Robert Flower
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
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Robert Flower (born 5 August 1955) is a former Australian rules footballer with Melbourne Football Club.
His first game was against Geelong in 1973 and he captained the team from 1981 until his final game in 1987.
He held the record for the number of games for his club, 272, until overtaken by David Neitz in 2006.
In a radio interview in July 2006 on the Coodabeen Champions Flower stated that the club secretary Jim Cardwell rang to offer him the number 2 guernsey before his first senior game, an unofficial statement that the club saw great potential in the seventeen year old.
