May 25, 2026 · 19 min · 9 segments
The Essendon Clubcast reacts to one of the biggest stories of the AFL season — Brad Scott is OUT, and the fallout has already begun. • Mitch Cleary joins Triple M’s Mick in the Morning after breaking…
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Caroline WilsonPanelistWhen we're gonna walk through a little bit of his amazing life at the age of 65, we sadly lost him today.
We, we never saw the greatness that he was on the way to becoming, but he never let that worry him in his post-football life.
Symbolic of his life post being a player, Hutchy, when you look at the challenges that he went through.
So for those that are watching the program who are too young to have seen him play, he was on the path to superstardom.
66 games in his first three years, the best and fairest there in '81, and then cut down in his absolute prime.
So this is a player, he looks like a bit like James Hird or, or Nat Fyfe, that powerful player.
They kept him around because of his character, because of his resilience, because of his want to get back to play for the club that he was captain of, that never got to run out-
But because of his character, he, he stuck around, and I, I guess the challenges that he went through as a player, as I said, was symbolic for the rest of the challenges that were to come.
Famous, the rookie coach Kevin Sheedy named him captain when he was just turning 21.
Extraordinary, except tragically, he'd just done the first ACL and was unable to ever actually captain Essendon.
Well, he was never bitter about it, or he never showed any bitterness, which is sort of the way he carried himself when he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease.
When we're gonna walk through a little bit of his amazing life at the age of 65, we sadly lost him today.
We, we never saw the greatness that he was on the way to becoming, but he never let that worry him in his post-football life.
Symbolic of his life post being a player, Hutchy, when you look at the challenges that he went through.
So for those that are watching the program who are too young to have seen him play, he was on the path to superstardom.
66 games in his first three years, the best and fairest there in '81, and then cut down in his absolute prime.
So this is a player, he looks like a bit like James Hird or, or Nat Fyfe, that powerful player.
They kept him around because of his character, because of his resilience, because of his want to get back to play for the club that he was captain of, that never got to run out-
But because of his character, he, he stuck around, and I, I guess the challenges that he went through as a player, as I said, was symbolic for the rest of the challenges that were to come.
Famous, the rookie coach Kevin Sheedy named him captain when he was just turning 21.
Extraordinary, except tragically, he'd just done the first ACL and was unable to ever actually captain Essendon.
Well, he was never bitter about it, or he never showed any bitterness, which is sort of the way he carried himself when he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease.
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