Essendon ruckman Andrew Phillips never stopped being hungry to play AFL as he lived the life of the back-up ruckman with a smile.
Carrying an easy smile, his eyes light up at the mention of his two toddlers, Ned and Toby and his wife Teagan, who he married at a winery in their home state of Tasmania in 2019.A qualified carpenter, he’s remodelled two vintage caravans, the first called Fergie now sold, and the second Myrtle, and renovated their house, mostly in his beloved German Shorthaired Pointer’s company.
“I felt like I’m taking this really well. I’m always positive in thinking, ‘Okay, that’s all right, selection didn’t go my way. I’ll go back and chip away in the twos’. “Normally you want to train well, but normally you start looking to get through training as well. But this was ‘come on boys’,” Phillips said.watch ‘the ruck merry-go-round’
Early on this year, with Toby arriving in March, they decided that at the end of 2023 they would return to Tasmania to be closer to family. As they pondered the decision Phillips joked, ‘what if I have an absolute blinder of a year? What if I win the B&F?’.
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