With the Bombers looking towards a new era, it was announced on 27 September that Matthew Lloyd would replace James Hird as Essendon captain for the 2006 season, marking the end of Hird's reign since he took over the captaincy in 1998.

2002 then saw Hird's worst injury, an horrific facial injury sustained in a match against when he collided with teammate Mark McVeigh's knee, breaking or fracturing all but a couple of the bones in his skull ; Hird was in hospital for a week and missed several weeks of the season.

Hird's winning goal was the focus of a popular installment of the Toyota Memorable Moments advertising campaign, and the hug is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.

It was Hird's first match since round 13 against the Kangaroos, the Dons ' first win since April Fools ' Day of the same year and Hird's first winning match since round 21, 2005.

But the biggest achievement of Hird's coaching career would no doubt have to be the win over the previously undefeated ( a win by four points ) in Round 15, whom assistant coach Mark Thompson was coaching against for the first time since his infamous and controversial exit from the club which he coached for 11 years and won two premierships with.

Following Hird's retirement as a player from the Bombers at the end of the 2007 AFL season, he became a commentator and football analyst for Australian rules football on Fox Sports, a position which he held until he began his coaching career at the end of 2010.

Few of Hird's friends knew how to play Australian rules, thus forcing him to play league and soccer significantly more.

A series of injuries restricted Hird's appearances during the remainder of the 1990s.

On the occasion of his 300th umpiring appearance in 2008, McLaren described Hird's outburst as a " defining moment " in his career.

Probably Hird's most memorable performance is universally considered to be the Round 3, 2004 game against West Coast – the game immediately following the controversy.

However, two days after Hird's initial comments, he announced that he had changed his mind due to the intense division and speculation over Matthew Knights's future following Hird's initial comments.

His coaching career started with a bang, with the Bombers making Hird's presence felt by thrashing triple preliminary finalists the in the first round.

She appeared in A Kind of Loving in 1962 as Thora Hird's neighbour, as well as The Dresser in 1983, Camille in 1984, Little Dorrit in 1988 and Mary Reilly in 1996.

* Suhayl Saadi on Laura Hird's website.

Malcolm's father Duncan I ( Donnchad mac Crínáin ) became king in late 1034, on the death of Malcolm II ( Máel Coluim mac Cináeda ), Duncan's maternal grandfather and Malcolm's Great-grandfather.

The late grandfather enjoyed a great relationship with Murali.

As well, the pawnshop owner can assess the item and the pawner ; if a non-disabled twenty year-old male comes into the pawnshop to pawn an electric wheelchair ( perhaps the possession of his late grandfather ), the pawnshop owner may doubt the man's claims that he will return for the wheelchair.

Patrick fetched the shotgun of his late paternal grandfather Mayor Richard J. Daley from the house and gave it to his cousin, R. J. Vanecho, 17.

When the region came under Arab Muslim rule in the late 7th century AD, the court at Damascus retained its large complement of Christian civil servants, John's grandfather among them.

In the late 11th century the Byzantine Empire entered a period of marked military and political decline, which had been arrested and largely reversed by the leadership of Manuel's grandfather and father.

Houston's ancestry is often traced to his great-great grandfather Sir John Houston, who built a family estate in Scotland in the late seventeenth century.

His maternal grandfather, also named Alcibiades, was a friend of Cleisthenes, the famous constitutional reformer of the late 6th century BC.

Freeman's late grandfather, Frank Fisher was an outstanding rugby player.

Her paternal grandfather was actor John Carradine and she is the niece of Robert and the late David Carradine.

In the late 18th century the original Norman Castle had been enlarged and refashioned in an early Gothic Revival style for Bute's grandfather, the 1st Marquess, by Henry Holland.

Rockwell settled at or near Richfield Springs in 1789 ; Obadiah Beardsley and his son Obadiah, jr., the father and grandfather of the late Levi Beardsley, and Hon.

Her grandfather was the famous late French bullfighter, Pierre Schüll.

He married his half-aunt Joanna in 1496, shortly before his death ( she was the daughter of his grandfather Ferdinand and his second wife, Joanna of Aragon ; Joanna, born in 1478, a late child of a second marriage, was actually younger than Ferdinand ).

Clarkson's ancestry lies with the Hakka in Taishan, Guangdong, China, from where her paternal grandfather ( 伍培 Pinyin: Wǔ Péi ) emigrated in the late 19th century to Chiltern, Australia.

Charles Allison's grandfather had emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late 18th century because of the after effects of a dinner with the local government tax collector.

Murcott is Coyle's clerk and has found proof that Florence's late grandfather paid off the loan to Coyle.

Kings of Alba and of Scotland traced their descent through Gabrán to his grandfather Fergus Mór, who was seen as the ultimate founder of the royal house as late as the 16th and 17th centuries, long after the Gaelic origins of the kingdom had ceased to have any real meaning.

In his memoirs written late in his life, Scott Nearing would recall his grandfather as one of the four most influential figures in his life.

Trevelyan was born into late Victorian Britain in Welcombe, Stratford-on-Avon, the large house and estate owned by his maternal grandfather, Robert Needham Philips, a wealthy Lancashire merchant and the Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bury.

Its chief plot elements are: Franny's rape at the hands of several members of the school football team, including the quarterback, a boy named Chipper Dove with whom she is in love, and her rescue, though somewhat late, by Junior Jones, a black member of the team ; the death of the family dog, Sorrow, and its repeated resurrection via taxidermy, the first instance of which scares the grandfather literally to death ; John's sexual initiation with the hotel housekeeper Ronda Ray ; and a letter from Freud inviting the family to move to Vienna to help him ( and his new " smart " bear ) run his hotel there.

In October 1795, in the 60th year of his reign, the Qianlong Emperor announced his intention to abdicate in favor of Prince Jia: he did not think it proper to rule longer than his grandfather, the late Kangxi Emperor.

Her late grandfather Carroll Rosenbloom owned the Los Angeles Rams and the Baltimore Colts.

Her grandfather Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was the Prime Minister of Nepal during the late 1950s-early 1960s, as well as two of her late great-uncles, Girija Prasad Koirala and Matrika Prasad Koirala.

The scene where Pym disguises himself from his grandfather while noting that he intends to inherit wealth from him also indicates a desire for Poe to free himself from family obligation and, specifically, scorning the patrimony of his foster-father John Allan.

** General David Poe, Sr. ( 1743 – 1816 ), grandfather of Edgar Allan Poe

Named after former club president and player Allan Hird, who was also the grandfather of club legend James Hird

Hugh O ' Hanley got a violin from his brother Allan O ’ Hanley, MacDonald's grandfather, in Port Hastings for MacDonald to play.