Career
He also played for East Fremantle in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). Only Terry Daniher polled more votes for Essendon that year. Injury restricted him to seven games in 1980, but he was a regular again in 1981, playing 18 games.
His only appearances in 1982 came late in the season, due to an ankle injury.
In 1983 he played only in round two, then got a clearance to Geelong, where he played seven games. He finished his VFL career on 52 games.
Despite Essendon making the finals in three seasons that Reid played, 1979, 1981 and 1982, he never got to participate in a finals series. He moved to China in 1985 and has lived there since.
A University of Western Australia graduate, Reid worked at the Australian Embassy in Beijing as Minister Commercial and Senior Trade Commissioner then at Fosters China Limited as Chief Operating Officer, during the 1990s.
