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Gary Robert Ablett
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(now 50 years old)

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Gary Ablett, is a retired professional Australian rules football player, best known as a prolific goalkicker and spectacular marker of the ball.

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  • 1984
    January 1: Signed to a one-year contract by Geelong
    1 !
  • 1984
    July 1: kicked 8 goals from the half-forward flank in his first State of Origin match
    4 !
  • 1986
    became a born-again Christian
    -1 !
  • 1988
    notched 82 goals during the season
    6 !
  • 1989
    earned the Norm Smith Medal for his 9 goals in a losing team in the VFL Grand Final
    10 !
  • 1990
    placed on a $10,000 good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to repeatedly hitting a man he found sitting in a car with his estranged wife
    -5 !
  • 1991
    February 1: announced his retirement, citing a loss of enjoyment for the game
    0 !
  • 1991
    July 1: made a successful comeback to football
    2 !
  • 1993
    Won the Coleman medal with an end-of-season total of 124 goals, achieved in just 17 appearances
    5 !
  • 1994
    Mark of the Year over Collingwood's Gary Pert
    3 !
  • 1996
    named in the AFL Team of the Century
    8 !
  • 1997
    announced his retirement
    0 !
  • 2000
    nineteen-year old Geelong woman, Alicia Horan, died of a drug overdose (heroin, ecstasy and amphetamines) while in Ablett's hotel room
    -8 !

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