Martin Pike (1995 - 2005)

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Trade (http://demonwiki.org/Marcus+Seecamp)

1994
The Fitzroy Lions gain Martin Pike and Wayne Lamb
from Melbourne for Marcus Seecamp

The Brisbane Lions selected him with pick 33 in the 2000 National Draft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_AFL_Draft)

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Premierships:

2001

B: Chris Johnson Justin Leppitsch Darryl White
HB: Nigel Lappin Chris Scott Marcus Ashcroft
C: Jason Akermanis Michael Voss (c) Robert Copeland
HF: Shaun Hart Jonathan Brown Luke Power
F: Daniel Bradshaw Alastair Lynch Martin Pike
Foll: Clark Keating Simon Black Brad Scott
Int: Beau McDonald Craig McRae Tim Notting
Mal Michael
Coach: Leigh Matthews2002

B: Chris Johnson Chris Scott Justin Leppitsch
HB: Luke Power Mal Michael Marcus Ashcroft
C: Shaun Hart Michael Voss (c) Martin Pike
HF: Des Headland Jonathan Brown Nigel Lappin
F: Jason Akermanis Alastair Lynch Darryl White
Foll: Clark Keating Simon Black Brad Scott
Int: Beau McDonald Craig McRae Tim Notting
Aaron Shattock
Coach: Leigh Matthews2003

B: Chris Johnson Mal Michael Darryl White
HB: Luke Power Justin Leppitsch Nigel Lappin
C: Jason Akermanis Michael Voss (c) Martin Pike
HF: Ashley McGrath Jonathan Brown Robert Copeland
F: Craig McRae Alastair Lynch Daniel Bradshaw
Foll: Clark Keating Simon Black Shaun Hart
Int: Jamie Charman Blake Caracella Marcus Ashcroft
Richard Hadley
Coach: Leigh Matthews

Merrett-Murray Medal results:

2001: =18th (28 votes)
2002: =7th (54 votes)
2003: =8th (52.5 votes)
2004: =11th (44 votes)
2005: 26th (9 votes)

Brisbane Lions Team of the Decade:

B: Chris Johnson Mal Michael Darryl White
HB: Marcus Ashcroft Justin Leppitsch Chris Scott
M: Nigel Lappin Michael Voss (c) Brad Scott
HF: Jason Akermanis Jonathan Brown Craig McRae
F: Luke Power Alastair Lynch Daniel Bradshaw
Foll: Clark Keating Simon Black Shaun Hart
Int: Martin Pike Tim Notting Jamie Charman
Richard Champion
Coach: Leigh Matthews

[roostersgal4eva]

from lions.com.au

PIKE SET TO NOTCH MAJOR CAREER MILESTONE
Experienced campaigner Martin Pike reaches a major personal milestone when he plays his 200th premiership game of AFL football at the Gabba on Sunday.

Pike has played in each of the Lions’ premiership wins in the last two years, and played in four of the last five grand finals. He is the only triple premiership player active in the AFL in 2003, having also won a flag with the Kangaroos in 1999.

Pike played 24 games for Melbourne, 36 games for Fitzroy, 81 with the Kangaroos, and now 58 games with the Brisbane Lions. Pike’s tally with Fitzroy is added to his Brisbane Lions tally in the Lions’ official records, giving him a total of 94 club games.

Keep an eye on www.lions.com.au on Wednesday evening for a full interview with Pike about reaching the milestone.

ONYA PIKEY!

[roostersgal4eva]

from lions.com.au

PIKE SET TO NOTCH MAJOR CAREER MILESTONE
Experienced campaigner Martin Pike reaches a major personal milestone when he plays his 200th premiership game of AFL football at the Gabba on Sunday.

Pike has played in each of the Lions’ premiership wins in the last two years, and played in four of the last five grand finals. He is the only triple premiership player active in the AFL in 2003, having also won a flag with the Kangaroos in 1999.

Pike played 24 games for Melbourne, 36 games for Fitzroy, 81 with the Kangaroos, and now 58 games with the Brisbane Lions. Pike’s tally with Fitzroy is added to his Brisbane Lions tally in the Lions’ official records, giving him a total of 94 club games.

Keep an eye on www.lions.com.au on Wednesday evening for a full interview with Pike about reaching the milestone.

ONYA PIKEY!

[keatings_gal]

the banner will have to be double size with all the debutants & pikeys 200th in one game....

[Beausgirl43]

Yeh it will have to be huge to fit his big balding dome on.

cheers ... Kaz :p

[troppo]

Good onya Pikey!
Seems to be playing with as much enthusiasm and passion as anytime in his career. One of the smartest draft selections the Lions have made.

