Former Wangaratta Rover Danny Nolan claimed nine premierships

Updated July 2 2021 - 3:19am, first published May 22 2020 - 12:00pm
BURT'S BABES: Wangaratta Rovers' coach Laurie Burt had a stack of talented teens in 1997, including first-year player Danny Nolan (third from right).
BURT'S BABES: Wangaratta Rovers' coach Laurie Burt had a stack of talented teens in 1997, including first-year player Danny Nolan (third from right).

The Nolan name is well known around the Wangaratta region after Mick Nolan played at Tarrawingee and Rovers before becoming a much-loved premiership ruckman with North Melbourne in 1975. Nolan moved to Queensland to help grow the game in the rugby league-dominated State, where his children were raised, but Danny wanted to play where dad did, so he headed to Rovers as a teenager for the 1997 season. The Border Mail's ANDREW MOIR spoke to him about his time with the Hawks and a grand final run you won't believe.

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