FOOTYNOIZE Of course footy makes the world go round, but a good rous ing tune certainly loosens up the inhibitions for a good barracking. Putting together this issue, the Footyzine crew have been lis tening to Doug Mansfield and the Dust Devils, The Fauves, The Footy Album - More Than A Game, Warumpi Band, George Jones, Weddings, Parties & Any thing, The Hanging Tree, Solid Gold Hell, Sepultura, Christine Anu, Fun Loving Criminals, Paul Kelly, numerous drunks singing "Cheer Cheer the Red & the White" & broadcasts of the footy thru the ABC Parliamentary News Network.
•••••••••••••••••••••• FOOTYZINE #2 • LINE-UP Spring 1996 ~ Mandy &Ange's • pp 241218/0047 • Star Watch with Craig Davis (NSW AFL) 3 Published by Our Zine Cify : 1/5th Bi-amal • Produced by: • Paul Rawlinson "Confessions of A Closet Royboy" 4 Eddie Greenaway, Di Buckley • Mr. Honolulu "AFL Sydneystyle" 6 and Angela Collins . DANCE Carrie Hutchinson "That Crazy Game" 7 Web stuff: •~ savm • • Featuring • Jason Evans interviews Fred Negro & Bill Walsh 8 Greg Golden & Documenta • • John Spud "If This Be Adelaide" 12 Thanks to: Ross Carnsew for • S.D. Murphy "Fields of Our Dreams" 15 cover & illo's, Darcy Condon, : Big Mmdcan Dinner • • • Tracy Griffen "Confessions of a Footy Chick" 18 Mark Goodwin &all the Metro • with LegendarJ Caller • Angela Collins interviews Andy Cox of The Fauves 22 gang, Tracy Griffen, Bernie • • Jesse Fink "Confessions of a Fink" 23 Hayes, Helen Meyer, Sally • Terry O'Brien "Cleveland Street: My Road To Damascus" 24 Maizey, Rachel Kerr, Craig 1~3 ·BOnclf-.ci, Bondi NSW ~2~ • AmlleyShare • .. . "'", • • Fred Negro "Pub" Comics 26 Davis, Peter Fitzgerald, Simon • • Kerrie-Jean Ross "I Won't Eat Crow" 28 lonegan, Mark Bayes, PhQne"' 38942~7 chaok rama • lpm SI • • • Footy Advisor 31 Andrew Dunkley, Jon Satterley, ·fU·386~ : Saturday 5th October 1991 at • Marilyn Brady Footyzine Launch Pictorial 32 Dianne Robertson and all the • • Jo Roberts "... Ye Shall go to Heaven" 34 Swans mob (Sydney & Mel- :YUfitS• $mu so-am dltgpm mBwiUN ISL CLUB • Neill Jones "The Bay From View 4" 36 bourne)! • • Clo$ed Monday .. , • H Bnmore load Newton • Chfis McAuliffe "Eyes On The Ball" 38 Websile:www.footyzine.com.au •••••••••••••••••••••• Stephen Manno "Life Wasn't Meant to be Easy" 39 Email: 40 ®FOOTY 1..------'------...1 [email protected] Stephen Marmo 11 7 .=.=___=. Life~~~asn~t==m~~ant=to~~~~easy.1i=====1 You may remember the last article I wrote clubs do when they win a flag. I have watched in Footyzine was headed "Blood For Life". supporters of those clubs bleed when done by us But as my migrated Swans head for the Last lowly Swans and loved every glorious moment Saturday in September, I am toying with the idea d~ . of following either Adelaide or Geelong. Just think of when Fitzroy managed to beat The fact is I am a football supporter who Fremantle for its one win of the year. They cried, has tasted little joy, following a club with a loser sang the song and screamed "Up yours Oakley'. mentality which has been the hallmarks of such Nirvana. clubs as South, Fitzroy, St Kilda and Melbourne. That is what I know and obviously what I My supporting Life has been long enough love. to recognise the individual culture each club has I don't want to turn into a Carlton supporter developed and I as a committed Blood Stained who feels if they finish lower than a grand final Angel, am therefore ingrained in the loser cul then the season is a misery. [I must say though, ture. that my heart filled with joy after I was described However, here I am barracking for a side by a Carlton supporter' as a cocky little shit as I whkh I j~st cannot see cracks in and my faith in pointed out the relative merits of my youthfully the '96 Bloods knows no bounds. . exuberant Super Swans compared to her Geri I am in a dilemma. atric has been Blues.] I am used to the fact the Bloods will even But what now? tually let me down. That is our culture encapsu We finally win the flag and my fifteen min lated, so how do I cope with barracking for some utes of fame arrives. thing I have no frame of reference for? I will know the thrill, the glamour, the end "It's not easy to like something you know less columns of platitudes for us in The Hun and nothing about," The man with no name once · The Age the inevitable cry of ' back ta back said. I have a concrete, inviolate vision of that Bloods' the splurging on a gram of the white stuff wonderful credit to the number 14 Red & white washed down with a bottle of 1983 Grange and guernsey standing-alongside the Rocket holding generally all things good in the world. aloft the silverware. But, there will be nowhere to go but down It is a vision almost as clear as the one I had and my new found "cocky little shit' persona will in my head prior to the 1993 election when I turn me into a bitter and twisted ... well prob imagined that other superstar with the initials ably Collingwood type who has known the 'PK' telling us "you've got me" meaning of life (1990) and then be destined to It's going to happen; but my mind has al live in the shadow of it for all eternity. ready begun to wander beyond Premierships and As the great Greg Macainsh, wrote in "Mil into the realms of Premiership hangovers and lion Dollar Riff" - it will be like winning Tatts the almost inevitable plummet back to where but losing the ticket. "To be in the game ... we belong. Jo and I fly to Sin City this week (Prelimi To me that is almost as good, I'll be aware of nary Final) for the inevitable victory over the ... advertise in Footyzine!" myself again. brittle Bombers or the mob we beat three weeks But to follow South is to enjoy the odd win. ago without the Fatboy, Roos, Chapman and To be in the rooms in 1973 when South beat Maxfield, and on to the dreaded day. North at the Lake for its first win in 26 games Watching the Footy Marathon on Channel and watch my grandfather weep. To beat Rex won't be the same, heading to the 'G' won't CONTACT ANGELA 02 9211 2334 PO BOX 199 NEWTOWN NSW 2042 Carlton, West Coast, Essendon and Hawthorn be the same. But as the trouser-less drug affected by any margin at any venue and treat it like those Cry Baby said: "Life wasn't meant to be easy:
2 ®FOOTY ZINE® 39 CRAIG S. DAVIS General Manger NSW AFL Compiled by Helen Meyer
