Tony_Soprano1111
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Does anyone know how this legend is travelling these days?? The Polak incident just refreshed my memory of him..He was a champion and I hope he is going well!!
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Peter Motley
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Did Bryce Gibbs refresh you also???
Hear he is doing ok but others might have more details than me.
Such a sad story, he could have been anything. Hope he is well.
I attended a Legends dinner earlier this year. It was a function held at the G on the night of the Dreamteam game. The room was filled with the who's who of football; Sticks, Mike Sheahan, Matthews, Buckley, Jezza, Skilton, Hudson, John Elliot, Adrian Anderson, Archer etc...and Peter Motley was there. He came to my table and told a very very funny joke, the delivery was amazing and his sense of humour so dry and he looks to be pretty switched on still. Physically he didn't look great (seems to be partially paralysed on one side), but he had a great night and mentioned to me he still loves the Blues.
The guy would've been the best on the 1980's SA imports....Shame.
The guy would've been the best on the 1980's SA imports....Shame.
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Try this link. It's a while ago now, but it should still work. 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/audio/2007/06/17/1953647.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/audio/2007/06/17/1953647.htm
He is travelling ok.
I saw him at the Carlton vs Port game a few weeks back - he was sitting with his dad and Russell Ebert. I also see him pretty often at Sturt games.
It's true he still suffers some physical difficulties but from all reports he leads a pretty happy life.
What happened to Peter is undoubtedly one of the greatest football tragedies. Barring injury, he would have played around 250 games for Carlton, and they would have been good. Would've retired from football as a multiple-premiership champion.
I saw him at the Carlton vs Port game a few weeks back - he was sitting with his dad and Russell Ebert. I also see him pretty often at Sturt games.
It's true he still suffers some physical difficulties but from all reports he leads a pretty happy life.
What happened to Peter is undoubtedly one of the greatest football tragedies. Barring injury, he would have played around 250 games for Carlton, and they would have been good. Would've retired from football as a multiple-premiership champion.
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How did the accident happen. I know it was a Car Crash,but what exactly happen,did a drunk driver hit him?
from memory another car mounted a medium strip at high speed i think and flipped and landed on Mots crushing him, His team mate Paul Meldrum was in his car just in front of him at the same set of traffic lights and watched it all unfold in his rear vision mirror and was 1 of the first on the scene, both on the way home from training that night.
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Amazingly, he came over with the biggest reputation of the 3 boys from SA. Just a real tradgedy what happened to Motts, but it is so great to hear that he is leading a pretty normal life back in SA.
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That's sad what happen to Motley. That stupid prick who had to be a jerk speeding what happen to him was he one of those guys who always say he had a tough life on drugs or use his color of his skin for excuses to get off.
I think Paul Meldrum probably remembered that pretty well and thought that could have been me if it wasn't for seconds and he turned into a great player after seeing his mate pull through out of it but end his chance of playing again.
Dont know how old you are or if you can remember but Molly was on fire in the early part of 87 and was actually a tearaway leader on brownlow night with 5 BOG's in about the first 7 rounds and had 15 votes leading by about 5 and then his form slumped and took a long while to get back near his best that year after witnessing this accident, must of really shaken him up but he did come away with a premiership medal a few months later and in actual fact the great Craig Bradley gave his premiership medal to Mots in the rooms after the game that day we smashed Hawthorn.
Just Waite
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I just flicked back through SOS's book.
"Unfortunately fate laid its cruel hand on Mots on the night of 7 May that year (1987), when a horrific car accident claimed his career and almost claimed his life. It happened on the Thursday night before the round seven game aginst Geelong at VFL Park. The senior players had trained at Princes Park, then sat through the team meeting afterwards. At about 7:30 p.m. we went our seperate ways and I remember Mots and Braddles talking about getting home to check out the latest episode of 'Miami Vice'. "
"Unfortunately fate laid its cruel hand on Mots on the night of 7 May that year (1987), when a horrific car accident claimed his career and almost claimed his life. It happened on the Thursday night before the round seven game aginst Geelong at VFL Park. The senior players had trained at Princes Park, then sat through the team meeting afterwards. At about 7:30 p.m. we went our seperate ways and I remember Mots and Braddles talking about getting home to check out the latest episode of 'Miami Vice'. "
actually the opposite, had the best start to the brownlow anyone has ever had with 5 BOGs. It was downhill after the accident
sam him at a relatives birthday party about a month back. no doubt his is impaired both mentally and physically. he was nice but did some very odd things (he had cue cards full of jokes in his wallet and was reeling them off). he also had to leave at about 6:30 to go and have a nap. tragedy.
