Brett Spinks

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use Australian English|date=December 2017}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Brett Spinks

| image =

| fullname = Brett Spinks

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|11|7|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| originalteam = South Fremantle

| draftpick = 79th, 1992 AFL draft

| height = 194 cm

| weight = 110 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1998

| years1 = 1994–1997

| club1 = West Coast

| games_goals1 = 21 (14)

| years2 = 1998

| club2 = Geelong

| games_goals2 = 19 (35)

| games_goalstotal = 40 (49)

| careerhighlights = *AFL Rising Star nominee: 1994

• Geelong leading goalkicker: 1998

}}

Brett Spinks (born 7 November 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s.

Spinks, who spent an entire season with South Fremantle after being drafted, made his AFL debut in 1994. He played 14 games in the home and away season as well as a qualifying final. For his performance against Fitzroy early in the season, which included 10 marks, he received a 1994 AFL Rising Star nomination. A heavily built key forward, he could only manage a further six games in his next three seasons but topped Perth's goal-kicking in 1997. At the end of the 1997 season he was traded to Geelong for Pick 13, which West Coast used to select Callum Chambers.{{cite web| url=http://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/players/playerprofile/brettspinks/tabid/7302/playerid/15760/category/past/season/2010/selected/bio/default.aspx| title=Brett Spinks Player Profile bio| publisher=West Coast Eagles Football Club| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729141417/http://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/players/playerprofile/brettspinks/tabid/7302/playerid/15760/category/past/season/2010/selected/bio/default.aspx| archivedate=29 July 2010}}

He started well at Geelong in 1998, kicking 17 goals in his first four games, including a bag of six goals against Hawthorn at Kardinia Park.{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/B/Brett_Spinks.html| title=Brett Spinks| publisher=AFL Tables}} His eventual season tally of 35 goals were enough to share the club's goal-kicking honours with Ronnie Burns. Injuries kept him out of the seniors in 1999 and he wasn't able to work his way back into the AFL.{{cite book|last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim|title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers| publisher=BAS Publishing|year=2007|isbn=978-1-920910-78-5}}