#820 Simon Madden

Relive Dan Eddy's 2019 chat with Bomber number 820, Simon Madden, which originally aired on Essendon's 'Fabric of the Essendon Football Club' podcast series celebrating the club's 150-year anniversary in 2022. One of Essendon's, and the game's, greatest ruckmen—some say THE greatest—Madden won four Crichton Medals (1977, 1979, 1983-84), was selected in six VFL Teams of the Year, was a triple Essendon leading goalkicker (1980, 1982, 1991) with a career total of 575 goals, was Bombers skipper (1980-81), a regular Victorian representative, won two premierships (1984-85) from four Grand Final appearances, and, in one of the most dominant Grand Final performances of all-time, won the 1985 Norm Smith Medal. His 378 games in red and black was a club record for more than two decades, before eclipsed by Dustin Fletcher (400 games). Madden is a Legend of the Essendon Football Club, was selected at No. 5 in the Champions of Essendon, is ruckman of the Bombers' Team of the Century, and is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame. On top of all that, he's a great storyteller (most of it true!).