1N HIS FOOTBALL CAREER CRAIG DAVIS, "DAVO" PLAYED 163 GAMES AND BAGGED 359 GOALS . He played 2 SEA SONS AT CARLTON BEGINNING HISAFLCAREER IN 1973 (FROM LAUNCESTON), 2 SEASONS WITH NORTH MEL More than a decade ago, I used to liven up springboard to reflections on masculinity, rac BOURNE, THEN FROM 1979 FIVE SEASONS AT art history lectures by showing a slide of a 1953 ism, sexuality, feminism, class and community. COLMNGWOOD (WHEN THE TOTAL KNEE PUT HIM OUT) painting by John Brack entitled 'Three of the Mixing fooi:y and social commentary isn't a .FOUR YEARS LATER THERE WAS ONE FINAL BURST with Players'. As a Magpies fan I was drawn to his matter of forcing square pegs into round holes, 9 GAMES FOR THE SWANS. image of three members of the side that defeated the two go together like a pie and sauce. Images TEN YEARS AGO A MAN CALLED TOM HAFEY ASKED Geelong in that year's Grand Final. (After all, of abandoned football grounds aren't just about DAVO TO COME TO SYDNEY AND THE DAVIS FAMILY flags .were a distant memory for Collingwood mergers and transplantations, they also point to UPPED AND LEFT THE HEARTLAND OF THE VFL TO TAKE YEARS THAT HE'S BEEN UP THERE NOW (TOTALLING 10) then.) As a lecturer, I thought it might show that such dramatic changes in ·the urban fabric as ON THE ROLES OF SYDNEY'S ASSISTANT COACH, SKILLS HE'S GOT TO KNOW A LOT OF THE NITTY GRITTY AREAS art wasn't divorced from the passions of every gentrification. Images of players speak of nostal COACH AND CHAIRMAN OF SELECTORS IN THE WILDER· OF FOOTBALL. HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING, HE'S GOT day life. gia for the innocence of childhood, scepticism NESS .OF THE RUBGY LEAGUE CAPITAL OF AUSTRALIA TREMENDOUS AMBITION AND, AS I MENTIONED, HE'S GOT ALL THOSE THINGS THAT ARE SO NECESSARY TO FOOT After that, I started making a mental note regarding macho culture, or even the conversion CRAIG DAVIS BECAME THE NSWAFL COACHING AND DE VELOPMENT MANAGER IN 1968, AT A TIME WHEN NSW BALL AS WELL AS NOT GETTING AWAY FROM GRASS of any art works related to Aussl~ Rules that I of heroes into licensed trademarks. The game WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HEAP IN ALL FACETS OF ROOTS FOOTBALL. I THINK HE MORE OR LESS CONDUCTS came across. There was no shortage of contem itself becomes not only a struggle between teams STATE JUNIOR PROGRAMS. "THE BATTLE WAS ON FOR HIMSELF IN SUCH A WAY - WHETHER IT BE THE TOP PEO porary art; every year Eamonn Scott's footy show but a conflict between white and black, male THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF SYDNEY'S Y0l1TH". THEY PLE OR THE BATTLERS - THEY ALL ASSOCIATE THEM at the Artist's Garden in Fitzroy turns up dozens and female, or rich and poor Australians. POURED $350,000 INTO NSW AND DAVO AND HIS CREW SELVES WITH CRAIG. of works. Older .art works were harder to track The two costumes illustrated here and on TOOK ON THE ROLE OF LIFTING THE PROFILE OF THE TERRY DANIHER· WHY IS CRAIG DAVIS SO IMPORTANT down, but when I found that Sir Arthur Streeton the back cover, show how all-encompassing a SPORT AND BUILDING BRIDGES WITH ITS ARCH RIVAL - TO FOOTBALL IN NSW? had shown a footy painting titled 'The National faith footy is. One is the familiar duffle coat worn RUGBY LEAGUE- WHO IN TURN STEPPED UP ALL ITS WELL LOOK DAVO'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS GUY... COM Game' in the famous '9 x 5' exhibition of 1889, by a cheer squad member, covered in badges and OWN DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS. DAVO'S JOB WAS TO ING FROM THE COUNTRY AREAS OF WAGGA WAGGAAND I knew I was onto something. (Ironically, the names (though the sponsor's logo is also promi CONVERT THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WHILE THE OTHER THE RIVERINA- ITS WHERE l'M POSTED AT THE MOMENT painting now hangs in the Art Gallery of New nent). The other was worn by marchers in the SIX DID THE REST. THE FRUIT OF THESE EARLY EFFORTS - HE JUST PqPS UP IN THE UNUSUAL PLACES. DAVO'S A South Wales.) After about three years of re Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, in homage WE NOW ENJOY AND DEPEND UPON ... IN 1990 HE BE GREAT PROMOTER OF FOOTBALL AND HE GETS ABOUT search, I've come up with a show that mixes his to Dermott Brereton. (Further proof that Syd CAME GENERAL MANAGER AND GOT IT INTO HIS HEAD THE COUNTRY AREAS. HE KEEPS HIMSELF UP TO DATE THAT NSW COULD BEATTHE VICs ON THE SCG IN A STATE torical and contemporary art, high and low cul ney has taken footy to its heart?) By putting the WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THE LEAGUE. HIS EN OF ORIGIN. AND WIN THEY DID IN MAY 1990 AND THE THUSIASM TOWARDS FOOTBALL, IT JUST OOZES OUT OF tures, positive and negative images of football. two together I wanted to show that football WIN WAS NOT JUST FOR THE WARATAHS BUT ALSO FOR Hl.M. l'M SURE THAT WITH THE SWANS DOING AS WELL joined what were thought to be opposites. Like all curators, I had a point to make. I EVERY CLINIC THEY WERE ABLE TO GET INTO A NEW AS THEY ARE DURING THE '96 SEASON, IT CAN ONLY HELP wanted to show that football has generated rich Straight or gay, mainstream or fringe, football is SCHOOL AND FOR EVERY DEVELOPING COUNTRY CRAIG AND HIS TEAM AT THE NSW FOOTBALL LEAGUE and complex imagery, ranging from paintings and about expressing identity and community in a LEAGUE. PROMOTE FOOTBALL FURTHER. CRAIG'S BEEN, FROM MY sculpture through to caricature, comics, costumes kind of socially sanctioned street theatre. TOM HAFEY- WHY WAS IT IMPORTANT TO BRING CRAIG EXPERIENCE.A GREAT ADVOCATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE and craft. I wanted to show that this imagery If, as the historian Richard White has ar DAVIS TO SYDNEY 10 YEARS AGO? FOOTBALL, WHETHER AT INTER-LEAGUE OR STATE traced not only the history of the game but also gued, 'A national identity is an invention', footy I NEEDED SOMEBODY WHO HAD PLENTY OF ENTHUSI LEVEL AND ALSO AT STATE OF ORIGIN LEVEL. IT'S TER the key themes in the ongoing debate on the must surely have produced some of the most in ASM, KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING AND HAD TERRIFIC RIFIC FOR THE PLAYERS AND DONE A LOT TO KEEP NSW nature of Australian identity. In Fever Pitch, Nick ventive, and powerful, identities. CHARACTER AND THATDESCEllBES CRAIG DAVIS. HE FOOTBALL ON THE MAP. I CAN ONLY SAY "MATE, KEEP Homby wrote of the moment when he realised FINISHED UP PLAYING SOMETHING LIKE 150 GAMES FOR YOUR CHIN UP AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK". that soccer could not be used as a metaphor for Chris McAUliffe, Dept. Of Fine Arts, University COLLINGWOOD AND EVERYBODY JUST LOVED HIM BE WHEN ASKED "WHAT GIVES YOU THE MOST PLEASURE CAUSE OF THE SORT OF NATURE THAT HE HAD. HE JUST every aspect of English life. Australian artists of Melbourne. IN FOOTBALL TODAY?" HE REPLIED, WORKS SO HARD; HE UNDERSTANDS FOOTBALL. THESE "JUST WATCHING KIDS HAVING A GO/" would disagree. In 'Eyes on the Ball', footy is a [email protected]
