Mark Motlop

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Career Highlights
GFC League Player Number: 676 GFC League Debut: Round 1, 1983 Glenelg 1983 – 1985 43 games 26 goals Reserves premiership 1982
Other Career Highlights
South Fremantle WAFL 3 games Nightcliff NT 261 games Nightcliff Tiger’s games record holder Nightcliff’s Best & Fairest award five times Nichols medalist (NT best and fairest) 1977/78 Captain 1982/83 and 1986/87 Coach 1990 - 1993, 2007/08 - 2009/10 Wanderers NT 1994/95 15 games Southern Districts NT 29 games. playing coach Represented the NTFL on 9 occasions. AFLNT Hall of Fame (inducted 2010)

Biographical

• Born: 27 December 1958
• Height: 173 cm
• Weight: 71 kg

• Recruited from: Nightcliff Football Club (NT)
• Previous club: South Fremantle
• GFC League Debut: 1983

Guernsey Number: 23

Mark Motlop played as a rover or centre.

Motlop already had the NTFL’s Nichols Medal under his belt when he joined Glenelg from Nightcliff in 1982 (he had a couple of prior seasons at Port Adelaide, without breaking into the league side). Rewarded with league selection by Graham Campbell in 1983, Motlop played 43 games (26 goals) at a time when Glenelg was a SANFL powerhouse.

He was famously left out of the 1985 Grand Final side after playing all season in the League side.

In the Northern territory he was an absolute giant of the game, playing over 300 games, as well as coaching. He was honoured by induction into the AFLNT Hall of Fame in 2010.

References

1. "Pride of the Bay"

2. 1985 SANFL Grand Final Football Budget

3. AFLNT Hall of Fame