Essendon great Dick Reynolds is one of four greats up for nomination as the next club legend to be honoured on the club’s 2014-15 heritage guernsey. 

One of the greatest players to have worn the red and black, Reynolds played 320 games between 1933 and 1951 including four premierships.

He is one of just four triple Brownlow Medalists in league history, captaining the Bombers from 1939 – 1950 and representing Victoria on 17 occasions.

The seven time best and fairest winner is a Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame as well as a member of the AFL and Essendon Team of the Century.

Reynolds’s career started humbly. He came from Essendon, went to school in Ascot Vale and Moonee Ponds and arrived at Windy Hill in 1933, a promising recruit from local club Woodlands. He barracked for Carlton, and sold lollies outside Princes Park on Saturday afternoons but was overlooked after a trial at Princes Park. Of this, Reynolds said: “I was a Carlton barracker at the time and got a training run with their seconds. But I ran around and no one said boo to me so I had a shower and left a bit disillusioned.”

From then, Essendon Football Club would be forever redefined.

By the time of his retirement in 1951 Reynolds was widely acknowledged across the competition as the greatest player of all time.

He was captain/coach from 1940-1950 before becoming non-playing coach between 1951-1960.

Tell us the Essendon Legend who deserves to be on the next guernsey and in 25 words or less why to go into the running to win an Essendon Treasures Montage signed by 14 legends valued at $995.

Pre-order your 2014-15 Heritage guernsey from the Bomber shop today.

Fill in the form below to enter the competition and be in the running to win today.

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