38 @FOOTY Z/NE@ 3 lift his little finger to help the Hawks." Trevor: "Let's just go with Annie and the Home and Away kids. You know, take the sub ~11\M~R.~NING. tle cross promotion opportunity rather than go for the speccie." Surprisingly enough, Don Scott barracked \, <~{'\':... " ....,,,. . for the Hawks all the way during the call, Jason . . . .. '·,., By Paul Rawlinson, Coolaroo, Victoria Dunstall did his knee and was stretchered off and the Swans won after an improbable mark Yesterday afternoon nearly 50,000 people names of players such as Flea Wilson, Crash and goal from Cressa. It still leaves me and saw the Fitzroy Football Club play its final Conlon, Chrissy Hansen and Warwick Irwin my friends in Bay 4 with a few questions. Will match in Melbourne; much of my family, loyal on an intimate basis, whereas I rarely saw great we see Don Scott again in the finals series? Roys supporters until the end, were among Melbourne players like Robbie Flower, Greg What will Channel 7 pull out of the hat for \ those who paid their respects as Fitzroy played Wells, Mushy Baker and Laurie Fowler until the next Sydeny game? Are· the rumours of a Richmond at the MCG. later in my childhood. Garry Wilkinson/ Anne Sanders rendition of I was there too, because although I am a When I was blessed enough to receive a the national anthem true? Is it possible that passionate Melbourne supporter, I have an signed Robbie Fowler poster, it took pride of we'll have a cavalcade of champions at half emotional attachment to Fitzroy that stems place on my bedroom wall: not to be outdone, time featuring cast members of the Naked back twenty years, when my grandfather took my grandad gave me a signed Wokka Irwin Vicar Show, Homicide, Cop Shop, Matlock me to my first VFL match at the age of six poster, but my father would not let me take it Police, Kingswood Country, Shirl's Neighbour ironically, it was Fitzroy v. Richmond at the home, so poor old Wokka had to stay at Nana's hood and all the other great Channel 7 shows MCG. house. of yesteryear. Will we see an emotional This For the next few years, my Grandad regu I spent many great days at Fitzroy's old is Your Life style re-union between Lou larly took me to Fitzroy games and desperately home ground, the legendary Junction Oval. Richards and Peter Landy with Mike Willessee tried to convert me into a fully-fledged Royboy. Grandad would ensure that I was armed with a officiating? He tried and tried, but ultimately failed- mainly Cherry Ripe and a Coke, and would sit me with All this of course, much like the result of because my father is a red-hot Demon supporter some slightly older Fitzroy kids on the bound the game itself, lies in the lap of the TV gods. and would not even contemplate me switch ary fence while he sat with his mates in the There's only few things in life that are cer ing my allegiances. Kevin Murray Stand. Although I was well tain: there will be empty seats even though Despite this, and despite the fact that I of looked after, I felt quite independent- an your non-member friends couldn't get tickets ten wore my Melbourne jumper to Fitzroy exhilirating feeling at such a tender age. and if the West Caost Eagles are playing we'll games, I cheered on the Roys and knew the We went to all the suburban VFL grounds, get an extra large dose ofErine Dingo. Swans except for Geelong, Moorabbin and VFL Park supporters should take heart that whatever the because they were too far away; therefore, I was result they can still have the satisfactionof $)1U1" llf'!!.. mercifully absent when Fitzroy completely lac turning on the television on Sunday morning s.iu1' 'fMt .F.••• c:> erated Melbourne by 190 points to set a League and watching Wally "the King" Lewis asking 0 record at VFL Park in 1979. the hard questions about a game he knows I used to love our after match routine, when absolutely nothing about. Who said variety on I could go to places such as the Fitzroy FC Past Australian television is dead? Players & Officials (Grandad was an honorary member) and the local RSL to sip a sarsparilla Neill Jones, born in Marrickville, has been a r\ and talk to Grandad and his mates about the Sydney Swans supporter since 1982. He was also day's action. I had a precocious footy knowl a fairly ordinary ruck rover for the Penshurst Pan edge, and Grandad would boast that I knew thers. His biggest disappointment infootball is not the numbers of all VFL players; many doubt running on to the SCG to get Bruce Doull's jer ing Thomases would challenge me with ques sey the day Rod Carter ripped it off the doormats tions like "Who is number 21 for Essendon?'', back. He is hoping one day to cash in his $2 worth and I would give my answer - in this case, of shares in the Swans Premiership Club which he "Kenny Fletcher" - without fail. There's no was duped into buying in 1983. 4 ®FOOTY ZIN£® 37 doubt that Grandad won many a bet because be stripped of all dignity and sold up north to a of my love for footy trivia. club with no flags, no Brownlow medallists and The View From Bay 4 Neill Jones When my age finally reached double fig no real history. In today's AFL, a club's rich ures and my father was able to go to the footy tradition can be tackily (and tactlessly) sold There is something strange going on at Dave: "Alright we've got the Swans ver on weekends, I started to go along with him just like any other commodity. Channel 7. I'm reliably informed (well, to the sus Hawthorn at he SCG on Saturday night." and my sister to see our beloved Ds. On one Despite Brisbane's pathetic attempts to extent you'd trust a Carlton supporter) that (sound of cash registers in the background occasion when I went with both Dad and gain credibility, Fitzroy cannot be merged, be the one and only Don Scott was providing the as the management contemplates ratings win Grandad to see Melbourne play Fitzroy at the cause Fitzroy is dead. My grandfather admitted special comments for the Swans vs Hawthorn ner) MCG, Fitzroy kicked the first goal, and after as much when he recently said to me: "Paulie, final at the SCG. You know the story readers, Trevor: "Let's have Scotty on special com being conditioned to Fitzroy for so long, I in my Maroons are gone". when it was announced that the Melbourne ments and ... um ... Dipper for boundary rider!" stinctively made the ultimate Freudian slip - And just like his "Dark, Dashing Maroons", Demons and the Hawthorn Hawks would Dave "Do you reckon we could go with "Go the Roys!". Of course I was never able to Grandad passed away two weeks ago after a long merge for season 1997 (thus producing the two boundary riders, that way we could get live this embarrassment down, and Grandad illness. This Sunday my family plan to sprin delicious prospect of being able to hear peo Russell Morris in as well?" gleefully reminded me of my faux pas when kle his ashes on the old Brunswick Street Oval ple yelling out "Come on Dawks" at the footy Trevor: "I like the twin boundary rider ever he got the chance. - Fitzroy's home ground from it's inception in next year) Don Scott pulled on the brown concept but we don't want to be seen to have As we all know, those days of suburban 1883 until the mid- 1960's. skivvy and began rattling the can for the sur a pro Hawthorn stance." league footy are long gone, leaving Fitzroy to The day was originally chosen because it vival of Hawthorn. Now Don has every right Dave: "How about we send all the former will be our first Father's to do everything he can to save the club he Hawks but balance it out with a few Sydney Day without Grandad, loves so dearly and if it was any