Ross Smith (Australian footballer, born 1965)

(Redirected from Ross W. Smith) Australian rules footballer and coach This article is about the AFL footballer who played for North Melbourne. For the VFL footballer who player for St Kilda, see Ross G. Smith. For other people with the same name, see Ross Smith (disambiguation).

Australian rules footballer

Ross Smith
Personal information
Date of birth	(1965-02-03) 3 February 1965 (age 59)
Original team(s)	Jacana
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1984–1996	North Melbourne	224 (36)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1996.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ross Smith (born 3 February 1965) is the defensive coach at the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a former Australian rules footballer who played 224 games for AFL club North Melbourne between 1984 and 1996, mainly on the half back line.

In 1997, Smith captain-coached Ainslie to the Australian Capital Territory Football League premiership. He then served as the inaugural captain-coach of the Bendigo Diggers in the Victorian Football League in 1998. Smith joined Richmond as an assistant coach in September 2011, signing a three-year deal. He was previously an assistant coach at Hawthorn for seven years.

References

"Staff Members". RFC. Richmond Football Club. 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
"Ross Smith". Bendigo Advertiser ('The Winners' liftout). Bendigo, VIC. 30 March 1998.
Paton, Al (28 September 2011). "Tigers poach Hawthorn assistant coach Ross Smith". News Ltd. Retrieved 16 May 2014.

External links

Ross Smith's playing statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Australian squad – 1990 International Rules Series
Allison Anderson Bain Blakey Brown Bruns Campbell Couch Daniher Dean Frawley Gastev Hanna Jackson Loewe Malaxos McGuinness Mitchell O'Donnell Romero Salmon Smith Stephens Worsfold Wright

v t e Victorian team – 1993 State of Origin
Victoria 19.16 (130) defeated New South Wales-ACT 8.17 (65), at the MCG, 1 June 1993, crowd: 22,409 South Australia 16.13 (109) defeated Victoria 14.13 (97), at the MCG, 5 June 1993, crowd: 31,792
Both games	Ablett Brown (vc) Burke Frawley Hanna Knights Langford Loewe Lovett O'Donnell Rock Roos (c) Salmon Scott Sholl Smith Stynes
Semi-Final vs. NSW/ACT	Grant Lambert Schwass Silvagni Watson
Final vs. South Australia	M. Harvey R. Harvey Lyon McGuane Williams
Coach: Goggin

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