Peter Jones (Australian rules footballer)
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Peter Kevin "Percy" Jones (born in Tasmania, 20 October 1946), the son of Kevin and Mollie Jones (née Macleod), is a former Australian rules footballer who played 249 games for the Carlton Blues in the VFL. He played as a forward and ruckman.
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Graeme Richmond
, the Secretary at Richmond, who had visited Jones in Tasmania, had given him several gifts, including a suit, in consideration of Jones remaining in Tasmania for the 1966 season and moving to Victoria to play for Richmond in 1967.
Jones had worked as an apprentice auto electrician in Tasmania. Carlton promised him that, upon his arrival in Melbourne, through the intervention of a rabid Carlton fan in the Accounts Section of the Department's Melbourne organization, they would be able to arrange for him to appointed to a junior administrative position with the Melbourne office of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, where Adrian Gallagher (and his uncle Murray) also worked.
Jones had no qualms about moving to Melbourne because his grandmother lived in St Kilda.
. Jones had no driver's license at the time, and the supporter had offered him a lift to St Kilda, where Jones lived with his grandmother.
Due to the speed of the car's impact with the tree, Jones suffered extremely serious skull, facial and eye-socket injuries, nearly lost one eye, badly broke his nose,http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=t2QQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XZMDAAAAIBAJ&dq=car%20jones&pg=1191%2C4818500 and broke both of his ankleshttp://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=CUoQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpMDAAAAIBAJ&dq=ankles&pg=6081%2C4287347 (the broken ankles were the reason he never played with Carlton Firsts against Hawthorn on wet days at the extremely muddy Glenferrie Oval
).
He was not fit enough to play his first match for Carlton until Round 16 of that year.http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Round+16%2C+1966http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=QQIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YZMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1286%2C1985551 http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=rWQQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XZMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2890%2C2906406
(known as "Golly until he started to lose his hair), after "Percy" the name of the enormous penis that was transplanted onto the injured man in the 1971 film Percy
.
Jones was later to capitalize further on this anatomical allusion when he stood as a Liberal Party candidate for election to the Lower House of the Victorian Parliament in the early 1980s, with the slogan "Point Percy at Parliament"
.
Often criticized early on by Ron Barassi
for seeking out his best mates "Gags" and Brian Kekovich
with his hit-outs and his passes, Jones developed into one of the most talented, exuberant and reliable ruckmen who had ever played for Carlton.
Although he never played well at Glenferrie Oval, he always played brilliantly against Len Thompson
at Victoria Park
and was, more times than not, best on the ground whenever Carlton played Collingwood at Victoria Park.
In a match against Hawthorn at Waverley, Jones is vividly remembered for breaking free from his opponent in the goal-square, running in to an open goal, and missing the ball entirely and kicking the goalpost (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWuAFvEj0xw).
He played in six Grand Finals, in two losing teams, in 1969 and 1973 and in four premiership teams 1968, 1970, 1972 (playing perhaps the best game he played in his entire career), and 1979.
He won Carlton's Best and fairest award, the John Nicholls Medal
in 1978, and the Best Clubman Award, the B.J. Deacon Memorial Trophy
in 1978.
He played Interstate Football for Victoria in 1977, making him one of a small select group who have played for more than one State.
He was selected in the Tasmanian Team of the Century,http://www.footballlegends.org/Team_of_the_Century.htm as well as the North Hobart Football Club's Team of the Century.http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/all_star_teams_(n-z).htm#North%20Hobart
resign in sympathy with the sacking of then Carlton President George Harris
, Carlton appointed Jones as coach.
Although the team performed well during the regular season — e.g., in round one of 1980, Jones' first match as coach, Carlton soundly beat the highly favoured Collingwood, at Victoria Park
19.18 (132) to 13.16 (94) — and reached the semi-finals, its performance in the final series was far below that required by the club; and, so, after interviews were held with Jones, Ron Barassi
, and David Parkin
, Carlton chose to appoint Parkin in place of Jones.
Jones held no grudge, and served for many years on the Carlton Committee.
The selection panel refused to allow Jones to play just one more game, even refusing to pick him to play against the team's weakest possible opponent of the season; and many at the time thought that is was somewhat ungracious of the panel to treat such a faithful club servant in such a way.
However, those with longer memories, might have understood it in a different way.
He sustained an injury to his foot; and, during the following week, he contacted a dose of the 'flu. Due to concerns about whether he was well enough to play an entire senior match, he was omitted from the senior team for round 5, and was selected to play in the Reserves. Along with Ron Auchettl,http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/R/Ron_Auchettl.htmlhttp://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Ron%20Auchettl Jones was one of the best on the ground in the Carlton Reserves' 18.10 (118) to 10.12 (72) victory over Footscray.
