Dane Swan was an unconventional footy figure. Kelvin Templeton was a classical player. The pair headline the inductees this year to the hall of fame.
As of Tuesday night, he’s in the Australian Football Hall of Fame, but he was already a legend in the unofficial Hall of Tattooed Fame, alongside Martin, former teammate Dayne Beams, and long preceded by Fitzroy grandee Kevin Murray and Footscray and Richmond hard man Robbie McGhie.
But the times suited him; they were dominated by mass-possession midfielders frequently rotated via unlimited interchange. Swan averaged nearly 27 a game, second only to Greg Williams, and in some games it was nearly 50 as the crowd counted them out loud. At his best, he was as compelling a figure as any in the game.
Swan would say he knew what he could and couldn’t do to succeed, and did them. He’s 40 now, but revels still in public as a kind of celebrity provocateur. He’s as picturesque as ever.If Swan’s footy journey made a halting beginning, Kelvin Templeton’s subsided to a premature end. Injuries saw to that. That’s probably why it’s taken nearly 40 years since his last game to enter the hall of fame.
He was just 24, but already injuries were hobbling him. In the last six years of his career – two for the Dogs, three for Melbourne after a big-money, high-profile move – he played just 54 games. Affectionately known as “Bone”, he looked like a footballer and played like one, well enough to win three All-Australian guernseys. There was uproar in Adelaide when incoming coach Malcolm Blight moved on McDermott in 1996 – until the Crows won their first premiership the next year.Michael Graham, aka “The Flash”, played footy the year round, for Sturt in the winter and St Mary’s in Darwin in the wet.
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