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Australian rules footballer

Greg Dear
Personal information
Date of birth	(1963-04-17) 17 April 1963 (age 61)
Original team(s)	Churchill
Height	200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight	99 kg (218 lb)
Position(s)	Ruck
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1985–1993	Hawthorn	137 (18)
1994–1996	Richmond	053 0(9)
Total		190 (27)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1996.
Career highlights
3x VFL Premiership (1986, 1988, 1989)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Greg Dear (born 17 April 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn and Richmond in the VFL/AFL.

A ruckman, Dear was a member of the strong Hawthorn sides of the late 1980s and a premiership player in 1986, 1988 and 1989. He could have had a fourth in 1991 but missed the entire season due to a serious knee injury. In 1994 he was traded to Richmond where he finished his career.

Dear had joined the senior Hawthorn side in 1985 after impressing in the reserve grade, winning the Gardiner Medal for the league's best reserve player. The following season he was selected in the VFL Team of the Year as first ruckman and he later went on to represent Victoria at the State of Origin.

Greg Dear is the brother of fellow Hawk Paul Dear.

External links

Greg Dear's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Profile at Hawksheadquarters.com
Greenberg, Tony (12 October 2012). "Top 20 Tiger trade pick-ups: No. 16". Richmond Football Club. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.

v t e Hawthorn Football Club 1986 VFL premiers
Hawthorn 16.14 (110) defeated Carlton 9.14 (68), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
2. Mew 4. Russo 7. Ayres 9. DiPierdomenico 11. Buckenara 14. Dear 15. Morris 16. Wallace 17. Tuck (c) 19. Dunstall 22. Loveridge 23. Brereton 25. Curran 26. Eade 28. Langford 29. Greene 30. Schwab 34. Kennedy 39. Abbott 44. Platten
Coach: Jeans

v t e Hawthorn Football Club 1988/89 VFL premiers
1988: Hawthorn 22.20 (152) defeated Melbourne 6.20 (56), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1989: Hawthorn 21.18 (144) defeated Geelong 21.12 (138), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
2. Mew 7. Ayres 9. DiPierdomenico 10. Wittman 11. Buckenara 14. Dear 17. Tuck (c) 18. Pritchard 19. Dunstall 20. Maginness 23. Brereton 24. Langford 34. Kennedy 35. Morrissey 40/4. Collins 44. Platten

v t e 1986 VFL Team of the Year
Full-back line	Mark Thompson (Essendon) Gary Pert (Fitzroy) Gary Ayres (Hawthorn)
Half-back line	Glenn Hawker (Essendon) Paul Roos (Fitzroy) Dennis Carroll (Sydney)
Centre line	Doug Hawkins (Footscray) Greg Williams (Sydney) Robert DiPierdomenico (Hawthorn)
Half-forward line	Gary Ablett Sr. (Geelong) Terry Daniher (Essendon) (c) Gary Buckenara (Hawthorn)
Full-forward line	Wayne Blackwell (Carlton) Brian Taylor (Collingwood) Jim Krakouer (North Melbourne)
Ruck	Greg Dear (Hawthorn) Gerard Healy (Sydney) Dale Weightman (Richmond)
Interchange	Craig Bradley (Carlton) Justin Madden (Carlton) John Platten (Hawthorn) Dermott Brereton (Hawthorn)
Coach	Allan Jeans (Hawthorn)
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