Chief earns Legend status! Jason Dunstall’s HOF speech in full ❤️‍🔥 | Fox Footy

Hawthorn legend Jason Dunstall was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame as the 32nd legend. Hear his acceptance speech here.
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originally inducted in 2002 tonight elevated to Legend Jason dun D study in concentration there goes the kick it looks pretty good it’s another goal towards the premier the [Applause] sare he’s got iton d d get there here’s the one and it’s straight through the center well done here they come the half D with the one [Applause] hand you have been one of the Knight’s most loyal attendees over 22 years so you’ve seen so many of the people present inducted how does it feel to be back up on stage 22 years on really weird really weird um but look first and foremost congratulations to all the other inductees what you do work out very quickly is that this is the best night Bar None on the AFL calendar it’s a special night that we just keep coming back to you’ve had a little bit of time to work out where the legend fits and how you feel about it how does it sit with you not great at the moment um it was interesting listening to A’s words there’s there’s a lot of work that has gone into it Jared I must admit I didn’t exactly knock everyone over with my athletic ability when I came down um I think our very first session the first time I started the club was 85 we did a 5K time trial which was 12 and 1 half laps as a a 400 met circumference at Glen free oval and I got lapped by everybody and half a dozen of them lapped me twice which meant I was immediately in the extra running group so they would have extra groups on the weekend so back then preseason you train five nights a week because everyone worked or did something else Monday Wednesday Friday I’d be running groups and Tuesday Thursday you’d work on your skills but for those that missed a session You’ have to do an extra running session on the weekend I immediately got put into that group despite the fact I was doing the five during the week and we’d go down to Sandringham and run through the bushes there’s Trails up on the cliff and you’d do Sprints down the ramps and back up and the first time I went there I got lost um I had to actually find work my way back to the road to get back to the car park where we started everyone had gone except Alan jeans who gave me an absolute bake for wasting his time so it’s fair to say I was coming from a long way back in fact I can actually tell you in 14 years of the club I only ever beat two people in any form of endurance one was halfway through the tenure I remember we had a young man come down from the top end by the name of Willie rioli I don’t think Willie had done a lot of conditioning he looked like an 18 gon keg with legs yet over that 12 and 1/2 laps he left led me for the first 11 and 1/2 but I looked up I would always be at the back that’s where I was expected to be you put your head down you try and work your way through the run and I looked up with a Lap to go and I got the shock of my life I could actually see someone and he wasn’t that far in front and I got the scent of my first kill and it was it was invigorating let me tell you when you’ve never ever beaten anyone it was invigorating and I started to reel him in with 200 to go I was about to color him the unfortunate thing is all my teammates who had done the run and had a stretch and a warm down and a drink um saw what was happening and I yelled out to Willie and and he took off like a startled cat and the people there they swear to this day it was very akin to Bone Crusher wavy staring the Cox plate that last 200 was neck and neck I put my my neck out on the line and I got him and a wig lad he was back in the top end poor old Willie unfortunately and the other one the other one I I really like to talk about because I I got John Kennedy one day up at um up at zavia we were doing some endurance running and uh I ran past him and in sheer embarrassment I’m sure he collapsed to the ground and claimed he had a heart issue he uh he took it so far as to actually get an ambulance went to hospital and came back and said I’ve got a heart murmur but the bottom line is I felt strong that day and I got him at least that’s the way I see it there are so many days Jas just to pick a few so the 86 Grand final which is significant on a few fronts one of which is in your heart of hearts you hoped that this was going to be a Carlton story didn’t you 100% 100% so I played a state game for Queensland in tazzy at the end of 84 I spoke to three clubs all the selectors came down to um tazzy the recruiters and I spoke to Hawthorne Fitzroy and Carlton trained for a week with Fitzroy on the way home um with Scotty macaa who ended up being a very good play for them and for Brisbane um reports were that the skinny kid was good but the fat kid was no good so I didn’t get a gig there um I barracked for Caron because my mates and I all played for a club called koeru back in Queensland which had exactly the same jumper a navy blue with the CFC so we were all Carlton supporters I would have crawled over broken grass glass to play for them but they um they never called me back so in the end it ended up being Hawthorne and uh eternally grateful for it so that day you’re playing against Carle you’re playing against Bruce D one of my heroes yeah what does Ellen Jean say to you to get you up for the occasion uh yeah he pumped me right up he said make up for last year where I’d had a horror in my first year um we got thumped by ESS and I reckon I touched it three or four times didn’t hit the scoreboard and he never mentioned it until the Grand Final the next year and as we were about to run out in the field he just tapped me on the shoulder he said make up for last year when you think about it it’s probably not the greatest motivation but he was a he was a very simple man with his words yby and uh um to play on a an idol of mine like Bruce H who had beaten me soundly in the semi-final um was a great thrill never said anything Bruce you just hear the odd grunt from him um but ever professional and uh it was a thrill to play on him and and a great A Thrill to win a Premiership