Born: 27 August 1947
200cm, 95.5kgs
Collingwood 1965 – 1978 (270 games, 217 goals)
South Melbourne 1979 (20 games, 39 goals)
Fitzroy 1980 (13 games, 19 goals)
Brownlow Medallist 1972 
Copeland trophy winner 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1977
AFL Hall of Fame in 1998
Collingwood Team of the Century - First Ruck
Collingwood captain 1978
Vice – captain Collingwood 1973 – 1977
Victoria squad (15 games, 12 goals)

I remember as a young lad at one of my first games at Victoria Park, I was awestruck at this giant of a man taking marks deep in defence which eventually won us that game against Footscray.

He was tall, athletic and the Collingwood crowd perched up on one eyed hill just loved the bloke. Thommo was Collingwood through and through and like many champion team mates never got to play in  a premiership side, The joy he gave us while wearing the Black and White will live in our memories forever.

I was fortunate in later years to have befriended Thommo. He was a nice bloke who loved chatting about the modern day magpies and didn't mind a yarn about his own deeds whilst wearing the Black and White.

We once interviewd Thommo at the Lexus Centre for the Collingwood official website, the interview was a ripper especially the chapter re the infamous 1970 Grand Final and the half time celebrations in the Collingwood dressing rooms.

Thommo was a shy person but when you got to know him he was just a beaut bloke. Many times Thommo would ring for a chat or from a pub someplace wanting to know a jumper number some team mate wore in his playing days. 'Joff mate tell us quickly who wore this number, I got five bucks on it'. I would race home and look it up in my Collingwood books and ring back Thommo promptly.

It was very sad the day Thommo died, I recieved a phone call from Eddie and could not believe it, a wonderful chapter has departed us for the Collingwood heavens. Hooray for history books for they will ever tell us what a Collingwood Champion Legend our Thommo was!

RIP Thommo.

Len, daughter Laura and I
At the Lexus Centre 2004 when we interviewed Len
with (Will Brody) for the official Collingwood website.