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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).
Jun 20, 2017 · Most damaging in attack, Blight is the only player to have produced 100-goal seasons in both the AFL/VFL and SANFL. He's also the only winner of the Brownlow, Magarey and Coleman medals. There's a story that aptly conveys Blight's genius.
- February 16, 1950
- 1968-85 (Wood 1968-73, 1983-85; NM 1974-82)
- Woodville/North Melbourne
- Woodville (SA)
Jun 20, 2017 · Malcolm Blight once called himself the pizza coach because when in charge of Geelong, he lost grand finals by small, medium and large sizes. That is the way his quirky mind works.
- Greg Baum
Jun 6, 2017 · Malcolm Blight was dubbed the ‘The Messiah’ after leading Adelaide to a premiership in his first season as coach of the Club in 1997. The Australian Football Hall of Famer reflects on the historic Grand Final win over St Kilda.
- Katrina Gill
- Malcolm's Magarey. The prodigiously talented Woodville onballer/forward enhanced his standing as one of the hottest properties in the country when, at 22, he won the 1972 Magarey Medal as the outstanding player in the SANFL.
- Blight becomes a dual premiership star. After six years at Woodville, Blight was finally coerced into transferring to North Melbourne, becoming a key member of the club's first two premiership sides, in 1975 and 1977.
- The long bomb. Blight's heroics to lift North Melbourne to victory over Carlton at Princes Park in 1976 is the stuff of legend. He kicked five goals, including three in the dying stages – the last of which came after a booming torpedo after the siren.
- Blighty's Brownlow. The genius was at his brilliant best in 1978 when he won the Brownlow Medal after being adjudged best afield on five occasions and polling 22 votes – one clear of Hawthorn champion Peter Knights.
Jun 20, 2017 · MALCOLM Blight was officially named a Legend of Australian Football at Tuesday night's gala Hall of Fame ceremony. A champion footballer with North Melbourne and Woodville, Blight completed his legacy by leading Adelaide to back-to-back premierships.
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Malcolm Blight, the coach who guided the Adelaide Crows to back-to-back AFL premierships in 1997 and 1998, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015. Not much was missing from the Blight football story when he was named as Adelaide’s new coach at the end of the club’s unsuccessful 1996 season.
