Malcolm Blight

Malcolm Blight
Personal information
Full name	Malcolm Jack Blight
Nickname(s)	Blighty
Date of birth	(1950-02-16) 16 February 1950 (age 67)
Place of birth	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s)	Woodville (SANFL)
Height / weight	182 cm / 89 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1968–73, 1983–85	Woodville	163 (359)
1974–1982	North Melbourne	178 (444)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	South Australia	7
	Victoria	7
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1981	North Melbourne	16 (6–10–0)
1983–1987	Woodville	91 (29-62-0)
1989–1994	Geelong	145 (89–56–0)
1997–1999	Adelaide	74 (41–33–0)
2001	St Kilda	15 (3–12–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1986. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 2001.
Career highlights
Club Brownlow Medal: 1978 Magarey Medal (SANFL): 1972 2x All-Australian team 1972, 1985 VFL Team of the Year: 1982 2x Woodville Best & Fairest: 1972, 1985 Coleman Medal 1982: (103) Ken Farmer Medal: SANFL: 1985 (126) 4x North Melbourne leading goal kicker: 1978-1979 1981-1982 2x VFL Premiership: 1975, 1977 Championship of Australia Championship: 1975 Australian Football Hall of Fame: Inaugural inductee SANFL Team of the Century (forward pocket) South Australian Football Hall of Fame Woodville captain-coach 1983-85 Woodville Football Club Life Member Woodville-West Torrens: Life Member Woodville-West Torrens: Life Governor Representative National Football Carnival Championship: 1975 Captain of Victoria Captain of South Australia Coaching 2x AFL Premiership: 1997, 1998 2x All-Australian team: 1997-1998
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1970s and 1980s. He is currently serving as a coaching advisor at the Gold Coast Football Club.

One of few players to have won the Brownlow Medal and the Magarey Medal, and so far the only player to have kicked 100 goals in a season in both the VFL and the SANFL, Blight is rightly regarded as one of Australian football's greatest-ever players. In addition, he has captained the state representative sides of both Victoria and South Australia.

In spite of his "failure" as a playing coach of North Melbourne, Blight would cement his reputation as one of the greatest coaches during his stints with Geelong and Adelaide, before finishing up in an acrimonious circumstances at St Kilda. The name Blight is of Cornish origin. In 2012 Blight was appointed director of coaching at the Gold Coast Suns.

Blight grew up supporting Port Adelaide, but when his local team Woodville began to play in the SANFL from 1964, he promptly switched allegiances and made his debut for the Woodpeckers in 1969. Blight had a break-out year in 1972 when he won Woodville's best and fairest award as well as the SANFL's highest individual honor, the Magarey Medal, bringing him to the attention of the VFL.

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