This is the best open mike. Pike is awesome. A real footballer.

Fantastic Player and Top bloke

Straight shooter, the reason Pagan and Mathew's liked him was because he was the sort of guy that stabilised teams, dependable, loyal and thrived in the trenches when the chips were down.

Super nice bloke. Offered me a spliff at the Grandview. Down to earth and very talented

When the average AFL career is 3 years, it's an incredible effort to get picked in 6 grand final sides.

I remember a function in 1996 I was at, it was an after game event at the FFC Hotel, and Pikey was drunk, wearing a wig and singing karaoke. He was in no way offensive and had a singing style reminiscent of Lee Marvin's Wand'rin' Star, so made me smile :)

pikey was my favourite player as a Brisbane lions supporter.. only reinforced by meeting him at the casino. on the black jack table. I was shocked that he was there. and was just a normal person. I left my cigarettes on the table when I lost my money. mister martin pike found me 40 minutes later and gave my smokes back. what a legend for no other reason... a real man and a real human while absolute superstar on field... wish more sportsmen more like him..

I used to love watching Pike mop up in defense. His and David King's runs off half-back flank were a hallmark of North's game during that period.

Pikey had such a cheeky grin on his face when mike read out what he said about the wakelins 😂 😂 😂

love him. straight shooter. doesnt hide behind a mask... authentic.

Coming from a Fitzroy fc family and now passionate Brissy lions fans we always loved Pikey!

One of the most underrated champions to ever play the game!! A true Aussie battler. Old school hard nut.

Pike was the sort of player you'd just love to have on the ground with you as a teammate.

He left North at the perfect time. It was a blessing in disguise really from a football sense anyway. 2001 North missed the finals for the first time since 1992 and then at the end of that year was the affair scandal and the club didn’t challenge again for another decade. Instead he went to Brisbane and won 3 straight premierships and a 4th grand final.

I didn’t know about the controversies of his career mainly because I remember him at Brisbane Lions and there was no major controversies. He was a brilliant player.

In the first Grand Final with Brisbane, straight after leaving North Melbourne, I would have awarded Martin Pike the Norm Smith Medal. He was impenetrable and impeccable. But the Norm Smith Medal always gets awarded to midfielders, same with the Brownlow Medal.

Great interview. Knock about guy who won 4 flags and last B&F at Fitzroy. Great career.

Legend. Always got the job done on & off the field! CARN THE LIONS!!!

likeable and intelligent guy. very impressive football career. mjr tokyo swans since '77.

Saw Pikey and Gary McIntosh walking down the parade back in the day. Legends.

He says some wise things here, mostly about how plays are kept a bit "rigid" post match these days.

Ah the good old days. I miss these sort of characters from the AFL

@19:20 you can see that Leigh wanted to punch that AFL official post-2004 Grand Final.

Greatest player ever!

He's damn spot on about the Wakelin sisters

huge reason they won the flags they did, cant believe he was paid so little

A good norwood man south Australian.

nice video thanks for posting

Good insight into who I thought was a quiet achiever who played hard.

Best utility in history

Legend MP!

The game has deteriorated since his era. Then they could have a beer, money and personal life wasn't so much an issue. It's been sanitised like society in general. Just robots now.

Good bloke Pikey

straight shooter

I always liked Pikey got the job done and very reliable no doubt:)

To use Bruce's words Pikey was Special, an awesome player

Definitely a Real character

20:55ish. Great burn!!!

As a Troo Roo! Pikey was worth a lot more than what he got paid!!! The 99 GF he was almost best on ground! He battled with the worst clubs at the time in Melbourne and Fitzroy, had all the talent, North Melbourne exposed that and the Brisbane Lions exploited that!!! But i love the message to #JarrodMolloy that Mal Michael sent

The Wakelin boys sleep in bunks.

Good bloke

The host seems to know a lot abbot casinos? Why no heat on these media people.

Every team needs a pikey .

"all the past players from the past..."

He was an excellent player & comes across as a genuine bloke but his drink-driving record shouldn't be minimized as some young fella mucking up. He was lucky he wasn't jailed in 1996.

when Pike had hair

No

They lost the grand finale against port because they were not good enough not because that they had to attend the parade ,,

Great player treated like crap all his footy career

Dr

is Pike actually satan?

Scraping the bottom of the barrel. Met him down in Hobart in 2015 at the Salamanca markets at a local cafe. Tried to cut the line in front of me. Total flog.

Great interview, but why is he complaining about making 150k a year for doing something as useless to society as playing football?

Who made the call to Sheehan?