Chris Mew

Chris Mew
Personal information
Date of birth	(1961-05-07) 7 May 1961
Original team(s)	Rosebud
Height / weight	189 cm / 90 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1980–1992	Hawthorn	230 (21)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1992.
Career highlights
Hawthorn premiership player (1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991)

Chris Mew (born 7 May 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian/Australian Football League.

A defender, Mew usually played at centre half back and was a five time premiership player, in 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989 and 1991.

He retired after the 1989 season but was talked into returning by weekly visits from his coach Allan Jeans.

In 1992 he ruptured his Achilles tendon and retired immediately.

Mew was named as a centre half back in Hawthorn's official 'Team of the Century'.

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Hawthorn Football Club 1983 VFL premiers

Hawthorn 20.20 (140) defeated Essendon 8.9 (57), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Judge 3. Matthews (c) 7. Ayres 8. O'Halloran 9. DiPierdomenico 11. Buckenara 12. Paton 16. Wallace 17. Tuck 20. McCarthy 21. Byrne 22. Loveridge 23. Brereton 24. Knights 26. Eade 29. Greene 30. Schwab 32. Robertson 34. Kennedy 46. Mew

Coach: Jeans

Hawthorn Football Club 1986 1988/89 1991 VFL/AFL premiers

1986: Hawthorn 16.14 (110) defeated Carlton 9.14 (68), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1988: Hawthorn 22.20 (152) defeated Melbourne 6.20 (56), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1989: Hawthorn 21.18 (144) defeated Geelong 21.12 (138), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1991: Hawthorn 20.19 (139) defeated West Coast Eagles 13.8 (86), at Waverley Park

2. Mew 7. Ayres 17. Tuck (c) 19. Dunstall 23. Brereton 28/24. Langford 44. Platten

Hawthorn Football Club · Team of the Century

Full-back	Gary Ayres Kelvin Moore Albert Mills

Half-back	Col Austen Chris Mew Peter Knights

Centre	Robert DiPierdomenico Jim Bohan Brendan Edwards

Half-forward	Graham Arthur (c) Dermott Brereton Gary Buckenara

Full-forward	Jason Dunstall Peter Hudson John Platten

Ruck	Don Scott Michael Tuck Leigh Matthews

Interchange	Chris Langford Ian Law Paul Salmon Roy Simmonds

Coach	John Kennedy Sr. (footballer)

Victorian team – 1984 State of Origin

Victoria 16.12 (108) defeated South Australia 16.8 (104), at Football Park, 15 May 1984 Western Australia 21.16 (142) defeated Victoria 21.12 (138), at Subiaco Oval, 17 July 1984

Both games	Ackerly Buckley Cunningham Evans Hawkins Healy Johnston Madden Mew Moore Pert Tuck

vs. South Australia	Bos Carroll Daicos Doull Greig Jess Kennedy Lee McCann Salmon Watson Wilson

vs. Western Australia	Ablett Ayres Daniher DiPierdomenico Greene Icke Merrett Shaw Turner Williams

Coach: Jeans

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