Garry Lyon

Garry Lyon
Lyon in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Garry Peter Lyon
Date of birth	(1967-09-13) 13 September 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth	Devonport, Tasmania
Original team(s)	Kyabram (GVFL)
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Position(s)	Centre half-forward
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1986–1999	Melbourne	226 (426)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1988–1995	Victoria	10 00(9)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2001–2004	Australia	8 (2–5–1)
Career highlights
Club 2× Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal: 1990, 1994 2× Melbourne leading goalkicker: 1994, 1995 5x All-Australian Team: 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995 Australian Football Media Association Player of the Year Melbourne captain: 1991–1997 Harold Ball Memorial Trophy: 1986 Melbourne Team of the Century – Half-forward flank Melbourne Hall of Fame Representative Victoria captain: 1994
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Garry Peter Lyon (born 13 September 1967) is a former professional Australian rules football player and was captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Since his retirement from football, he has been mainly an Australian rules football media personality, featuring on television, radio and in newspapers. He has also coached during the International Rules Series. He is the most recent VFL/AFL player to kick ten goals in a finals match, having done so in the 1994 Second Semi-Final against Footscray, and the first since Geelong's George Goninon in 1951, 43 years prior.