of course who were the great fullbacks that you dueled with across the journey there were a lot of them um it’s impossible to go past sau’s um you know the fullback of the century for a reason he was incredibly quick and strong and agile and could winge with the best of them and scrag with the best of them uh but there were lots of great ones Danny froley was another one Mick M and there was so many it was a great era where you got to have a lot of one-on-one contests a very different game to today but um you know I still enjoy today’s game and your contemporary was Tony Lockett was he always the point of comparison for you he was Bloody annoying plugger was you’d um you’d come off the ground having a good game where you’ve kicked seven or eight and because all the games were played at the same time and you you’d check the scores and you’d know that silder had been fogged by you know 70 points and they’ only kicked 12 goals for the game but plug had kicked 11 of them and you’d actually fall further behind so it became frustrating but it was a very healthful rivalry I think which hopefully drove us both on and then there was a moment where you both got to play for Victoria which you might have been more open to than he was yeah well it was a it was a thrill for me because I’m not a Victorian and and they kept changing the rules and all of a sudden I’m eligible and and I got picked and I’m ADV Victorian training with Tony Lockett at the MCG thinking how good’s this and pluger says I’m going to have a chat to them they’ve just got to pick one of us there’s no point both of us playing and I thought that’s not exactly the rep Arte I was looking for from my good man Tony but something happened and and uh something happened between the training session and the dinner we had afterwards because EJ must have gotten his ear and after we’d had dinner um it was EJ get up and said oh Tony lock has got a few words that he’d like to say to the group and he got up and he said oh I’m so looking forward to playing alongside Jason we’re going to make it work and it’s going to be fantastic and I thought this can’t be the same BL I was just talking to a couple of hours ago but it was a great day um we flogged South Australia at the MCG and uh we both kicked a few goals and had a lot of fun playing together it was an age where the full forwards job was to kick goals it wasn’t to bring it to ground to bring others into the game we’re kicking the bags and then kicking the tons were they a ride of Passage they were I mean we stayed at home we didn’t travel a lot out of our Zone um when the game was first becoming scientific I’ll never forget it they did a a study on one of our games and they clocked how far John platen was running during the game and it was about 18K and they also clocked me and I ran 1.2k and my greatest fear was that may have included the warmup but but what people don’t understand is there was an incredible intens with which I attacked that 1.2k but we I mean never left the 50 m Arc it was just as I said a completely different game you stayed home you got you one-on-one opportunities and you had some amazing players kicking the ball to you there was a day where you gave the record of Fred Fanning a great Shake we saw it up there 17 goals did you know what you were chasing no I didn’t um because I wasn’t steeped in the history of the game coming from Queensland but it was just one of those days where the ball bounced into your hands um I got a couple of free kicks from the umpires which we never ever got back then um and and things just went really really well I I remember the scoreboard at wavely flash that when I got to 16 it said that’s a wavely park record and I thought oh well that’s nice but I didn’t realize 18 was the actual record not that it would made any difference because I was completely rooted by the end of the game and I I couldn’t have run another yard if need be so um it didn’t quite pan out the way but they did they did bring um Bob Fanning uh Fred Fanning sorry down um during the week to have a chat a training and he said 175 it’s not bad he said gez you’re in accurate though CU he kicked 181 now 75 I think if you’re kicking more than three goals per behind you know that’s a 75% success rate which is pretty Elite he is potting me 75 which I found amusing but no it was a great thrill but I mean we didn’t play for records we played for premierships and I was fortunate enough to play with a great Club at a great time 89 holds such a place in footy folklore does it for you as well absolutely yeah um that was just one of those classic games where they went incredibly hard at the man to be physical early and we just played the ball as much as we could we um we built up a good early lead but I got to tell you that last quarter there was a lot of clock watching going on um you didn’t get signals from the bench how long to go or anything like that and the longer the game went the more trouble we were in we had a few that were down a couple that were hanging by a thread and the cats were coming hard so it was a classic game on all front and you had Gary abbl doing Gary abet things which was just ridiculous but um when the siren went it was a it was a great thrill it was a classic game and and one that we’ll never forget do yabby’s words live with you from that day yeah um it’s funny when you talk about yab he used to tell us stories all the time and in the cold light of day if you look at the stories they’re pretty rubbish stories but the way he could tell them made them special and the one that he told that day was about at half time he’s talking about little Johnny that was given 100 $ to buy some shoes and Johnny thought well if I buy the cheap ones for 50 I can put 50 in my pocket but then the shoes gave way before he was finished with them because he didn’t buy the good ones and yabby’s message was all about paying the price now that sounds like a really crappy story I get it but when he’s in there thumping his hand into his fist yelling pay the price of the players and you know the hairs on the back of your neck is standing up we’ve seen a couple of BLS um koed and and bowled over it was it was very very powerful and he had a great way of