Ross Glendinning

Career: 1978-1988; 1978-1986 North Melbourne, 1987-1988 West Coast
Games: 230; 190 North Melbourne, 40 West Coast
Goals: 325; 214 North Melbourne, 111 West Coast
Brownlow Medal: 120 career votes
Guernsey numbers: 4
Height: 188cm
Weight: 89kg
DOB: 17 September 1956 (Debut: 21y 196d, last game: 31y 352d)
Recruited from: East Perth

The North Melbourne Football Club considered itself well satisfied when it finally gained the services of this established star from Western Australia. His club there, East Perth, would not grant him a clearance, and this forced him to sit out season 1977 and thereby miss out on the opportunity of being a member of North's premiership team that year.

He was blessed with fine, tall physique and considerable strength to go with it. He had sure marking hands, and could achieve accuracy and distance with his kicking. Add to these talents a regular ability to charge own the field, and the club had at their disposal a player of all-round ability who could play equally well at centre half-back or centre half-forward. In fact, he was often asked to alternate between these positions in the one match.

In North's controversial victory in the 1980 Escort Cup, Ross played a crucial part in that victory, being judged in the press as best on the ground. And in 1983, the year of his ultimate triumph as Brownlow Medallist, he would have made a considerable contribution to two of the club's special achievements that year. The first was attaining the minor premiership, and the second was taking off the Dr McClelland Trophy for the AFL club championship, encompassing the three grades of competition.

While with North, from 1978 to 1986, he played in 190 games, and booted 215 goals and won the Syd Barker Medal in 1982 and 1983. During that time, he also won regular interstate selection, having this honour in successive year from 1981 to 1984.

VFL/AFL: 8953rd player to appear
North Melbourne: 618th player to appear

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