32-613: Kevin Bartlett may refer to: Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer) (born 1947), Australian rules footballer for Richmond Kevin Bartlett (English footballer) (born 1962), English association football player Kevin Bartlett (racing driver) (born 1940), Australian former open wheel and touring car racing driver Kevin Bartlett (athlete) (born 1981), Barbadian long jumper and sprinter See also [ edit ] Bartlett (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
64-548: A Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement. The advertisement includes Bartlett recreating his seven goals from the 1980 VFL Grand Final , as well as his famous 'comb-over' hairstyle, which comedian Dave Lawson recreates by shaving his own hair on camera. Geelong's Matthew Scarlett impersonated the haircut, at his ' Mad Monday ' celebrations after the 2008 Grand Final. Bartlett and fellow Richmond legend Matthew Richardson were also featured on an official 2018 recording of We're From Tigerland . In 2019, Bartlett departed SEN following
96-490: A dispute with management. Following this he joined the 3AW football call team as a Sunday caller. Bartlett's refusal to return to any Richmond Football Club function, or an official club arrangement lasted from the end of 1991 until 2007. In 2007, he attended a Tommy Hafey Club Function – in support of his lifelong friend Tom Hafey and on 22 November 2007, walked into the Punt Road ground (Richmond's home ground) to launch
128-559: A great all-around interest in most sports and is one of the few ex- Australian football players who has carved out a career commentating on all manner of sports. From 2004, he was a radio host on Melbourne's dedicated sports radio station, SEN – first with Hungry for Sport , a morning show playing on his nickname of "Hungry", and then with KB and the Doc in the afternoon with John "Dr Turf" Rothfield beginning in 2018. He also commentated on Saturday and Sunday matches for SEN. He previously hosted
160-535: A panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, traditionally led by that season's premiership coach. Despite the name's implication, the All-Australian team is usually ceremonial in modern times. Though the AFL played an All-Star match in 2020 , it was the first in 12 years, and the difference in skill level between
192-400: A precursor to the All-Australian team was an annual team selected by Sporting Life magazine between 1947 and 1955. A panel of sportswriters at the magazine selected a full team of eighteen from all ANFC -affiliated competitions. For a time, AFL historians considered these teams to be official All-Australian teams, but no longer recognises them as such. The first official All-Australian team
224-642: A seemingly sixth sense to evade opposition players intent on negating his influence. He played much of his best football as Richmond's starting rover but adapted superbly when moved to the half-forward flank towards the end of his career, as demonstrated in the 1980 VFL finals series . When Bartlett returned to the Tigers in 1988 as senior coach, the club were in a shambles as a result of a bitter trade feud with Collingwood . Although his record as coach appears disappointing, he nonetheless achieved some surprising results with very limited resources. After being sacked at
256-687: Is a Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and is the first VFL/AFL player to have reached the 400-game milestone, a feat since achieved by five other players as of 2024; he has played the fourth-most games of any player in VFL/AFL history. He is a key member of a golden era in Richmond's history, playing in five premiership teams and winning five Jack Dyer Medals , equalling Jack Dyer 's tally. Short and slender in stature, Bartlett possessed tremendous stamina, determination and
288-605: Is a selector of the yearly All-Australian team . Bartlett joined Channel 7 in Melbourne immediately after his playing retirement, appearing regularly on World of Sport and hosting the Junior Supporters Club. In 1984, Bartlett was crowned King of Moomba . He also wrote for the Sun News Pictorial . His media commitments were put on hold during his four-year stint as Richmond coach. He has
320-534: Is awarded each season to the player who finishes fifth in the Richmond Football Club 's best and fairest count, with places one to four being the Jack Dyer , Jack Titus , Maurie Fleming , and Fred Swift Medals respectively. Bartlett was the Tigers' coach from 1988 to 1991. In the 1988 match against Hawthorn, after two Richmond players were felled, Bartlett was asked for a please explain by
352-640: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer) Club Representative Overall Kevin Charles Bartlett AM (born 6 March 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nicknamed "KB" or "Hungry" due to his appetite for kicking goals and apparent reluctance to handpass, Bartlett
