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Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also coached the Geelong Football Club, Adelaide Football Club and St Kilda Football Club.

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  • Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also coached the Geelong Football Club, Adelaide Football Club and St Kilda Football Club. Blight is to date the only player to have kicked 100 goals in a season in both the VFL and the SANFL. He is also one of three players to have won the Brownlow Medal and the Magarey Medal. He was an inaugural inductee Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was elevated to Legend status in 2017. In addition, he has captained the state representative sides of both Victoria and South Australia. In spite of his "failure" as a playing coach of North Melbourne, Blight would cement his reputation as one of the greatest coaches during his stints with Geelong and Adelaide, before finishing up in an acrimonious circumstances at St Kilda. The name Blight is of Cornish origin. In 2012, Blight was appointed director of coaching at the Gold Coast Football Club. (en)
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  • Club *2× VFL Premiership player: *Brownlow Medallist: *Coleman Medallist: *Syd Barker Medallist: *4× North Melbourne leading goalkicker: *VFL Team of the Year: 1982 *Magarey Medallist: *Ken Farmer Medal: *2× Woodville Best & Fairest: *Championship of Australia Championship: 1975 *Woodville captain-coach 1983–85 Representative *National Football Carnival Championship: 1975 * Captain of Victoria * Captain of South Australia *2× All-Australian team 1972, 1985 Coaching *2× AFL Premiership coach: *Adelaide Team of the Decade * McClelland Trophy Honours *Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee *Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend *SANFL Team of the Century *South Australian Football Hall of Fame *Woodville Football Club Life Member *Woodville-West Torrens: Life Member *Woodville-West Torrens: Life Governor (en)
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  • It's not over yet – not over yet! What drama here at Princes Park! Malcolm Blight – it's a big kick, it's a mammoth kick... whoa, I have seen it all! (en)
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  • Mike Williamson's call of Blight's 70- to 80-metre after-the-siren goal against Carlton on HSV-7 (en)
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  • Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also coached the Geelong Football Club, Adelaide Football Club and St Kilda Football Club. (en)
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