20 || 2 || 6 || 145 || 89 || 234 || 56 || 6 || 253 || 0.1 || 0.3 || 7.3 || 4.5 || 11.7 || 2.8 || 0.3 || 12.7 |- class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3| Career ! 264 ! 130 ! 97 ! 3242 ! 1743 ! 4985 ! 1516 ! 189 ! 3110 ! 0.5 ! 0.4 ! 12.3 ! 6.6 ! 18.9 ! 5.7 ! 0.7 ! 11.8 |} Honours and achievements Team Night Series Premiership (Melbourne): 1987 Individual Brownlow Medal: 1991 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal: 1991, 1995–1997 Leigh Matthews Trophy (AFLPA MVP Award): 1991 All-Australian: 1991, 1993 Herald Sun Player of the Year Award: 1991 Melbourne F.C. Team of the Century Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee: 2003 Youth work and founding of Reach In 1994, Stynes co-founded (with film director Paul Currie) The Reach Foundation and became a prominent youth worker in Victoria. In addition to Reach, Stynes worked on government advisory boards, including the 1997 Victorian Government Suicide Task Force and the Federal Minister For Youth's Youth Advisory Consultative Forum Committee. Writer Stynes authored several books. His written works include two autobiographies: Whatever It Takes (1996) with Jim Main and My Journey (2012) with Warwick Green, along with children's self-help books co-written by Dr Jon Carnegie, including Heroes (2003) and Finding Heroes (2006). Melbourne Football Club chairman In 2008, Stynes began expressing an interest in becoming chairman. In June 2008, Melbourne's chairman, Paul Gardner, stepped down as president to make way for Stynes. His early-stated main goal at this stage was to increase the Melbourne membership number—especially the junior membership base as stated on The Footy Show on 12 June 2008. Shortly following his election, he declared his staunch stance against any proposed relocation of the club to the Gold Coast or elsewhere. In March 2011, Stynes met Prince William, Duke of Cambridge in Kerang, teaching him basic Australian rules football skills. In July 2011, Stynes in his role as chairman announced the sacking of Dean Bailey as Melbourne Football Club senior coach after a club board meeting due to an embarrassing 186 point lost to Geelong in Round 19, 2011, when Stynes said he found it extremely hard to tell Bailey of the club's decision in stating "It wasn't something I was looking forward to," and "It makes it hard, because Dean Bailey is such a great man and a man of