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
Irish experiment
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The Irish experiment is the popular term for the recruitment of Irish athletes, mainly Gaelic footballers, by VFL/AFL clubs to play Australian rules football professionally in Australia. The AFL's foc
Jim Stynes
…the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Australian Football League (AFL) between 1987 and 1998. He was recruited from Dublin through Melbourne's "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…
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