Peter Crimmins

Been a lifelong Hawk for 46 years now.

Dad's claim to fame was used to have beers with Peter Crimmins after Thursday night training.

Mum's is that she used to go out with Brendan Edwards.

Can't wait for Sunday

The number five is handed out very selectively.

Gwen Crimmins is still an enormous influence to the club.

The Peter Crimmins medal is the best and fairest.

Peter from Chirrallgan.

Um, there's not a, not...

Uh, not at the Peter Crimmins anyway, there's not awards for, for-

Yeah

... off-field staff members, but, um, they're, they're the real MVPs because if you looked at the Hawthorn injury list at prelim final day, it was only Connor Nash that was in, that was unavailable, and that, that's...

And Bob Davis bringing this to life is just fantastic.

Peter Crimmins.

And that is probably the segment that clutches the heartstrings more than anything else and is as important as the don't think, don't think, do John Kennedy stuff that we'll get to.

Peter Crimmins, Hawthorne captain, struck down by cancer, battling cancer, does not play for the best part of this 1975 season because he's battling cancer.

He still wants to play in the grand final and tries to train to play in the grand final and John Kennedy rules him out.

And they're trailing at halftime in the grand final and John Kennedy uses this to try and rouse his team.

And the tragedy of all this is that 12 months later, Hawthorne win the grand final and then a couple of days later, Crimmins passes away and they actually bring the cup and he sees the cup and then he passes.

So that whole segment is sort of the, just what, footy and the tragic part of footy that can happen and what it meant to people.

Get out to the Cathedral Football and watch them if you can.

The Peter Crimmins medal... was run and won on a Saturday night at Crown Play.

Sadly, a brilliant shout-out.

Let's add our congratulations to Julia and to Maura for their fantastic gold carpet form.

We do know that Murrah put in a special request for an extra large meal prior to the event and he did report back to say that that is in fact not what he got.

So short of that, we haven't really had too much feedback about the food.

Anyway, great night from those who were there and we are good to welcome some of the wider HI crew as our guest on the evening on our table um so uh nick watson needed a uh he needed a u-haul to get home from crown of the night such was the bounty of peter coon's medal the best finals player and the lethal award as well so he was the uh Sarah the Knight winning his first Peter Crimmins medal.

All sorts of stats.

Just to round things out for this episode of AFL Daily, Dame, I was at Crown Palladium on Saturday night for...

the Peter Crimmins Medal, the Hawthorne Best and Fairest, and it was 50 years since Peter Crimmins' passing.

So it was a really significant and special occasion on Saturday night and the Wizard Damo.

Nick Watson was crowned Peter Crimmins Medalist for the first time, 21 years of age, and it just caps off just great.

A stellar year from a small forward who has just taken the football world by storm.

I love the story, Nat.

The vast majority of this pod is gonna be, uh, list management, trade period.

Um, we'll touch on a bit of Peter Crimmins.

There's a- ... plethora of listener questions.

And when I say a plethora, I think, Nat, you counted, uh, a- above 40.

We wish him well at Tigerland.

Absolutely we do.

Um, does anybody have anything else draft and trade related they wanna talk about that I've missed before we move on to the Peter Crimmins and then wrap up?

No, uh, but, uh, it, we've... it'll hap- we though hopefully Ben King Friday there'll be some sort of resolution on that pretty quickly.

He's got some great names.

Barry Robram, Peter Crimmins, Mel Brown, infamous name.

He's been to the pie shop on the way, mate.

Yeah, he still goes to them, I think.