Hats off to this Legend yesterday.
Scotty Howell showed that age is no barrier when the 46 year old took to the field for the Bulldogs in our practice match against Rupanyup yesterday, and showed glimpses of why he was one of our greatest ever players. While his ageing body wouldn’t allow him to do what he once was capable of, you could still see that he was once a very good player.
Here is a bit about Scott Howell that a lot of our current players would not be aware of.
Scott won a Under 16 Best & Fairest at club level in 1988, and was Runner up in the LFL Best & Fairest the same year.
He has also won three Senior Grade Club Best & Fairest awards (1992, 1998, 2000) and was also the recipient of the Maffescioni Award in 1992, which was a prestigious award voted by the opposition Lexton Football League clubs. And he was also runner up in this award again in 1993.
Scott was also a member of the LFL team on a number of occasions.
He has played in four of Avoca’s Senior Grade premiership teams and was Captain of the 1996 Premiership team.
He has also won many other numerous awards along the way and has also put his hand to coaching the senior team in 2000. And coached at Junior level in recent times.
Scotty played 285 games for the Avoca Football Netball Club and it was only a serious knee injury in 2001 that stopped him from playing 300 games, and he most likely would also have won his 4th club Best & Fairest award as well, as he was leading convincingly at the time of his injury.
Scotty has been a very loyal servant as a player and also at committee level, and has held many job descriptions throughout his time with the Bulldogs.
The fact that he took to the field yesterday showed that he will do anything to help support our club, when needed. Well done Scotty!
Footnote: Jim Jess used to call Scotty “The Smiling Assassin”
Scott was one of the toughest players to ever play for our club. He was always in and under getting the hard ball, and if an opponent happened to be in his way, the opponent generally came off second best.
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