club other people sprinkled through the ground." but in a twist of fate we than Hawthorn I might have more sympathy Trevor: "Yeah, or we could go for an have also found out that ! must confess that I carry some emotioanl extravaganza ... sort of Atlanta style- we get all the Fitzroy Footy Club scars from the eighties. So this isn't a rave the Gladiators, the Home & Away cast, Annie has organised a Family about Don Scott as such (perhaps som~ other Fulwood, Jan, Ross Symonds sprinkled Day on Sunday at the time we ·should stop to consider his career as a through the crowd and we do live cuts to them Brunswick Street Oval, boundary rider) but more about the logic of to get a feeling of how excited the crowd are." so that Roys supporters picking him to provide the special comments Dave: "Jana won't do it... she hates the can be together to watch for what might well have been the Hawks last footy. Whitney might... " Fitzroy play its last ever game ever. Imagine the production meeting Trevor: "The Whit's no good- we'd have game against Fremantle in the week before the match. Lets call the to pick up the baby sitting tab again." on television. TV execs Dave and Trevor. ,.. Dave: "OK, how about Annie and the Hopefully, there will .· Home and Away gang?" not be a clash of inter Trevor: "Yeah .. .look I'm ests in what will already a bit worried about Scotty do be an emotional day - you think he's up to it?" indeed, Grandad's loy Dave: "He's a pro, I'm alty to and love for his sure he won't let his personal footy club should be of bias affect his call." ficially recognised and Trevor: "What about if respected by Fitzroy. we ran a telethon for the Hawks during the game, yoti Whatever may hap know, that way it wouldn't pen, I will be there to see matter if Scotty lost it dur Grandad (and Fitzroy) ing the game and then we off, and to wonder if the could get the Blue Heelers same fate will happen to guys in as well, maybe even my Melbourne D's in a Tony and Adriana.' few weeks time. But that Dave: "Barber wouldn't is another story. Illustrations by Ross Camsew 36 ®FOOTY ZINE® 5 9. You can NEVER afford to miss a game Swans if and when the day comes that they re when we play' a) Carlton. If they start getting vert back to their contrary selves. If you've only AFL cocky, you have to be there to remind them that fallen in love with them this year, be prepared. their club president is John Elliot. That'll wipe Thanks for coming but just make sure you stay. Sydneystyle off those smirks. Football is a funny old game. As for season 1996, b) North. Wayne Carey needs CONSTANT well, I've got a 1933 South "Premiers" poster reminding of his nightclub bosomgroping indis featuring a caricature of Bob Pratt up on the wall It started with a scoob of pure cretion by you screaming out "Why doncha get in my lounge room. For the first time in my life, a bigger set of KICKS Carey??" I'm actually' frighteningly optimistic that in a few skunk, when the sun came c) West Coast. Just keep reminding the West weeks' time I'll be able to give Pratty a bit of up over the SCG. Coast Tegel Turkeys them that we beat them company on that wall. without a full-forward (they're too good for me Go you Bloodstained Angels!!!!!!!! Not for the players but. The strongest aph to come up with any other slagoffs, sorry. Except We are the Bloods., we are the Bloods, we rodisiac they were going to inhale was uncut their guernseys are vile). are, we are, we are the Bloods!!!!!! grunt. A couple of beers. Ooh I was feelin' hu d) Essendon. Thank them for Derek Kickett, Next issue' I was a teenage footy sister. man again. Scotty Direen's father is sitting over and over next to us. And a row of Bloods supporters So why am I telling you all this?? Because I Jo Roberts is a Melbourne-based Swans sup behind us. In front are a family of nicoteen still have trouble associating this magnificent porter whose brother Ian Roberts played for South fiends, wafting clouds of to_~_ins past the pano 1996 Bloods side as the club I've followed all my Melbourne/Sydney Swans for 13 seasons until 199 2. rama of the SCG; the Brewongle, Yabba's Hill, life. What's going-on?? We're- winning-Some S-he -has spent--most of her adult life-aue-ruling games- - weeks even without the Fatboy up forward. with fellow Footyzine contributor, the equally ob the Bill O'Reilly, the Dally M, and the MA Sometimes I think it's just one big glorious noxious Stephen Marmo. Both will be in Sydney for Noble behind the sticks. The nicotine clouds dream, but all the bruises I've given myself from the preliminary final. You'll probably hear them. And the only smudges on the sky of blue expanse. all the pinches testify it's not. Hey, I'm not com when in Sydney, Roberts and Marmo choose to crash 'Come on, Gary. Pick up the ball Gary.' plaining!!! But I want you all to keep loving the at Eddie's and Angela's. Thanks guys! !l Plugger is wrestling his oponent, who plugs back at him. So plugger grabs him and winds his left arm around his head yanking all the .,,,,,.,... ------...... way. By the time ump is looking back from / ...... / ...... the play. Plugger is four feet way. 'Come on, Gary. Pick up the ball, Gary.' / ' We're low, low on the horizon. The Gen eral marks; you can hear skin hit skin. Oomph. Get IN THE GA.ME God makes a run for it, like, two minutes late. I \ 'Come on, Gary. Pick up the ball, Gary.' I \ The Swans are hunting in packs now, like I \ dogs on heat. Lines of them, passing the pill I \ from one to another till it gets to the backstop; I the young 'un Clinton King, puts it through I like a League winger. Score: 16.11- 8.4, Ablett I 1.0. I 'Oh, Gary.' As forty-five thousand, two hundred and I seventeen fans left the SCG we alighted to I another green dream, splitting so I could make I my way to a Japanese wedding reception. But I that's another story. Sappora yah; sayonara san. A.RTWC>RK• INTERNET•GRAPHIC::S Golden Age Media Enterprises O19 129 044
