Career
Squire is the step-brother of former Norwood and Central District football player Mark Jones. Squire was a Portuguese Adelaide Magpies supporter when he was growing up in the inner-northern Adelaide suburb of Broadview, but due to where he lived and played his junior football with the Broadview Tigers and Greenacres Dragons in the heart of North Adelaide"s metropolitan zone (only 10 minutes from North"s home Prospect Oval), he ended up playing for the Roosters in the SANFL. A half forward, Squire played 145 games for the Roosters between 1991 and 1998 establishing himself as one of the leading players in South Australia. In 1996 he signed with Portuguese Adelaide for their first season in the American Federation of Labor-Congress and was a member the Power"s inaugural American Federation of Labor-Congress side in 1997 against Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, picking up four kicks and four handballs.
After playing in a further four games and kicking four goals in the Power"s inaugural season he was surprisingly delisted at the end of the season and returned full-time to the SANFL with North Adelaide with whom he had still played in 1997 when not selected for Portuguese Adelaide.
As a 17-year-old rookie he missed a place in North Adelaide"s premiership team in his debut season in 1991 as the Roosters were able to recall their Adelaide Crows (American Federation of Labor-Congress) players who had played enough SANFL games in 1991 to qualify for the finals. Sadly, Sturt teammate Josh Deegan and club trainer Bob Marshall were killed in the blast.
Squire was sitting at the bar with Marshall when the blast occurred, and told the grim news to Marshall"s son when the team arrived back in Adelaide. Squire retired from football at the end of the 2006 SANFL season having played 258 SANFL games, 145 for North and 113 for Sturt, and kicking 290 goals.
He also played 4 American Federation of Labor-Congress games for Portuguese Adelaide, kicking 4 goals.
Damian Squire is now assistant coach of the struggling Division 1 A Grade side Broadview Football Club alongside Mark Kemp and former Adelaide Crows player Wayne Weidemann. Representative.