[Mr Ripper]

Some individuals believed Pikey was recruited to Brisbane only to placate the Roy folk amongst the membership. Guess he showed them.

Onya Pikey.

[funghoul]

the thing i like about Pikey is he isnt a showpony...he's not flashy and seems to have this air of coolness about him where i could imagine him saying 'why show off,just shutup and play'...no handstands for martin pike...
i;ll be there cheering this champ on on sunday as i have since he joined....WELL DONE

[Slax]

He's come a long way from the wild man at Melbourne who they no longer wanted so they traded him to Fitzroy. 3 priemerships and another in the wings.

Well Done Pikey

[keatings_gal]

he is such a smart & sensible man our pikey -
i love his quote from the other day

“Whoever gets picked in the final 22 will be there to represent the Brisbane Lions the best way they can.”


TOO RIGHT BROTHER!!

[goaldrush]

Congrats to Pikey. A big pat on the back for a job well done.

[NathanD]

Well done Pikey - this bloke is definately worth more than base payments.

After an ordinary start to the season, he is definately back to playing his best footy.

Immediately after the 2002 GF, Brown says something like: "We'll have a big night tonight Pikey"

Pikey:"Yea, I reckon you're right Browndog"

Pure understatement.

[MSB ROYS]

On ya Pikey! Here's hoping he can play on next year (form willing!).

[lioness]

WELL DONE PIKEYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Definitely a success story, and a wonderful milestone. And yeah what everyone else said, I'm not gonna be a parrot. :p

[LionsForever]

Go for gold Pikey, hehe :)

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Legends set to line-up for Lions (http://www.lions.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/5085/newsid/107856/default.aspx)
1:38 PM Tue 15 Feb, 2011

MARTIN PIKE

Martin Pike spent the first two seasons of his AFL career with Melbourne before he was traded to Fitzroy at the end of 1994. A hard-running half-back, he rapidly developed into one of the Club’s most influential players and won Fitzroy’s final Best & Fairest award in 1996 before being drafted to North Melbourne following the merger. He played in the Kangaroos' losing Grand Final in 1998 and was a member of their premiership winning team the following year against Carlton. After 81 games with his third AFL club, Pike moved to Brisbane in 2001 where he was an immediate part of three successive premiership winning teams. Pike played in his sixth AFL Grand Final in 2004 - albeit a losing one - and remained with the Lions until he retired in 2005. He finished with a total of 142 games with the Club.

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Pike finds life and football rosier (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083189031.html?from=storyrhs)
September 27, 2003

Nunan appeared as a character witness for Pike at the Melbourne Magistrates Court in July 1996, when the 23-year-old was given a six-month jail term, reduced to a community-based intensive corrections order, for his third drink-driving offence.

Nunan, seven years on, is not as surprised as some at the fine football citizen Pike, nearly 31, has become. He is remembered at one of Fitzroy's last training sessions, cursing to himself as he ran laps of the Coburg Oval as punishment for messing up a routine circle work drill.

"But he did it," Nunan said. "I enjoy the man. He was basically extremely tough. It didn't matter what he'd got himself into. He didn't try to walk away or hide. He didn't lie.
"He was the one who took it, don't let there be any doubt about that. He took the second major step when he got into the North Melbourne environment and the next when he got to Brisbane."

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Link to webpage (http://www.stridesports.com.au/index.php?id=173)

D.O.B:
14 November 1972
Honours:
1996 Fitzroy Best and Fairest
1998 Kangaroos Pre-Season Premiership
1999 Kangaroos Premiership
2001, 2002, 2003 Brisbane Premierships

Martin Pike holds the honour of being Fitzroy’s final best and fairest winner in 1996, and is considered a true journeyman of AFL football. A four-time premiership player, and veteran of four clubs, he will be remembered as a fierce, uncompromising defender.

Drafted by Melbourne with their first choice in 1992 (number nine overall), Martin Pike has always shown the ability needed to establish a league career. After two years at Melbourne, Pikey was traded to Fitzroy in 1994 where he began to develop into a hardened midfielder.

Despite being ironically overlooked in the merger between Brisbane and Fitzroy, he eventually found his way to Queensland, but not before four successful years with the Kangaroos.

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Link to article (http://www.pike.com.au/pike-articles/2006/4/2/pike-finds-home-on-the-peninsula/)

At the Gabba, he was hard, loyal and popular, running all match, hunting collisions and setting up play with thoughtful passing. He was rarely beaten in one-on-one duels, a coach's treasure. The only time you saw him relaxing was at grand final parades.

When he reportedly headbutted a Lions official after the 2004 season, the club denied (and still does) it happened and gave him another contract. The club officials' silence was a tribute to their "Pikey".

