I was always a fan of his as a boy. He'll always be remembered by me as the guy who danced, walked, and jumped up and down on a shattered ankle after the 92 grand final.Chris Mainwaring dead at 41
David Lowden
Friday, September 28, 2007
By David Lowden
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Former West Coast Eagles champion, Chris Mainwaring, has died at the age of 41.
Western Australian police say he collapsed in his home in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe around midnight. An ambulance took him to the nearby Sir Charles Gardiner hospital in Subiaco but he was unable to be revived.
"Mainy", as he was affectionately known, was a brilliant footballer for the Eagles during their dominant years of the 1990s.
He was a crucial member of the two premiership sides of 1992 and 1994 playing as a wingman who knew when to leave his man and join the forwards in attack. He was the type of player who could turn a game off his own boot with a flash of brilliance.
Mainwaring played 201 games, was a regular player for his beloved Western Australia and a two-time All Australian.
Off the field, he was known as a loveable larrikin, and there was no bigger name in Perth in his playing days. A few scrapes with the law were forgiven by his adoring public because "Mainy" was the man all blokes wanted to be their mate and most girls wanted to marry.
During his playing days he was an accomplished media performer and has been a presenter with Channel Seven in Perth for more than a decade.
Mainwaring had been presenting the sports news on Channel 7 on weekends for five years.
His reputation as a party boy had been replaced as that of a loving husband and family man in recent years. He is survived by his wife Rani and two young children.
There's rumours it was an overdose...Sad when anyone passes away.
Who dies at home with no expanation? At 41?
Mainwaring, who was recruited to West Coast from East Fremantle, played 201 games for the Eagles between 1987 and `99 and played eight State of Origin games for WA.
The gifted ballwinner was a key member of the Eagles' famous midfield during the `90s, averaging more than 20 possessions a match and steering the club to its first AFL premiership over the Cats in `92 and to its second, again over Geelong, in `94.
He regularly figured in the club's best and fairest award, finishing runners-up on three occasions and third twice, but in later years was dogged by injury.
Mmm... no. He was one of the original "party boys" at the Eagles, and did ads for taxis after being banned from driving for instance...strange circumstances, only 41 etc ( as kennas says) - and why would a "best and fairest" player get involved with drugs?
maybe not m8
maybe time will tell - hard to keep "cause of death" a secret these days, even if you wanted to. you'd know more about that than me.
ps maybe echoes of joey johns, but one bridge too far?
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2007/10/01/7440_news.html
and why would a "best and fairest" player get involved with drugs?
I am not a footy fan but I am personally perplexed to find out if there is a superman who calls himself or herself as God no matter how you worship this almighty why he takes away good people.
Chris has been an outstanding personality, an Aussie icon, a live person, so agile and fit.
God knows what fitness level one requires not to attain the tragic death like Chris at the age of 41.
May I join with you all to express our deepest condolence to Chris and his family and friends. Hope time will heal it up.
Regards Miner
spot on sprinterBen Cousins anyone?
Yes, I think the boys in blue will have some questions for BC. Worst case, he's provided the e that's killed him. Golly...Unfortunately, it appears the drug bogey has raised it's ugly head again.... not exactly good news that Cousins appears to be one of the last persons to see him before he began to convulse... the report says he went to see Mainy because he was "hungry". Exactly what was Chris hungry for?
Or potentially been selling him the stuff he died of, and causing him problems the last month.Yes, I think the boys in blue will have some questions for BC. Worst case, he's provided the e that's killed him. Golly...
Gosh, seriously, a 41 year old and drugs? Maybe at 16 years of age and experimenting, maybe an addicted person in their twenties, but at 41 years of age? Way old enough to know better. Maybe, given the descriptions of his 'larrikin ways' he never got past being a teenager.
41 isn't that old prospector! Please.Gosh, seriously, a 41 year old and drugs? Maybe at 16 years of age and experimenting, maybe an addicted person in their twenties, but at 41 years of age? Way old enough to know better. Maybe, given the descriptions of his 'larrikin ways' he never got past being a teenager.
41 isn't that old prospector! Please.
Could say something about the culture at the Eagles maybe.
I think its more about the choices young men make particularly a group that are super risk takers to start with, if anyone believe that all other AFL teams are clean of drugs then I would urge them to do some research if only for the sake of their own kids.
Also there have been some pretty harsh comments made with plenty of innuendo some I believe has some basis but most is wide of the mark.
The lost of Mainwaring here in the West has shaken so many.
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