FOOTY TIPS CONTENTS FOOTVZINE #1 What is it about Footy that so captures the Star Watch with Werribee's (VFL) imagination of Australians, why do three times as TIP #1 Paul Satterley 3 many people go to watch footy than all the othe r sports in Australia combined 7 ls it the sheer pace, Hot and Stephen Marmo "Blood for Life" 4-6 ex hi 1ir ation an
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2 ® FOOTY ZINE ® 31 Dear Footy Advisor, What hair length and style should the mod em fo otballer wear? Confused Name: Dear Confused, Paul Satterley I'm asked this question all the time by young men keen to cut a striking figure Club: on and off the fi eld . W erribee (Victori a Football League ) Look at Shannon Grant for one ex treme. Young Shannon has thwarted Position: most of the oppos itions plans to pull his head off by shaving it. A good strategy, Rover but he runs the risk of hyperthermia and/ Greatest achievements: or sunstroke, and he has no protection Winning the (JJ)Liston (Trophy in from rain. His scalp is also more vulner 1995) was my greatest personal achieve able. Hair protects the head like trees ment to date, however playing in a pre prevent erosion. mi ership side for the Footscray Reserves Paul Satterley rece ives a mud bath from his Dear Footy Advisor, At the other extreme is the John Platten in '94 was a huge day. Williamstown opponent Danny Del-Re. At the end of a match, my right foot really "Mad Celt" style. This style fri ghtens the H ow was the State game - VFL vs the Tasmanian Football League?: gives me curry. I'm right-footed, and have crap out of oppos ing teams as they've How's the new VFL comp been going?: less of an arch on that side. What can I do? The new VFL competition has been Playing on the MCG is always a buzz Mr Sore Swan great with the inclusion of the two new & representing the VFL was an honour. sides - Tra ralgon and North Ballara t. It is also an opportunity to meet other guys from the other clubs, blokes I' m usuall y Dear Mr Swan , We are ye t to have played Tra ralgon away although the trip to Nth Ballarat was figh ting wi th from week to week. I suspect that foot arches are a mecha a great outing, we had a big win & sank nism we've deve lo ped to a llow the many cans on the way back home in the Is there room for T assie in the AFL?: length of one leg to match the length of bus. I think if the AFL is to be a truly na the other; so is your right leg longe r than 2NBC·FMI t ional competition then it must have a yo ur left ? Possibly, you've fl attened one 90. 1 on the FM Band I What about the future of the VFL?: team from Tas mania. Great Fun.1 : arch and increased the height of the I think more football fo ll owers will sup Favourite Band: Tltur!idays 9.30pm other. Get the little woman to massage port the VFL as people get disenchanted Pearl Jam Tf/£ ltfEYER STA:'\'D with the A FL's proposed mergers and pri ce your soles at night. (If your name is Favourite Pub/venue: Heien Meyer, Michael Clift increases. Derek, I apologise, the word should be & Regul ar Guest5. Any pub that has a decent band play annoint.) Get your boots checked - yo u ;--· ing. our club socials are great aft er a big What about Fitzroy returning to the have different feet and should have dif win, the atmosphere is h uge . VFL one day?: ferent support in your boots. If all else It would be a bonus if Fi tzroy joined Favourite AFL team: fa ils, ge t some treatment fo r yo ur lower the VFL, it woul d strengthen the compe Ri ch mond back and some acupuncture. If you are tition and please their supporter base even Favourite AFL player: not Derek Kickett, as k him to lay his if it is in a different comp. Paul Kell y hands upon you. 30 G FOOTY Z/NE G 3 For Life by Stephen Marmo Initially: How the hell do I write about being a Swan THE 5WAD5 supporter in Melbourne for publication in a Syd ST H. MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB ney magazine without: a) Pissing the locals off Unli ke those two clubs, at least we get to b) Whilst retaining my se lf respect keep the colours, nickname, club song and a c) Giving you heathens the satisfaction of sense of linear history. The goal kicking award seeing how bitter and twisted I have become is named after the legendary Bob Pratt, and the since South went north? best and fairest award is named after our great It seems the only answer is to tell the truth, est son in Bobby Skilton. attempt to accomplish all three, and fuck the Success this year seems to have uncovered a consequences. mass of formerly dissaffected old South people Revisedly: and the cry of "Bloods" now once again fills the I must confess to mellowing. air at Melbourne games. As I watch with glee the death rolls of North A long with the (for me) cathartic merger, I and Fitzroy (two of