Jim Stynes
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James Peter Stynes was an Irish-born Australian rules footballer, youth worker and sports administrator. Stynes played the entirety of his Australian rules football career with the Melbourne Football
Stynes in 2008
Statue of Stynes outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Jim Stynes Bridge in Docklands, Melbourne
In Australian rules football, the ruck is the name given to both the contests for the ball initiated by a field umpire to commence play, and to the players' specialist position who nominate to contest
Jim Stynes
…Irish experiment", Stynes went on to become the first, and only, non-Australian-born player to win the Brownlow Medal in 1991. Stynes played as a ruckman. He played a then-record 244 consecutive games, a streak that was a record lasting over two decades. He also won the Leigh Matthews Trophy in 1991, two…
A ruck contest from an AFL match in 2018. Andrew Phillips (left) and Nic Naitanui (right) contest a ball up from the umpire (in green) while players below await the tap.
Two rucks contest the bounce in a suburban western Sydney AFL game between the East Coast Eagles AFC and Campbelltown Kangaroos AFC
A Western Bulldogs player rises over the top of the two designated rucks to employ a tandem "third man up" ruckwork strategy in an AFL match in 2007 at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne. A decade later this would be made illegal by the AFL.
A ruck contest after an umpire ball-up during a women's game. Players surround the contest, waiting for the tap.