Darren Ogier is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Carlton

Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

, North Melbourne

North Melbourne Football Club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...

 and the Sydney Swans

Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

  in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL).

Ogier was a product of Carlton's Under 19s and also spent spend a period of time in the reserves, before making his senior debut as a 22 year old in 1985. A fast leading forward, he was selected for a total of just five games in 1985 and 1986 but made eight appearances in 1987, a premiership year.

He joined North Melbourne in 1988 but got even fewer opportunities, playing just two games, one of which was against his former club.

Ogier was reunited in 1989 with Col Kinnear

Col Kinnear

Colin 'Col' Kinnear is a former Australian rules football coach who coached the Sydney Swans in the VFL/AFL. He is the son of former Melbourne player Joe Kinnear....

, his assistant coach at Carlton and the new senior coach of Sydney. He came into the side midway through the season and kicked 16 goals from eight appearances. Nine of those goals came in his final two games, first kicking five goals against Footscray

Western Bulldogs

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 and then booting four more against the West Coast Eagles

West Coast Eagles

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 the following week.

In 1991, while living in England

England

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, he led he guided the Earls Court Kangaroos

Earls Court Kangaroos

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 to the British Australian Rules Football League

AFL Britain

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 premiership.

He was an assistant coach at the Northern Bullants

Northern Bullants

Northern Blues Football Club is a long-established Australian rules football club based in Preston and currently playing in the Victorian Football League representing the central and outer areas of Melbourne...

 from 1998 to 2001 and served as the senior coach of Katamatite

Katamatite Football Club

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 in 2006. The following year he joined the Murray Bushrangers

Murray Bushrangers

Murray Bushrangers is an Australian rules football team playing in TAC Cup since 1993 based in Wangaratta. The team trains in WJ Findlay Oval. The team is coached by Darren Ogier...

, of the TAC Cup

TAC Cup

The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions....

, as an assistant coach and was promoted to senior coach for the 2010 season.