the more responsible clubs have to admit to being influenced by the few in the sending of South to Sydney )I have begun Sydney-siders I have all owed myself to meet to re-evaluate my attitude to the club. whilst screaming away at the footy. In the 14 or so years since the dreaded move, I have been to two games in Sydney. Both times we were playing against the top side. The first was the second last round of 1994, we were on the bottom, Carlton were on top. For three days I had to put up with fo ur Carlton supporters describing what the Blues would do to my beloved Bloods, between visit ing Oxford Street es tabli shments and looking for a friend who had disappeared for an entire day. But we got up by eight points and the treat ment I got was returned to them ten fo ld. The highlight of the trip was spotting Lib eral and carl ton Presid ent John Elli ot on th eway out of the S.C.G. In between renditions of C heer C heer the Red & the White I was heard to he ll ow at the loser: "Carn the Blues 1 Carn the Liberal Parryl Miss Julie Godfrey and pals at the opening of the Tasmanian Football League. Carn the National C rime Authority'"
4 G FOOTY ZINE G 29 between the eyes with a sledgehammer. This Man y have seen themse lves defeated, if not is a pheno meno n usua ll y associated with play destroyed, by foo tball. N ear t_h e end of Foot ers. As we a ll know a player is o nly as good as ball Ltd Linne ll quotes AFL Pl ayers' A ssocia his last ga me- a hero one day, a no- body, o r at t io n Pres id ent Justin Madden who sa id '[ t's an best a memory, the next. The same is true of industry fu ll of fri ghten ed peo ple' (p.375 ). league and club offi c ia ls and th e ir vari o us Linne ll 's highl ig h ting of this darker sid e of sport is h angers-on - tho ugh has an yone ever walked one of the more intriguing as pects of Foo tball Lid. through a turnstile or bo ught a fo otball related A ll those with an interest in the business or product because of an administrato r or c lu b commercial sid e of sport in ge neral, or A ustrali an rules fo otball in particular, will find much of inter officiaP In the internec ine warfa re that is foot est in Foo tball Ltd. It is hoped that it will be the ball administratio n countless individuals have fo rerunner to the publi cation of other popular books sacrifieced their ho me li fe and devoted much which foc us on the business aspects of sport. time, energy, and in some cases, substantial amo unts of their hard-earned income in search Braham Dabscheck lectures in the School of Indus of Australi an football 's ho ly gra il The Flag. trial Relations , The University of New South Wales. FREE BROADCAST inc. • My second venture north was to the round of a fe ll a wh o named a fanz ine after h imse lf who 9 clash this year with th e top placed (again) was mates of a couple I had met at the ro und C arrara Koalas. seven match against Melbourne. "Talking Sport" On this equatio n I made the acq uaintance This was the Centenary re-enactment match and the Bloods wo re Red & White stripes South's first guernsey in the then VFL in 1897. 3--4pm There seemed a certain symmetry in that th is day was recognition of the linear history of the cl ub and the fa ct Saturday arvo's that I actuall y spoke to people from Sydney (My normal foo ty mates boast proudly of vandalising a bus with a hammer while full of Sydney peo ple aft er a game in 1990.) So maybe the brave new world of fo otball with the packaging of it as a televisio n product has seen our trad ition and, more im portantly fu ture, strengthened as a result. T he open ing of a Melbourne offi ce and its 96.9 fm quest fo r South Melbo urne memorabili a to fill a club muse um is another welcome move by the Syd ney administration . What was ever wro ng with hav ing support in both cities anyway? The one thing l will not res ign myse lf to is the new guernsey. T he O pera House thing in the Listen for the footy round--up o ld red yoke makes it look like its ri pped or the 28 C!'.) FOOTY ZINE ® 5 manufacturers ran ouc of material. Best of All Time Books, N e w Yo rk, 1994). Linne ll produces a Barnum's Jic tum abo uc 'a sucke r be ing bo rn So ch e o l Most books writte n on sport are concerned with describing, if not eulogising, the wondrous deeds of great teams and star players. Australia, like other countries, has a ri ch tradition of pro ducing books of this ilk. In recent years, in par ticular, the fo ll owers of Australian sport have bee n able to work their way through a veritable c.~ee,. fo, -1-~er.. Q lo+ smorgasbord of glory books dealing with an in So fcu +~:S Jea.- we ~e+ I c reasing range of spo rts and players. +h"u~eJ b.'