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Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Jun 20, 2017 · MALCOLM Blight possessed exquisite timing. It's there for all to see in his highlights reel of screamers and prodigious torpedoes, such as the famous post-siren bomb that lifted North Melbourne to victory at Carlton in 1976, and which he later re-enacted for a Toyota commercial.
- February 16, 1950
- 1968-85 (Wood 1968-73, 1983-85; NM 1974-82)
- Woodville/North Melbourne
- Woodville (SA)
Jun 6, 2017 · The former Crows coach and Hall of Famer shares his memories of the historic victory over St Kilda, despite injuries and adversity. He praises the young stars, the fitness program and the atmosphere in South Australia.
- Katrina Gill
- Malcolm's Magarey. The prodigiously talented Woodville onballer/forward enhanced his standing as one of the hottest properties in the country when, at 22, he won the 1972 Magarey Medal as the outstanding player in the SANFL.
- Blight becomes a dual premiership star. After six years at Woodville, Blight was finally coerced into transferring to North Melbourne, becoming a key member of the club's first two premiership sides, in 1975 and 1977.
- The long bomb. Blight's heroics to lift North Melbourne to victory over Carlton at Princes Park in 1976 is the stuff of legend. He kicked five goals, including three in the dying stages – the last of which came after a booming torpedo after the siren.
- Blighty's Brownlow. The genius was at his brilliant best in 1978 when he won the Brownlow Medal after being adjudged best afield on five occasions and polling 22 votes – one clear of Hawthorn champion Peter Knights.
Jun 20, 2017 · Adelaide Crow's coach Malcolm Blight jumps as the final siren blows for their second premiership win, the 1998 AFL Grand Final. Credit: Action Photographics
- Greg Baum
Apr 19, 2020 · A collection of Malcolm Blights greatest highlights. Blight is an AFL Hall of Fame Legend after an amazing career in the SANFL and with North Melbourne in th...
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Malcolm Blight, the coach who guided the Adelaide Crows to back-to-back AFL premierships in 1997 and 1998, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015. Not much was missing from the Blight football story when he was named as Adelaide’s new coach at the end of the club’s unsuccessful 1996 season.
