He was going strong in 1953, with the Cats being hot favourites to make it three in a row.
However, he was dropped from the team that would go on to lose the flag to Collingwood by two goals as a consequence of his marital infidelity.
In 2007, then 80 and living on the Gold Coast, the twice-married Goninon claimed he was a "victim of the times", a strict "church-on-Sundays age" when, being married, he had an affair and was found out (thus causing his potentially crucial omission).
[3][4][5] Geelong, with 90% churchgoers at the time, frowned on him and coerced the club to drop him out of the team in the midst of the final series despite kicking 65 goals from 18 games in 1953 and being Geelong's leading goalkicker for the fourth successive year.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1920s is a stub.