Career
Brisbane picked Strempel up from WAFL club Swan Districts with pick four in the 1990 Pre-Season Draft. Along with team-mate Peter Worsfold, Strempel made his debut in Brisbane"s round five loss to Collingwood at Victoria Park and had 10 disposals. Not selected in round seven, he returned to the team the following round when Brisbane lost to Street Kilda at the Gabba, with Strempel having 12 disposals, five hit-outs and kicking two behinds.
lieutenant would be his last appearance for Brisbane and at the end of the year he was traded to Essendon.
The move didn"t work out and Strempel returned to Swan Districts, where he played until 1994. In 2001, it was revealed in an American Federation of Labor-Congress Players Association video, produced by former Bears player Rob Dickson, that then coach Robert Walls had overseen a training session in 1991 which had left Strempel bloodied, bruised and with chipped teeth.
Walls had intended to teach the Swans Districts recruit to respect his team-mates and got eight of his players to put the boxing gloves and make a circle around Strempel, who would take turns boxing each player. The session only ended when one of the last men in line, Brad Hardie, told Walls "we"d better stop or we"ll kill him".
