The AFL has revealed eight more football identities will become life members for their services to the game.
Five inductees automatically qualified having reached the 300-game milestone at AFL level: Trent Cotchin, Todd Goldstein, Josh J. Kennedy, Paddy Ryder and Steele Sidebottom.
The other three inductees – Lisa Hardeman, Bruce McAvaney and Eddie McGuire – were awarded life membership for ‘Special Services to the Game’.
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Meanwhile, long-time Hawthorn historian and museum curator Peter Haby was awarded the Jack Titus Service Award for outstanding service to football.
The awards will be officially celebrated in early Match ahead of the AFL season commencing.
Hardeman has been one of the pioneers of elite women’s football, including renowned stints as both a player and coach.
McAvaney is one of Australian sport’s most revered broadcasters and called more than 1,000 AFL games, including 20 grand finals.
McGuire, a renowned broadcaster in his own right, was a long-time president of the Collingwood Football Club, overseeing an extraordinary build from 27,099 members in 1998 to more than 85,000 members in 2019, as well as the club’s 2010 premiership.
Haby has been one of Australian Rules’ most renowned collectors, spearheading the curation and development of Hawthorn’s museum and aiding in publication of ‘The Hard Way’, a history of the club.
GAMES PLAYED QUALIFICATION
Trent Cotchin
287 premiership games and 15 pre-season games played for Richmond.
Brownlow Medallist, 2012
Premiership player, 2017, 2019, 2020.
3 x club best and fairest, 2011, 2012 and 2014
All-Australian, 2012
Club captain, 2012-2021
State of Origin game, 2020.
Todd Goldstein
295 premiership games and 19 pre-season games played for North Melbourne
Club best and fairest, 2015
All-Australian, 2015
State of Origin game, 2020
Josh J. Kennedy
293 premiership games and 20 pre-season games played for the West Coast Eagles and Carlton
2 x Coleman Medallist, 2015 and 2016
Premiership player, 2018
3 x All Australian, 2015 (VC), 2016, 2017 (VC)
7x Club leading goal kicker, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020
Paddy Ryder
281 premiership games and 26 pre-season games played for Essendon, Port Adelaide and St Kilda
Club best and fairest, 2017
All-Australian, 2017
International Rules game, 2017
Steele Sidebottom
289 premiership games and 25 pre-season games for Collingwood
Premiership player, 2010
2 x Club best and fairest, 2017 and 2018
All-Australian, 2018
State of Origin game, 2020
