Mick Twomey

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Mick Twomey

| image = Mick Twomey.jpg

| fullname = Michael John Twomey

| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|9|25|df=y}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|12|14|1931|9|25}}

| death_place =

| originalteam = Ballarat (BFL)

| debutdate = Round 1, 1951

| debutteam = {{AFL Col}}

| debutopponent = {{AFL NM}}

| debutstadium = Victoria Park

| height = 185 cm

| weight = 87 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1961

| years1 = 1951–1961

| club1 = {{AFL Col}}

| games_goals1 = 157 (94)

| careerhighlights = *2× VFL premiership player: 1953, 1958

}}

Michael John Twomey (25 September 1931 – 14 December 2015) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

At {{convert|185|cm|ftin}} in height, Collingwood's Mick Twomey was taller than his brothers Bill and Pat. Recruited from Yarra Valley,[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206075059/19600514 Fourth Twomey Gets Permit for Collingwood, The Age, (Thursday, 21 April 1949), p.12.] he played most of his 157 VFL games between 1951 and 1961 as a ruckman. In fact he was short for a ruckman; but he had remarkable spring, and newspapers often carried photos of him seeming to soar over opponents.See for instance the photo in his [http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/collingwood-premiership-player-mick-twomey-dies-at-84-20151216-glp96n.html obituary] in the Melbourne Age. See also the comments in his [http://australianfootball.com/players/player/mick%2Btwomey/8006 profile] at AustralianFootball.com In the 1958 VFL Grand Final, for instance, the [http://www.itvideo.me/watch/?v=unYyw5rElGQ highlights footage] from Channel 7 shows him contesting ruck hit-outs and marks with opposing ruckmen who were 11 cm and 13 cm taller.See the players' height statistics from this game for the Melbourne ruckmen Dick Fenton-Smith and Bob Johnson.

Over the course of his 10-year career Twomey was a member of five Collingwood Grand Final teams, enjoying premiership success in 1953 and 1958. He died in 2015.{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/collingwood-premiership-player-mick-twomey-dies-at-84-20151216-glp96n.html|title=Collingwood premiership player Mick Twomey dies at 84|date=16 December 2015|work=The Age|accessdate=16 December 2015}}