The fight goes on - a fortnight after Neale's Daniher death, he has been honoured at the biggest AFL match this season outside the grand final.
A 90,000-plus crowd, most of them wearing distinctive blues beanies, packed the MCG on Monday for the 12th - and biggest - Big Freeze ahead of the King's Birthday blockbuster between Collingwood and Melbourne.
Players, coaches and umpires formed a circle in the middle of the MCG before the game, as a video tribute was played for Daniher. Then the crowd broke out in applause.
The former AFL player and coach became an inspiration, turning his devastating motor neurone disease 13 years ago into a movement against what he called The Beast.
Big Freeze has become the centrepiece of the FightMND charity that Daniher co-founded.
