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Terry Bright

b. 1958

Australian rules footballer

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Born 1958. Terry Bright is an australian rules football player.

Terry Bright (born 12 February 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the VFL.

Playing career After winning a Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership with Geelong West in 1975, he was recruited by the Cats with whom he played 219 VFL games. He was used as a forward but was sometimes seen across half back.

Bright has been inducted into the Geelong Football Club hall of fame.

While playing Australian rules football, Bright would also play cricket in the local Geelong Cricket Association competition for Geelong West. A talented batsman, he was a member of the club's 1990/91 division one premiership team.

Coaching career After retiring from player, Bright later coached the Geelong Falcons to the inaugural premiership in the VSFL Under-18 competition (later TAC Cup) in 1992.

He would later be an assistant coach at Geelong, coaching the club's reserves team for three seasons, until he departed the club at the end of the 1998 AFL season to take up a role as an assistant coach at the Fremantle Dockers with former team mate Damian Drum.

He would finish his coaching career in 2014, stepping down as coach of Geelong West-St Peters.

Family Bright is the nephew of former player and coach Bill Goggin. His son Michael was on Geelong's VFL list for a period of time in the early 2000s.

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Australian rules footballer

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Terry Bright was born on 12 February 1958.

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Terry Bright is an australian rules football player.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Terry Bright

· Wikidata: Q7704147

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