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#1732802170566384-594: The All-Australian Team and AFL Rising Star awards. In 2008, Bartlett was listed by journalist Mike Sheahan as the ninth-greatest player of all time in the AFL-commissioned book The Australian Game of Football . Bartlett was born in the inner-northern Melbourne suburb of Carlton , the only son of Charles Bartlett, and grew up in Richmond . He supported Footscray as a young boy and
416-493: The Australian Football League (AFL), an annual All-Australian team based on performances during the AFL premiership season was introduced. Since 1999, the All-Australian coach is the coach of the premiership-winning side that year. Prior to 2007, only the final selections in the All-Australian team were announced. Since 2007, the All-Australian selection committee has nominated the 40 leading players of
448-571: The 1988 SANFL season, and an elite Victorian football record until broken by Tuck in Round 22 of the 1990 AFL season. Bartlett also played 20 matches for Victoria in interstate football, 12 pre-season/night series matches (which are recognised as senior by the SANFL and WAFL but not the VFL/AFL), and four International Rules matches on the 1968 Australian Football World Tour (which are counted as senior by
480-518: The All-Australian team and the nearest international competitor is currently too large for any contest to be competitive. Despite this, some of these players have represented Australia in AFL Academy junior teams up to the age of 18, as more than two-thirds of all AFL Academy representatives have gone on to play at senior AFL level. From 1998 to 2004, the Australian international rules team
512-917: The Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and to "immortal" status in the Richmond Hall of Fame in 2004. He was also named as part of Richmond's team of the century. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2006. On 22 March 2017, a statue of Bartlett was unveiled outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground . Bartlett married Denise Kilcullen, who was a talented runner as a youth, at St Paul's Anglican Church in Ascot Vale on 28 November 1970. They have four children: three daughters – Sharna, Cara and Breanna – and one son, Rhett. All three of
544-478: The Bartlett daughters starred in track and field during their school days. Rhett is a writer, broadcaster, and historian of the Richmond Football Club, having released books about both his father and the club's history, as well as curating the "Tigerland Archive" website. All-Australian Team The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules footballers , selected by
576-569: The VFL after comments he made. Controversy surrounding his dismissal as coach left him estranged from the football club for many years. However, on 30 March 2007 he attended his first official club function since 1991. Kevin Bartlett was a key member and public face of the AFL " Laws of the Game " or Rules Committee until 4 March 2014. He was a selector of the Australian Football Hall of Fame from its inauguration in 1996 until his resignation in 2009, and
608-527: The VFL/AFL ( Hawthorn 's Michael Tuck , North Melbourne 's Brent Harvey , Essendon 's Dustin Fletcher and Port Adelaide and Hawthorn's Shaun Burgoyne ), one in the SANFL (Glenelg's Peter Carey ), and one in both leagues (Port Adelaide and Carlton's Craig Bradley ; Burgoyne also played 26 SANFL games for Port Adelaide prior to his AFL career). His 403 premiership games remained an elite Australian rules football record until broken by Carey in Round 7 of
640-528: The VFL/AFL). If these are included, Bartlett played a total of 439 career senior matches. The VFL/AFL record Bartlett's total as 427 career senior games, excluding his pre-season/night series matches. Despite the differing viewpoints, Bartlett was the first player to play 400 senior career games in elite Victorian football, which he achieved in either of Round 19 of 1982 (using the VFL/AFL's total), Round 9 of 1982 (excluding his International Rules matches) or Round 5 of 1982 (using his overall total). Depending on
672-537: The best and fairest in the under-19s, and Richmond made the under-19s final series. Bartlett, however, was injured seconds into the first final against Geelong, which resulted in him being taken to the Prince Henry Hospital , where it was revealed that a cyst was embedded in his hip. It was while waiting for the ambulance to collect him in the MCG change rooms that he first met Jack Dyer . Dyer had appeared at
