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John Greening

John Greening

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Oct 20, 2026

CoreyAUDIENCE
14:16
You probably wouldn't know this name, or many people wouldn't know.
CoreyAUDIENCE
14:19
John Greening used to play for Collingwood in the 70s.
Tim GineverHOST
14:23
Yes, I do know
CoreyAUDIENCE
14:24
that name.
Shannon GillGUEST
33:18
And there's lots of texts here today that talk about other incidents that happened.
Shannon GillGUEST
33:23
And famously, there's the John Greening incident, which has some links because it was against St Kilda when Alan Jeans was coached.
Shannon GillGUEST
33:30
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
Gerard WhateleyHOST
33:48
40 years on from the face of violence in 40 changing from one day on.
Shannon GillGUEST
23:41
Next one, this is for Collingwood fans of a certain vintage.
Shannon GillGUEST
23:44
John Greening.
Shannon GillGUEST
23:46
He popped up on the text.
Shannon GillGUEST
23:48
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.
Shannon GillGUEST
7:57
Peter McKenna plays 180 games, kicks over 800 goals, but plays his last game for Collingwood at age 28.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:05
There's Phil Carman and John Greening, which are completely different scenarios in themselves.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:10
Carman has one magical season when he crosses to Collingwood from South Australia.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:15
Lou Richards calls him the best magpie ever at that time.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:24
He never hits those heights again.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:26
He moves on.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:27
John Greening, another completely different story.
Shannon GillGUEST
8:29
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.

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