In the senior match against Footscray, Ron Barassi had pulled a hamstring, and was expected to be out for at least two weeks; and there was strong speculation that Jones would be selected the following week to replace the injured Barassi.
, and Jones was, once again, selected to play for the Reserves.
The Saturday, 18 May 1968 match against South Melbourne was played at the Lake Oval, located no more than two kilometres from where Jones lived with his grandmother in Cintra Avenue, St Kilda. Jones turned up long after the team arrival deadline of 11:00AM (which gave the players at least 35 minutes to prepare to play at 11:35AM), claiming that he had been grid-locked in a traffic jam along Queens Road, a street that was, in fact, the most direct route between Cintra Avenue and the Lake Oval.
Not only was Jones' explanation rejected, and not only was he accused of lying to the officials, it was also pointed out to him that, if his story was actually true, then he had left his grandmother's house far too late anyway; because, if he had left on time, he would have been easily able to reach the Lake Oval on foot (as the ground was less than 25 minutes walk from Cintra Avenue).
To make matters even worse for Jones, and the potential acceptance of his fanciful excuses, was the fact that not only was he late, but he had arrived along with one of his Reserves team-mates for the day, the deeply troubled Maffra champion Billy Bennett
, who was already showing strong signs of his inability to adjust to life in Melbourne (he went back to Maffra after only playing 11 senior games); and, not only was it already bad enough for both Jones and Bennett, yet another player selected in that side, Graeme Anderson,http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Graeme+Anderson had failed to arrive in the rooms on time. He had arrived at the ground on time, but had been refused entry by a gate-keeper because he was unable to produce his official V.F.L. Player Pass. The Carlton officials refused to allow the three players to take their place, and all three players were stood down.
Upon being told that he could not play, Jones lost his temper, resigned from Carlton as a player on the spot, and walked out in a huff, and immediately went over, on his own, without either Anderson or Bennett, to the Melbourne Cricket Ground
and watched Richmond beat North Melbourne
14.17 (101) to 4.7 (31) with some of his (and Adrian Gallagher's) work-mates, who were standing in the Outer.
This meant, of course, that not only was Jones very conspicuously absent from the sparsely populated Lake Oval (the crowd for the day was 13,420) — and, very obviously, not supporting his Carlton team-mates — he was, at the same time, very conspicuously present at the MCG, was not injured in any way, and was very obviously supporting Richmond.
In the absence of Jones, Bennett, and Anderson, the Carlton Reserves unexpectedly lost to South Melbourne by three goals, 12.15 (87) to 9.15 (69). (Out-played for three of the four quarters, and no doubt somewhat destabilized by the controversial absence of the three Reserve players from the earlier match, the senior team eventually won a torrid match, 12.11 (83) to 10.11 (71), in which the controversial, and struggling-for-form Eric Sarich
had broken Bryan Quirk
's jaw in the first quarter.)
Thus, given his apparent blatant breach of discipline in 1968, the decision of the Carlton selectors in 1980 may not have been so harsh after all — especially seeing that he was also coach at the time (1980) and, therefore, it would not look good to make such a concession to the one man who was (by virtue of his position as the team's coach) the major enforcer of team discipline.
15.11 (101) to 9.13 (67) at Princes Park
.
The most famous of which was run in conjunction with Adrian Gallagher and was called "The Blush and Stutter" after Gallagher's infinite propensity for blushing at anything, and Jones' quite severe speech impediment (mainly a hesitancy that is more of a stammer, than the repetitive staccato of a stutter).
His speech impediment also explains why all of Jones' valuable and insightful post-football commentating was conducted through the print media, rather than radio or TV.
Debut
He played first grade football with North Hobart Football Club, winning a place in the Tasmanian State Team in 1965 (when just 18 years).Richmond
Jones was initially supposed to play with RichmondRichmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
.
Graeme Richmond
Graeme Richmond
Graeme Richmond was a long time administrator of the Richmond Football Club.Recruited from Geelong College, he played mainly as a defender in Richmond's Thirds from 1951 to 1953. He captained this side and won its Best & Fairest in 1952. He also played 13 games for the Richmond Seconds side in...
, the Secretary at Richmond, who had visited Jones in Tasmania, had given him several gifts, including a suit, in consideration of Jones remaining in Tasmania for the 1966 season and moving to Victoria to play for Richmond in 1967.
