Fact Malcolm Blight's club football career

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During Blight's career South Australia also conducted a night/pre-season competition.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Magarey/
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Most in Night Night Brownlow
Season Club . .Games Goals Behind a game games goals . votes
1968 Woodville . 4 . . 5 . . 4 . . 3 . . 2 . . 4 . . . . -
1969 Woodville .19 . .12 . . 7 . . 3 . . - . . - . . . . 3
1970 Woodville .18 . .26 . .15 . . 3 . . - . . - . . . . 4
1971 Woodville .21 . .19 . .35 . . 2 . . - . . - . . . . 8
1972 Woodville .20 . .44 . .37 . . 5 . . 1 . . 1 . . . .21
1973 Woodville .18 . .19 . .23 . . 3 . . 1 . . 0 . . . . 6
1974 North Melb 15 . .17 . .19 . . 4 . . - . . - . . . . 8
1975 North Melb 18 . .14 . .18 . . 3 . . - . . - . . . . 1
1976 North Melb 23 . .35 . .29 . . 5 . . - . . - . . . .11
1977 North Melb 24 . .24 . .31 . . 4 . . 1 . . 0 . . . .16
1978 North Melb 24 . .77 . .51 . . 8 . . 3 . . 6 . . . .22
1979 North Melb 19 . .60 . .27 . . 8 . . 2 . . 8 . . . . 5
1980 North Melb 20 . .44 . .29 . . 7 . . 4 . . 8 . . . . 4
1981 North Melb 15 . .70 . .45 . .11 . . 3 . . 3 . . . . 6
1982 North Melb 20 . 103 . .66 . . 8 . . 2 . . 6 . . . . 9
1983 Woodville .17 . .54 . .46 . . 7 . . - . . - . . . . 9
1984 Woodville .14 . .37 . .32 . . 6 . . 4 . . 8 . . . . 6
1985 Woodville .21 . 126 . .69 . .14 . . 3 . . 8 . . . .26
WOODVILLE . . .152 . 342 . 268 . .14 . .11 . .21 . . . .83
NORTH MELB . . 178 . 444 . 315 . .11 . .15 . .31 . . . .82
TOTAL . . . . .330 . 786 . 583 . .14 . .26 . .52 . . . 165


Best and Fairests: 1972, 1978, 1983
Club Leading Goalkicker: 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985

Blight also played in two Australian Club Championship games for North Melbourne in 1975, kicking 12 goals. He played two games in the NFL night championship in Adelaide for North Melbourne in 1976, kicking 2 goals. This gives him a total of 360 club games and 852 goals.

COACHING RECORD

Club . . . . . .Span . .Games Won Lost Win % Finals
North Melbourne 1981 . . 16 . .6 . 10 .35.96
Woodville . . . 1983-87 114 . 41 . 73 .37.50 2 won, 2 lost
Geelong . . . . 1989-94 145 . 89 . 56 .61.37 8 won, 7 lost
Adelaide . . . .1997-99 .74 . 41 . 33 .55.40 7 won, 1 lost
St. Kilda . . . 2001 . . 15 . .3 . 12 .20.00
TOTAL . . . . . . . . . 364 .180 .184 .49.45 17 won, 10 lost
 
Legend must of played/coached a shitload of finals/grand finals.Pl ayed more games for North than any other Club makes him (interstate) Shinboner of the century.How bout the mans SA record kicked 11 once Vs WA in latter years.Did he ever pull on the big V pre-origin days?
 
Go u Good Thing said:
Legend must of played/coached a shitload of finals/grand finals.Pl ayed more games for North than any other Club makes him (interstate) Shinboner of the century.How bout the mans SA record kicked 11 once Vs WA in latter years.Did he ever pull on the big V pre-origin days?
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Malcolm Blight did represent Victoria pre State of Origin days. I think he may have even been the Victorian captain on a couple of occasions!
 

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I think Blight played seven games for both South Australia and Victoria. I haven't yet traced all the interstate goals he kicked.

In relation to playing finals, I forgot to mention that Blight played 21 finals and kicked 35 goals, all for North Melbourne.
 
McCavity said:
Malcolm Blight did represent Victoria pre State of Origin days. I think he may have even been the Victorian captain on a couple of occasions!
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He did captain the Vics against SA, and it was one of the major drivers for the introduction of State of Origin. I remember the commentators were continually pointing how ridiculous it was during thr telecast.

