years death_date clubs article_title debutstadium statsend name coachyears originalteam birth_date debutdate coachclubs debutopponent debutteam heightweight
1949-1954 22 february 2007 essendon alan thaw
 windy hill 1954 alan thaw 1959 north essendon methodists 17 january 1926 round 14 , 1949 essendon st kilda essendon 170 cm / 76 kg
alan thaw

alan thaw -lrb- 17 january 1926 - 22 february 2007 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played for essendon in the victorian football league .
recruited locally , thaw was a back pocket in essendon 's 1949 premiership side .
he retired in 1954 and the following season was put in charge of the reserves team , coaching them until 1959 .
in the 1959 vfl season he coached essendon to a win over fitzroy when dick reynolds was unavailable .
from 1960 to 1976 , thaw was coach of essendon 's under-19s and steered them to premierships in 1961 and 1966 .
