Jay W. Viney is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

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 in the Victorian/Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL/AFL).

Viney played senior football at Sturt

Sturt Football Club

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 before being reunited with his elder brother Todd

Todd Viney

Todd Viney is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the VFL/AFL. After the sacking of Dean Bailey due to their embarrassing 186-point loss to , it was announced that Viney would be Melbourne's caretaker coach for the remainder of 2011.-Football career:As a youngster,...

 when Melbourne recruited him in the 1987 VFL Draft

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.

He found it difficult to put together regular VFL/AFL appearances but he did play in the last 11 home and away games of the 1991 AFL season

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. However he was then let go by Melbourne and returned to the South Australian National Football League

South Australian National Football League

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 where he captained Sturt in 1993 and 1994. Viney finished his career playing for North Adelaide, a club he was captain of in 1997 and 1998.