Matthew Rendell

Matthew Rendell played 177 senior VFL/AFL games chiefly for Fitzroy, as well as Brisbane Bears between 1981 and 1992, lining up most often as a ruckman. On 23-0, Matthew Rendell's career spans 2 decades, from the 1980s to the 1990s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Matthew Rendell at a peak of 85 out of 100, reached in the 1980s. That figure measures Matthew Rendell only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1980s ruckman can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Matthew Rendell polled 24 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Matthew Rendell with a best season of 439 disposals in 1983, 108 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 4 votes in 1984. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.