Geoff Blethyn

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Geoff Blethyn
Personal information
Date of birth	(1950-10-28) 28 October 1950
Original team	St Andrew's
Debut	1968, Essendon
Height/Weight	183 cm / 80 kg
Playing career¹
Essendon (1968-72) (1976) 84 games, 216 goals
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1976 season.

Geoff Blethyn (born 28 October 1950) is a former leading Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Claremont in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and Port Adelaide in the South Australian Football League (SANFL).

A full-forward, Blethyn had a slim frame and wore glasses on the field. He kicked four goals in Essendon's 1968 Grand Final loss to Carlton and had his most prolific game up forward when he kicked 11 goals against Footscray during the 1972 VFL season. It had been a record breaking year for Blethyn, he finished it with 107 goals and he had been the first Essendon player since John Coleman in 1950 to kick over 100 in a season. He however missed out on the Coleman Medal to Collingwood's Peter McKenna who kicked 130 goals for the season.

The following season Blethyn left for WAFL club Claremont but returned to Essendon in 1976 where he topped their goalkicking with 39 goals. It was the third time Blethyn had finished a season as Essendon's top goalkicker, having done so in 1970 and 1972.

Blethyn left Essendon for good in 1977 when he transferred to SANFL club Port Adelaide and that season played in the only premiership side of his career.

Blethyn currently lives in Adelaide and works as a property advisor.^[1]

References

↑ Hanlon, P. "Blethyn specs a tall order", The Age, 26 June 2013, http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/blethyn-specs-a-tall-order-20130625-2ov7y.html

External links

Geoff Blethyn's statistics from AFL Tables

Essendon Football Club · Leading Goalkickers

1897: Waugh
1898: Moore
1899: Cleghorn
1900: Thurgood
1901: Hiskins
1902: Thurgood
1903: M. Madden
1904: M. Madden
1905: Barker
1906: Yeo
1907: Martin
1908: Smith
1909: Shea
1910: B. Armstrong
1911: L. Armstrong
1912: Kirby
1913: Kirby
1914: Lumsden
1915: Walker
1918: Hall
1919: Walsh
1920: McDonald
1921: McDonald
1922: Moriarty
1923: Stockdale
1924: Jenkins
1925: Jenkins
1926: Stockdale
1927: Vosti
1928: Stockdale
1929: Forbes/Johnson
1930: Forbes
1931: Freyer
1932: Freyer
1933: Freyer
1934: Freyer
1935: Forbes
1936: Freyer
1937: Forbes
1938: T. Reynolds
1939: T. Reynolds
1940: Bryce
1941: T. Reynolds
1942: T. Reynolds
1943: D. Reynolds
1944: Powell
1945: Brittingham
1946: Brittingham
1947: Leehane
1948: Hutchison
1949: Coleman
1950: Coleman
1951: Coleman
1952: Coleman
1953: Coleman
1954: Coleman
1955: Mitchell
1956: Willey
1957: Gallagher
1958: Birt
1959: Evans
1960: Evans
1961: Mitchell
1962: Payne
1963: Payne
1964: Mitchell
1965: Fordham
1966: Fordham
1967: Noonan
1968: Noonan
1969: Noonan
1970: Blethyn
1971: Noonan
1972: Blethyn
1973: Noonan
1974: Noonan
1975: Noonan
1976: Blethyn
1977: Crow
1978: Primmer
1979: Daniher
1980: S. Madden
1981: Buhagiar
1982: S. Madden
1983: Daniher
1984: Salmon
1985: Harvey
1986: Ezard
1987: Salmon
1988: Salmon
1989: Salmon
1990: Salmon
1991: S. Madden
1992: Salmon
1993: Salmon
1994: Cummings
1995: Hird
1996: Hird
1997: Lloyd
1998: Lloyd
1999: Lloyd
2000: Lloyd
2001: Lloyd
2002: Lloyd
2003: Lloyd
2004: Lloyd
2005: Lloyd
2006: Lucas
2007: Lloyd
2008: Lloyd
2009: Lloyd
2010: Monfries
2011: Crameri
2012: Crameri
2013: Crameri

Persondata
Name	Blethyn, Geoff
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	28 October 1950
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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