Stephen Pirrie is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played with Richmond

Richmond Football Club

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

, St Kilda and Essendon

Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (VFL).

Pirrie, an Old Xaverian, started his career in the 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...

 reserves. Both his father, Kevin, as well as his uncle, Richard

Dick Pirrie

Richard M. "Dick" Pirrie was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League . Son of Richard Pirrie and brother of Kevin Pirrie, he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. He was the first Australian killed at the landings at Normandy on...

, had played league football for Hawthorn. He also had a grandfather, Richard senior, who played with Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

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. Unlike his father, Pirrie never broke into the Hawthorn seniors and instead made his VFL debut with Richmond.

A defender, he appeared in the final ten games of the 1982 home and away season

1982 VFL season

The 86th Victorian Football League Premiership season commenced on 20 March 1982 and concluded on 25 September 1982 with Carlton winning their second consecutive Premiership against Richmond...

 for Richmond, but wasn't selected for the finals.

Having not played a single VFL game in 1983 being was used just once in 1984, Pirrie was traded to St Kilda, in return for Jeff Dunne

Jeff Dunne

Jeffrey "Jeff" Dunne is a former Australian rules footballer. Recruited from the Ballarat Football League, he played for St Kilda as a hard running back pocket, he was a solid defender and represented Victoria...

. He was only able to make seven appearances at his new club and in 1985 made his way to reigning premiers Essendon, where he played just once.

He had a brief stint with Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne Football Club

The Port Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Borough, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and is currently playing in the Victorian Football League ....

in 1987.