Jim Stynes to stand down: report
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Jim Stynes pictured arriving with his wife at the Brownlow Medal dinner in 2006.
Wednesday July 01 2009
Jim Stynes, the Dublin-born president of Melbourne Football Club, is reportedly set to stand down due to ill-health.
Channel Nine is reporting that the former champion is to give up the top job at the AFL side because of an illness.
Stynes, who moved Down Under in the mid-1980s, played 264 games for Melbourne and was awarded the AFL’s highest honour when he took home the Brownlow medal in 1991 before retiring in 1998.
Known in his heyday for playing 244 games consecutively, Stynes became president of one of the game’s oldest clubs nearly a year ago.
- Online staff