.? e~e,.:J +ea,..., b... + so.., e-li',.,e J G1 b4 J While watching sport provides mere mortals €Qc~ wt'elc +h ;,,j hqff e.. s with a means to escape the humdrum and to for get the problems of the wo rld it should never be fo rgotten that spo rt is a business, which gener ates seemingly increasing revenues. Decisions have to be made concerning the produc tion of ment and all ocation of players between teams; spo rt- such things as the organisation and run prices to charge spectators; television, broadcast ning of a league (ho w many clubs in the compe ing, fr anchising and licensing rights and so on . tition ? fo r example ) and clubs; the building and Other than for stuffy academics these busi refurbishment of stadiums; the employment, pay- ness or messy aspects are rarely the subj ect mat I lose "' lat of n.o.,e"J ter of popular books on sport( with the excep o,, beJJ 0 + School +he;+ tion of A merican baseball) . Garry Linne ll 's Foot +l,e D:11osQ ... 1s 1.1;11 w.'11, 46 ball Led: Th e In side Scar y of che AFL is an excep '{ov O\ll.IE Mt &io. tio n to this ru le. Linne ll has produced a we ll BeT ON rue: /)11JOS TO BEAT T"f fAC.LE.5 written and accessible work fo r a popular audi I IF Tltf'( 1.mJ Yo~ C.-IN ence which is concerned with pro viding an ex G8' •T 611(1(! tensive account of the business side of Austral ian rules footba ll , over the last twenty years. In his acknowledgments Linne ll says: "It wasn't until I became a spo rts writer with I ~e+ cJ ;s q,po;_,+ed w~e~ I l,ea, Desr;+e Heir poor +a,..,, The Age in the earl y l 980's that I discovered o.. tl.e Fodl') f',..~_.a.., Huf a+- !f~Q "'o"'e"+ , 1· ..., st,·11 there was another game going on. It was in many '""'o"'~ .U..+ 11.t D;,.,05 w, II ~e' e, ,eJoco.+e o.- fold. fo + l/1't10 ! Q1AIS. ways, just as tough as the one o ut on the fi eld. ---- 1...... :.~~~::--.~ A nd it was far more bru ta l. A s the decade progresses, the Victorian Football League under went (a) most tu rbulent tra nsfo rmation" (p.viii) Foocball Led is largely based on interviews with more than 130 ind ividuals who are respon sible for and/m associated \\'ith the business or commercial aspects of Australi an ru les footba ll . 11;Jeo:> of c..11 In many wa ys its inte ll ectu al inspirati on seems D1'11orQ1.i1f.5 w: 11 .:s HAL F F ORNARO to be John Heyler's excell ent work Lords of the Ove, He post Realm: The Real History of Baseball , (Vill iard ~O 'jeors . 26 G FOOTY ZINE G 7 glazed with the he barked wine and cigarettes vague anticipation no-one dresses up Ken Confessi0-ns g_f a Foo-ty Chick fa figh t li ,l'r:rr I mean otherwise in front of fo rty thousa nd bored by now "I love foo ty" the girl from Adelaide Tracy Griffen it'd be like people with his persis- watching Hashing the umpp and the other mob Ruck Interchange - The sport of liings_ Link Meanie silverchair Now that footy is finall y beginning to make its The big iss ues of today, fo r all but myopic Pi es Rover Young Rock Gods presence felt in Sydney, whi lst Rugby folds up like men, are press ing. They include the gradual disap Joel Silbersher a squashed balloon, it is time to emphasise for these pea rance of the meat pi e from some grounds; the four mi llion or so newcomers to.the real ga me what introduction of butter to the Hot Dogs in Sydney Ruck Rover it's all about. (or worse, the substitution of the mu lticultural Joe Phantom Let's say you grew up in Bankstown. Kransky for the squishy Auss ie Frank in some stalls Whilst a certain amount of Bankstown-bash at the SCG); suggestions that play ing football ing would have formed part of your early brush with should be thrown open to girls ; and the ridiculous • reality, this would have been nothing to what would superfluity of White Maggots which is buggering have occurred whenever the Campbell town boys up most of the behind-the-play bashing, and turn B Spencer Jones Boris Sujdovic James Baker came visiting. That's where you learned how to ing the game into the sort of ga me which girls could F Killer Chris Hursto hate. start to play with confidence. (Black Rose) (Damaged) (Black Rose) Aussie rules works along the sa me lines. It has T hen there is the steady growth of drinking always been a suburb-based game, not a city or state restrictions at some grounds; the loss of Windy Hill affair, and its energies derive from suburban hatred. and the mudball of Moorabbin; the introduction of This has led to social divisions being repre confirmed wankers and child molesters to the sport HB Brian Hooper Tex Perkins Brad Shepherd sented as we ll , providing another rich strain of via the Dockers; and allowing Germans to play the HF Jeremy Budd Matt Fireball Adrian Testeagles loathing into the brew. ga me vi a the Crows. Carlton have always represe nted the silvertails Equally worrying is the attempt to ban racist or the Toffs, whereas Essendon and of co urse, taunts and abuse, which