Alastair Lynch was a three-time Premiership full forward with the Brisbane Lions. He won the AFL Premiership in 2001, 2002 and 2003. In total, Alastair played 306 games scoring an impressive 633 goals.

Alastair’s career spanned 17 seasons and is one of Brisbane Lions favourite sons. There is no doubt Alastair was an instrumental member of the history-making Lions team that won an extraordinary premiership hat-trick in 2001-02-03.

In August 2005, Alastair released a best-selling autobiography titled “Taking Nothing For Granted”, which traces his fight against Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and his football career. In 1994 when he was struck by a mysterious illness at the height of his AFL career. He found himself sleeping 18 hours a day, unable to train, struggling to find answers from doctors. He was eventually diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in 1995. Instead of allowing the illness to derail his career, he fought back, along the way becoming an inspiration to thousands of CFS sufferers in Australia.

In recognition of the high regard in which he is held by the football community, Alastair was chosen in the Fitzroy Team of the Century and the Tasmanian Team of the Century and was further honoured part-way through 2004 when Tasmanian football’s highest individual award, formerly the William Leitch Medal, was re-named the Alastair Lynch Medal.

Alastair was an inaugural member of the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and was elevated to Legend status in 2006 and Icon status in 2010.

These days, Alastair writes a newspaper column in Brisbane and Hobart, does radio commentary with Triple M and appears regularly on ‘Fox Footy’.