Lockett was a part of the All-Australian team five times with Sydney. Tony Lockett was born in 1960s. After making his senior-level debut with North Ballarat in 1982, Lockett began his Australian Football League (AFL) career with St. Kilda in 1983. By the end of the season, Lockett had amassed a career total of 1,357 goals, and he announced his retirement from the sport.
Tony Lockett was born in Ballarat on Wednesday, March 9, 1966 (Generation X). Anthony Howard “Tony” Lockett (born 9 March 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented St Kilda from 1983 to 1994 and Sydney from 1995 to 1999 and 2002.
He is the highest goal scorer in the history of AFL/VFL history scoring 1,360 goals in his 281 career games. We will continue to update information on Tony Lockett’s parents.Like many famous people and celebrities, Tony Lockett keeps his personal life private. He still trailed Coventry but had narrowed the gap to Dunstall to 34.
Lockett had a wide armory of subtle yet great talents.Tony Lockett received so many accomplishments and awards during his entire professional playing career.
He also acquired skills not frequently seen in big men during his era. Tony Lockett. He is a recipient of the Brownlow Medal in 1987, Leigh Matthews Trophy in 1987, E.J. Please check back soon for updates. Having gone past Richmond great Kevin Bartlett (778), Quinlan and McKenna in ’94, he ranked sixth on the all-time list behind Coventry (1299), Wade (1057), Hawthorn’s Jason Dunstall (1011), Titus and Matthews, and was ahead of Gary Ablett Sr, the high-flying Geelong champion who’d begun his career at Hawthorn, who was seventh at 840 goals.On the weekend against Hawthorn, Sydney’s Matthew Ling (pick No.14) became the last…Richmond’s Jack Titus had got to 970 goals in 1943, and Doug Wade, of Geelong and North Melbourne fame, reached 1057 goals when he retired in 1975.This week we take part in the fifth annual Pride Game against St Kilda and our…In 1995, in his first season with the Swans, Lockett kicked 110 goals to go past Matthews and Titus and become the fourth player to reach 1000 goals.Certainly it was the best ‘duffer’ among the 2367 kicks which are listed in the Lockett career record.It was ugly, but it is one of the most famous goals in AFL history: a wobbly, floating drop-punt from 35m near the boundary line at the SCG, which caused absolute pandemonium among a bumper home crowd.He kicked three in Round 1 against Port Adelaide at the SCG to reach 1278 but missed the next four weeks with an Achilles problem.As football folklore has it, among the ground invaders was a 14-year-old Jarrad McVeigh, now a 34-year-old 323-game Swans veteran closing in on 325-gamer Jude Bolton, who sits second behind Goodes on the club’s games list.Sydney Swans forward Sam Reid has been excited by the youth in the side after playing…The unforgettable moment of 6 June 1999, 20 years ago today, is quite probably a moment that football will never see again.Neither played the following week before Mortimer kicked one goal in Round 14 to go one in front.Earlier, the AFL goal-kicking record was shared by six players when each kicked two goals in the first round of the first season in 1897, when four matches produced only 34 goals.In 98 games for Sydney Lockett kicked 462 goals to sit second on the club’s all-time list behind Pratt (681) at the time of his retirement.
Our three-volume, first edition book is now available online through your Britannica Premium membership.\r\nHis remarkable goal-kicking career culminated in the 1999 season, in which Lockett, at age 33, kicked his 1,300th goal, breaking the previous record of 1,299 goals set by Gordon Coventry of Collingwood.
Miscellaneous Goal Kicking Records [100 Goals In A Season][50 Goals In A Season][10 Goals In A Game][5 Goals In A Game][High % of Goals][Average Goals Per Game][Most Goals on Debut][Most Goals After Age][][Progression of Record][Most Games, No Goals][Most Games Before First Goal][Season's Leading Goalkicker] [] [Most Individual Goalscorers] [Most Finals Goals] [Consecutive Games Kicking A Goal] Tony Lockett bagged 12 against the Tigers to bring up 100 goals in 1996! Once more details are available on who he is dating, we will update this section. He first played at the Under 12s team of his father’s club, North Ballarat Football Club. He is 54 years old and is a Pisces.
And that was for all of three weeks.Plenty of greats had chased it and fallen short.It was 15 minutes before the game recommenced and Sydney, up 7.4 to 1.3 at quarter-time, coasted to a 22.13 (145) to 14.10 (94) victory.Collingwood and Carlton sharp-shooter Peter McKenna reached 874 by goals in 1977, Hawthorn champion Leigh Matthews got as far as 915 in 1985, and Fitzroy/Footscray star Bernie Quinlan got to 817 in 1986.Lockett, 20 months younger than Dunstall, had already bettered the brilliant Queenslander’s final mark of 1254 when he kicked nine against Geelong in Round 18.