Career
Walsh played for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1983 and 1990. Upon ending his playing career, Walsh held assistant coaching roles at Geelong, West Coast and Portuguese Adelaide before being appointed as the head coach of the Adelaide Football Club for the seasons 2015–2017. On 3 July 2015, Walsh was found dead in his Somerton Park home in South Australia with multiple stab wounds.
Walsh played mostly as a wingman and made his VFL debut in the 1983 season with Collingwood.
The following year he crossed to Richmond where he spent three seasons with the club playing in 40 games. After his playing career, Walsh became the fitness co-ordinator and senior team runner at the Geelong Football Club from 1996 to 1999, before moving to the Portuguese Adelaide Football Club as an assistant coach in 1999.
He was an assistant coach under Mark Williams in Portuguese"s 2004 premiership team In the same year he was awarded the American Federation of Labor-Congress Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year award.
In 2009, Walsh moved to West Coast as an assistant coach under John Worsfold.
In 2014, he returned to South Australia as an assistant coach, specialising in midfield strategy, at the Portuguese Adelaide Football Club. On 7 October 2014, Walsh was appointed the senior coach at the Adelaide Football Club for three years after the sacking of Brenton Sanderson. On 3 July 2015, Walsh was found dead in his Somerton Park home.
Police were called to the house just after 2:00 am, and found Walsh with multiple stab wounds.
Paramedics arrived and tried to revive him, but a doctor confirmed him dead at the scene. Walsh"s wife Meredith was taken to a nearby hospital for cuts to her legal
Their 26-year-old son who also lived at the same home, Cy, was found by police a short time later, taken into custody and charged with murder. The match between Geelong Cats and Adelaide Crows, scheduled for 5 July 2015, was cancelled with both teams awarded two premiership points, making it the only game cancelled outright in the league"s history.