Mick Martyn (Australian footballer)
AFL life member and two-time premiership player.
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He is the son of Bryan Martyn, also a North Melbourne player, and a relative of early Carlton champion Paddy O'Brien. Martyn is an AFL life member.
North Melbourne Football Club
Martyn was drafted to the Kangaroos under the father–son rule. He debuted against Geelong, coming on in the third quarter to line up on Gary Ablett Sr. In 1995 he received the Michael Tuck Medal after the Kangaroos beat the Adelaide Crows in the Ansett Cup.
In 2002 he gained AFL permission to wear his father's number 30 jumper for what would be the last match his father witnessed before dying days later. Martyn said wearing the jumper after his father's death was the greatest night of his life, better than winning a premiership, and that he wore two jumpers to send one down with his father. He won premierships in 1996 and 1999 and was delisted at the end of 2002.
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- After retiring from the AFL, Martyn played a season with Spotswood in the W.R.F.L.
- Martyn was injured in the 2002 Bali bombings, receiving burns to the back of his scalp.
- He commented on Triple M in 2004 that after the bombings 'it wasn't the blue and white in my corner; it was the navy blue'.
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