[4] He played in the last two of Swan Districts’ hat-trick of premierships in 1983 and 1984, and made it three in a row when he won a flag with East Fremantle in 1985.
In the 1998 season, Fremantle's on-field performance under Neesham dropped when they finished fifteenth in (second-last) position on the ladder with seven wins and fifteen losses.
[11] After leaving the AFL system Neesham became a teacher at Clontarf Aboriginal College and was asked to coach the school’s football team.
[13] In 2000 he set up the Clontarf Foundation, which encourages school and football participation amongst indigenous youth in Western Australia.
He is the chief executive officer and now runs 119 Academies across Australia, with a total enrolment of approximately 9,000 students.