Malcolm Blight Biography

The AFL has announced its presenters for the 2020 Toyota AFL Grand Final.

Simon Black will present the premiership cup to the winning captain after being named as the cup ambassador, Byron Pickett will hand over the Norm Smith Medal to the Grand Final's best player, while AFL Legend Malcolm Blight will present the Jock McHale Medal to the winning coach.

Malcolm Blight says the peer-voted Most Valuable Player award is the most overrated accolade in the world.

"These are the most overrated awards in the whole of the world," Blight told Adelaide radio station 5AA.

"Players voting on themselves, half of them say they don't ever watch a game, they don't even watch their teammates half of them.

"Blokes in the media ... would know who played better than most players in the whole comp and I think the media awards are actually higher, they know more about the players who play well."

AFL legend Malcolm Blight and Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley are on opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to opinions on rule changes proposing the implementation of zones.

"Our game is choking itself to death," Blight told Adelaide radio station 5AA.

"Change is coming. If you don't like it, resign and go and join the unemployment queue."

But Buckley fears the change would kill the flow of the game.

"I don't like it. I think it will be a blight on the game," Buckley told SEN radio.

"I think if we go to zones, we're going to be waiting for players to get back in the zones. And how often do you want to do that?

"Every time there's a stoppage in the forward 50, we're waiting for three pairs of players to go and get back in the opposite 50. That's what the product is likely to descend into."

Malcolm Blight is elevated to Legend status in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

"I just reckon there's a Sherrin in the heart," Blight said at the ceremony..

"Somehow or another, someone put that in me as a kid and it's just grown in my family and all the people around me.

"Fifty seasons is a long time and I still love the game now."