Graeme Yeats

Career

A skilful and consistent defender/wingman, Yeats played 182 games with Melbourne, including 13 finals and the 1988 VFL Grand Final. He later played VFA/VFL football for Springvale. He then coached the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup Under 18"s Competition.

He stepped down from the role at the end of the 2013 season.

Achievements

• In the 1996 VFL Grand Final, his mark on the goal-line and subsequent goal from a tight angle with 47 seconds remaining was the winning goal in Springvale"s 3-point premiership win against Frankston. Yeats later won a VFL premiership as coach with Sandringham.