Carlton
However, Carlton officials visited him shortly after and promised that if he came over to Victoria immediately they would play him in 1966.Jones had worked as an apprentice auto electrician in Tasmania. Carlton promised him that, upon his arrival in Melbourne, through the intervention of a rabid Carlton fan in the Accounts Section of the Department's Melbourne organization, they would be able to arrange for him to appointed to a junior administrative position with the Melbourne office of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, where Adrian Gallagher (and his uncle Murray) also worked.
Jones had no qualms about moving to Melbourne because his grandmother lived in St Kilda.
Car accident
He nearly died in a very serious car accident when a car, driven by a Carlton supporter, smashed at high speed into a tree in Royal Parade on the way home from a 1966 early pre-season practice session at Carlton's home ground, Princes ParkMC Labour Park
Princes Park is an Australian rules football ground located at Princes Park in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria....
. Jones had no driver's license at the time, and the supporter had offered him a lift to St Kilda, where Jones lived with his grandmother.
Due to the speed of the car's impact with the tree, Jones suffered extremely serious skull, facial and eye-socket injuries, nearly lost one eye, badly broke his nose,http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=t2QQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XZMDAAAAIBAJ&dq=car%20jones&pg=1191%2C4818500 and broke both of his ankleshttp://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=CUoQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpMDAAAAIBAJ&dq=ankles&pg=6081%2C4287347 (the broken ankles were the reason he never played with Carlton Firsts against Hawthorn on wet days at the extremely muddy Glenferrie Oval
Glenferrie Oval
Glenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is the historic home of and is synonymous with the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL club from 1925–1973, and retained the ground as an...
).
He was not fit enough to play his first match for Carlton until Round 16 of that year.http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Round+16%2C+1966http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=QQIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YZMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1286%2C1985551 http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=rWQQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XZMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2890%2C2906406
"Percy"
His nickname "Percy" was bestowed upon him by Murray Gallagher, the uncle of his best mate, the rover Adrian "Gags" GallagherAdrian Gallagher
Adrian Lindsay Gallagher is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton.Gallagher made...
(known as "Golly until he started to lose his hair), after "Percy" the name of the enormous penis that was transplanted onto the injured man in the 1971 film Percy
Percy (1971 film)
Percy is a British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas starring Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer and Britt Ekland.Percy , an innocent and shy young man, is hit by a nude man falling from a high-rise building while carrying a chandelier...
.
Jones was later to capitalize further on this anatomical allusion when he stood as a Liberal Party candidate for election to the Lower House of the Victorian Parliament in the early 1980s, with the slogan "Point Percy at Parliament"
Career at Carlton
At the beginning of his career, he often had to suffer the competitiveness of John Nicholls, who clearly understood Jones' potential.http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=Q9YQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4551%2C3770323 He was often forced (because Nicholls would not "change" with him) to play the major proportion of each match resting in the forward pocketForward pocket
In Australian rules football, the forward pocket refers to a position on the field deep in offense.Forward pocket players, situated in the forward line, need to have good avoidance and goal sneak skills and usually, quality forward-pockets are noted for their agility and ability to score difficult...
.
Often criticized early on by Ron Barassi
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr AM is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and decorated career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi, Sr., was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk during...
for seeking out his best mates "Gags" and Brian Kekovich
Brian Kekovich
Brian Kekovich is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL, who played for two seasons with the Carlton Football Club....
with his hit-outs and his passes, Jones developed into one of the most talented, exuberant and reliable ruckmen who had ever played for Carlton.
Although he never played well at Glenferrie Oval, he always played brilliantly against Len Thompson
Len Thompson
Len Thompson was an Australian rules footballer, who played for most of his career at Collingwood.-Collingwood:...
at Victoria Park
Victoria Park, Melbourne
Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....
and was, more times than not, best on the ground whenever Carlton played Collingwood at Victoria Park.
In a match against Hawthorn at Waverley, Jones is vividly remembered for breaking free from his opponent in the goal-square, running in to an open goal, and missing the ball entirely and kicking the goalpost (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWuAFvEj0xw).
He played in six Grand Finals, in two losing teams, in 1969 and 1973 and in four premiership teams 1968, 1970, 1972 (playing perhaps the best game he played in his entire career), and 1979.
He won Carlton's Best and fairest award, the John Nicholls Medal
John Nicholls Medal
The John Nicholls Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the player adjudged Best and Fairest for the Carlton Football Club for the season....
in 1978, and the Best Clubman Award, the B.J. Deacon Memorial Trophy
Bert Deacon
Bert Deacon was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League . He is remembered for being Carlton's first ever Brownlow Medal winner....
in 1978.