will fail hopelessly (Damien Footscray have spoken for the working class . (Don't Monkhorst is white trash, let's face it). T his latter believe any of that bullshit you'll hear from the Pi es idiocy has even erupted into the stands, with re Jim Selene Paul Kelly Dave Faulkner brigade - they represent nothing but the si lent ma ports of a Melbourne crowd section fo rcing one c Baxter Dean John jority of fa iled university lecturers, fellow travel good, stout abuse-yeller to relocate himself. (lipstick Jack) (Magic Dirt) (Tha Family) lers and the irrepressibly glum). C learly this wimpish mob were university lec When a Carl ton player was recently done for turers and social workers, and probably Pies fans, peering up little boys bottoms, and incju lging in a because in normal spectator-land anyone who re bit of youthful handball , it is significam that this all y gave offence (and this would not include a few Warren Ellis Ross Knight occurred in an Essendon dunny. The Toffs have al well -a imed racist slurs) would not be politely ad HF Wally Meanie Richard Moffatt Karsten Suiciety CamBodyjar ways gone searching round the sluu1s of London for vised to shift on. He would have his teeth kicked HB their human prey. in, and a couple of unbuttered Hot Dogs rammed Everybody loves to thump Collingwood, or see up his fanny. them thumped, because they are a working class And so we come back to Sydney, which is a Nick Cave Paul Stewart team which disappeared some time ago up its own F city still strugg ling to come to terms with the nice Willsy Paintstripper Tim Rogers bum. For some inexplicable reason all the rag-bag ties of Auss ie Rules. B crew of overpays Melbourne academics, spotty Used so long to that peculiar institution of teachers and Huckleberry Finn philosophers hopped gori lla netball which they call Rugby, and puzz led Ruck Rover onto the Pies' bandwagon, providing them with a by a ga me which requi res mass ive input and ski ll Ron Hitler Barassi (TISM) vast army of completely mindless supporters, whose from both playe rs and spectators fo r the whole thing Interchange narrow focus of interest centres entirely on the e to work, the Sydney spectator- whi lst improving Bill Walsh fortunes of one team (Collingwood, of course ). sti ll presents a pretty so rry picture to the football RuckDoc Neeson Rover m Kim Salmon Your true footy believer is fanat ical about his world. Fred Negro Ian Rilen own team, but in out of match-hours, or if a Fitzroy/ He has a tendency to clap and applaud fine Les Miserable {TISM) Footsc ray man, throughout every fin als seri es , he play by the opposition- not reali sing that this is a Team Doctor Godfathers Chris Wilson preoccupies himself with other, loftier footy things contradiction in terms, a simple conundrum. He Renastair E.J. Garry Mansfield than the mere fortunes of his own team. does not, when an opponent has taken an excel- 20 ® FOOTY ZJNE ® 13 Clinton Walker *Socrates- the father of modern phi shame to inspire the Blues to rise and losophy, was a lso the father of the pull off a victory that ranked with N a pre ent pre- on night competition. poleon's. I ote the irony of 1'\lapoieon's Reputed to have said, "How many things subsequent fall from power and exile, Murchison Days ... I can do without ... yet football is not one and the ex ile of Barass i to the island state of them!" Socrates later went on to rep of North Melbourne. an excerpt from a forthcoming book on the history of the game. resent Brazil in the '82 and '86 World Looking to more recent influences Cups. My fam ily, on both sides, like most Vic side its own district, which was aga inst regu one need go no further th an the foot torian families, was always involved in foot lations. But Murchison persistently tempted • * Jesus fed five thousand fans with ball brain of Martin Scorsese. Using the ball. My father's father, Edward Walker, fate because like all Victorian country towns loaves and fishes with the same nous and story of Jake LaMotta, Scorsese crafted played in Tasmania in the twenties, before of the day, it took it's footba ll pretty seriously. gusto as the Four 'N' Twenty pie ven Raging Bull as aprediction of the 1989 he went to Victoria. My mother's father, The footy, like the weather, was one thing dors at the MCG, with nearly the same GF. La Motta was the metaphor for a Cecil Gillam, was an umpire, and numerous that concerned everybody, the figurehead of • of his brothers were well reputed players for local pride. results. H awthorn who wouldn't be beaten. Murchison in what is now known as the After finishing last in 1908- not helped *And who can resist the temptation Though Dermie and Ayres took the pain Goulbum Valley League. by penalties incurred for playing out-of-dis of comparing the heroic