Alan Thaw

Alan Thaw
Personal information
Date of birth	17 January 1926
Date of death	22 February 2007(2007-02-22) (aged 81)
Original team(s)	North Essendon Methodists
Debut	Round 14, 1949, Essendon vs. St Kilda, at Windy Hill
Height / weight	170 cm / 76 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1949–1954	Essendon	41 (0)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1959	Essendon	1 (1–0–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1954.

Alan Thaw (17 January 1926 – 22 February 2007)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League.

Recruited locally, Thaw was a back pocket in Essendon's 1949 premiership side. He retired in 1954 and the following season was put in charge of the Reserves team, coaching them until 1959. In the 1959 VFL season he coached Essendon to a win over Fitzroy when Dick Reynolds was unavailable. From 1960 to 1976, Thaw was coach of Essendon's Under-19s and steered them to premierships in 1961 and 1966.

References

↑ "Past Player Profiles - T (Thaw, Alan C)". essendonfc.com.au. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

Alan Thaw's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Essendon Football Club 1949 VFL premiers

Essendon 18.17 (125) defeated Carlton 6.16 (52), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Fisher 2. Rawle 3. Reynolds (c) 4. McDonald 6. Hassell 7. Hutchison 9. Leehane 10. Coleman 11. McEwin 12. May 17. Lambert 18. Gardiner 22. Lane 23. Brittingham 24. Jones 25. McConnell 26. Syme 27. Bradley 31. McClure 36. Thaw

Coach: Reynolds

Coaches of the Essendon Football Club

1908–1909: Smith 1910: Belcher 1911–1915; 1918–1920: Worrall 1920–1921: Ogden 1922: Gravenall 1922–1924: Barker 1925–1927: Maher 1928–1930: Hardy 1931–1933: Campbell 1934–1935: May 1936–1939: Baggott 1939: Reynolds/Hunter 1939–1960: Reynolds 1941: Griggs 1944: Plummer 1945; 1946: Ruddell 1959: Thaw 1961–1967: Coleman 1965: Sewell 1968–1970: Clarke 1971: Birt 1972–1975: Tuddenham 1976–1977: Stephen 1978–1980: Davis 1981–2007: Sheedy 2006: O'Donnell 2008–2010: Knights 2011–2013: Hird 2013: Goodwin 2014: Thompson 2015: Hird 2015: Egan 2016–: Worsfold

Essendon did not participate in the VFL from 1916–1917 due to World War I Italics* denote caretaker coach

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