He played Interstate Football for Victoria in 1977, making him one of a small select group who have played for more than one State.
He was selected in the Tasmanian Team of the Century,http://www.footballlegends.org/Team_of_the_Century.htm as well as the North Hobart Football Club's Team of the Century.http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/all_star_teams_(n-z).htm#North%20Hobart
Coaching
In 1980, following the dispute at the end of the 1979 which saw the then Carlton coach Alex JesaulenkoAlex Jesaulenko
Alex 'Jezza' Jesaulenko MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest-ever players and is an official Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame...
resign in sympathy with the sacking of then Carlton President George Harris
George Harris (Carlton President)
George Harris was a President of Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League from 1964 to 1974 and again from 1978 to 1980. He was regarded as a highly significant figure in VFL-AFL history....
, Carlton appointed Jones as coach.
Although the team performed well during the regular season — e.g., in round one of 1980, Jones' first match as coach, Carlton soundly beat the highly favoured Collingwood, at Victoria Park
Victoria Park, Melbourne
Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....
19.18 (132) to 13.16 (94) — and reached the semi-finals, its performance in the final series was far below that required by the club; and, so, after interviews were held with Jones, Ron Barassi
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr AM is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and decorated career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi, Sr., was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk during...
, and David Parkin
David Parkin
David Parkin is a former Australian rules footballer and four-time premiership coach.- Pre-football career :He attended Melbourne High School and during his time there, was the school vice-captain and captain of football....
, Carlton chose to appoint Parkin in place of Jones.
Jones held no grudge, and served for many years on the Carlton Committee.
249 Games
In 1980, as coach of the senior side, Jones (whose right ankle had been operated on at the end of the 1979 season http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7UkQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lpIDAAAAIBAJ&dq=peter-mcfarline%20and%20jones&pg=2073%2C2850008) used every persuasive trick that he could muster to convince the Carlton selection panel to allow him to play just one more match, in order for him to reach the 250 game bench-mark. Given his fitness levels at the time — he had continued to play sporadically for the first half of the Reserves matches before resuming his role as senior coach — the most he could have hoped for was to have been picked as 19th or 20th man.The selection panel refused to allow Jones to play just one more game, even refusing to pick him to play against the team's weakest possible opponent of the season; and many at the time thought that is was somewhat ungracious of the panel to treat such a faithful club servant in such a way.
However, those with longer memories, might have understood it in a different way.
Saturday, 11 May 1968
Jones kicked 3 goals in his eleventh senior game — i.e., his fourth senior game in his third senior season with Carlton — in Carlton's 15.10 (100) victory over Hawthorn 11.11 (77) in the round 4 match of the 1968 home-and-away-season.He sustained an injury to his foot; and, during the following week, he contacted a dose of the 'flu. Due to concerns about whether he was well enough to play an entire senior match, he was omitted from the senior team for round 5, and was selected to play in the Reserves. Along with Ron Auchettl,http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/R/Ron_Auchettl.htmlhttp://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Ron%20Auchettl Jones was one of the best on the ground in the Carlton Reserves' 18.10 (118) to 10.12 (72) victory over Footscray.
In the senior match against Footscray, Ron Barassi had pulled a hamstring, and was expected to be out for at least two weeks; and there was strong speculation that Jones would be selected the following week to replace the injured Barassi.
Saturday, 18 May 1968
Rather unexpectedly, Carlton selected Ron Auchettl rather than Jones in its senior team for round 6, to play the much weaker South MelbourneSydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
, and Jones was, once again, selected to play for the Reserves.
The Saturday, 18 May 1968 match against South Melbourne was played at the Lake Oval, located no more than two kilometres from where Jones lived with his grandmother in Cintra Avenue, St Kilda. Jones turned up long after the team arrival deadline of 11:00AM (which gave the players at least 35 minutes to prepare to play at 11:35AM), claiming that he had been grid-locked in a traffic jam along Queens Road, a street that was, in fact, the most direct route between Cintra Avenue and the Lake Oval.
Not only was Jones' explanation rejected, and not only was he accused of lying to the officials, it was also pointed out to him that, if his story was actually true, then he had left his grandmother's house far too late anyway; because, if he had left on time, he would have been easily able to reach the Lake Oval on foot (as the ground was less than 25 minutes walk from Cintra Avenue).
