Alan McConnell

Alan McConnell
Personal information
Full name	Alan John McConnell
Date of birth	(1957-03-30) 30 March 1957
Place of birth	Terang
Original team(s)	Kolora
Height/Weight	178 cm / 73 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1980–1982	Footscray	37 (5)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1995, 1996	Fitzroy	11 (0-11-0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1996 season.

Alan John McConnell (born 30 March 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1980s and later coached Fitzroy. McConnell is currently serving as senior assistant coach of the Greater Western Sydney Giants.^[1]

Originally from Kolora in the Mount Noorat Football League, Alan played with Terang in the Hampden Football League, under age football with Fitzroy and Victorian Football Association (VFA) football with Preston, McConnell was a defender at Footscray and spent three seasons with the club. In 1995 he was appointed as the caretaker coach of Fitzroy when Bernie Quinlan was sacked during the season. He again coached some games the following season year when senior coach Michael Nunan stood aside but he failed to register a win in either season. After leaving Fitzroy he joined Geelong as an assistant coach. After leaving Geelong he became the head AFL coach for the Australian Institute of Sport and later became the first appointment to the Greater Western Sydney Giants.

References

↑ "Coaching Staff". gwsgiants.com.au. Greater Western Sydney Giants. Retrieved 16 August 2015.

Alan McConnell's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Coaches of the Fitzroy Football Club

1911–1912: Moriarty 1913–1915: Parratt 1916–1919: Holden 1919: Melling 1920–1921: Parratt 1922–1924: Belcher 1925: Lethbridge 1926–1927: Belcher 1928: Rattray 1929: Ringrose 1929: Freake 1930–1931: Niven 1932–1933: Maher 1934: Wigraft 1934: Cashman 1935: Rowe 1936: Bunton 1937–1939: Rattray 1940–1942: Minogue 1943–1947: Hughson 1945: Hillard 1948: Cameron 1949–1951: N. Smith 1952–1954: Ruthven 1955–1957: Stephen 1956: Curcio 1958–1962: L. Smith 1961: Edwards 1963–1964: Murray 1963: Clark 1964: Williams 1965–1970: Stephen 1968: Slocum 1971–1974: Donaldson 1974: Campbell 1975–1977: Rose 1978: Campbell 1979–1980: Stephen 1981–1985: Walls 1986–1988: Parkin 1989–1990: Austin 1991–1994: Shaw 1995: Quinlan 1995: McConnell 1996: Nunan 1996: McConnell

Italics denote caretaker coach

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