[1] Following their move from Melbourne to the Central Coast, Tony began coaching and captaining the Killarney Vale Bombers where Jarrad and his brother Mark would eventually play junior football.

[1] Jarrad went from Killarney Vale to Pennant Hills AFC in the Sydney AFL competition before representing his state at junior level in the NSW/ACT Rams.

[4] McVeigh made his AFL debut, wearing guernsey number 3, in the Swans' embarrassing loss to triple-defending premiers, the Brisbane Lions, at the Gabba in Round 1 of the 2004 season.

In his absence, the Swans defeated eventual premiers Geelong at Skilled Stadium (the first time a visiting side had won at that location in four years) in round 23 and dedicated the win to the McVeigh family and Luella.

[11][12] In the first match since this tragedy, on 27 August 2011 the Swans caused one of the biggest upsets of the season, defeating Geelong at its home ground, where it had not lost in 1462 days; for Sydney, it was their first win at the venue for more than 12 years.

Sydney and Geelong players wore black armbands in the match 'as a mark of respect for their absent co-captain Jarrad McVeigh and his wife Clementine'.

[13] Essendon's Mark McVeigh, the older brother of Jarrad who had a baby daughter himself earlier in the year, paid tribute to Luella by 'blowing a kiss to the heavens' following his team's seven-point win over Port Adelaide the following day.