Anthony "Tony" Leonard is an Australian radio presenter.

Originally from Seddon, Victoria

Seddon, Victoria

Seddon is a suburb 7 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia lying between Footscray and Yarraville. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2006 Census, Seddon had a population of 4651...

, Leonard was an 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 for the North Melbourne reserves

North Melbourne Football Club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...

.

In the early 1980s, he joined the Coodabeen Champions

Coodabeen Champions

The Coodabeen Champions are an Australian comedy team with several programs currently broadcast on ABC Radio...

, who were then on 3RRR

3RRR

3RRR is a popular Australian community radio station, based in Melbourne. It is the largest per capita subscribed radio station in the world....

. Following them to 3AW

3AW

3AW is a talkback radio station in Melbourne, Australia on 693 kHz AM. It began transmission on 22 February 1932 as Melbourne's fifth commercial radio station.-History:...

, he began commentating AFL matches in the 1990s. He used to present a Saturday morning show called "Glossing Over" with Trevor Marmalade

Trevor Marmalade

Trevor Marmalade is the stage name of a comedian from Melbourne, Australia of Dutch descent. Jason grew up in Surrey Hills in Melbourne....

 and Dr. Turf, until it was axed on 21 June 2007, following 3AW's poor ratings in the football timeslots.

Leonard continues to host sports programs on 3AW on weekend afternoons. Leonard's nickname is "the big man that travels by train" given to him by then radio colleague Rex Hunt

Rex Hunt

Rex James Hunt is an Australian television and radio personality, and a former Australian rules football player. He is an Australian rules football commentator, currently on the 1116 SEN radio station with son in law Lee Raynor conducting a program called Off The Hook. He is better known around...

. This was due to Leonard preferring to travel to an AFL game in Sydney by rail rather than on a plane.

External links

• 3AW Profile
• Coodabeen Champions Profile
• http://web.netcall.com.au/bruceandphil/catalog.htm