Career

Better known as a half-forward flanker he also played in the centre and centre half-back. Clarke was a director of the failed Geelong based Pyramid Building Society, which collapsed in 1990 with debts of A$2 billion. He was charged with 13 breaches of the Building Societies Acting and was given a two-year suspended jail sentence and fined $47,000 after pleading guilty.

Achievements

• He won the club Best and Fairest three times and was runner-up four times.