Michael Armfield

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Career Highlights
GFC League Player Number: 643 GFC League Debut: Escort Cup, 1979 Glenelg 1979 – 1981 40 games 1 goal Played in 1981 Grand Final side
Other Career Highlights
North Adelaide 1982-1988 134 games, 13 goals Premiership player 1987

Biographical

• Born: 19 December 1959
• Height: 184 cm
• Weight: 84kg

• Recruited from: Millicent

Guernsey Number: 18

Recruited from Millicent, where he kicked 80 goals in 1978.

Left Glenelg to play with North Adelaide (as part of a transfer deal involving the Stringer brothers). Played in a premiership in 1987, which was only his 3rd League game for the season. He also played in the grand Final loss in 1985 to his old team, the Bays.

Armfield later went on to coach throughout South Australia. He joined Collingwood as a South Australian recruiter in 1999, and has spent over two decades in the position as the club’s South Australian Recruiting Manager. Armfield combined his work as a fireman with more than 1500 games of football.

His son, Darcy Armfield, made his League debut v South Adelaide in 2010.

References

1. Glenelg Football Club

2. Pride of the Bay, Peter Cornwall and John Wood

3. Border Watch

4. SANFL Football Budget 1981 grand final edition

5. Collingwood special services award 2017]