Career
Cloke was a premiership player in his debut season with the Tigers and went on to play 219 VFL games from 1974 to 1982 (including another winning Grand Final in 1980) and in 1990–1991. In between, he played with Collingwood, where he added another 114 league games. Cloke kicked a total of 323 goals during his eighteen season VFL career, before retiring in 1991.
Cloke"s only club best and fairest award came in 1992 with Ainslie.
He joined Victorian Football Association club Portuguese Melbourne as non-playing coach in 1994, although did come out of retirement to play a handful of games during the season due to his team"s long injury list. David"s three sons, Jason, Cameron and Travis were all originally recruited in the American Federation of Labor-Congress for Collingwood.
However, Jason has since been cut by the club before returning to play for Collingwood"s VFL side, Williamstown and Cameron was recruited by Carlton in 2006 and then joined Portuguese Adelaide for one season in 2010. David was inducted into Richmond"s Hall of Fame in 2007.
