Scott Wade is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played for Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...

 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL) during the early 1980s.

Wade, a Tasmanian recruit, spent three seasons at Hawthorn and made two appearances in their premiership year of 1983. A rover, he then returned to his home state and won two William Leitch Medal

William Leitch Medal

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s, firstly with Hobart

Hobart Football Club

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 in 1984 and then for Clarence

Clarence Football Club

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 in 1989. He finished his TFL career with 282 senior games and played in three premiership teams at Clarence as well as one with Hobart.

He is now the General Manager of AFL Tasmania

AFL Tasmania

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, a position he has held since 1999. In 2006 he was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

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. His son Matthew

Matthew Wade

Matthew Scott Wade is an Australian cricket player, who plays for the Victorian Bushrangers. He previously played a List A match for the Tasmanian Tigers....

 is a first-class cricket

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er.