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Mike Hedge and Melissa Meehan

Daniher spirit lives on, Neale loses battle with beast

Neale Daniher received a guard of honour before the 2025 game as part of Big Freeze 11. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Over the first 52 years of his life, Neale Daniher became well-known and admired as a very good, if injury-prone, VFL footballer who played with his three brothers at Essendon and as a coach at Melbourne.

Over the final 13 years he became far better known and far more admired for his tireless, selfless and passionate campaign to raise awareness of the disease that killed him.

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