Magpiespower wrote:Well done, Mots!
Big game player saved his best for when it mattered.
None better than the '57 GF win against Norwood when he kicked seven goals...
The amazing thing there is he started in the centre and couldn't get a kick so they threw him out onto the flank, and he booted them all in the 2nd half.
Mots was a great player. From the time I began to watch footy he was a CHB and won the Magarey Medal in 1964. The joke about Mots was of his bandy legs. They joked if they could straighten his legs they'd have a 6'6" ruckman rather than a 5'10" CHB.
Also the only Port Adelaide skipper I can recall who refused to wear No.1, opting for his famous No.17 jumper instead.
A little known fact about Motley is he was named captain-coach of Glenelg in 1962 but Port wouldn't clear him, so he returned to the Magpies.
A quote from the 1965 Record Year Book:
In most ways he is an integral part of the Port method, and in other ways he isn't. For instance he dropkicks so consistently and so effectively that is is almost a defiance of the Fos Williams grab-and-punt doctrine.
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:16 pm