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#1732802170566704-578: The breakfast program on Sport 927 until 2003. He commentated on cable TV for Fox Footy and was the host of the popular nostalgia show Grumpy Old Men on Fox Footy until the channel's closure at the end of the 2006 season. He also did a Richmond-centric official alternate commentary for FOX's broadcast of Richmond vs. North Melbourne in June 2014 called "Press Red for Kev" in response to the "Press Red for Ed" Collingwood-centric alternate commentaries led by Eddie McGuire . On 13 September 2008, he appeared in
736-473: The centenary publication Richmond F.C: A Century of League Football , which was written by his son Rhett. It was the first time KB had set foot into Punt Road since his sacking at the end of 1991. Bartlett was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1981, and was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and Richmond Hall of Fame in 1996 and 2002, respectively; he was promoted to "legend" status in
768-402: The end of 1991 , he distanced himself from Richmond for nearly two decades. Following his retirement as a player, Bartlett developed a successful career as a sports commentator and broadcaster on both television and radio, currently working as a match caller for 3AW . He was a member of the AFL's rules committee for many years—until he retired on 4 March 2014 —as well as the selection panel for
800-408: The match, on the advice of Richmond under-19s coach Ray Jordon , and visited Bartlett in the rooms to tell him he would be okay. The following year for Bartlett (1964) involved rehabilitation, as he still experienced pain around his hip area. Bartlett was also the first player in elite Australian rules football to play 400 premiership games, with only six others achieving the feat as of 2023: four in
832-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Bartlett&oldid=1176360021 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
864-485: The senior All-Australian team, each year an All-Australian is announced based on the AFL National Under 18 Championships and the AFL National Under 16 Championships . The following lists are for senior teams only. Members of the All-Australian team are awarded a team blazer , reminiscent of the formal wear traditionally worn by travelling members of national sports teams. Blazers have become synonymous with
896-954: The viewpoint taken: The substitution system was in use without interchange players for a large part of Bartlett's 400 games, just the 19th and 20th man until the 3 Interchange player system was Introduced. Bartlett's total of senior career matches (using the VFL/AFL's total) ranks third in elite Victorian football behind Tuck (437) and Brent Harvey (445), and seventh in elite Australian rules football. If his pre-season/night series matches are included, then Bartlett's total of 435 or 439 senior career matches (depending on whether or not International Rules matches are included) either ranks third in elite Victorian football behind Tuck (466) and Harvey (480 or 491) and eighth in elite Australian rules football, or fourth in elite Victorian football behind Dustin Fletcher (441), Tuck and Harvey, and ninth in elite Australian rules football. The Kevin Bartlett Medal
928-578: The year in their playing positions at the conclusion of the home and away season, before announcing the final 22 at a later date during the All-Australian Presentation Dinner. The squad was increased to 44 in 2022. The 2023 All-Australian selection panel consists of chairperson Gillon McLachlan , Kevin Bartlett , Eddie Betts , Jude Bolton , Nathan Buckley , Kane Cornes , Andrew Dillon , Glen Jakovich , Laura Kane , Cameron Ling , and Matthew Pavlich . In addition to
960-620: Was a spectator at the 1954 Grand Final triumph. As a teenager, he walked from his home in Lennox Street, Richmond, to the Punt Road Oval , where he was greeted by the Richmond Fourths' coach Bill Boromeo. It was this chance meeting that set in motion Bartlett's path towards playing for Richmond. He began his career with the under-17s side, where he won the goalkicking and the best and fairest in 1962. In 1963, he won
992-414: Was mainly composed of All-Australians, and from 2005 to 2013 the team for the annual International Rules Series was selected according to the quite different requirements of International rules football . This change was reverted ahead of the 2014 series , with any player who had been selected at least once in any All-Australian team being eligible for selection. The earliest concept considered to be
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1024-555: Was selected in 1953, immediately after the Australian Football Carnival , which was held in Adelaide on that occasion. Based solely upon performances at the carnival, the All-Australian team was selected by representatives of the various state teams. This tradition continued at all subsequent interstate carnivals until 1988. In 1991, following the VFL's conversion to a national competition and its renaming as
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