The first reserve in an Australian Rules football team.
South Adelaide made use of their nineteenth man
Example sentencesExamples
- The club provides the nineteenth man with a khaki overcoat to keep him warm as he waits for an opportunity to play.
- So, he's your reserve player, sort of a nineteenth man.
- The spare player (the nineteenth man) would only be allowed to replace an incapacitated player.
- Our nineteenth man is too plastered to come on.
- A courageous rover, he was nineteenth man in the 1940 premiership side.
- He had to find something to give the nineteenth man hope.
- North Melbourne complained when the nineteenth man ran on to the ground while Fitzroy's rover Batchelor was being helped off the field.
- The game is best remembered for a sickening collision involving Melbourne's nineteenth man and the Magpie wingman.
- Glenelg's nineteenth man added another goal after the siren.
- Having the rub of the green all game, astounding they have the nerve to boo their nineteenth man.