6 ®FOOTY ZINE@ 35 JO ROBERTS Carrie Hutchinson BE A GOOD SWANS SUPPORTER AND YE SHALL GO TO HEAVEN. THAT CRA2Y GAME Until about July last year I was a fairly regu at the front of the top tier _of the Noble Stand. Three things in life are certain. at games also means Melbourne's streets look lar human being. I went to work during the day, An inch of water covered the seats and the rain 1. We all die eventually. 2. There is no much more attractive for a couple of hours a had dinner and slept at night and on the week coninued to spiral in. What the f%/\* were we such thing as a meat pie without a piece of gri"s week too. end caught up with friends. And then-my friend doing here? The game was being shown live on tle. 3. No matter how good a footy team is, it Do I need to give you more reasons why you Mike-ster took me to the footy. I can't remem the tellie for Christ's sake! We could be curled will eventually lose a game. Perhaps several in a should never miss a game and thereby keep your ber who the Swans played that day, but I do re up in front of the heater in someone's lounge row. Maybe an entire season's worth. I'm a third Bloodstained heart pure and ensure you go to member that they lost (not uncommon last sea room or, even better, be watching the game on a generation South supporter and therefore have heaven? Okay. Here's a few .... son). No matter, I was hooked, and since then big-screen TV in a pub where you didn't have to known the pain. 1. Footy saves you money. Knowing you have I've rarely spent a day when the great game has slosh through huge puddles of icy water to get to Know my intentions are pure I when I to get up at least by lunchtime the next day to been on away from my footy-watching friends. the bar. say that losing is GOOD. Not this end of the go to the footy means you won't be such a dirty Some of my old "weekend" friends think I've Thankfully, soon after, some friends who season of course. But I think we all know that stop-out the night before and blow all your died, the rest believe I'm simply crazy. were sitting further up and just out of the reach the true mettle of a supporter is not tested while dough. Scientific tests have proven that three Mike has since moved back to Melbourne, of the rain gave us the seats they'd been saving a team is swanning (allow me one bad pun) out of five footyheads who go to the Punters Club but he's left his legacy - the Mike-ster created for some tardy mates. Saved from the damp, not around the top of the ladder. Herein lies the key the night before a game will be tucked home in a monster, as another friend is fond of quoting. so the wind chill factor. We were blanketed in word ... barrack. Anyone can barrack for a win bed 30 minutes after the last band finishes. And This season I've only missed one Swans home enormous jackets, scarves, beanies, mittens, but ner. Piss easy. No ridicule, no embarrassment, are whiter and brighter. game. It was a good excuse - I had to visit my soon our knees became figments of our imagina no shame. But the G and D called for when your 2. People wearing Swans scarves in pubs be parents in Brisbane. On the flight home I tions located somewhere in the middle of our knocked a fellow passenger's orange juice all over team is on a losing streak, to go and watch them fore, during and after a game get served quicker. legs. week after week, if only to get the veritable The bar staff find the halos too blinding so they him as I leant across to look out the window and I was contemplating the uncontemplatable ptooey in the face from them -now that's like to clear you from the bar AS AP. see what was happening as we flew over the - going home. "C'mon mate," was the unbe SCG. · BARRACKING. Unconditional love that 3. Pies taste better at the footy. lieving reply when I expressed my thoughts out would put a dog to shame. 4. You get to be loud and obnoxious to very But it wasn't until last weekend that I real loud. "This is real football weather, just like ised I'd truly been inducted into the Footy Fa Barracking for Bloods ain't meant to be easy. large men for an entire afternoon- and all be Melbourne." The promise of the pre-match en natic Hall O' Fame. It was a night game, the last And what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Is hind the safety of the fence. Just make sure you tertainment (and I use the term loosely) kept not true love tested when one's partner lets out don't sit near a player's sister (Being an ex-play of the season, round 22. The Swans were taking me frozen to my seat. And then it was time for on West Coast for a chance to become minor a ripper fart whilst sitting next to you at an oth er's sister I can tell you I've made many an oppo the game. I expected the teams to come out wear premiers. Th.e game had sold out well in advance. erwise sedate dinner party? Do you say "Oh so sition fan quake in their boots by squawking ing wetsuits, but Our Boys looked like they didn't 1 The whole of Sydney was primed for the city's and-so, you're disgusting", quickly point a fin "that's my brother ya bastard". Just too menac even know it was wet. I felt ashamed for being a greatest victory. What had promised to be a day ger and run away, to ward off any suspicion it ing). total wuss. might have been you? To disassociate, as LESSER 5. By attending matches each week, through of great delight, however, turned into the day of Needless to say it didn't get any warmer and the Great Deluge. beings do with a LOSING side? Or do you re thick or thin, you have the chance to meet a life the rain managed to get heavier, but thoughts of I awoke to heavy rain pounding against my main silent and unmoved, trusty by his side, in partner of the same lineage - another Blood - the weather were abandoned. This is what we bedroom window. "It's blowing a gale here," the hope you can palm it off as the person sit therefore eliminating chances of cross-breeding. came to see - a group of heroes in tight shorts Mum reported from Bris-Vegas when I called her ting on his other side? Now THAT'S support. 6. No-one can accuse you of being a chasing a bit of pig skin around a paddock. And later on. "At least it's only raining here," I said. Here's the one and only nice thing I'll ever bandwagoner if they start winning games again. as I looked at the group of people I'd been watch "Make sure you take a good coat and don't get say about Coilingwood supporters. No matter You can say "oh yeah, but I was there in the dim ing the footy with all year as the final siren rang too wet," she told me just before hanging up. how much we hate Coilingwood, there's at least dark days of Round 2 when blah blah, 10-goal and the Swannies had taken the game, I think I "You'll get sick you know." one thing that can be said for their supporters; caning, blah, blah... saw a few tears mingled with the droplets of rain At five o'clock I started to think I was al they're about the most diehard in the league. 7. AFL players are better looking than rugby running down their cheeks. They'd been com ready sick, along with the other 30,000 people How much of that has to do with their wide players because their noses are usually still in the ing to the games for years, since "you knew the who were slowly filtering into the SCG. Not only spread inability to read and write and therefore middle of:their faces - and their knuckles don't rest of the crowd on a first name basis". was the rain coming down in buckets but the to not realise when their team is on the mother drag. Now I know what's so appealing about be wind was threatening to rip the loose panelling of all losing streaks is debatable, but at least 8. Just going to games gets up the bum-sniff ing totally crazy. off the Bradman Stand. We took up our places they're THERE. Their unwavering attendance ing noses of rugby people. 34 ®FOOTY ZINE® 7 Jason Evans interviews
Jason 'EVO' Evans, guitarist & vocalist for Squinning Gerbil Death has played 77 games for the Powerhouse Pirhanas VAFA E Grade side.
