2009 Australian Football Hall Of Fame Inductees

[the joker]

the dinner is tonight, will be interesting to see who gets in and who doesent,

Apparently Mark Bickley will be inducted,
and Peter Carey will finally be inducted, thanks alot to Studly Cornes who has called for it for years. and there are people saying that Carey is not in
But 5aa have just said that there are Rumours in melbourne Saying that he will be inducted tonight.

[Booney]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYGKG6yl3k

[nuggety goodness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYGKG6yl3k

good hit... how many did he get for that at the time?

[redden whites]

Bickley ,this cant be the case surely?? He averaged 2.4 brownlow votes a year and was runner up in the club B&F only once .This could not be a Hall of Fame member surely .Even Hondo said he would not be in A.F.C top 10 players and they have only been around for 5 min.If this happens the Hall Of Fame is a complete joke.Bickley was an average player at best.He could not accept it even if he was asked surely

[the joker]

Bicks was a very good leader, and hard as nails

[redden whites]

Bicks was a very good leader, and hard as nails

That puts you in the hall of fame?? Surely the elite is what this is all about.If this happens its a farce

[Leaping Lindner]

I wouldn't have him in the crows best dozen by any shot. I'd be very surprised if Bickley gets in. Mind you some of the choices in the past couple of years have been "interesting" to say the least.

[rod_rooster]

Honestly if Bickley gets in he should be incredibly embarrassed if he ever crosses paths with some of the true greats of the game who are not in the Hall of Fame. Surely Bickley couldn't believe he is anywhere near players like Bagshaw, Redden, P. Carey etc.

[Dutchy]

Agree Bickley shouldnt be in, but after they set the agenda by putting Gavin Brown in last year I suspect we are going to get plenty of average players in there

Anthony Stevens > Mark Bickley

[GWW]

Ridiculous that Bickley could be inducted. Good player, but certainly not elite.

Reminds me a bit of when Dean Kemp was included.

[am Bays]

certainly tarnishes peter Carey's justifiable entry into the Hall of fame with Bickley's gong as well.

One has to feel for blokes like Tom Leahy (LL??) Bagshaw, Redden, Aish, McIntosh, Micheal Taylor and Davies.

Crikey I'd have mcDermott and McGuinness ahead of him too.

Bruce McGregor should be in the Hall of Fame as a coach too. Four Premierships at four different clubs IIRC

[hearts on fire]

This Hall of Fame is a bit of a joke, does any one take it seriously?

[the joker]

So far the inductees are

Paul Salmon
A three-time All-Australian, Salmon played 324 games and kicked 561 goals in a career that began at Windy Hill in 1983 and included a five-year stint with Hawthorn.

The 'Big Fish' tasted premiership success with the Bombers in 1985 and 1993. He crossed over to Hawthorn in 1996, took out his new club's best and fairest award in his first season and backed it up with his second in 1997.

Salmon was the Dons' leading goalkicker on seven occasions

Ken Hands (player)
Hands is a member of Carlton's team of the century having played a role in the club's premiership triumphs of 1945 and 1947. He also captained the Blues on 99 occasions and took out the John Nicholls Medal in 1953
Mark Bickley (player)
Bickley enters the Hall after playing 272 games for the Crows and writing his name into the history books as the club's first premiership captain.

He held the cup aloft for the first time in 1997 and, under the tutelage of fellow Hall of Famer Malcolm Blight, did so again the very next year.
Bill Morris (player)
Morris played 140 games for Richmond and took out the Jack Dyer Medal three times (1945, 1948 and 1950), but his crowning achievement was the Brownlow Medal in 1948

Chris Langford (player)
Langford was Hawthorn's tough and uncompromising full-back during a golden era for the club. The four-time All-Australian played in 25 finals, was part of four premiership sides and claimed two EJ Whitten Medals.

[dedja]

so Super missed out again?

[the joker]

so Super missed out again?

nah there is still more to be inducted, thats the players so far

[rod_rooster]

Honestly the fact that a guy like Bickley has been inducted whilst a guy like Bagshaw (just one of a huge amounts of possible examples) isn't just shows how worthless the whole thing is. Absolute joke that is in place to stroke the ego's of Victorians with an inferiority complex.

[dedja]

That's apparently because 5 SANFL games = 1 VFL/AFL game, just like creitria for the father son rule.

Agree that Bickley has no place in the Hall of Fame.

[JK]

He could not accept it even if he was asked surely

Made good points until then

[Dutchy]

Just changed the name of the thread to its correct title

[am Bays]

Ross Oakley is in now as an Administrator...