2014 Round 9, Quarter time.

6th May Birthdays.

 

William Barrot '44, Darren Carlson '67, Jason Cloke '82, Barney Lazarus '62.

 PLAYER OF THE DAY. Paul Brown, born 6th May 1969.

Between 1990 and 1998 Paul played 84 games for Geelong and kicked 66 goals. 

Hailing from Echuca he was first played in the high scoring forward line. However, due to the number of forwards at the clubs disposal, he was moved into the back line and showed his talents as a utility player by still being effective there.

He was one of the best players in the big grand final loss to Carlton in 1995. This was more or less his last game for the club as injury kept him to just 1 game over the next 2 years.

Source: The Encyclopaedia of  AFL Footballers.

Collingwoods Early Years.

Victoria park has long been associated with the Collingwood Football Club, but it was actually home to a junior club before Collingwood was formed.

The Brittania Football Club was made up of juniors mainly from the Collingwood and Fitzroy areas with Fitzroy already having their own senior VFA team.  Some Collingwood locals felt that they also should have their own senior team and in 1889 a push was made for entry into the VFA.

This first attempt was rejected but they kept on persisting and in 1891, when the VFA decided to expand the competition to 13 teams, the Collingwood people asked if Brittania would be accepted as a Collingwood team if the facilities at Victoria park were improved.  The VFA agreed to this and even though it caused issues with some at Brittania a public meeting in 1892 endorsed the formation of the Collingwood Football Club and Brittania was disbanded.

On the 7^th May 1892 Collingwood played their first game, against Carlton, in front of over 16,000 people. They lost the match 3 goals to 2. Their first premiership came in 1896, their last year in the VFA, when they beat South Melbourne 6 goals to 5. The Magpies were one of the foundation clubs of the VFL in 1897.

Source: The Clubs (Complete History Of  Every Club in the VFL/AFL). 

 

Big, Bad, Bustling!

This is probably the best known nickname of Barry Hall, possibly the last ‘hard man’ of the AFL. 

Originally from Broadford and having a junior boxing background, he joined St Kilda in 1996 and by the time he left at the end of 2001 he had played 88 games and kicked 144 goals.

Feeling that he needed a fresh start he moved to Sydney and once more proved a prolific goal scorer with 467 goals from his 162 games from 2002 to 2009. He topped the clubs goal kicking every year from 2002 to 2006 and was their premiership captain in 2005.

When it appeared he had done all he could at the Swans he was snapped up by the Western Bulldogs and continued on where he had finished at Sydney by scoring 135 goals in 39 games in seasons 2010 and 2011 to end his career on a high.

Barry was selected in the All Australian team in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2010.

Source: The Encyclopaedia of  AFL Footballers.

 

Bill Walker – Multiple Sandover  Medalist.

William ‘Bill’ Walker was born in Huntly, New Zealand but was brought up in Narembeen in Western Australia.

Joining the Swan Districts Football Club in 1961 he played as a rover in 305 games until his retirement in 1976 and kicked 457 goals.

He won a hat trick of Sandover medals as the WAFL’s Best and Fairest player in 1965, 1966 and 1967 and won a fourth medal in 1970, the only player to have done so.

Bill also had a hat trick of premierships with the club from 1961 to 1963, was in the All Australian team of 1969 and was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

Source: AFL Record Season Guide 2013 and Wikipedia.