Kouta_legend
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Hopefully the man is doing o.k,
Alot of people say that he was supposedly much better than Sticks and Bradley, but I wouldnt go as far as say 250 gamer, i mean think of all the high draft picks that have been talked up and that have never lived up.
I hope his in good health though
Alot of people say that he was supposedly much better than Sticks and Bradley, but I wouldnt go as far as say 250 gamer, i mean think of all the high draft picks that have been talked up and that have never lived up.
I hope his in good health though
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Difference being draft picks have yet to perform on the big stage. This bloke had. A star in SA from a famous footy family, he came over and from what I can recall was one of the few who could hold his head up after the 86 GF loss. There was little question the only thing stopping him playing a long career with the Blues was the chance he might go home (none of the others did - Naley perhaps) or he would get injured. He got injured.
Sorry to enter this discussion late on this tragedy.
I looked Motley up today on Google to see any updates and with hope he is still doing OK when I happened upon this thread and the above comment.
I went to high school with the guy who was the "other driver" in this.
He wasn't a drug addict, nor a drinker and he was from a good home who was studying accountancy at the time of "the accident".
He was nineteen years old and was still on his P's when the tragic accident happened that was forever to change both his and Peter Motley's lives.
I don't think he was ever charged by the police, it was just a tragic accident in every sense of the word.
This guy was haunted by it every day of his life and would get deeply depressed about it regularly.
In 1997 I think it was, Peter Motley was brought onto the Footy Show with his dad Geof and despite Peter and his fathers bravery stating that "Peter is leading a happy life", the sight of Peter Motley clearly impaired for life was obviously too much for this guy.
He committed suicide days later leaving behind a young wife and a baby.
Sometimes in these things there are no winners and no happy endings.
Mate, if this is true (and I have no reason not to beleive you) damn, it is a real shame. Got to feel for everyone involved, a real tragedy. A lot of live's ruined by 1 accident. It's a real pitty the young man involved couldn't get the help he needed to get over the accident and get on with his life.
Don't think there are any ever winners or happy endings. Sad to hear the bloke committed suicide. Really sad to see two families ruined out of the incident.
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Wouldn't dream of making something like this up.
It was the article on David Hilles tragic teen years that made me think of Peter Motley today.
In 1990 I worked for a government department that allowed me to look up car accidents and who was involved etc. The Motley accident was perhaps the most famous one I could think of, so as a young guy I couldn't resist looking it up to read all the details, the police accident report etc. To my horror, I saw the guy I knew from High School listed as the other driver.
I spoke to another guy I knew who was a close friend of this guy and I asked him about it, and he said that the guy in question was having great difficulty coming to terms with the fact that he in some way had destroyed a guys life a few years before.
When Peter Motley was brought onto the footy show for a catch up in 1997, I immediately thought "I wonder how _____ is dealing with this if he is watching?"
The following Monday my mother told me that hot off the bush telegraph, she had been told that he had committed suicide that very weekend.
Put two and two together, but I do not think it was a coincidence.
As I said, some things have no happy ending.
To throw even further irony on it all, the guy (and myself) lived within a stones throw of Mark Majerczak and Jamie Dunlop in his home suburb...two guys who were teammates of Peter Motley.
Spooky.
beccarlton5
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He and his partner have just had a baby, which is just awesome news. Sadly though the mother is Colonwood so the kid will not be a Bluebagger!
You never know?
beccarlton5
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I hope he has some say in it for sure, but she made it very clear in the interview!
bluepride
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A girl unfortunatley
hopefully a boy isnt too far away and the Motley name can be etched into the history books in the AFL like it should be.
Dad played with him in a number of games , and was quite close with him and when they had the interview of Mots talking about how "Ratts took him out for fish and chips but he payed" and the way in which it was said really highlighted the extent to which he is impaired, my dad broke down in tears. Wouldve been one of the greatest champions this club has ever had.
The Exorcist
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A girl unfortunatley
hopefully a boy isnt too far away and the Motley name can be etched into the history books in the AFL like it should be.
Dad played with him in a number of games , and was quite close with him and when they had the interview of Mots talking about how "Ratts took him out for fish and chips but he payed" and the way in which it was said really highlighted the extent to which he is impaired, my dad broke down in tears. Wouldve been one of the greatest champions this club has ever had.
Remember going to watch the match after Motley's accident
Was at VFL Park
Pretty sure we played Hawthorn or Essendon - whoever it was, we tore them apart.
The team were clearly playing for Motley that day
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