"Alex Gardiner" was an Australian rules footballer who played with Western Bulldogs/Footscray in the Australian Football League/Victorian Football League (VFL). His father, also named Alex Gardiner, Sr./Alex, was a Footscray player during the 1920s.

Gardiner, originally from Gisborne Football Club/Gisborne, was one of Footscray's wingers in the 1961 VFL Grand Final loss to Hawthorn. From 1963 to 1967, Gardiner was captain-coach of Box Hill Football Club/Box Hill in the Victorian Football League/Victorian Football Association (VFA). He always polled well in the Field Trophy, finishing as the runner-up in 1964. In all, Gardiner played a total of 73 games for Box Hill, mainly as a centreman, and scored 61 goals. In 2000 he was selected on the wing in Box Hill's "Greatest Ever Team" and named as captain.

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It's going to change for 2010. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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If we want to keep our best athletes involved then there should be some incentive like every other strong entrepreneurial business.

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As a coach I've never thought in these terms. The world is doing it, more people are becoming professionals ...and there's got to be some incentive. But sometimes passion is compromised by dollars.

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We had 132 rookies here. We expect a lot of them to be back for Vancouver.

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Many of them will be back in 2010. They'll have seen their first Games and they'll be able to perform at a different level.

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