Dan Minogue; Collingwood legend or Collingwood villain?

[LaurieHolden]

Following on from previous walk down memory lane ~

Duncan Wright has one regret from the moment that defined his career.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/197206/i-wouldve-loved-to-have-stayed-a-collingwood-enforcers-tears

Extract from Richard Stremski's 'Kill for Collingwood' 1986 Allen and Unwin

The Somerville incident became cause célèbre because the early 1960's was a period of growing concern about football violence. The League had been particularly perturbed by incidents behind play. Suggestions from Clubs, including Collingwood, for the protection of player had included : reintroduction of stewards (who had been used from 1912 until WW1), authorising the emergency umpire or boundary umpires to report players and utilising TV replays to detect offenders. Since the League had failed to implement any of the procedures to curb on-field brutality, the deputy chief of the CIB announced at the start of the 1965 season that police working at matches were henceforth empowered to take action over football assaults.

Six months later the police department launched an investigation into the Somerville incident. Chief Commissioner of Police, Silas Arnold announced : 'We do not normally investigate this sort of thing, but I was at the game on Saturday and felt this was one case in which police investigation should be made'. Arnold co-incidentally, was a prominent Essendon supporter.

The Club felt victimised by the police and believed that the Wright and his family were unduly harassed. The semifinal incident seems not to have been the premeditated, despite innuendo to the contrary, because Somerville originally lined up on the opposite flank and ran across to Wright just before the game started.
Both players were pushing and shoving, and Collingwood felt that Wright 'didn't start the rot'. The Magpie privately told his coach he had landed a short punch - definitely not a king-hit. The Club was also annoyed with Essendon for allegedly concealing vital information. It was rumoured around Collingwood, and reported to be 'common knowledge' around Essendon, that the injury to Somerville looked worse than it was because Wright's blow induced an epileptic attack.

Playing career
Height:180 cm Weight:73 kg
1960, 1963–65 Collingwood 23 games

https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/players/duncan-wright/