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Club | League | Career span | Games | Goals | Avg | Win % | AKI | AHB | AMK | BV |
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Bankstown | NSWANFL | 1980-1985 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Campbelltown | SFL | 1986-1993 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Total | 1980-1993 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
By some measure the most noteworthy and successful footballer in the Sydney competition during the 1980s, Rod Podbury won no fewer than four Phelan Medals, besides being runnerup once, and third twice. He commenced his career with the struggling Bankstown club, where his class shone to the extent that he won the first of his Phelan Medals in 1983 in a side that finished dead set last in a nine team competition.
Perhaps not surprisingly, however, Podbury was keen to experience team success, and he did this in no small measure after joining Campbelltown. The Blues won every Grand Final between 1986 and 1989, and, playing either on the ball or in the centre, Rod Podbury made significant contributions to each victory. He also won his remaining three Phelan Medals, in 1986, 1987 and 1990. A New South Wales state representative on half a dozen occasions, he is the most recently retired footballer to be included in the Sydney AFL Hall of Fame.
Author - John Devaney