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Supermercado, the creator of DemonWiki  is looking for information about players were either listed by, signed to or made appearances with the Melbourne Football Club in an intra-club, practice, Under 19 or reserve game but did not appear in a senior VFL match from 1897 onwards.

To help out, I'm creating three separate threads for Demonlanders to post any information they might have about the players on each list. This one's for players from Melbourne's Pre-VFL Days:-

John Bennie 

Alexander Berrie 

Alex Bruce 

Jerry Bryant 

James Byrne 

Vernon Cameron 

Donald Campbell 

Harry Chadwick 

David Christy 

John Conway 

Sam Cosstick 

Dave Duff 

Charles Forrester 

William Hammersley 

Henry Harrison 

Tom Ireland 

Jack Keane 

James McDonald 

John MacDonald 

George Marshall 

Alex McKenzie 

James Morris 

Patrick O'Dea 

Charles Power 

Bob Sillett 

George Tait 

Richard Wardill 

Egbert Wills 

Tom Wills 

James Wilson 

Thomas Wray

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Didn't end well for Richard Wardill

http://wiki.fcmelbourne.com.au/Richard+Wardill

In August 1873 Wardill committed suicide after admitting that he had defrauded his employer, the Victorian Sugar Company, of 7000p. His body was found in the Yarra River eighteen days later.
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Didn't end well for Richard Wardill

http://wiki.fcmelbourne.com.au/Richard+Wardill

Poor old Richard. Surely, he must have been related to Dick Wardill, the captain of Melbourne's very first VFL premiership team of 1900 who I met a long time ago in the events I describe here. In the event that I come across him again, I'll try to ascertain the connection :)

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Hey WJ,

Am I deluding myself, I could have sworn that I used to watch Glenn Honey play in the mid 70's in the reserves?

Hi GHDB. You should know if you're his brother but I do vaguely recall someone with the surname playing for the club at around about that time. Could it have been Garth Honey?

I'm sure Supermercado will soon find out.

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