Brendon Gale
Brendon “Benny” Gale is an influential Australian rules football sports administrator, currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League. Gale is a former Richmond player where he competed in 244 games after being recruited from Burnie in the Tasmanian State League.
He is the former CEO of the AFL Players' Association and member of the AFL's "Laws of the Game" or Rules Committee. He was appointed to his current role as Richmond CEO on 10 August 2009.Playing career
Gale played for the Richmond Football Club from 1990 to 2001 as a centre half-forward and later ruckman. For five seasons he played alongside his older brother, Michael, who transferred from the Fitzroy Football Club at the end of the 1993 season. Their father, Don Gale, was a champion Tasmanian footballer who became the first player from the NWFU to achieve All Australian selection. Their grandfather, Jack Gale, played three games for Richmond in 1924.
For a period during his playing days Gale played guitar in a small band called Trial By Video, which included other footballers Mark Zanotti, Tony Woods, and Paul Bulluss.Statistics
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1990
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1991
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1992
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1993
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1994
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1995
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1996
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1997
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1998
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2001
! colspan=3| Career
! 244
! 209
! 147
! 1975
! 1215
! 3190
! 1383
! 231
! 1832
! 0.9
! 0.6
! 8.1
! 5.0
! 13.1
! 5.7
! 0.9
! 7.5
