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14 July, 2023
Browne, Eade entertain Golden Eagles
WARRACK Eagles hosted its annual Golden Eagles dinner at the Community Centre on Tuesday night. A 90-strong crowd in attendance heard from guest speakers Madison Browne, a former Australian Diamonds netballer and AFL premiership player and coach...
WARRACK Eagles hosted its annual Golden Eagles dinner at the Community Centre on Tuesday night.
A 90-strong crowd in attendance heard from guest speakers Madison Browne, a former Australian Diamonds netballer and AFL premiership player and coach Rodney Eade who spoke on their careers before taking questions from the captivated audience.
Browne and Eade had earlier both taken part in respective netball and football training and relayed some vital tips to Eagles players with plenty of words of wisdom.
Browne, who now commentates netball for Fox Sports, represented the Diamonds from 2010 to 2018 captaining the team in 2017, before retiring from the game in 2020.
She is a two-time Liz Ellis Diamond award winner, won the ANZ Championship in 2014 and was named in the championship All Star Team in the same season.
In 2015, Browne suffered the first of two anterior cruciate ligament injuries which saw her miss the season before making a comeback the following season where she was named captain of the Melbourne Vixens where she was awarded the ANZ Championship Australia Conference MVP in the 2016 season.
After joining the Collingwood Magpies in 2017, she suffered a second ACL injury in 2019 and missed the entire season before returning to the court in 2020.
Through her career, she represented Melbourne Vixens, West Coast Fever and Collingwood Magpies.
Eade is a four-time premiership player for Hawthorn, making his debut in 1976 after being recruited from Glenorchy in Tasmania, winning the premiership in his first year before being part of successes in 1978, 1983 and 1986.
Following his retirement at the end of 1990, Eade took up coaching where in 1991 he was the reserves coach of the Brisbane Bears and led the Bears to the reserves’ premiership in that season. He later coached the North Melbourne reserves, and led it to the premiership in 1995. These successes at reserves level saw Eade appointed senior coach of the Sydney Swans in 1996, leading the Swans to the grand final that season.
He also coached Western Bulldogs from 2005-2011 and Gold Coast Suns from 2015-2017. He is now director of coaching at Scotch College in Melbourne.
Parting their knowledge to the Eagles players was well received with football coach Danny Bell thankful of the opportunity to hear some different aspects to training and game days.
“Rodney was pretty down to earth and provided some great insight and tips to our younger players in the team,” he said.
“One thing he highlighted was the fact that players make mistakes, everyone does, but its how you handle those errors and what you can do help fix them to benefit the team.
“He was good to talk to and his message to us was pretty relevant to what we are going through at the moment,” he said.