Jim Stynes

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James Peter Stynes (23 April 1966 – 20 March 2012) was an Irish-born Australian rules footballer, youth worker and sports administrator. Stynes played the entirety of his Australian rules football career with the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Australian Football League (AFL) between 1987 and 1998. He was recruited from Dublin through Melbourne's "Irish experiment", Stynes went on to become the first, and only, non-Australian-born player to win the Brownlow Medal in 1991. Stynes played as a ruckman. He played a then-record 244 consecutive games, a streak that was a record lasting over two decades. He also won the Leigh Matthews Trophy in 1991, two All-Australian team selections, four Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medals, as Melbourne's best and fairest player and was selected in Melbourne's Team of the Century. He additionally represented Victoria in State of Origin football, as well as playing for both Australia and Ireland in the International Rules series...

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