Annear began his career in Western Australia with Claremont and played 62 West Australian Football League games over three years before being recruited by Collingwood.
Andrew Demetriou (subsequently CEO of the Australian Football League from 2003 to 2014) was suspended in that year for striking Annear.
In 1987 he crossed to West Coast who were competing in their inaugural VFL season and was their second most experienced player behind Ross Glendinning.
He made State of Origin appearances for Western Australia towards the end of the decade.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1960s is a stub.