Bill Walsh who do you barrack for? Was he wearing his glasses? Bill: The Bombers. Always have. I went to Bill: He was yeah, and he went to my old High Essendon State School 483. You know coming School as well. out from England and stuff and that was where Fred who do you barrack for? we landed, parents got a flight there, I started Fred: The Bears (laughter), Fremantle, Port going to school there and us kids used to get a Adelaide ... the Magpies. seasons ticket that we could use for Essendon And why's that? home games. I got the first bite of the cherry in Fred: I don't know. I grew up in Richmond and ---1968 wh-en-the·Bombers played Hawthom~Got-the·whole family were mad·Richmond support----- there early iO the morning and watch the re- ers and when I was a little baby, I used to take serves and then this kid I was with went "Oh off the Richmond scarf and beanie they used to there's another game on now" and I went, "Oh put on me .. to brainwash me. My nana used to shit". Looking back on that era that was the first barrack for the Pies and she made great egg sand- time Peter Hudson kicked a 100 goals for Haw- wiches so that's why I think I barrack for the Above, Andrew thorn, the Bombers were runners up to Carlton. Pies. Dunkley and Mark I went to see a final and they lost by three points, ·-Is there a connection between the music in- GeoffBlethyn was playing on Wes Lofts that day dustry and the AFL as we know it today- The Bayes manage the and had a shot for goal and kicked it out of big business side ? meat raffle. . . . . and bounds on the full. Bill: Probably the corporate side of it there is. the winner is ... ~ There's also a conection in the outer where -~- ~. ·· people in bands go to the footy and stand out TOOOEMHM' there and other tribes as well, I know there is at Essendon. Other people from around the traps. Paul Kelly, Steven Connolly when he was alive, wierdos, Mr. Floppy. I've aligned myself with a few other Essendon supporters, go to the same Best-dressed went to Bill part of the ground. Very much an outer thing. Quarry for showing his trUe Soundchecks after the game? Bill: We don't soundcheck any more. colours (p32 bottom right). What about you Fred? Fred: I don't understand the question. I'm not drunk enough. I don't understand anything un· ti! I'm drunk. ls the AFL big business since it's gone na tional? Sydney identity Clem Lukey Fred: Course it is. can't believe he's come second Better or worse? in the handball comp! (p32 Bill: Well for the man in the outer, it's way bottom left) worse...... ~ .. .;;.
8 ®FOOTY ZINE® 33 Bill Walsh & Fred Negro 8 AUGUST ~ 996 AT THE METRO, SYDNEY Bill Walsh, drummer with the Cosmic Psychos, St Kilda personality and Bombers fanatic. Fred Negro, cartoonist, vocalist extraordinaire, St Kilda personality and Magpies fanatic.
If you barrack for a team and they can be relo Bill: From Essendon's point of view I'm very cated, or merged then it's gotta be way worse. happy that we've got some of the cream of Abo It's that copying of the American idea. riginal talent. The Franchise thing Fred: Collingwood's got Robbie Ahmat. Bill: Yeah. The AFL is prepared to ride rough I want each of you gentlemen to list the most shod over what the supporter wants. The sup notable standout event that has happened in porter can support his club by going every week the past three decades· '70's , 80's and '90's. but doesn't really have a say in decision making. Fred: 1990 Grand Final. The stand out of my Fred: I don't understand the question. I'll just entire football watching career. '80's ... nuh. provide the comedy relief. 1977 ... the drawn Grand Final I didn't know what Can you see a merger by 1997? to fuckin' do, never seen a drawn grand final Fred: Yeah. They want Port Adelaide so they're before. gonna force one. It'll probably be Fitzroy and What was the feeling like when the siren someone else. went. Do you think some club will just get Fitzroy. Fred: Well we couldn't blue with the North Bill: Yeah, Fitzroy are gone. They'll go down Melbourne supporters and they couldn't blue the gurgler and have to merge. Obviously the with us cos nobody knew what to do. AFL wants to reduce the number of clubs, I'm Bill: in the 70's Phil Manassa's run in the (77) just glad I don't barrack for one of the poor clubs grand final and Twiggy Dunne's coolness under like Fitzroy or St. Kilda or Hawthorn. Fred: I don't know anyone who barracks for Hawthorn. Bill: Yeah I barrack for a pretty strong club and so does Fred, in a way their future is guaranteed by the number of supporters they have and the interest they generate on television around the country and crowd wise and all those kind of things. But I do think a number of Melbourne clubs will merge. Would you like to see an all Aboriginal team in the competition. Fred: I don't see why, It would just be token ism. It'd be like having an entire Parliament of all women just cos there haven't been women in parliament for a long time. It's trendyism. Bill: I don't know... Fred: Even so, I thought the Collingwood vs Aboriginal All Stars was a great game. ZINE® 9 pressure when he kicked that goal to keep miership, for the first time in my life. The last Plugger has a centre of gravity which has, Collingwood in the game. Yeah I went to the flag in 65 we were living in England and I didn't since puberty, swung grossly to his right. ----gam . . . _ . --·--- __haye.JI_cl!!_e about footy. I was working for Percy -- i'retl:-YeaM=went-uut-theonext.-Oay=and,bought.. Jones=at_theJ:Ime_anffne _gQJ: me.t:icl 10 ®FOOTY ZINE® 31 The greatest game you've ever seen? that day and Robbie said (he barracks for the Fred: The 90 Grand Final. Two of the best goals Bombers as well) I've got bad news for you you've ever seen by Peter Daicos, the big blue. Essendon lost the Grand Final to Collingwood. The draw. So it was a quiet set after that but Knighty (Ti Bill: 68 Essendon v Richmond , 84 Grand Fi gers fan) was making a good point of rubbing it nal. 75 North's first premiership. The Robbie into us, as is his want. Muir game when he went ber Fred: The 90 Grand Fi serk. The game when Phil Car nal as well. I'd lined up a man headbutted Kevin Carmody tour for the week after the @)~ at Moorabbin. 