Australian Football

A superb defender who combined a relentlessly vigorous approach with good all round skills and a predilection for going on prolonged, surging runs out of the backlines, Trevor Clisby was a stalwart of the fine teams fielded by North Adelaide during the 1980s and early 1990s. 

He arrived at North from Modbury Juniors, and made his league debut in 1980. He was at centre half back when the Roosters annihilated Glenelg in the 1987 Grand Final and played there again in the tempestuous 1991 premiership decider when West Adelaide was comprehensively vanquished. Clisby retired at the end of that 1991 season after a career tally of 279 club games plus one interstate appearance for South Australia.

Author - John Devaney