From Stuart Dew to Luke Hodge and Cyril Rioli, Andrew Russell made a career out of preparing premiership players.

When Andrew Russell was called into Kevin Sheedy’s office at the Hilton Hotel as a teenager and offered a job, not in his wildest dreams would he have been able to predict the three decade high performance career that included six premierships across three clubs that was to come.

Russell was there at the end of the Bombers dynasty, Port’s ‘04 choke-breaker and the start of the Hawks decade of dominance.

From Stuart Dew to Luke Hodge and Cyril Rioli, Russell made a career out of preparing premiership players.

When Andrew Russell was called into Kevin Sheedy&rsquo;s office at the Hilton Hotel as a teenager and offered a job, not in his wildest dreams would he have been able to predict the three decade high performance career that included six premierships across three clubs that was to come.
Russell was there at the end of the Bombers dynasty, Port&rsquo;s &lsquo;04 choke-breaker and the start of the Hawks decade of dominance.
From Stuart Dew to Luke Hodge and Cyril Rioli, Russell made a career out of preparing premiership players.

Some of the biggest names in AFL reveal the true stories of how they discovered their days were numbered and when the guillotine dropped.

What really happens when the axe falls in the AFL world? Some of the biggest names in the sport reveal the remarkable true stories of how they discovered their days were numbered and when the guillotine dropped.

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What really happens when the axe falls in the AFL world? Some of the biggest names in the sport reveal the remarkable true stories of how they discovered their days were numbered and when the guillotine dropped.

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Andrew Russell  - The high performance guru

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