Barry Round, the 1981 Brownlow medallist and one of the foremost figures in the reinvention of South Melbourne as the Sydney Swans, has died
Round died on the Gold Coast, where he had been living, having entered palliative care recently. He was 72.
Recruited from Warragul in Gippsland, Round played his first 135 games for Footscray, crossing to South Melbourne before the 1976 season, one of three Bulldogs who would win Brownlow medals at their second club from that period of the ’70s to early ’80s ; in that period, the impecunious Bulldogs often offloaded valuable players - selling Brownlow medallists Quinlan, Round, Dempsey and Kelvin Templeton - to improve their fragile finances.
Round was a powerful, physically imposing durable ruckman, who was a superb mark and possessed a huge aerobic engine. As an original Sydney Swan, Round was a highly recognised and popular player, his profile bolstered enormously by the fact that those SCG Sunday games were televised live back into Victoria in those formative years, when the footy public came to know the Swans as a cast of colourful characters via television.
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