Peter McKenna
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Oct 20, 2026
Shannon GillGUEST
This is the reaction after the first three games of the season.
Tim LaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you Peter.
Tim LaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well last year Paul Salmon was a lanky teenager who played only nine senior games.
Tim LaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This year in three games he's already established himself as one of the superstars in league football.
Shannon GillGUEST
And he is a star.
Shannon GillGUEST
He is now a star.
Shannon GillGUEST
So there is a great story about the Suns' chief football reporter, Peter Simonovic, who interviews him in the back of a taxi leaving the ground after he kicks eight goals against Collingwood.
Shannon GillGUEST
And he writes...
Bruce McAvaneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Absolute murder.
Bruce McAvaneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, it's on, Peter.
Bruce McAvaneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, come on.
Bruce McAvaneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Jamison is going to take the ball.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Most memorable and despicable game in Adelaide the day Fitzroy got robbed by the Crow Throw.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Memorable game.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Peter McKenna declaring absolute murder.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Still ringing in my ears when Fitzroy was robbed by the Crows.
Shannon GillGUEST
And at that point there was, they only, they would cover three games.
Shannon GillGUEST
So you had, and I'm talking from an eighties and perspective here, Peter Landy and Lou Richards would do the best game and Bob Skilton and Sandy Roberts would do the second game and then Peter McKenna and Jack Edwards would do the third game.
Shannon GillGUEST
The third game was only one camera.
Shannon GillGUEST
One camera and that's it.
Shannon GillGUEST
goes Peter Hudson, that averaged more than four a game.
Shannon GillGUEST
Peter Hudson, John Coleman, Tony Lockett, Jason Dunstall, Peter McKenna, Bob Pratt, Ron Todd, then Jackovich, then Gordon Coventry, then Gary Ablett.
Shannon GillGUEST
It's pretty, it's pretty exalted company, isn't it? Alan Jackovich.
Shannon GillGUEST
But yeah, he only plays the 47 games.
Shannon GillGUEST
So even he, who is termed, many term the greatest, has this unusually short career.
Shannon GillGUEST
Peter McKenna plays 180 games, kicks over 800 goals, but plays his last game for Collingwood at age 28.
Shannon GillGUEST
There's Phil Carman and John Greening, which are completely different scenarios in themselves.
Shannon GillGUEST
Carman has one magical season when he crosses to Collingwood from South Australia.
Shannon GillGUEST
This is grouped together.
Shannon GillGUEST
I couldn't split them.
Shannon GillGUEST
Peter McKenna, Len Thompson and Wayne Richardson.
Shannon GillGUEST
Late 70s to early 80s, Peter Moore.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Shout out to 232.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Peter McKenna sitting in the grandstand doing special comments and having issues sometimes with the crowd around him was always humorous, always felt deep down.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
He didn't
Shannon GillGUEST
really want to be there.
Dan EddyHOST
So your 100 goals, mate, I mean...
Dan EddyHOST
For starters, you kick 100 goals in 1972 and you don't win the Coleman medal because bloody Peter McKenna kicks 130 or something.
Dan EddyHOST
But just take us through that year and as you're getting closer to 100, is it getting nervous or is there much more media focus or supporter focus around that?
Geoff BlethynGUEST
It was really towards the end of it because I was just trying to get a game to start with under a new coach and we started to win a few.