Andrew Dunkley

Andrew Dunkley
Personal information
Full name	Andrew Dunkley
Date of birth	29 June 1968
Height/Weight	192 cm / 100 kg
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1992–2002	Sydney	217 (11)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1998	Victoria	? (?)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2002 season. ^2 State and international statistics correct as of 1998.

Andrew Dunkley (born 29 June 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer. A highly talented and dangerous defender, he played 217 games for the Sydney Swans between 1992 and 2002.

He represented Victoria in State of Origin in 1998.

Dunkley was a member of the Swans side which played in the 1996 AFL Grand Final but took the field in controversial circumstances. On the Wednesday before the Grand Final, Dunkley was reported on video evidence – which was still relatively uncommon practice at the time – for striking Essendon's James Hird in the previous week's preliminary final. On the Thursday, Sydney successfully obtained an Supreme Court injunction to prevent the case from being heard until after the Grand Final, with the judge ruling that requiring Dunkley to face the tribunal only one day after learning of the charge and two days before the Grand Final would deny him natural justice and deny him the time required to prepare a defence. Consequently, Dunkley was free to play.^[1] When Dunkley ultimately faced the tribunal, he was suspended for three weeks.^[2]

References

1. Russell Coulson; Ron Reed (27 September 1996). "First round goes to Sydney". Herald Sun (Melbourne, VIC). p. 5.
2. Al Paton (8 May 2014). "SuperFooty takes a look at the biggest cases to hit the tribunal as Jack Viney prepares for his appeal". Herald Sun. Retrieved 30 December 2015.

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