Western Australia has misplaced a footy legend after Austin Robertson Jnr died on the age of 80.
Robertson, broadly thought to be WA’s greatest-ever footballer, is the WAFL’s all-time main goalscorer after booting 1211 majors throughout his glowing profession for Subiaco.
The star ahead gained the Bernie Naylor Medal eight instances because the WAFL’s main goalkicker, averaging 4.83 objectives per sport throughout his time on the Lions.
Robertson’s feats within the Sixties and 70s had been so superb that fellow nice Graham Farmer even regarded him because the best full-forward in Australia on the time.
The man nicknamed ‘Ocker’ gained a premiership with Subiaco in 1973 and performed a season with VFL membership South Melbourne in 1966, booting 60 objectives in 18 video games throughout his brief stint in Victoria.
Robertson, who was famend for his correct set photographs on aim, was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
Earlier this 12 months, Robertson advised the ABC he suspected he was affected by power traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and wished to donate his mind to science as soon as he died.
CTE can solely be identified autopsy.
“I used to get whacked on the head every week. Probably between 10 and 15 times, you’d get a smack on the back of the head which I’m sure wasn’t doing any good,” Robertson mentioned in May.
“You could deliberately line up a bloke who’s got his eye on the ball running towards you … and you could get your shoulder all ready.
“In my day, it was fairly deliberate and authorized to iron the bloke out.
“And when the bloke got ironed out, of course the crowd roared. It was like, not quite, gladiatorial Rome.”
During that interview, Robertson referred to as for gamers to put on helmets to guard them from mind accidents.
After his profession completed in 1974, Robertson performed a key position in presenting the idea of World Series Cricket to Kerry Packer and helped get it up and operating.
He additionally managed a lot of Australia’s main cricketers, together with Shane Warne, over a interval of 30 years.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