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[LIONHART]

i loved martin pike, from the time he was discarded by melbourne for being a drunken deadbeat, to the time he was part of out three-peat.

not many players can boast four premiership medals and six grand finals

he is a great example of someone who confronted his demons and overcame them. fev should get in his ear and take note.

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Lions Legends reign supreme (http://www.lions.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/5085/newsid/108151/default.aspx)
11:45 AM Sun 20 Feb, 2011

But through the wonderful on-field leadership of Captain/Coach Martin Pike, the Lions quickly fought their way back.

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[BuntonRules]

Does not surprise me. An absolute legend, and 1 of my all time favorites. How many times, when we needed a goal, did Pikey take a 1 grab mark & drill it. When needed he always produced. And, in retrospect, thanx for that headbutt Pikey.

A silly comment a few days ago about Gary Ablett mentoring Fevo - but a few 1 on 1's with Pikey would do him no end of good. Pikey was just as irresponsible - but always took his medicine & worked his way out of it. Could not get a better man to lean on, so to speak.

Would love to have been at that legends game. Gave them 50 years & a touch up. The main game does not hurt so much now.

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A Lion's lament for Martin Pike (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/a-lions-lament-for-martin-pike/story-fn8ymmuy-1226081893086)

Glenn McFarlane
From: Sunday Herald Sun
June 26, 2011 12:00AM

FITZROY might still be a stand-alone AFL club if it had survived for a few more years, according to Martin Pike, who won the club's last best-and-fairest award.

Next month will mark the 15th anniversary of the announcement of the merger between Fitzroy and Brisbane, and Pike says the lucrative TV rights deals the AFL secured through the 2000s might have been enough to prevent the disappearance of the historic club.

Pike now coaches amateur club Powerhouse and works for builders L.U. Simon. His two children now barrack for the Brisbane Lions.

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Link (http://www.sporcle.com/games/stmookeyj/ffcteam/results)

Lineup in Fitzroy's last ever game:

Number Player

1 Brad Boyd
2 Chris Johnson
4 Stephen Paxman
5 John Barker
7 Jarrod Molloy
8 Martin Pike
10 Jeff Hogg
12 Matthew Primus
17 Simon Hawking
22 Scott Bamford
23 Simon Atkins
25 John McCarthy
27 Brett Chandler
28 Peter Doyle
31 Matthew Dent
33 Rowan Warfe
34 Danny Morton
37 John Rombotis
30 Nick Carter
39 Marty Warry
40 Shane Clayton

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Trade week bargains (http://www.bigpondsport.com/trade-week-bargains/tabid/91/newsid/78979/default.aspx)
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The larrikin defender has the dubious honour of being sacked from three clubs, only to play in three premierships at his fourth footballing home. Pike was a vital part of the all-conquering Brisbane Lions as a hard-nosed half-back, but his on-field talent was accompanied by a persistent refusal to toe the off-field line early in his career.

He showed considerable talent at either end of the ground with Melbourne in two seasons from 1993, before the Demons tired of his penchant for partying. A trade to an ailing Fitzroy ensued, before North Melbourne swooped with pick 42 at the end of 1996 after Brisbane opted not to take him as one of the Fitzroy eight. He joined Wayne Carey, Glenn Archer, Anthony Stevens and John Longmire in the 1999 premiership team before the Roos, too, had endured enough. Lions coach Leigh Matthews saw it differently and took him at pick 33 in 2000, where he played 106 games for three flags.

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Probably more a 'recycled player' bargain than a 'trade week' bargain.

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Simon White (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/afl/blogs/white-or-wrong/air-up-there-might-be-even-rarer-for-future-jurrahs-20120318-1vdy7.html)

At Pike's retirement press conference in 2006, a TV journalist asked/stated something like "with fellow indigenous guys like Chris Johnson around, you must be confident the next generation of Aboriginal players coming through at the club is in good hands?" Pike, who of course isn't actually indigenous, looked confused for a second, presumably thought he must have misheard the question and hesitantly replied that he was sure Johnno would continue to be a good mentor. After the press conference – once the TV journo had packed up his microphone and gone home – the rest of us were killing ourselves laughing at the question. Eventually we decided someone had better tell the TV journo that Pike wasn't Aboriginal, lest the news that night go to air mentioning it. The ensuing phone call went a little like this: One of us: "Oh g'day mate. Sorry to bother you, just thought I'd better clarify that Pikey isn't indigenous."
TV journo: "Oh yeah mate, I know that now."
One of us: "Now?"
TV journo: "Yeah, I was walking back up through the car park when I ran into (Indigenous Lions player, who shall go nameless). I asked him about Pikey and he said 'Nah, Pikey's not a brother. We just let him play golf with us.'"

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