Peter Motley
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Oct 20, 2026
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boys.
speaker_17AUDIENCE
More about Peter Motley and also Man City.
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Because Peter Motley would have been easy.
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He would have been a megastar.
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Yep.
Shannon GillGUEST
Carlton were all powerful.
Shannon GillGUEST
And in 1986, when he comes on board, they just happened to add Steve Kernaghan, Craig Bradley, Peter Motley and John Dorotich to an already finals list.
Shannon GillGUEST
But...
Shannon GillGUEST
They had sort of plateaued beforehand.
Shannon GillGUEST
Yeah.
Shannon GillGUEST
Two players within that team, Des English is diagnosed with leukemia in the off-season and in that period, so he doesn't play, and that's quite an emotional blow.
Shannon GillGUEST
And then Peter Motley, who was seen as the equal of Kernaghan and Bradley, um, at that point in time has a, an horrific car accident, never plays footy again.
Shannon GillGUEST
And that happens in season 1987 when they win the grand final to sort of cope with all of those things.
David Rhys-JonesGUEST
We had, uh, you know, people forget that we, we had some, um, you know, there's English contracted cancer just before the season started, who was, it was one of our mainstays.
David Rhys-JonesGUEST
Peter Motley, um, had a serious car accident that year and a good mate of mine did, did a Lockie Neal and they got rubbed out for one week.
David Rhys-JonesGUEST
Bernie Evans got rubbed out for one week.
David Rhys-JonesGUEST
So we, we had some blokes who couldn't be out there with us that day.