I didn't even realise Len Thompson played for Fitzroy. I looked it up and he played 13 games in his final season, even fewer than Dougie.
Do we list Aker in our HOF inductees?
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All of those played significant parts of their career and total football involvement with us.
Hardly the same for Hardie, Hawkins and Len Thompson at Fitzroy/Brisbane.
Add to that the dubious claims for John Rantall (South Melbourne/North Melbourne) and Robert Walls.
The Lions post prompted me to look at the full list.
It just beggars belief at some of the names put up and yet Templeton is missing.
We need to start a campaign
Induct Kelvin Templeton NOW
An article a mate of mine wrote a while ago.
https://australianfootball.com/artic...oversight/2003
He's clearly pissed someone off and has too much dignity to expose it.
Tonight's inductees are Dean Cox and Greg Phillips. Getting ridiculous now when so many others deserve it.
Cox was a 6 time AA and the best ruckman this century. Fully deserving I reckon.
Phillips played a whopping 447 matches for PA, Coll and SA and was fortunate enough to have been involved in 8 SANFL premierships. He was at Collingwood in the prime of career and from my recall was a solid but not gun player. Quantity rather than quality got him the nod I would say.
Greg Phillips and KT
It’s like comparing a p76 to a Mercedes
Complete farce
Greg Phillips was bang average Vfl player who to quote Lou Richards
Couldn’t run out of site on a dark night .
Probably best remembered for being to slow to react to Graeme Allans pass
Greg Phillips induction is the football version of political correctness gone mad.
KT should hold up a bank or develop an ice addiction. Then maybe they would induct him?
Two more inductees tonight:
Dennis Cometti
John Abley - read about him here
It staggers me so few 'pioneers' are being recognised as the Hall of Fame grows older. Its fast becoming a love-in for the recently retired.
KT has been siscussed quite a bit on this forum and rightly so, but one name I've brought up before is Collingwood VFA player Bill Proudfoot.
A member of Collingwood's inagrural VFA team in 1892, he ended up playing 187 games across the VFA/VFL for Collingwood, serving as Captain for two seasons, playing in the club's inargural premierships in 1902 and 1903 and became Collingwood's first player to represent Victoria.
A Police Officer by day, Proudfoot was involved in an incdent at Arden Street in 1896 where he saved Umpire Roberts from being set upon by the crowd, escorting him to the dressing room before being felled by the crowd himself.
When the then Chief Commissioner banned Police Officers from playing football in the early 1900s, Proudfoot was listed under the surname 'Wilson' in order to keep playing. CC O'Callaghan eventually relented and gave Proudfoot his blessing to play.
After his retirement from football he continued serving as a Police Officer until 1926. Before then, he was recognised for his bravery in leading a team of volunteer firefighters to defend Mitcham from an approaching bushfire, and was awareded the Bronze Star by the Humane Society after steering a pair of bolting horses away from a packed tram.
He is a member of the Collingwood Hall of Fame and the Victoria Police Sporting Hall of Fame. Surely he belongs in the Australian Football Hall of Fame as well.
https://www.melbournehistoricalcrime...bill-proudfoot
https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au...ill-proudfoot/
Great to see another Footscray legend join the Hall of Fame!
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