Leigh Matthews
FameRank: 4

"Total"

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"Playing"

* 4x Australian Football League/VFL List of Australian Football League premiers/Premiership: 1971 VFL Grand Final/1971, 1976 VFL Grand Final/1976, 1978 VFL Grand Final/1978, 1983 VFL Grand Final/1983 (Captain)

* 8x Peter Crimmins Medal/Hawthorn Best & Fairest: 1971-1972, 1974, 1976-1978, 1980, 1982

*Leigh Matthews Trophy/VFLPA MVP Award (Leigh Matthews Trophy): 1982

**Award renamed in 2002 in Matthews honour

*All-Australian team/All-Australian: 1972

*Coleman Medal: 1975

* 6x List of Hawthorn Football Club leading goalkickers/Hawthorn leading goalkicker: 1973, 1975, 1981-1984

*Captain of the Victorian State side

*Player of the 20th century

*List of Hawthorn Football Club captains/Hawthorn Captain: 1981-1985

*Australian Football League/AFL Team of the Century (forward pocket)

*AFL Hall of Fame/Australian Football Hall of Fame

**Australian football Hall of Fame#Legends/Legend Status: (1996, inaugural)

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I know it's cold hearted, but once you've got (medical) proof of what's happened, you move on and Richard will move on.

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It's just good to have Jared Brennan playing again.

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The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

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Every player who is fit and well is playing particularly when we don't have to travel for the first week.

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The guys who have been able to do the preparation have come up really well.

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Richard will have scans in the morning but it's got all the symptoms of another reconstruction.

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We are glad we got him and you think 'yeah that is a good draft choice'.

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That's what you're looking for the most in the early games. The main thing is there were good performances from guys we haven't seen much of.

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We don't know exactly what that will mean (in terms of how many matches he will miss) - all I've heard from the doctors is he may have broken his thumb.

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