Flooding first became an offensive tactic when Rodney Eade became the Sydney Swans head coach in 1996.

Wallace was linked to the Sydney Swans job in mid-2002 when Rodney Eade was sacked following a narrow round 12 loss to Geelong.

However, coach Rodney Eade resigned mid-season, and under interim ( later permanent ) coach Paul Roos, Goodes found himself playing more in the ruck.

* Rodney Eade, Ex-Australian Football Coach.

Roos is the only interim coach to win a premiership after replacing Rodney Eade midway through the 2002 AFL season.

Returning to Australia and the Swans, Roos then became an assistant coach to Rodney Eade.

In 2001, Swans coach Rodney Eade moved him to the backline, where he prospered.

For a while, he struggled to cement his place in the team, but since Paul Roos replaced Rodney Eade as coach, his career has blossomed.

* 1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King.

* 1960 – Rodney Greenblat, American graphic designer

* 1965 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality ( d. 2012 )

* 1961 – Rodney McCray, American basketball player

* 1911 – Lester Rodney, American journalist ( d. 2009 )

* 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

* 1986 – Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player

* 1947 – Rodney Bingenheimer, American radio personality

* 1972 – Rodney Harrison, American football player

* 1719 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer ( d. 1792 )

* Best Film Music – Richard Rodney Bennett ( lost to Backbeat )

His final appearance was a 2 – 3 defeat away to local rivals Tampa Bay Rowdies on 17 June 1978, in which Rodney Marsh scored all three for the home team.

* 1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian politician and musician

* 1945 – Rodney Matthews, English artist

*: Rodney Alexander – Website

* 1948 – Burning Spear ( Winston Rodney ), Jamaican singer and musician

* 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

* 1977 – Fernando Rodney, Dominican baseball player

* 1998 – Donald Rodney, British artist ( b. 1961 )

* 1991 – Rodney Sneijder, Dutch footballer

* 1935 – Rodney Hall, Australian author

* 1977 – Rodney Buford, American basketball player

* 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian ( d. 2004 )

Representatives of the " bawdy " strain of Australian comedy include Rodney Rude, Austen Tayshus and Chad Morgan.

* Rodney Blake ( born 1983 ), Australian rugby union footballer

* Australian Men's Singles Championship – Rodney Heath defeats Arthur Curtis 4 – 6 6 – 3 6 – 4 6 – 4

Rodney George " Rod " Laver MBE ( born 9 August 1938 ) is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles.

Rodney Sturt " Rod " Taylor ( born 11 January 1930 ) is an Australian actor of film and television.

Inspired by the true life exploits of Rodney Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $ 10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon.

* Rodney J. Baxter, Australian physicist

Matters got worse for Ponting, as former Australian fast-bowler Rodney Hogg voiced that he should be sacked as captain and replaced with New South Wales leader Simon Katich.

* Australian Men's Singles Championship – Rodney Heath ( Australia ) defeats Horace Rice ( Australia ) 6 – 4 6 – 3 6 – 2

Rodney Weston Sawford ( born 26 June 1944 ), Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1988 to November 2007, representing the Division of Port Adelaide, South Australia.

* Australian National Rugby League footballer Rodney Howe was banned for 22 matches in 1998 for using stanozolol.

Most notably however, HIH acquired the large Australian insurance company FAI Insurance, whose chief executive Rodney Adler became a director of HIH in 1999.

Part II of the book begins by going around the world, time zone to time zone, showing what different characters are doing all at the same time: Morris Zapp travelling ; Australian Rodney Wainright trying to write a conference paper ; Zapp's ex-wife Désirée trying to write a novel ; Howard Ringbaum trying to convince his wife Thelma to sleep with him on an airplane so he can join the Mile High Club ; Siegfried von Turpitz talking to Arthur Kingfisher about the new UNESCO chair of literary criticism ; Rudyard Parkinson plotting to get that chair ; Turkish Akbil Borak reading William Hazlitt to prepare for a visit by Swallow ; Akira Sakazaki translating English novelist Ronald Frobisher into Japanese ; Ronald Frobisher having breakfast ; Italian Fulvia Morgana ( a reference to Morgan le Fay ) meeting Morris Zapp on a plane ; and more .`

Rodney Croome AM is the spokesperson for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group, campaign coordinator of Australian Marriage Equality, and one of the founders of the Australian Coalition for Equality ( ACE ).

* The popular children's book The Kangaroo from Wooloomooloo ( written by Joy Cowley ; illustrated by Rodney McRae, 1985 ), featured, among a wide variety of other Australian fauna, a kangaroo from Woolloomooloo.

Wessels played with many former Australian team-mates in this series, including Kim Hughes, John Dyson, Steve Smith, Rodney Hogg, Carl Rackemann and Terry Alderman.

* Rodney Adler, Australian businessman and white collar criminal

Rodney William Marsh MBE ( born 4 November 1947 ) is a former Australian wicketkeeper.

Rodney Marks ( born 1956 ), is an Australian comedian.

Rodney William Ansell ( 1 October 1954 – 3 August 1999 ) was an Australian from " the bush " who served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan's character in the 1986 film " Crocodile " Dundee.