Glenn Sullivan celebrated his 300th game for the Keilor Football Club last week. 82904_05 Picture: DAMIAN VISENTINI
By LIAM TWOMEY
A GREAT clubman and a champion bloke.
They are the common sentiments when speaking to anyone from the Keilor Football Club about senior player Glenn Sullivan.
After almost a lifetime of football with the Blues, Sullivan notched up his 300th game for the club last week against Essendon Doutta Stars.
Even though the result didn’t go Keilor’s way, the man of the moment said it was one of the highlights of his football career.
“It was a pretty special feeling with everyone there and it was a huge honour really. It was great,” Sullivan said.
“They had a couple of speakers before the game, a few of my best mates and then after the seniors we had a presentation where I got a jumper with my name on it which is framed and everything. There were another couple of speakers as well so it was really good.”
All of Sullivan’s 300 games have come from juniors or reserves football and reserves coach Peter Jennings said it was great to have someone of his experience to help settle the young talent in his side.
“There are probably three or four of those senior guys in the team who we really turn to, to help the younger guys out and really lead the group. Even as a coach I turn to him for his advice and his opinion,” he said.
“We get a lot of guys that are probably just below the standard of EDFL A Grade level and they tend to move on to other competitions or go and play B Grade. He has stayed with us and it’s great to have those sorts of people involved.”
After sticking with the club for a number of years, Sullivan got the ultimate reward in 2008 when he was part of the reserves team which won the Essendon District Football League reserves premiership.
In the same year the seniors were also crowned premiers and Sullivan said it was a pretty big couple of weeks of celebrations after that.
In good news for Keilor fans, Sullivan has no plans to hang up the boots anytime soon and said he will continue playing for as long as his body can stay up to it.
“It’s just been about all the mates I’ve made right through the juniors and with all the senior blokes. It is just a great club to be involved with,” he said.
“Everyone is so welcoming. All my best mates are from there so I’ve never really wanted to leave to tell you the truth.”
