Michael Tuck
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Oct 20, 2026
Ash BrowneGUEST
Part-time era where footballers worked hard, played hard.
Ash BrowneGUEST
I mean, Michael Tuck was digging ditches.
Ash BrowneGUEST
In Berwick, you know, five days a week and yet managing to get up to play, you know, play all those games, 400 games of league footy.
Ash BrowneGUEST
People like Barry Gavin, who was a master physio, he could just extract the best out of players who necessarily weren't doing the right thing to play every week because that was the era.
Shannon GillGUEST
Yeah.
Shannon GillGUEST
So in the state of origin era, Francis Burke, Keith Gregg, Don Scott, Wayne Schimmelwusch, Lee Matthews, Kevin Bartlett, Peter Moore, Mike Fitzpatrick that we discussed before, Robert Flower, Gary Wilson, Michael Tuck, Terry Danaher, Russell Green, Roger Merritt, Dale Waitman, Greg Williams, Simon Madden, Paul Roos, Gary Lyon, Gary Ablett Sr., Steve Silvani, Gavin Brown, Nathan Burke, Gary Hockey.
Shannon GillGUEST
What a
Gerard WhateleyHOST
list.
Shannon GillGUEST
Wouldn't spurn.
Shannon GillGUEST
And just to top it off, Michael Tuck is giving the Michael Tuck medal.
Shannon GillGUEST
And he'd sort of lost interest.
Shannon GillGUEST
He called it the Norm Smith medal.
Shannon GillGUEST
The villain in this one is Phil Carman, who was Collingwood's most talented player, freakish player.
Shannon GillGUEST
He had kicked four goals in the second semi that had got them into the grand final, but he also belted Michael Tuck.
Shannon GillGUEST
got suspended, did not play in the drawn grand final or the replay the next week.
Shannon GillGUEST
Now, it would only have taken one point from Phil Carman to change that result.
DeanoHOST
Well, roll into who's your favourite all-time AFL player.
David TreharneGUEST
My favourite player back when I was younger was Michael Tuck.
David TreharneGUEST
Number 17, yeah.
DeanoHOST
If you had a superpower, what would it
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Yeah,
Shannon GillGUEST
so three years later, there's this article written by Stephen Phillips that talks about could it be broken? And the thrust of the article is that it doesn't look likely in the coming years now we we i think we revert to these ideas of let's think of who are the young players that have played a lot of footy they're the most likely without looking at sometimes at the guys that are closer that we just might not expect to play for much longer and this is michael tuck is mentioned and this is what is written He would need to be virtually injury-free for close to four seasons to have any chance of toppling the Bartlett record.
Shannon GillGUEST
And not even Michael Tuck has visions of leading the Hawks into the 90s.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
How wrong they were.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
The three most likely candidates were Tim Watson, Russell Green, and Gary Pert.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
And no, none got within a bull's roar of it.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
No, but Michael Tuck did.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
All right, shall we pick up the Tuck story?
Shannon GillGUEST
Now, the reasons why is...
Shannon GillGUEST
It's Hawthorne and Michael Tuck are the reasons why.
Shannon GillGUEST
Michael Tuck didn't poll a vote in 1982 and 1983 and Hawthorne were very, very angry, made a formal complaint to the league about how the hell can't one of our best players get a vote? They wanted transparency as to which rounds the players got votes and which umpires were giving the votes.
Shannon GillGUEST
That is the reason it went to round by round.
Shannon GillGUEST
It wasn't like, oh, this would be much better for people at home and for anyone following it.
Shannon GillGUEST
So just an example of some of the 80s players that played in the 80s who are in, but we might not even think of them being in because we haven't seen them being inducted in the way they have.
Shannon GillGUEST
So Michael Tuck's in.
Shannon GillGUEST
We've had texts before in here going, well, Michael Tuck isn't in the Hall of Fame.
Shannon GillGUEST
No, he is in the Hall of Fame.
Shannon GillGUEST
Bernie Quinlan, Simon Madden, Robert Flower, Peter Knights, Bruce Stuhl, Keith Gregg, Malcolm Blight, Kevin Bartlett, Francis Burke, Gary Dempsey, Lee Matthews, Alex Jezolinko, Russell Ebert are all... general hall of fame inductees who were inducted at the first moment.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we have two from North Melbourne, Ross Glendinning and Malcolm Blight.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And from Hawthorne, Michael Tuck.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's certainly a few football dollars tied up in that trio.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the winner for the best utility player, Jack Dyer.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
We'll clear our break.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Graham, why isn't Michael Tuck recognised? Far greater record than Garrett.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
He is.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
He was inducted in 1996.
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