73 Grand Final GF in Sydney, but be when Balme took out the entire cause of that fucking draw Carlton Grand Final. with the Eagles, I'm going Greatest player: oh oh.. we've gotta can ~g) lfTh ~ Fred: Peter Daicos ... cel that gig, and the rest ~ piquc100% non Collingwood .. .! can't think of the Brady Bunch went I I of other players ... Gary Ablett or oh well we barrack for Tony Lockett Fitzroy, or St. Kilda or the Bill: Simon Madden Swans blah blah we don't give a fuck, it's all lined non Essendon ... Keith Greig, Ablett, Gavin up we've booked this- ads, pa, etc, hire car, we're Brown, Daicos. going, and I went fuck. Oh well every other og FULL SCREENPRINTING Tell us about your playing career. fuckin Grand Final I've been to we've fuckin lost, Bill: Essendon Baptist St. Johns, f!i.erged with so at least if we lose and I'm in Sydney it won't & EMBROIDERY SERVICE Tullamarine. Then went to Essendon under l 7's fuckin matter. So we went to the Aussie Rules & CUSTOM GARMENT couple of practice games, told I was too small, Club to watch the game and our mixer falls MANUFACTURING then went to the VFA and played 2 seasons for asleep during the Grand Final and I'm sitting Brunswick Jrds and Znds. Had a 'break went there with Garry-Mansfield the guitarist (Saints overseas. came back and played A grade/ reserves supporter) and he's getting really into it, a true in Amateur footy, a bit of Uni blues. Then played blue Collingwood supporter by the end of it, for firsts and seconds for Gisbome. Played up until the day, and I'm walking down the Cross and we I was about thirty. Bit of social footy after that, had to go and do a gig later in Mortville (sic Espy Rock Dogs. Mortdale) sounds like something from a Steven Fred: Played for St. James Primary School one King movie, out somewhere like Frankston or game. A few games for St. Joey's on the wing. I something, and I'm walking in all my was crap. Collingwood gear down the Cross going right Bill- What do you like about Collingwood? off and everyone's looking at me like I'm an al Bill: I like their jumper, I liked it in the 70's ien or something. So the opposite happened when they had plastic numbers on the back I Collingwood won and I had no one to play with. like their tradition, the working class inner city If you were an AFL Coach what songs would thing... that's all changed now as it has for all you play for warm up. clubs. Collingwood always attracted the worst Bill: Rose Tattoo's "Scarred for life", Kinks "You AUITRAllAN HAO( kind of supporter, like Essendon also. They're a Really Got Me" and Dead Kennedy's "Too Drunk proud club. To Fuck". Fred-What do you like about Essendon? Fred: I'd follow my brothers footsteps, Des YUBUTE SCREENPRINTING • 5 KNOX ST., CHIPPENDALE N.S.W. 2008 Fred: I like the fact that they kicked 5 goals in Negro, who coached many teams and would play PO BOX 166 BROADWAY NSW2007·PH: 2111089, 281 2681FAX:281 7595 the 1990 Grand Final. Thats all. • especially in finals ... Cosmic Psychos "Go the Tell me a footy music anecdote?: Hack", a Bored song I can't remember the name JANNIE LOU CREATIONS • 225 HIGH ST. PRAHRAN VIC 3181 Bill: The 90 Grand Final we were in Austria, of and "Batman vs Godzilla" by I spit on Your PH. 9525 2211 ..... ~ FAX. 9525 2295 Innsbruck and I'd ended up back at the promot Gravy. I'd probably add "Bird on the Wire" by ers house smoking pot and trying to crack onto Leonard Cohen or "Don't go home with your some sheila and I came back to the band later hard on." ZINE® 11 t>A1tUt\~: S\JNt>A'1 IV\A"\ \<\m \'\°I{,. 1\-\E ~UKE.: foO\SI\\..\... PA£'t.,AQEl..A\t>t . Hee. Hee was escorted seamstress. We had a Holden anymore when I go home. from the ground. The next with wings - CLU295. On The Demons are gone. 1\\\:.- $\TUl\TION: 11-\£. M\l4HN SA.It-\~ \-\/\'it. ltloN fov~ ST~Al~\.\T we(!_k. we received a Con- the day of the Grand Final, They have had to merge COMtN~ \NTO 1\-\\S ~A.ME:., 1\\t.. MOST ~ClNT ~\NC, A fR1~~ t-\\Ct\.\T gratulations card from a. De- CLU29S WAS a Demon. B.ig with the Whitton Ttg~rs to C..E.N18'\A(l.\.\ ~· ENA.crl'J\£1\\\ P\JMM£:U-\Net ot: COt.Ll~4WCOt>. t-OtJ, mon's supporter - it was ad- paper Demon horns on the become The Crows. I hated AN \~T~tP\~ Bl\ND OF SA.IN\5 fANS \-\AS ..Jx>~~t"\~D W£-ST 10 dressed simply to "Hee Ross roof, big paper Demon pitch- the Whitton Tigers - we all f P\Ct. 1\\e.\~ LAT£:S1 Fot- oN 11\t\l'l OWN !>\)N~\\E#\P (HOW APfR.of~1Ait!), - THE SHARPE MAN". forks along the sides, bonnet- did. Relationships between A~D AS 1HE'1 l)tsCEN\) INlD mt. ~EtS1~.0M, ~LDLY 'Dect.A~E: .•. Can you be in love with to-boot Red and Bl.ue the Tigers and the Demons 18 (or possibly 19) men all Streamers .... elaborate De- once reached such a low at the same time? Yes. My sis- mons everywhere. This was point that the Coppers were •. ter Merrilee was. She had a no car; this was a Float! Hee called to escort the Ump big thing for Rocky Gatellari and Gwen dressed their five from the field. It's no good and the Demon's First Grad- girls in Demon outfits and telling me that this is hap- ers - any time, any place. She our Silky Terrier, Bindy- pening throughout Provin started going out with one as Boo-Major, wore a De- cial Football - I bet you'll a 16- year-old and she's still mon's guernsey sleeve with a never see the Croats line up with him 2 7 years later. In hole cut out for his privates. with the Bosnians at the UN ·---the_sixties, alLCatholic girls __ CLU2.25_made a slow tri{l_~so don't expect me to ever set did a subject called Home to the Narrandera Sports footongroundscallingthem· Economics - the first thing Ground. The spectacle pro- selves "The Home Of The you learned was how to make voked so much passion that Crows". I've lived in Sydney cinnamon toast and then you Hee was invited to drive for a long time. I've tried the progressed onto embroidery. slowly around the oval The - Swans. It's a great spectacle Mezza still has her major as- Bulldogs thrashed the De- but I'll never own them. I'll signment - a white tablecloth mons but excruciatingly we never date a Swan; I'll never with the signatures of a De- didn't dismantle our Demon get close to their dressing mons team embroidered in car until the following week. rooms {getting off on the red. It is a work equal to the smell of liniment) and have Shrou d o f 1iurin. M ezza uses On Sex: What did a Hee yell "Go to buggery th1·s teenage girl think when a i's no place .cor a woman" and it w h en f rien d s gat h er to 11 watch televised AFL Grand Demon literally had his pants I'll NEVER get to fill in ( af- ripped off him in mid-game ter THE SELECTORS' Fina s at er joint in Can 1 h and his colleagues gathered berra. MEETING) all those names around in a tight cluster un- against the possies on that Love/Sex/ and Death - til a new pair of shorts was paper football and then go up Can you make sense of these run onto the ground? Well, I the street and put them in when you are a teenage girl? thought, one of those things shop windows. The trouble is Yes. I did. On some Sun that go with Rugby League - - if I was more into French days, I learned enough to I wanted to get a good look Feminist Theory - I'd have to want Tolstoy to re- appear but, at the same time, was in say that the Swans are a so we could compare notes. awe at another of the won CONSTRUCT. derful mysteries of this great On Love: One year we The Mighty Demons got game. made it to the Grand Final. DECONSTRUCTED and Against Turvey Park. On Death: See Love. I've been pissed off ever Gwennie is a fine artist cum I can't go to the Footy since. 12 ®FOOTY ZINE® 29 ''I won't eat Crow!'' Kerrie-Jean Ross tells it like it was as a Leeton Demon. This is not a history of the grand days of the now de· Swear and yell all you funct South West League in t.he Riverina district of New like with a mouthful of South Wales. I won't be telling you what team was the Gwennie's slice - the consist most successful (though it was probably Turvey Park • ency of the pineapple mix too much money for imports, a much greater population ture keeps everything in base that any of the other centres ...