There were some follow-up articles in the papers - it really kicked off the SOO push.
 
Wallaby said:
He did captain the Vics against SA, and it was one of the major drivers for the introduction of State of Origin. I remember the commentators were continually pointing how ridiculous it was during thr telecast.

There were some follow-up articles in the papers - it really kicked off the SOO push.
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In my opinion, Pre State of Origin games should be reclassified interleague games.
 
This bloke was an absolute freak and comfortably sits in the top 5 footballers I have ever seen.

How many players have won a Brownlow Medal as a ruck rover and then went on to win the Coleman Medal?

Only the great Gary Ablett senior shades him for flexibility and mercurial brilliance.

Blight had it all. Carey, Matthews and Ablett snr are the only players I rate ahead of him.
 
Wallaby said:
He did captain the Vics against SA, and it was one of the major drivers for the introduction of State of Origin. I remember the commentators were continually pointing how ridiculous it was during thr telecast.

There were some follow-up articles in the papers - it really kicked off the SOO push.
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I have a vague recollection that Victoria once named a first ruck against South Australia of Craig McKellar, Blight and Ray Huppatz. They were all Woodville boys, born 18 months apart.

Long time ago - don't trust my memory.
 
Does anyone have any additional info on Blight's interstate career which may fill in the blanks?

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

1971 vs West Aust ?? goals
1972 vs Victoria 0 goals
1972 vs Tasmania 0 goals
1973 vs Victoria 1 goal
1979 vs Victoria 4 goals
1985 vs West Aust 6 goals

VICTORIA

1975 vs ???
1977 vs Tasmania 3 goals
1977 vs West Aust ?? goals
1978 vs Tasmania 4 goals
1979 vs South Aust 3 goals
1980 vs ACT 3 goals
1981 vs Queensland 4 goals
 

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In all club matches for Woodville, Blight played in 42 wins, 109 losses and 1 draw.
In all club matches for North Melbourne, Blight played in 113 wins, 63 losses and 2 draws.

Overall total of 155 wins, 172 losses and 3 draws.
 
Total crowd numbers in front of which Blight played


Season | Games | Season's crowds
\1968|4|18,441
\1969|19|94,330
\1970|18|92,072
\1971|21|92,198
\1972|20|109,311
\1973|18|86,944
\1974|15|323,125
\1975|18|595,639
\1976|23|691,973
\1977|24|735,190
\1978|24|710,841
\1979|19|611,825
\1980|20|520,008
\1981|15|292,455
\1982|20|497,365
\1983|17|85,480
\1984|14|51,195
\1985|21|102,571
\In S.A.|152|732,542
\In Vic|178|4,978,421
\TOTAL| 330 | 5,710,963
 
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Blight's record for Woodville reserves in 1968


Round | Opponent | Goals | Result
\4|North Adelaide|2|lost
\5|Glenelg|2|lost
\6|West Adelaide|7|won
\7|Norwood|1|lost
\8|South Adelaide|4|lost
\9|Central Districts|4|lost
\10|Sturt|3|lost
\11|Port Adelaide|5|lost
\16|Port Adelaide|0|lost
\17|Central Districts|1|won
\18|Norwood|1|won
\19|South Adelaide|2|won
\20|Sturt|1|lost


Blight's 33 goals enabled him to top Woodville reserves' goal kicking that season.
Blight played two further games for Woodville reserves in rounds 14 and 15 of 1970, but the "Adelaide Advertiser" did not print reserves goal kickers that season.
 
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Basti28 said:
How many players have won a Brownlow Medal as a ruck rover and then went on to win the Coleman Medal?
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Wallaby said:
Bernie Quinlan.
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Have my doubts whether either of Blight or Quinlan played as a ruck-rover during their respective Brownlow years; Blight boosted his goal kicking total by 53 goals in 1978 over the previous season, while getting 100 less disposals across the season as well, and Quinlan also kicked 46 goals more during his Brownlow year of 1981 than he had in the year prior. If anything, those numbers would indicate that moving away from a ruck-roving role into the forward line may have been the difference (unless I'm way off, and ruck-rovers were prone to sudden +50 goal jumps between seasons back then).
 
I have discovered recently that Blight played senior cricket for Woodville in Adelaide district cricket competition in 1970-71. Would anybody happen to know what his stats were?
 
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