Neville Bruns

Neville Bruns
Personal information
Date of birth	(1958-10-03) 3 October 1958
Original team(s)	Leitchville
Debut	Round 7: 13 May 1978, Geelong vs. Melbourne, at VFL Park
Height / weight	176cm / 77kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1978–1992	Geelong	223 (174)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1992.

Neville Bruns (born 3 October 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian/Australian Football League for Geelong Football Club.^[1]^[2] He wore the number 19 during his tenure at the club and played often in the wing and rover positions. From 1978–1992 he played 223 games (including the 1989 and 1992 Grand Finals) and kicked 174 goals. He received a total of 33 Brownlow votes in his career.

In 1985, Leigh Matthews infamously king hit Bruns and broke his jaw. Although no reports were made at the time, the Victorian Football League (VFL) Commissioners subsequently investigated the incident, found Matthews to be responsible and deregistered him for four weeks. Matthews then faced a criminal charge of assault, to which he pleaded guilty, and was fined $1,000. This resulted in much debate over the role of the police in sporting incidents.^[3]

Neville Bruns formerly worked as the Victorian State Manager for Sportsco and is now the National Operations Manager for an Australian trade and industrial tool retailer.

Neville Bruns also worked as a teacher in the 1980s. He was a teacher at Mossfiel Primary School from 1981.

References

External links

Neville Bruns's statistics from AFL Tables

Australian squad – 1990 International Rules Series

Allison Anderson Bain Blakey Brown Bruns Campbell Couch Daniher Dean Frawley Gastev Hanna Jackson Loewe Malaxos McGuinness Mitchell O'Donnell Romero Salmon Smith Stephens Worsfold Wright

Victorian team – 1989 State of Origin

Victoria 19.12 (126) defeated Western Australia 10.12 (72), at the WACA Ground, 16 May 1989, crowd: 20,993 Victoria 22.17 (149) defeated South Australia 9.9 (63), at the MCG, 1 July 1989, crowd: 91,960

Both games	Bews Brown Collins Daniher Dunstall Langford Lovett Lyon Madden (c) Murphy Scott Stoneham Weightman Coach: Goggin

vs. Western Australia	Ablett Armstrong Ayres Lambert Larkin Maginness Schwass Stynes Williams

vs. South Australia	Brereton Bruns Couch Darcy Lockett Mitchell Morwood Pritchard Watson

Coach: Goggin

Victorian team – 1990 State of Origin

New South Wales 13.8 (86) defeated Victoria 10.16 (76), at the SCG, 22 May 1990 Victoria 14.13 (97) defeated Western Australia 8.12 (60), at the WACA Ground, 26 June 1990

Both games	Brereton Collins Morwood O'Donnell Salmon Silvagni Stoneham Weightman

vs. New South Wales	Ayres Brown Crosisca Febey Gleeson Jeffrey Langford Lovett Lyon Malakellis Scott Stynes Wright

vs. Western Australia	Ablett Anderson Bruns Couch Daicos Ezard Frawley Loewe Madden McGuane Mitchell Rice Shaw Watson

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