Kevin Sheehan is an ex Bendigo boy who played 102 games for Geelong, played in 3 reserve grade premierships and captained one of them. He retired from playing in 1982. He has remained involved in the game – he was the AFL’s first full...
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Percy will run this Lunch on his own, but ably assisted by our popular new (& old!) Manager Terry Freeman. This is one of those awkward Fridays – 2 odd Fridays in successive weeks. Come along for a good Lunch and bring a few special...
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John Harms and The Footy Almanac will be running this Lunch with 2 very interesting guests. Bill Deller umpired 251 senior VFL games including 5 grand finals, retiring in 1981. His umpiring career almost mirrored Percy’s playing career...
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Col Kinnear ex Sydney Swans coach Colin was a good amateur footballer but 2 knee operations brought an early end to his playing career. After a few coaching positions he took the VFA Coburg Lions to their first premiership in 51 years. He then...
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Robert Walls played with Percy for much of his playing career at Carlton before finishing his playing career at Fitzroy. He played 259 games, captained Carlton for 2 years, played in 3 premierships and is in the Australian Football Hall of...
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John Harms is taking charge of the next Odd Friday Lunch. John, as well as running the Almanac, is a well known local writer, broadcaster, publisher, historian, speaker, MC and lunch host. He appears on the ABC’s Offsiders and has recently...
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Rodney Hogg, Australian fast bowler – debuted in the 78/79 Ashes series of 6 Tests with 41 wickets at an average of 12.85. He came into the team when Lillee and Thompson moved to World Series Cricket. He was an aggressive and sometimes...
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Peter Hudson, a proud Tasmanian, is arguably the game’s all time best Full Forward. He is the most prolific goalkicker who won the Coleman Medal four times while at Hawthorn, and holds numerous goalkicking records. He made his VFL debut...
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Malarkey Publications and The Footy Almanac invite all Drop-kicks, Misfits and Ratbags to huddle at the North Fitzroy Arms this coming Thursday (March 17) to be blessed by bon vivant (second) ruckman and pub philosopher, Percy Jones. You can see...
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Friday 11 th March 1:05pm As Regular as the Calendar, although odd, and with a ‘Mystery’ Guest Speaker! We must first apologies for the late notice of next Fridays lunch. However, Percy has been waiting on a yes from a couple of possible guest...
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As Regular as the Calendar, and with Special Guest Speaker John Birt A superb rover at Essendon, John Birt was selected in 2002, by an expert Essendon panel, as number twenty-one of the 25 “Champions of Essendon” He won the Dons best and...
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Dean Jones “wrote the book” on one day cricket (Dean Jones:One-Day Magic). A showman, brilliant fieldsman and runner between wickets he was regarded as one of the best one day cricketers in the world – ahead of his time. His ODI batting...
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