• ) and I won't be . place. telling you which local champions made it to the VFL. I My father, Hee, was will be telling you what it Was like. President of the Mighty De mons (Leeton). He is now very ill. We all laughed at his Gwennie's Pineapple Slice 70th Birthday dinner some 12 years ago when he de clared: "Shit, I'm now in time on" To say Hee loved the Demons would be an under statement but, as we all know, those who love deeply are not always in control. An example: A cold, blustery day at what was then the magnifi cent Narrandera Sports· Pastry: ground. It even had a velo 1 1/2 cups SR flour drome where, many decades 1/41b butter ago, young Depression blokes 1 egg - who had more sense than 1/2 cup icing sugar Rub butter into dry ingredients, add egg. to try their luck in the des Push into dough consistency and press perate contests fought in into 11 x8 inch tin. Bake in moderate oven travelling boxing tents - until brown. raced in the hope of picking up a few extra shillings. Any • Topping: Get a 450g can crushed pineapple in way, during one match be syrup. Thicken it with custard powder. tween the Demons and the Spread on cooled base. Top with layer Narrandera Imperials there of sliced banana. Finish with whipped cream and passionfruit pulp. was a CROOK decision - so Cut into slices and put in boot to be transported to Griffith/ crook that Hee ran onto the Whitton/Narrandera/GrongGrong-Matong/Ariah Park-Mirrol/ ground to demand justice. He Ganmain/Coolamon/Turvey Park. · fronted a player called Sharpe. Sharpe looked at 28 ®FOOTY ~f'MA ll~S\\l"'4.S ~{<;. 1\\'E:N S\.W1 IT W"S ~WWT 1 A1PiX\ 10 1ttE ~llOONO••. ~D ~" ~s IA/€.?.\7 iAED· .r"1. 0 I!. Dr W!-IA11HE .(l- fUCK ARE r-- IH€'/ LAUGHI~ A-r?! ~ JAL 11i€ Pl E.S TH€. GAME.;. J:RED, LETS GET 1EMBEJ!S BAR : A ~BEEl:.1 MIH .. IT'tL 8£ FULL : OOCK€RS rANs •. .P7.. \.:-:::, " ~"""..;:, 1H..v.JKS K'fM GRAF"IXW)· ©1qq6_,· 14 27 ~Rt.0 NEGR0~ (o)N M'/ t-IOLIDA'{S I Sl'EN1 .SOM€. Fields Of Our Dreams 'Tr'1111t Al M'/ OLD GRAVY t3Uct>'t K'IM THE: Cf<.AZ'/ CLOWN'S PLACE. \tJ FRE.fv'IAl\l1l..£. HB A. POOFESSIC#.W - Warrawee Park Oval, Oakleigh ClDWf\J A~D HE'S "-I £VER SEEN 1HA"r eoB GOLDTHWAI 1£ MOVIE: my '$HAKES 71-IE aOW1'J' '/Ei 7HIS Part One of a journey through the home grounds of life. WAS H04J HIS: CCNVERSA7/o1') W€JJ1.. #1 'f=~EO NEGR I FUCKIN' HATE HARHAl?.f! HAR By S.D. Murphy, Oakleigh, Victoria WIGGED ClOWAJS! 7HA7's VE/!:'( GtX. WIGS AND RED Oakleigh, a regional centre in Melbourne's wisely exiting to a commercial break. When they NOSE.S ARE 71 south eastern suburbs boasts one of the most returned the screen was filled with this solitary yUC t 18 @FOOTY ZINE@ 23 Speaking of mittens, they're going and eat steak? strong. I refuse to wash them as it may ruin Unfortunately it's time for me to sign FooTvFAUVEs the continuity of the season. I've also off. It's going to be a long hot summer, so added a flag to my paraphanalia - to poke until next season, up the men in the tight Angela Collins talks Footy with Andy Cox, guitarist and vocalist with The the oppositions' eyes out with... shorts ... Fauves, their new album FUTURE SPA is out now thru Polydor.. I think every spectator needs a flag. What's your first football inemory ? so I was moved to the back pocket. Despite the potential danger of drunk flag I was about five when I copied the ladder What position would you like to play now? bearers, I remember a lump forming in my out of the paper every Monday. A couple of yea~s Wing. throat at the MCG when I saw all of the Fave Footy song? later Dad took me and my brothers Matthew and Melboumian flags being waved. It brought Shaun to games carrying our homemade flags we Melbourne's. I like them all its great, there's had dyed. Dad has always been a Melbourne sup no concessions to current trends. No techno the ground to life in a fluttering display of porter and he had seen them through the glory versions! team colours. I think the Vies lead the way Do you sing the club song? days .. Sometimes we'd take a packed lunch other with merchandising. What are Port Power Yes. times we'd get a pie burning the roof of our Who is going to play in the Grand Final? j; going to do in 1997? Sell pretend bottles mouths within seconds North Melbourne and Sydney Swans. of fortified wine to hurl at the opposition? What about when the bottom sags and falls out And the winner is? I think that it would be way more danger with piping hot gravy running down your hand did North Melbourne, Sydney don't have the ous than flag-waving. you lick it up? finals experience and I reckon the wheels will Absolutely. I'm vego now so it's hot chips. come off under the pressure. · To continue with the flow of alcohol, There's not a lot of choice but hey you don't go (We shall see about that.) in the Football Records' Player Profiles, for the food! Favourite North Melbourne player? why is the players favourite drink always Did you ever consider barracking for another Wayne Carey. He's a bit of an oaf but a phe nomenal footballer. I do like watching him. water and favourite food inevitably pasta? team and would it cause conflict in the family? Regional footy is in a state of despair what can Aren't they blokes? Don't they drink beer No. It's a tradition and a great feeling to be done to help it? barrack for the same team as my dad. We still It's economics and as our only truly national have pretty good footy arguments. game it needs government support. Protect it as Any soft spots? being part of who we are.It doesn't worry me that FISH BONE Fitzroy & South Melbourne before they it's not an international game we should be moved to Sydney. happy with what we've got. (I sense hostility so I change the subject.) Thanks Andy, What can I say but cheer cheer What about the merger? the red & the white. I'm against it and don't believe it needs to happen. It's very sad and I reckon both clubs have enough support to sustain them. Melbourne is • the oldest club with 140 years of history It's sacriligeous. It's a way to buy a premiership. Here's six million and a super team. I'll be off to the meeting on Monday night to have my vote. Who would you pick out of Hawthorn? Dunstall and Shane Crawford. What about the rat ? Oh yeah I spose . I don't like him when we are playing against him but on our side yes. Tell us about your footy career? I played junior footy with the Frankston Police & Citizens then moved on to Mt Eliza 78 CAMPBELL PARADE,BONDI BEACH for five years, we had the same colours as PHONE 365 0334 SEAFOOD DINING LICENSED & B.Y.O Melbourne ..! was foll back but I got a bit weeny 22 @FOOTY ZINE@ 19 - - _:---_ :=:::- E V A N GO SWANS ...... GO ~! ·•\ 'l EVAN LEE PTY. LTD. ACN 003 589 473 GROUND FLOOR 30-34 WILSON ST. NEWTOWN 2042 [email protected] .au Tel: 9550 6263 Fax: 9519 4511