St Kilda and moved to Melbourne.

In Lockett's second year with the club, he kicked seven goals in the opening game against the Essendon Football Club and then went on to kick 70 more goals to win St Kilda's leading goal kicker award. In 1987 he won the Brownlow Medal. His best season at St Kilda was in 1991, when he kicked 127 goals in 17 games, at an average of 7.47 goals per game, the second highest average ever achieved in VFL/AFL history (after Peter Hudson's 1972 and 1973 averages of eight after playing only one game each year). He was also the spearhead for St Kilda's first finals appearance since 1973. In 1992 he kicked the most goals that season with 132 goals. In a qualifying final against Geelong he kicked nine goals and five behinds, although the Saints were beaten by seven points. He was described by dual Brownlow medallist Robert Harvey as the best player he had ever seen.

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