
John Greening
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Oct 20, 2026
Rowey & Timmy G Podcast - 20 October 2026
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14:16CoreyAUDIENCE
You probably wouldn't know this name, or many people wouldn't know.
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14:19CoreyAUDIENCE
John Greening used to play for Collingwood in the 70s.
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14:23Tim GineverHOST
Yes, I do know
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14:24CoreyAUDIENCE
that name.
Know Your History with Shannon Gill - the Leigh Matthews and Neville Bruns incident
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33:18Shannon GillGUEST
And there's lots of texts here today that talk about other incidents that happened.
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33:23Shannon GillGUEST
And famously, there's the John Greening incident, which has some links because it was against St Kilda when Alan Jeans was coached.
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33:30Shannon GillGUEST
So there's all sorts of links that go right back to that and it's a really really sorry incident but things changed from that day on political involvement police involvement the league had to do something to change this and clearly for the better
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33:48Gerard WhateleyHOST
40 years on from the face of violence in 40 changing from one day on.
A look into the interesting career of Paul Salmon - 'Know Your History' with Shannon Gill (27.06.24)
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23:41Shannon GillGUEST
Next one, this is for Collingwood fans of a certain vintage.
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23:44Shannon GillGUEST
John Greening.
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23:46Shannon GillGUEST
He popped up on the text.
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23:48Shannon GillGUEST
Tasmanian, Dabu's at 17. precocious talent as an 18 year old he kicked 7-3 playing on the ball against Carlton he played 94 games straight without going into the details of this it's pretty awful but he gets king hit basically in a game goes into a coma um it's probably one of the worst concussions ever and his career pretty much ends from that point on time that season he he ended up with 14 brown low votes from 14 games he does come back and play a few games plays nine games but there's clearly um a very different approach given what he's experienced and peter mckenna says the most talented footballer he ever saw at for Collingwood supporters.
The Greatest Magpie | Know Your History with Shannon Gill (30.04.26)
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7:57Shannon GillGUEST
Peter McKenna plays 180 games, kicks over 800 goals, but plays his last game for Collingwood at age 28.
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8:05Shannon GillGUEST
There's Phil Carman and John Greening, which are completely different scenarios in themselves.
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8:10Shannon GillGUEST
Carman has one magical season when he crosses to Collingwood from South Australia.
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8:15Shannon GillGUEST
Lou Richards calls him the best magpie ever at that time.
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8:24Shannon GillGUEST
He never hits those heights again.
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8:26Shannon GillGUEST
He moves on.
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8:27Shannon GillGUEST
John Greening, another completely different story.
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8:29Shannon GillGUEST
He's on a trajectory to be great, suffers a horrible injury in an ugly off-the-ball incident, barely plays again after that point.