Brett Spinks is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played with the West Coast Eagles

West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

 and Geelong

Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL) during the 1990s.

Spinks, who spent an entire season with South Fremantle

South Fremantle Football Club

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 after being drafted, made his AFL debut in 1994. He played 14 games in the home and away season as well as a qualifying final. For his performance against Fitzroy

Fitzroy Football Club

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

 early in the season, which included 10 marks, he received a 1994 AFL Rising Star

1994 AFL Rising Star

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 nomination. A heavily built key forward, he could only manage a further six games in his next three seasons but topped Perth's

Perth Football Club

The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League . The club plays its matches at Lathlain Park.-History:...

 goal-kicking in 1997. At the end of the 1997 season

1997 AFL season

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 he was traded to Geelong for Callum Chambers

Callum Chambers

Callum Chambers is an Australian rules footballer who has played in the Australian Football League.He was recruited as the number 13 draft pick in the 1997 AFL Draft from Lucknow, Victoria...

, the 13th selection in the draft.

He started well at Geelong in 1998, kicking 17 goals in his first four games, including a bag of six goals against Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...

 at Kardinia Park. His eventual season tally of 35 goals were enough to share the club's goal-kicking honours with Ronnie Burns

Ronnie Burns (footballer)

Ronnie Paul Burns is a former indigenous Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club and Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League ....

. Injuries kept him out of the seniors in 1999 and he wasn't able to work his way back into the AFL.