The President, Board, staff and members of the Collingwood Football Club would like to express their sadness at the passing of former players Tony Beers and Russell Jessop.
The son of former Collingwood premiership player Brian Beers, Tony Beers played five games for the club between 1982 and 1983.
Recruited from Old Paradians, Beers made his senior debut in the No. 50 jumper against Essendon in round seven of the ’82 season. He would play another game against Sydney later that year, before playing a further three at the tail end of ’83.
Beers made his mark in the reserves, finishing runner-up in the team’s best-and-fairest with 12 goals from 17 games in ’82.
Leaving Victoria Park to play for Claremont in the WAFL, Beers kicked 89 goals in 107 games across seven seasons, captaining in the club in the process.
He later played with and coached the North Fremantle Amateurs.
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Russell Jessop was a member of the Collingwood list between 1976 and 1977, and, like Beers, managed five games across his two seasons.
A product of Thornbury, Jessop played in the Magpies’ under-19 premiership side in 1974, and followed it with a role in the reserves team’s flag in ’76.
He played in the final three games of the 1976 season, debuting with nine disposals in a 25-point loss to Footscray at the Western Oval.
Jessop would follow up with a further two games in 1977, featuring against Richmond in round four and Fitzroy in round 18 as the Magpies charged from the wooden spoon to the Grand Final.
He left early in the 1978 season to play for Preston in the VFA, where he was a member of representative sides against Queensland and Tasmania. He later went on to play for Lalor in the Diamond Valley League.
In the end he’d totalled 48 under-19 games and 31 reserves outings for the Magpies, to go with his five senior appearances.
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The club would like to extend its deepest sympathies to the Beers and Jessop families.
Collingwood Forever.
Vale: Two distinguished Magpies
The President, Board, staff and members of the Collingwood Football Club would like to express their sadness at the passing of former players Tony Beers and Russell Jessop.
