Platten was dogged by a knee injury throughout the 1990 season but came back in typical fashion and in 1993 played in his 17th AFL final. He finally finished up in 1997 and returned to his home state ...

Fellow club icon Peter Knights had also retired. The replacement for Matthews was a shaggy-haired rover from South Australia, John Platten. He could clearly play - he won the 1984 Margarey Medal and ...

Crawford’s win remains the sole instance of a Hawthorn player winning the medal outright, as the Club’s other three Brownlow medallists: Col Austen (1949), Robert Dipierdomenico (1986) and John ...