SA Footy

For those of you with Foxtel, right now they are showing the 1986 VFL GF which Motley played in.

A chance to see one of the greats in action...

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:For those of you with Foxtel, right now they are showing the 1986 VFL GF which Motley played in.

A chance to see one of the greats in action...

Yeah a good team , Amazing what $$$$ can do

Oh for those days again ... LOL!

I only wish I had gotten to see more than one and a bit years of his career as he was a quality player.

I watched the peter Motley story on headliners last year on foxtel.

Does anyone have that on tape? It is the only episode that I don't have in the whole series as I was all packed up and ready to drive from Melbourne to Perth for the next morning.

Can anyone help me ....

Motley, Kernahan and Bradley all going to the 1 club at the one time

They were also pursuing Platten strongly ....

The first VFL draft was held the following season - we'll never see Carlton's cheque-book recruiting drive ever happen again thankfully (for the sake of the comp)

If you read Platten's autobiography, he tells the story of how he signed at Carlton and spent the sign on fee on a commodore.

Then went to Hawthorn. Kept the sign on fee too from memory.

He sure did. Nice vehicle it was too.

Interesting about keeping the sign on fee - wonder how that was viewed.

Not very well I would imagine - I may be incorrect on that point though, it is a number of years since I read the book.

Nope, that's what's in the book. Always blinked twice when I've read it.

Well bugger me, my memory isn't as bad as I thought.

How many flags would Carlton have won, if Motley was not injured and Platten had turned up in the navy blue? That's a staggering side, just with the SA players. Add the existing Victorian component and they would have been simply awesome.

hondo71 wrote:Motley, Kernahan and Bradley all going to the 1 club at the one time

They were also pursuing Platten strongly ....

.............. and also got John Dorotich and Mark Naley in the same offseason

smac wrote:If you read Platten's autobiography, he tells the story of how he signed at Carlton and spent the sign on fee on a commodore.

Then went to Hawthorn. Kept the sign on fee too from memory.

He pulled up behind me in a large Mercedes at a servo in Salisbury one evening.

I guess he did pretty well overall from his playing days.

http://abc.net.au/news/audio/2007/06/17/1953647.htm

A excellent link for a fantastic with Mots re the accident and footy

peter page was plattens rep when he visited princess park to meet john elliott ... story goes john made them wait over an hour so pagey said screw carlton were going home!!

Recently at a South Sturt game at Noarlunga upstairs in the function centre there were a group of fairly handy ex players having a chat. J. Deane,A Osborn,P Motley & M Naley.

Interceptor wrote:

smac wrote:If you read Platten's autobiography, he tells the story of how he signed at Carlton and spent the sign on fee on a commodore.

Then went to Hawthorn. Kept the sign on fee too from memory.

He pulled up behind me in a large Mercedes at a servo in Salisbury one evening.

I guess he did pretty well overall from his playing days.

Did you see the 'house' / mansion he built at Gulfview Heights about 10 years ago?

Seriously ... 3 stories

[allegedly]You mean the one where his girlfriend knocked on the front door and introduced herself to his wife?[/allegedly]

Yeah that was a big place...

Interceptor wrote:

smac wrote:If you read Platten's autobiography, he tells the story of how he signed at Carlton and spent the sign on fee on a commodore.

Then went to Hawthorn. Kept the sign on fee too from memory.

He pulled up behind me in a large Mercedes at a servo in Salisbury one evening.

I guess he did pretty well overall from his playing days.

I was working in a servo about 10 years ago and platten filled up his 4WD and had no money to pay for the petrol.....he said he was good for it, and came back later and paid.

Benchwarmer, I think I might have. I'll have a look and get back tot you.