efforts of El Cid like prizefighters, their performances said Cec's older brother Wilbur was a star trict men- Murchison got up two years later against the Moors to the fe ats of Darryl to the hapless cats, like La Motta to Murchison player whose life and promising to win the· Premiership. But still this wasn't Baldock, leading h is army of Saints to a Robinson, "You didn't knock me down football career came to a tragic end. without controversy. Murchison had beaten ray, you didn't knock me down." Murchison wasn't a gold town but rather Echuca in the Grand Final when Shepparton o ne point victory over the heathen a farming centre which was lodged a protest over the Pre Magpies in '66? I can already hear the mocking settled by se lectors in the "all muscular, liminary Final in which taunts of the unbelievers, those whose 1870's, among them James Murchison had defeated ears are deaf to the call of destiny and Christian, Modern Times Herbert Gillam, my gre at Shepparton. Shepparton the reflection of the past in AFL which atheletic men claimed that Murchison had grandfather. A football club Napoleon's braze n campaigns across is guiding Australia toward a wealthy fu was 'kicked into existance' in capable of played Wilbur Gillam, one of the length and breadth of Europe were it's stars, in contravention of ture. It would probably do no good to Murchiso n in 1879, by "all indicative of good pre-season training muscular, Christian, atheletic swinging any the rules. mention that the sonnets of Shakespeare and a strong recruitment drive. Like all men capable of sw inging any sort of boot." Gillam had been playing were a forerunner to the playing of the sort of boot." Wearing black, for Murchison since 1905, good coaches he made many enemies, national anthem during finals matches; white and green, Murchison played few ar when he was 14; he moonlighted on Satur but this d id not deter him from seeking or that the functionality of the Bauhaus ranged matches before 1896, when it joined days as a player for nearby Comella, in the greater glory. N o, for in 1805, facing ar sch ool of design is reflected in the the recently founded Goulbum Valley Dis Elmore District Association. This sort of mies many times the size of his forces he Mcintyre finals system; or even that the trict Football Association. practice was not uncommon among football staged one of the greatest comebacks in Chaos theory was evident in the mana In the first six years of this century, the ers back then- still isn't. Murchison argued, history by defeating the Austrian XVIII Goulbum Valley competition revolved a however, that the Elmore Association was a gerial decisions of St.Kilda in the '90's; at Austerlitz. Sound familiar? Cast your round six reasonably stable clubs, Murchison, what was called a junior league, so Gillam • but what can't be denied is the way in Tatura, Rushworth, Ky abram, Mooroopna was eligible to play since he was shifting up minds back to the 1970 GF which saw which the Rules, drawing on the past, and Shepparton, with matches played on a grade. Carlton down by about 40 points at half can influence the future. I leave you with Wednesday afternoons. Shepparton backed off and Murchison's time to an awesome Collingwood Army. this: would the Gulf War have had all Premiership As a small town even in compari son to a was confirmed. Gillam, still only It is little known that whilst in the midst the hallmarks of a thrashing h ad Haw small town like near neighbour and arch ri 19, was one of Murchison's best in the Grand of battle with the Austrians, exhorted thorn not set the example with a 95 Final, a player who was adm ired for his un val Rushworth, Murchison often found it to his men, "Handball for your lives!", a self in hot water fo r using players from out- selfishness and might have even made it in point whipping of the Bombers in the call which Barassi utilised without '83 Grand Final? 14 @ FOOTY ZINE 0 19 Nathan Morris Melbourne, they used to say, if fate hadn't ful competitor in Goulburn Valley football. intervened. But even as it would go on to produce a dy With Wilbur's younger brothers Bill, and nasty of the calibre of North Melbourne's cel then also James joining the team, Murchison ebrated Dwyers- father Leo, who played for played another controversial game three Murchison on Wednesdays and the "roos on years later, in 1911, against Rushworth. Saturdays, son Laurie, who came close to Rushworth tried to bribe Murchison players. winning a Brownlow on several occasions, Protests ensued, and if a satisfactory resolu and grandson David- Murchison never won tion was never arrived at, Murchison got its another Flag. Unable to keep pace in the ever A lot of people have denied the im against them came the brash new Ol • revenge in 1912 