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The fan leaned over the fence at Marvel Stadium and touched West Coast youngster Harvey Johnston.
As the seagulls circle the MCG and finish off the last food scraps and the Geelong players lick their wounds, the recent media focus on a ‘new’ Geelong dynasty – and now Hawthorn’s President, Jeff Kennett’s ‘eve of a great dynasty’ claim – needs a reality check.
The Demons/Melbourne FC played in 8 Grand Finals in 11 years 1954 – 1964, winning 6 flags.
It would have been four in a row 1955 – 1958 but for a surprise defeat by Collingwood in 1958 – Melbourne winning 15 of 18 games, defeating Collingwood in all games but the grand final.
Norm Smith was coach for 16 years 1954 – 1964, his record being recognised by the AFL in 1979 when the first Norm Smith Medal was presented to the player voted best on the ground in the grand final by a panel of judges.
Percy Beames, a team mate of Norm’s and football writer with “The Age’ in Melbourne, wrote in 1979 in a booklet at the launch of the Medal: ‘togetherness was Smith’s law. Individual achievement played a secondary role in the football make-up of the player-coach, without a peer in the history of the Melbourne FC’.
The winner of the Medal in 1989, the last time Hawthorn defeated Geelong in a grand final was Gary Ablett Senior.
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