John Murphy

John Murphy played 246 senior VFL games chiefly for Fitzroy, as well as Sydney and North Melbourne between 1967 and 1980, lining up most often as a midfielder. On 23-0, John Murphy's career spans 3 decades, from the 1960s to the 1980s of football.

Our era-fair model rates John Murphy at a peak of 89 out of 100, reached in the 1960s. That figure measures John Murphy only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 1960s midfielder can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

John Murphy polled 111 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits John Murphy with a best season of 603 disposals in 1973 and 374 career goals. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.