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Three votes: Arthur ‘The Black Prince’ Hodgson for his belated, posthumous, elevation last week to AFL Tasmania’s Hall of Fame.
Hodgson played 76 VFL games for Carlton between 1948 and 1952, winning their best and fairest in 1950, then coached Ulverstone in Tasmania’s NWFU to four premierships in seven years. He represented Victoria at the 1950 interstate carnival and Tasmania in 1947, 1953, 1956 and 1958, making him one of only three players to appear in five carnivals. I played with Arthur in a charity match at York Park in Launceston somewhere around 1963 and was the recipient of a classic 50-metre stab kick from him that barely rose above shoulder height and nearly knocked me over backwards as I took the mark. “What’s a stab kick?” I hear you say. Ask grandpa. The Black Prince was cremated after his death in Tasmania in 2003, aged 77, and his ashes were scattered over Princes Park in Carlton.
50-metre penalty: Barry Hall for his silly swipe at Shane Wakelin on Saturday night. Leaving aside the Swans’ extra in-house discipline, which is a separate issue, Bazza was lucky the modern system gave him only a one-week official suspension. In the bad old days the tribunal usually dished out two weeks, and sometimes four, for attempted striking. Keith Stackpole, of Fitzroy, for example, got two in 1943 and four the following year. Stackpole had two other claims to fame – he wore four different numbers in 34 games for Collingwood before moving to the Lions in 1939 and playing in their 1944 premiership side. And, a Victorian representative cricketer himself, he was the father of an Australian Test opener, also named Keith
The Oscar: Shane Wakelin (best supporting actor).
Winners (maybe): Carlton by 17 points (nearly everybody else can beat St Kilda, so why not the Blues), Collingwood by 9 (the Crows will be fired up by their shellacking by the Cats), Geelong by 51, Lions by 11, Shinboners by 3, Hawks by 14, Doggies, but only by 28 (the Dees are getting better and will cause one or two upsets before the season’s out) and Tigers by 29 (same reasoning as Blues v Saints, see above). Total right so far 70/112; last weekend 1, making 3 for the round.
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