relating to the players when he needed to the merger match the last game of 996 must be one of the most emotion charged and eventful games that the cod’s ever seen it includes surprisingly a 100 goals for you and and the great uncertainty around what was going to happen next yeah there was a lot going on at the time um you know we could very well have been looking at the two teams that were going to be won the following year and we needed to win that game to make the finals um I think it was nine short of a 100 and there was a a lot of talk about you know the the financial state of both clubs and what was going to happen and we ended up winning by point it was an incredible game um you know there was some some special acts in it but the the most poignant part of it all was to see Chris Langford as we walking off take the jumper up and hold it to a crowd of there was 63,000 there that night for a a night game between Melbourne and and hathon it were both basically outside the eight which was a lot more than you would ever expect for that game um it was enormous and mind you if I looked like langers I would have taken my jacket off and waved it to the crowd too but it was it was really really powerful and we made the finals went out the next week but um that was the the beginning beginning of a turnaround for the club and your farewell game a couple of years later how do you reflect on that these years on not well um I’d broken a collar bone in the last game missed the last eight weeks and Ken judge was coaching came to me said mate do you want to play on do you want to retire and I knew how bad my body was and I mean I would sit during games early that year you’d have ice packs on both knees sitting there saying make sure you remember how bad you feel right now because this should influence your decision and and so I said to him mate I need to retire I’m done I’ve got nothing left in the body and he said well you better play a sandoff game now I hadn’t trained for eight weeks I’ve already told you how good my fitness was so after eight weeks of not training at the end of the season I was no good but we were playing Foo out at wavely and uh that’s a game that would have attracted a about 15,000 people and some incredible hawthor fans about 40,000 of them turned up which was great I kicked the first goal of the game because I’d only just recovered from the Stitch I got in the warmup didn’t touch it for the rest of the game um in actual fact we were you know we we weren’t winning the way we should have and I said to Ken judge at 3/4 time mate don’t be afraid to take me off cuz I knew how badly I was going and he just grabbed me and put me in front of the others and said he wants to come off and he said not going to let that happen Happ and the boys kicked 10 or 12 goals in the last quarter and it was a it was a fantastic win so it was a great way to go out um just the the show of respect from all my teammates it was uh it was brilliant in recent years we’ve been able to look at the Thousand goal kickers and you’re there at 1254 behind Lockett and centry that what Pride do you feel or what sense do you feel when you see that list and what your place is in the goal kicking history yeah first thing that comes to mind Jared is third’s no good there are two ends of Marvel one’s the locket end and one’s the commentary end there’s not a third in to be named after me so you got to finish in the top two now look um I I’m I’m just um chaff that I got to play a great game at a great ERA with with and against so many great players you’ve given so much to Footy when you think about your whole journey what’s footy given to you um oh it’s given everything it’s it’s me a life I never dreamed I’d have I stumbled into this 40 years ago and I’m still here so that’s I’m I mean I’m incredibly thankful for that I never expected it I wasn’t aiming to do that it’s just something that happened along the way so um I I hope I’ve given as much as I’ve taken from the game but it’s been an enormous part of my life few thank yous to finish absolutely um as I mentioned earlier to all the other inductees congratulations um fantastic achievements to family and friends of got um a couple of brothers that came down from inter state mom couldn’t make it doesn’t travel particularly well but to to have Nick and Harry here and the three nephews Josh Joel and Jesse who are so Keen to dump me as soon as it’s over and go hang with swanie after hearing him talk um so you’re going to have a little bit of weight on your hands I think Swan but and a couple of special mates that have come down from queensday and to be able to celebrate it with them makes it more special um to my junior Club the Cooper footy Club I play from the under sevs through the seniors to all the coaches all the teammates all the great people that make a club what it is thank you to the Hawthorne football club again to all the coaches to all the teammates to all the the volunteers the great people the trainers the old Charlie cheesecake the uh the property room uh manager Andy anguin was a ripper you you just meet so many great people that do so much work um I’m I’m incredibly thankful to all of them um to my teammates especially at Hawthorne any success that I may have enjoyed is entirely due to their efforts further a field um and I played with some of the very very best the game has ever seen um to the people at Fox Sports fox till fox footy my employers um I’ve had 20 plus years out of the game I’m still working in a game that I love with people that I love it’s uh it’s incredibly special um I asked Joy not not to steal the thunder tonight but in that stunning gown it’s impossible um she’s a great colleague of mine it’s great to have her MC in the evening so that’s a great thrill as well um and finally I must say to Richard and to Dills and to everyone at the AFL um as I mentioned I’m I’m living a life I never dreamed I’d have to the selectors who deem me worthy to sit in the esteemed company of the gentleman whose banners you see around the room uh it’s I’m priv pred it’s an honor um it’s a little confronting overwhelming almost to the point of embarrassment but it’s it’s an honor for which I’m eternally grateful and I thank you