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rbartlett said:
Family has confirmed to me it is the player Peter Schofield.
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Peter Schofield's obit up on Richmond website
www.richmondfc.com.au

Vale Peter Schofield

Richmond signed Schofield with 400 pounds from a brown paper bag; he played 16 games, was the Best First Year Player, and kicked 116 goals in the Reserves.
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Doug Reynolds (Footscray: 1952-58, Richmond 58-59). Leaves Jim Gallagher and Don Ross as the only living players from the 1954 premiership.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

Vale Doug Reynolds

The Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of 1954 premiership player Doug Reynolds.
www.westernbulldogs.com.au www.westernbulldogs.com.au

Still awaiting confirmation on DOD.
 
Oliver G said:
Doug Reynolds (Footscray: 1952-58, Richmond 58-59). Leaves Jim Gallagher and Don Ross as the only living players from the 1954 premiership.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

Vale Doug Reynolds

The Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of 1954 premiership player Doug Reynolds.
www.westernbulldogs.com.au www.westernbulldogs.com.au

Still awaiting confirmation on DOD.
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Doug's name appears on this list (2026 Season Guide):
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Athol Webb died in January. Bill McMaster died in January last year - that's a pretty ordinary mistake!
 
Oliver G said:
Doug Reynolds (Footscray: 1952-58, Richmond 58-59). Leaves Jim Gallagher and Don Ross as the only living players from the 1954 premiership.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

Vale Doug Reynolds

The Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of 1954 premiership player Doug Reynolds.
www.westernbulldogs.com.au www.westernbulldogs.com.au

Still awaiting confirmation on DOD.
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Doug Reynolds DOD was 31 Jan 2026 as per funeral service
 

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RedmanWasHere said:
How frustrating.

What is it that's not getting accepted?
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Buggered if I know - it's not a difficult one! It looks like some of the things in that particular email (I sent more than one) were approved/changed, and some weren't.

I'd say I had a really decent rapport with the chap who was the editor of the book for many years, but I can't say that's the case with his replacement as yet!

I've started making a list of things from this year's book that need fixing, and I'll send that one of these days, but it is disappointing that I'll have to re-include some things like the Glass issue.
 
35Daicos said:
I'd say I had a really decent rapport with the chap who was the editor of the book for many years, but I can't say that's the case with his replacement as yet!
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Michael Lovett into Ashley Browne?
 
RedmanWasHere said:
Michael Lovett into Ashley Browne?
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Yes.

While there's just no excuse for the Max Glass club issue not to have been fixed, I do wonder if there is some sort of a communication problem between the "book people" and those at the AFL who should be supplying them with the right info. Like letting them know that Bill McMaster had died. That shouldn't have been missed.

When Jack Buller was traded from Sydney to Collingwood a few months back the story came out that he was the grandson of Ray Jones, who played for Collingwood (and Melbourne). That was in the article that appeared on the AFL website (and elsewhere), yet Buller is not named in the Family Links section. GWS' Brent Daniels (father Greg played for Collingwood) still isn't there, but that's been known for ages. And the story about Port Adelaide being allowed to include Dougie Cochrane in it's NGA (due to his being accepted as Indigenous) got plenty of publicity. Logically speaking, his brother Tom (who presumably has the same parents/bloodlines!) and father Stuart should now be on the list of Indigenous players, but their names haven't been added. Puzzling indeed!
 
RedmanWasHere said:
www.melbournefc.com.au

Vale Athol Webb | Melbourne mourns premiership hero

Two-time premiership Demon Athol Webb has passed away, aged 90.
www.melbournefc.com.au www.melbournefc.com.au
PonsfordMagpie said:
The last remaining player of Melbourne’s 1956 and 1957 premiership teams.
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In Round 16 of 1957, on a very wet day at the Junction Oval, Webb kicked four goals out of only seven kicked during the entire match. St. Kilda kicked only 1.5 (11) for the game — the third-lowest score since 1919. According to Demon Wiki, there was not a single goal from a set shot in the entire match!

Ironically, on a warm and dry, if windy day, the Saints would hold Richmond to only 0.8 (8) on exactly the same round at the same ground [two days more than exactly four years apart]! These are the two lowest scores in the League since 1954, and two of the three lowest since 1916.

Webb outlived St. Kilda’s only goal kicker from that 1957 game — Neville Linney — by over forty years. Linney died in May 1985, and would play only one more game in which he kicked five goals in a 40-point Saint win over Collingwood.
 
killer said:
5 goals?
Why would Linney retire after that ?
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There's a bit on him here: https://www.virtualyallourn.com/sto...ville-linney-jack-turner-alan-mcintyre-others
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www.saints.com.au

Rewind to 1949 & 1957: Spoiler alert! When last-round wins derailed opposition finals hopes

Russell Holmesby looks back through history at two last round wins by the Saints which brought down the September hopes of an opponent.
www.saints.com.au www.saints.com.au
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His Wiki page says he got into some serious off-field strife a few years after he retired from the VFL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Linney

Fred Fanning (Melbourne) kicked 18 goals in his final VFL game (in 1947), still the all-time record for the competition. He had a playing-coaching role lined up with a country club.
 

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