Brett Gillard is an Australian former rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A back-row forward, he played in 40 matches for Eastern Suburbs

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 in the years 1989-92, Penrith Panthers

Penrith Panthers

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 1993& 94, Gold Coast Chargers

Gold Coast Chargers

Gold Coast were a professional Rugby league football club which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby League premiership from 1995 to 1997, and the National Rugby League premiership in 1998...

 1995 & 96 and a season with the South Sydney

South Sydney Rabbitohs

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club in 1997.

Gillard in currently associated with one of Eastern Suburbs junior clubs', the Clovelly Crocodiles, in junior development.

Brett has three children Maddy,ellie and jack.
He is still very much involved in football and supports the Roosters