Michael Martyn (born 31 August 1968) is a former

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er who played for

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and Carlton in the

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(AFL). He is the son of Bryan Martyn, who also played for North Melbourne, and is a relative of early Carlton champion Paddy O'Brien. He is an AFL life member. After retiring from the AFL Mick played a season with Spotswood in the W.R.F.L.

Early life

Martyn was born with a

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disorder which does not allow him to speak normally or fluently. He attended St. Paul's College in North Altona.

North Melbourne Football Club

Martyn was drafted to the Kangaroos under the

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. He notched up his first league game against Geelong but did not come on until the third quarter, where he lined up on

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In 1995, he was awarded the Michael Tuck Medal after the Kangaroos beat the

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in the 1995 Ansett Cup. In 2002, he gained permission by the AFL to wear his father's number 30 jumper, as it would be the last match his father ever witnessed before dying a few days later. Mick said, "I didn't want to do it (wear Bryan's number) after he died. It was the greatest night of my life. It was better than winning a premiership. I wore two jumpers because I wanted to send one down with him, down the grave." Martyn won two premierships with the Kangaroos in 1996 and 1999 until he was delisted by the Kangaroos at the end of the 2002 season.

Bali bombings

Martyn was injured in the

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, where he received burns to the back of his scalp. He had been drinking with Jason McCartney at Paddy's bar at the time of the attack. After exiting the building, he and McCartney left the scene and were admitted to hospital, McCartney suffering more life-threatening injuries. Martyn caused some controversy in 2004, commenting on radio station

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that after the Bali bombings "it wasn't the blue and white in my corner; it was the navy blue".

Carlton Football Club

At the 2002 draft, with Denis Pagan needing a "gorilla" at full-back, Martyn was drafted by Carlton to play for the 2003 season. He played a handful of games to notch up his 300th match against Essendon in Round 18 2003 at the

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, where Carlton lost by 34 points; after the match, he was chaired off the ground. However, that turned out to be his last match; he announced his retirement after the serious knee injury he suffered the next week at training.

Playing statistics

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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References

External links

Mick Martyn's profile on kangaroos.com.au
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martyn, Mick 1968 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) North Melbourne Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club premiership players Carlton Football Club players Victorian State of Origin players Syd Barker Medal winners 2002 Bali bombings Survivors of terrorist attacks VFL/AFL premiership players People with speech disorders