Robert John Wiley is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) / West Australian Football League

West Australian Football League

The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...

 (WAFL) and Richmond

Richmond Football Club

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

 and West Coast

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...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL).

Career

Born in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, and educated at Scotch College

Scotch College, Perth

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, Wiley was zoned

Zoning (Australian rules football)

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 to in the WANFL, making his debut for them in 1974 at the age of 19. He won the Butcher Medal as Perth's best and fairest

Best and Fairest

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 in his first season. He was a member of premiership sides in 1976 and 1977. A pacy rover, he played with Perth before and after his VFL stint and won a club record eight best and fairest awards in total. He finished with 178 senior games and coached the club in 1988 and 1989.

Richmond had recruited Wiley in 1979 and he played in their 1980 VFL Grand Final

1980 VFL Grand Final

The 1980 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1980. It was the 84th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

winning side. He kicked 40 goals in 1982 and left the club the following season, returning to Western Australia where in 1987 he would return to the VFL for a season with the newly formed West Coast.

During his years at Richmond, he once hit his head on a goal post in a match against Essendon.