Rocket science
Subtitle: the biography of Rodney Eade
By: Kevin Hillier.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia; Pan Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781405038669
Subjects: Eade, Rodney; Australian football players -- Biography; Australian football coaches -- Biography; Australian football
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Rodney Eade has had an incredible journey in sport and in life. Growing up in Tasmania, sport was always an integral part of his life, his dad playing state football and cricket. Early on, it looked as if cricket would be Rodney's game. Then the Hawthorn Football Club took him across Bass Strait as a seventeen year old to play VFL football.  Little did anyone know  least of all Rodney  what lay ahead: four Premierships with Hawthorn; coaching the first interstate team to win a premiership; coaching the Swans to their first Grand Final since moving to Sydney; and becoming just 12th person in the history of the game to both play and coach 200 games.  Eade's life and career is an extraordinary story, and Kevin Hillier has interviewed a huge range of footballing talent and experience to fully do it justice."--Provided by publisher.