A happy 50th birthday to Darren Ogier!
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From the Blueseum:
Career: 1985-1987
Debut: Round 7, 1985 vs Sydney
926th Carlton Player
Games: 13
Goals: 15
Last game: Round 16, 1987 vs West Coast
Guernsey No. 34 (1987), 49 (1985 – 1986) and 52 (1982)
Height: 184cm
Weight: 81kg
DOB: 2 February, 1963
Think about the revolving door of players tried and tested at full forward throughout the 1980s: Ross Ditchburn, Warren Ralph, Warren McKenzie, Phil Poursanidis, Michael Gallagher, Peter Sartori…
… the list goes on. Darren Ogier was one of the merry-go-round who never quite established himself, despite being a prolific goal kicker in the Reserves. His claim to fame was being the first Blue to sport a genuine mullet, which obviously proved inspirational to another young, impressionable recruit, a certain S. Kernahan.
Ogier, due to limited opportunities headed to North Melbourne for the 1988 season. While at the Roos’, he played two games and kicked three goals, the last of those two games was against the Blues where he potted two goals. The following season (1989), he headed north of the border to Sydney where he played a further eight games and kicked 16 goals. His last two games for the Swans he kicked 5 goals against Footscray, then 4 goals against the Eagles. Then he never played VFL football again! His VFL career was a total of 23 games and 34 goals at three clubs spanning five years.
In 1991, while living in England, Ogier guided the Earls Court Kangaroos to the British Australian Rules Football League premiership. He was an assistant coach at the Northern Bullants from 1998 to 2001 and served as the senior coach of Katamatite in 2006. The following year he joined the Murray Bushrangers, of the TAC Cup, as an assistant coach and was promoted to senior coach for the 2010 season.
Darren Ogier was originally recruited from Northern Suburbs club Hadfield.
Ogier also played with the Blues Little League in 1974.