To make matters even worse for Jones, and the potential acceptance of his fanciful excuses, was the fact that not only was he late, but he had arrived along with one of his Reserves team-mates for the day, the deeply troubled Maffra champion Billy Bennett
Bill Bennett (footballer)
William Bennett is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the VFL during the 1960s.A forward from the Victorian town of Maffra, Bennett played 11 games with Carlton which included the 1968 Grand Final...
, who was already showing strong signs of his inability to adjust to life in Melbourne (he went back to Maffra after only playing 11 senior games); and, not only was it already bad enough for both Jones and Bennett, yet another player selected in that side, Graeme Anderson,http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Graeme+Anderson had failed to arrive in the rooms on time. He had arrived at the ground on time, but had been refused entry by a gate-keeper because he was unable to produce his official V.F.L. Player Pass. The Carlton officials refused to allow the three players to take their place, and all three players were stood down.
Upon being told that he could not play, Jones lost his temper, resigned from Carlton as a player on the spot, and walked out in a huff, and immediately went over, on his own, without either Anderson or Bennett, to the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...
and watched Richmond beat North Melbourne
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
14.17 (101) to 4.7 (31) with some of his (and Adrian Gallagher's) work-mates, who were standing in the Outer.
This meant, of course, that not only was Jones very conspicuously absent from the sparsely populated Lake Oval (the crowd for the day was 13,420) — and, very obviously, not supporting his Carlton team-mates — he was, at the same time, very conspicuously present at the MCG, was not injured in any way, and was very obviously supporting Richmond.
In the absence of Jones, Bennett, and Anderson, the Carlton Reserves unexpectedly lost to South Melbourne by three goals, 12.15 (87) to 9.15 (69). (Out-played for three of the four quarters, and no doubt somewhat destabilized by the controversial absence of the three Reserve players from the earlier match, the senior team eventually won a torrid match, 12.11 (83) to 10.11 (71), in which the controversial, and struggling-for-form Eric Sarich
Eric Sarich
Eric Sarich is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League . He also played for four clubs in the West Australian National Football League ....
had broken Bryan Quirk
Bryan Quirk
Bryan Quirk is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He was recruited from Morwell Football Club in the then Latrobe Valley Football League....
's jaw in the first quarter.)
Thus, given his apparent blatant breach of discipline in 1968, the decision of the Carlton selectors in 1980 may not have been so harsh after all — especially seeing that he was also coach at the time (1980) and, therefore, it would not look good to make such a concession to the one man who was (by virtue of his position as the team's coach) the major enforcer of team discipline.
Saturday, 25 May 1968
However, by the following Tuesday (the first training session of the week), a very delicate set of negotiations had taken place which allowed Jones to retract his (verbal) resignation, and on Saturday 25 May 1968 (round 7) he was best on the ground in the Carlton team that beat CollingwoodCollingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
15.11 (101) to 9.13 (67) at Princes Park
MC Labour Park
Princes Park is an Australian rules football ground located at Princes Park in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria....
.
Post football
Married to Jan (née King), and with a daughter Georgia,http://www.theage.com.au/news/Geoff-McClure/Sporting-Life/2005/05/12/1115843309588.htmlhttp://www.theage.com.au/news/Geoff-McClure/Arguing-the-toss/2005/05/22/1116700596817.html Jones has spent most of his post-football life running hotelshttp://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=q_4QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V5IDAAAAIBAJ&dq=hotel%20peter-jones&pg=5327%2C331356 http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=XnsQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NJIDAAAAIBAJ&dq=hotel%20peter-jones&pg=5342%2C832712 http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=8wERAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8JIDAAAAIBAJ&dq=hotel%20peter-jones&pg=5113%2C5007904 in inner suburban Melbourne (including "Percy's Bar" in Lygon st, Carlton during the 80's).The most famous of which was run in conjunction with Adrian Gallagher and was called "The Blush and Stutter" after Gallagher's infinite propensity for blushing at anything, and Jones' quite severe speech impediment (mainly a hesitancy that is more of a stammer, than the repetitive staccato of a stutter).
His speech impediment also explains why all of Jones' valuable and insightful post-football commentating was conducted through the print media, rather than radio or TV.
Further reading
- Jones, P.K. (with Hansen, B.), Percy: The Story of the Carlton Football Club as told by Peter "Percy" Jones, with Brian Hansen (a.k.a. Percy: A Blues Legend), Mount Waverley,, Brian Hansen Publications, (Mount Waverley), 1995. ISBN 0-646-24487-6
- Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
External links
- AFL Statistics: Peter Jones
- Full Points Footy: Peter Jones Profile
- Blueseum: Peter Jones Profile
- 2000: North Hobart's Team of the Century
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