#803 Graham Moss

Relive Dan Eddy's 2019 chat with Bomber number 803, Graham Moss, which originally aired on Essendon's 'Fabric of the Essendon Football Club' podcast series celebrating the club's 150-year anniversary in 2022. Few players in VFL/AFL history have had a bigger impact over a four-year span than Moss, who, like a shooting star, burst on the scene in 1973 then left spectators awestruck as he departed, just weeks after winning the 1976 Brownlow Medal; the first West Australian-born player to claim football's highest individual award. 
In all, Moss played 84 games for the Bombers—the first of which he recorded 26 disposals and took 13 marks in the best Essendon debut since John Coleman, who, tragically, died just two days before Moss's first game—and he won three Crichton Medals (1974-76). He was Essendon captain in 1976. However, at 26 and in the prime years of his football career, Moss accepted an offer to captain-coach his former club, Claremont, in 1977. In the next four seasons at the Tigers, he won four consecutive B&Fs. 
In 2002, Moss—one of the greatest ruckmen the game has ever seen—was selected at No. 13 in the top 25 'Champions of Essendon', then was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2012. He was an inaugural member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame (1996) and is a Legend of the West Australian Football Hall of Fame (2006).