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Footscray   Simon Beasley   Footscray

Number:

  18 Footscray

Western Bulldogs

Red white and Blue

Height:

  195

Weight:

   95

Birthday:

   26 July 1956

Period on list:

  1982 to 1989

Senior Games:

  154

Goals:

  575

Disposals:

   

Recruited From:

  Swan Districts
Honours:  

Team of the Century at full-forward. Coleman Medal 1985 with 105 goals. Leading goal-kicker from 1982 to 1988 with 82, 69, 61, 105, 88, 73 and 82. Leading 1ll-time club goal-kicker with 575. 6 state games for Western Australia. Simpson Medalist in 1981.
   

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 Had great anticipation. Was clever, a very fast lead and high mark and accurate kick. He impressed talent scouts through his dominating play in an interstate match Victoria vs Western Australia. After that it was a race for his signature. But the Bulldogs turned up just at the right time.  
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  He goal-kicking started slowly in 1982 with the ball not coming to him often or quickly enough. By round 11 he had only 22 goals. In the second half of the season things changed around, he booted 12 against Geelong and finished up with 82 for the year. The day he kicked 12 against Geelong they had absolutely no idea how to play him and resorted to turning their back on the play and just played him face to face.  
     
  He finished with an average of 3.73 goals per match, a very good average.   
     
  What about that great mark he took. It was at the Western Oval, we were playing Collingwood and coming home like a train. It was in the last quarter with a few minutes to go and we were a few points down  
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We drove the ball to the forward line only to see Collingwood's Graeme Allen mark it in the back pocket. Surely time had run out. Allen passed the ball to a team mate across goal, but it didn't get there, good ol' Beaser cut it off, whipped in and marked it, only 10 meters out. What a cheer, and a bigger cheer when he slotted it through for a win on the siren.

Coach Mick Malthouse didn't reckon that Beaser could play in the rain and there was always the threat that he would leave him out, and give the chance to whom he thought was a great mud-lark - Tony Liberatore.

I'll never forget the look on my son's face when he was out on the ground at training when he was about 4 or 5 and Beasley walked past. My son just kept tilting his head further and further back to see how tall he was. We tend to forget he was 6' 5" and just see the pale skin and wispy thinning hair.

After football he started a successful business as a stockbroker. Later he became a book-maker.