Bernie Quinlan came from my home town of Traralgon. He was zoned to Footscray and played there before he went to my VFL team Fitzroy.
I don’t remember much about those early days, but I do recall Quinlan kicking bags of goals for Fitzroy in the 1980s. He was known as “Superboot” because of the tremendous distance he could achieve.
He later coached the Lions and suffered their league-sponsored demise. The chiefs wanted someone to make way for Port Adelaide and Fitzroy was the weakest team at the time, no fault of Quinlan. He kicked some magical goals, as the video shows.
