Swan Districts, who demanded $50,000 from the Bulldogs to keep Beasley in Victoria as the WAFL Swans believed his lease had expired – though nothing was actually given. In 1988, Beasley kicked 82 goals to overtake Templeton as the Bulldogs’ most prolific goal scorer. However, after a major back injury in the pre-season Beasley played in the reserves for the first three rounds of 1989. He did return in the fourth round and kicked six goals the following week against Melbourne, but the following four rounds saw only six further goals and his knee and back injuries forced Beasley into retirement in June. Beasley remains the highest goal kicker in the Bulldogs’ history and also kicked the most goals during the 1980’s in the VFL. Life after football In 1997, Beasley was appointed as one of the founding directors for the Trevor Barker Foundation, which in partnership with Challenge provides a holiday facility in Torquay for children going through cancer and their families. He stepped aside in 2010. In July 1999, Beasley was dismissed from his position of associate director at Credit Suisse First Boston for apparent breaches of compliance related to having business interests outside work. Beasley, who had worked for CSFB since 1993, said he would contest the charges. In 2006 Beasley was appointed to host the Western Region Football League's show on Channel 31, renamed The Simon Beasley Show. Beasley obtained his bookmaker license in 2002 and set up his own betting company. In 2009, he was charged with breaching a number of betting regulations between April 2006 and October 2008. Specifically, he had taken 1,598 bets totalling $3.8 million in turnover without lodging them with racing authorities. Beasley pleaded guilty, was fined AUD$50,000 and suspended for four years before making a return to bookmaking in 2018. Playing statistics |- |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1982 |style="text-align:center;"| | 18 || 21 || 82 || bgcolor="DD6E81"| 67 || 181 || 48 || 229 || 120 || || 3.9 || 3.2 || 8.6 || 2.3 || 10.9 || 5.7 || |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1983 |style="text-align:center;"| | 18 || 20 || 69 || 37 || 136 || 34 || 170 || 92 || || 3.5 || 1.9 || 6.8 || 1.7 || 8.5 || 4.6 || |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1984 |style="text-align:center;"| | 18 || 18 || 61 || 37 || 128 ||