Career
A Noongar Australian Aborigine, Michael played in the WAFL between 1975 and 1985 with the South Fremantle Football Club, playing 243 games and kicking 231 goals. He played in South"s 1980 premiership side and was appointed captain in 1983. He holds the WAFL record for the most consecutive league games with 217.
Throughout his career, Michael resisted numerous advances by VFL clubs to move east and is often listed as one of the best players to never play in the VFL. His 37 votes in 1981 (with nine best-on-grounds and receiving votes in 15 of the 21 games played) was a record tally under the 3-2-1 voting system in place at the time.
He represented Western Australia in State or State of Origin football on 17 occasions, captaining the side 3 times. In 1999, he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
In 2005 he was named at Centre Half Forward in the Australian Football Indigenous Team of the Century and in 2009 he was named in the ruck and captain of the South Fremantle Football Club"s Indigenous Team of the Century. Michael was a regular guest of the "Marngrook Footy Show", broadcast on Melbourne Radio.
