Tony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (born 13 February 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Playing career Burgess, who started his SANFL career in 1980, was a full-back in West Adelaide's 1983 premiership team. Going into the Grand Final battling a hamstring injury, coach Neil Kerley assigned Burgess had the task of playing on Sturt's champion full-forward Rick Davies who was sitting on 149 goals for the season. At the end of the 1986 season, Burgess was one of the three players that Collingwood offered to the Brisbane Bears, as each club had to, but he instead returned to West Adelaide.

Burgess went on to play for West Adelaide until the end of the 1993 SANFL season, retiring after playing 185 senior games for the club.

Coaching Burgess coached the West Adelaide under-19s to a premiership in 2002, after what had been a tough year for the club, which had lost player Jake Watson (the son of Burgess' 1983 premiership winning teammate Larry Watson), who died after collapsing on the field during a match.

He next joined Glenelg's coaching panel and towards the end of the 2005 season was the caretaker senior coach, following the sacking of Peter Simmons.

At South Adelaide he spent time as both the reserves coach and a senior assistant.

In October 2012 he was announced as the new coach of Strathalbyn.