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Mick Nunan
Personal information
Full name Michael Allen Nunan
Date of birth (1949-04-12) 12 April 1949 (age 75)
Original team(s) Port Pirie
Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1966–1977 Sturt 188 (259)
1971 Richmond 1 (3)
1978–1979 Norwood 36 (34)
1980–1982 North Adelaide 34 (18)
Total 259 (313)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
South Australia 3 (?)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1981–1992 North Adelaide 279 (157–120–2)
1996 Fitzroy 14 (1–13–0)
Total 293 (158–133–2)
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Michael Allen Nunan (born 12 April 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sturt Football Club, Norwood Football Club and the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as well as for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Nunan had a highly decorated playing career, winning premierships with Sturt and Norwood before becoming coach of North Adelaide and leading the club to two premierships. He was also the last official senior coach of Fitzroy in 1996, resigning halfway through the season as news came out that the club was going to merge with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions.

Nunan was recognized for his achievements in South Australian football when he was among the inaugural inductees at the establishment of the South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

SANFL career

Nunan played his football as a rover.[1] He joined Sturt from Port Pirie in 1966 and during his 188 games with the Double Blues, he played in their 1969, 1970, 1974 and 1976 premiership sides. Having spent his whole playing career at Sturt under the tutelage of the legendary Jack Oatey, it was no surprise that Nunan was heavily influenced by him when he later became a coach.[1] He played in the 1978 premiership side during the first of his two seasons at Norwood. He then coached North Adelaide to premierships in 1987 and 1991 during his twelve seasons as senior coach.

His solitary VFL senior game came while he was on National Service training in Melbourne. The previous week he had played in the Richmond reserves side while fellow Sturt footballer and conscript, Malcolm Greenslade, played in the senior side. The next week they both played in the seniors. Both then returned to the SANFL.

Coaching career

Fitzroy Football Club senior coach

Nunan was appointed senior coach of Fitzroy Football Club for the 1996 season, when he replaced caretaker senior coach Alan McConnell, who replaced Bernie Quinlan, after Quinlan was sacked in the middle of the 1995 season.[2]

Nunan was at the helm for Fitzroy's last-ever AFL win, in Round 8 against Fremantle at Whitten Oval on 16 May 1996. It was an emotional day for many Fitzroy fans, and he described it as "a relief and reward for those players who had worked very hard to improve their skill levels".[3] After Fitzroy lost to Essendon in Round 13, 1996 and just 48 hours after Fitzroy announced its intentions to merge with Brisbane Bears, Nunan announced his resignation as senior coach of Fitzroy Football Club to the staff and players, which he had planned to do if a merger went ahead. As he left the room, he remembered that the club doorman, Tommy Couch, had taken a liking to Nunan's jacket and had asked him if he could have it if he couldn't fulfill his commitments. So he returned and handed Couch the jacket.[4][5][6][7] Nunan was then replaced by Alan McConnell, who returned to the role in his second stint as caretaker senior coach of Fitzroy Football Club in the 1996 season for the last eight games.[8] At the end of the 1996 season, the Fitzroy Football Club merged with Brisbane Bears to become the newly formed Brisbane Lions Football Club.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b Connolly, Rohan (28 October 1995). "New coach Michael Nunan rolls up his sleeves and - The rebuilding begins". The Sunday Age.
  2. ^ "Alan McConnell gives reflections on Fitzroy's demise 24 years ago". Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. ^ "The Last of the True Mighty Roars". Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  4. ^ Howell, Stephen (24 August 1996). "Lion Will". The Sunday Age.
  5. ^ "Roys and fall: tears of a footy club". 3 September 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Where are they now: Michael Nunan Coach who closed book with 'Roys". 21 May 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Book extract: the last roar of the mighty Roys". 4 June 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Alan McConnell gives reflections on Fitzroy's demise 24 years ago". Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  9. ^ "The Merger: Where Are They Now?". 5 July 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  10. ^ "The Day That Changed Everything". 1 September 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.

Bibliography

  • Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996


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