Bernie Quinlan

Bernie Quinlan
Personal information
Full name Bernard Francis Quinlan
Nickname(s) Superboot
Date of birth (1951-07-21) 21 July 1951 (age 73)
Original team(s) Traralgon
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 97 kg (214 lb)
Position(s) Centre half forward/centre half back/ruck-rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1969–1977 Footscray 177 (241)
1978–1986 Fitzroy 189 (576)
Total 366 (817)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
Victoria 4 (6)
Coaching career3
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1995 Fitzroy 19 (2–17–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1986.
3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1995.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bernard Francis Quinlan (born 21 July 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

One of a handful of players to have won a Brownlow Medal and Coleman Medal, Quinlan was an inaugural inductee in the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Renowned for his prodigious long kicking, which earned him the nickname "Superboot", Quinlan played his best football late in his career, earning most of his individual accolades after he had turned 30. He holds the record for the most career games without playing in a Grand Final[1] and is one of five VFL/AFL players (the others being Shaun Burgoyne, Heath Shaw, Lance Franklin and Patrick Dangerfield) to have played 150 or more games at two separate clubs.[2]

  1. ^ AFL Tables – Grand Finals
  2. ^ "AFL Tables – All Time Records – Most Career Games". afltables.com. Retrieved 21 April 2023.