Tom Hafey

Tom Hafey

Thomas Stanley Raymond Hafey (born 5 August 1931) is a former Australian rules football Victorian Football League player and coach. Hafey played for Richmond between 1953 and 1958, and coached four clubs—Richmond, Collingwood, Geelong and Sydney—between 1966 and 1988, leading teams to a total of four premierships. Hafey was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, named coach of Richmond's team of the century in 1998, and given the AFL Coaches Association Coaching Legend Award in 2011.

Read more about Tom Hafey:  Battling Back Pocket, Transition To Coaching, Premiership Success, The Collingwood Years, Geelong and The Sydney Razzle Dazzle, Criticisms and Comparisons, Plenty of Life After Football, Hafey's Coaching "school", Workout Regimen

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