when in beat Rushworth in expanding Goulbum Valley Football League, portance of sport, especially Australian ympians: young, strong, fast and inno the Second Semi Final to go into the Grand Murchison left in 1964 to join the more mi rules history, in the whole spectrum of vative. Under captain-coach Zeus, the Final. Rushworth subsequently lost to nor Kyabram District League. It was promptly Shepparton in the Preliminary Final, and rewarded with a Premiership, and has added history. It is for them that I write this Olympians handballed the Titans to f then Shepparton beat a few more over the years. brief summary which will hopefully show ward their eternal doom like a young Murchison for the flag. " ••• behind the Cecil Gillam left how football, or "Rules", easily stands Barassi leading a revitalised Carlton in But Murchison suffered a Murchison as a young man as a metaphor for the human experience. the late 60s. mortal blow during the sea light· hearted during the Twenties, to go son. Wilbur Gillam was star looking for work. He soon set For perhaps the greatest efforts of the The mortal Greeks were also in rivalry of human race have since the dawn of time ring, as usual, when in July he tled in Gippsland, where he volved in some of the greatest games was struck down with pneu football there is been directed towards the pursuit of married and my mother was ever to have been played. The siege of monia and died. Life in the a deeper feeling born. . fighting and waging war, playing sport Troy: at first it may seem xhat this war Australian bush in the early When he went off to war, and occasionally taking time out to was simply a ten year campaign of blood part of this century was sur · a feeling of the family moved to more apint, or write things like War and shed and misery caused by the actions vived only by the hardiest. comradeship commodious Melbourne. My Peace, which is about war. But in these of one woman; but on closer examina "As an athelete," Gillam's mother, as a girl growing up in obituary read, "he had few and Brunswick, barracked for peaceful times it is to football that we tion its similarities to the epic battle · tum to release the energy that we might equals in the district, and was brotherhood." Footscray, she told me, be waged by Hawthorn to secure their first a true sportsman in every cause she liked Norm Ware, do in battle (But it is more than release, flag cannot go unnoticed. Our source for sense of the word. He was a prominent mem the Bulldogs' star ruckman, captain and the it's destiny ).Let's briefly encapsulate Troy was none other than Homer- the ber of the Murchison Football Club, and it 1941 Brownlow Medallist. some of the highlights of history and epic poet who stands in history as the was as such that he gained widespread popu She liked him, she recalled, because he take heed of the lessons they teach us. classcal Bruce McAvaney- all knowing, larity. On news of his demise being spread was a big handsome fellow, and a fine, scru throughout the valley messages of condo pulously fair footballer (unusual in those all informative, all annoying. • lence were received by the local club from days, especially for a big man). But perhaps Pre-season "Those days', are packed with mo every other club in the GVDFA, and from more significant than that, the fact my The Clash of the Titans is a classic ments of glory and history which, re the Association itself... Such a spirit of mother seems to have forgotten is that ware thoughtfulness and kindness was much ap hailed originally from Sale, not far from her example of two giant teams with a lot flected in the modern game, cement Australia's reputation in the world's eye preciated by the officials of the Murchison own home town of Maffra, in Gippsland. It's to prove. On one side you had the Ti club, and it goes to prove that behind the unlikely she would have set a bead on him as a monolith of respectable culture. tans: the older generation tema who light-hearted rivalry of football there is a without knowing that. stood like Smith's Melbourne of the Here are a few worthy of mention: deeper feeling - a feeling of comradeship and Football was providing her- a young 'SO's. Their power was based on a strong * The naval battle from ben-Hur brotherhood." country girl in the big city, whose father was back line and a consistent half-forward quite obviously the inspiration for the With the Gillam boys continuing to pro away fighting a war to boot- with a connec vide reliable service into the Twenties, tion. It was slim, but it was still a connec- line which had kept them on top of the demolition of Fitzroy via the Blues in Murchison remained a stalwart and colour- ti on. ladder since the ladder began. 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