The 2019 Season Launch of The Footy Almanac will be at the next Odd Friday Lunch on Fri 15th March. John Harms will have a chat to Percy about Carlton’s chances this year, and have him bless the season. John will have Sam Butler as his...
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Rex Hunt, a huge name in football for over 50 years in Victoria. Born in 1949 in Mentone, he played 202 senior games for Richmond, Geelong and St Kilda between 1968 & 1978. His moves were caused by his professional career as a policeman...
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Friday 15th February 1:05pm Tony Jewell (75 yrs) is a Richmond premiership player, premiership coach and great Richmond club man. He initially played in the VFA for Oakleigh and was placed 4th in the VFA Best & Fairest in 1963, before...
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Denis Pagan (24 Sept 1947) is a former VFL/AFL player and legendary coach with a phenomenal coaching record. He played 120 games for North Melbourne as a hardnosed defender and then played 23 games for South Melb., ending in 1976. Denis started...
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Ken Hunter (61 yrs) was born in Perth and played 99 games for Claremont before moving to Carlton in 1981. In his last 3 years at Claremont he was runner up each year in their Best & Fairest to Graham Moss, and in ’79 & ’80...
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Greg Miles retired from race calling last year after almost 40 years of race calling in Victoria. The legendary caller became known as the voice of Victorian racing. Greg was born and brought up in Williamstown, & still lives there being a...
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Gideon Haigh is a writer and journalist. He is 53 years old, born in London, went to school in Geelong, and lives in Melbourne. He has written over 30 books, many on cricket and has edited numerous others. He has written about sport...
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Graham ‘Smokey’ Dawson (AM) is a member of the Order of Australia. He is a Victorian who went to school in East Kew and then went to Carey Grammar. He was that school’s cricket captain in 1964 under coach Frank Tyson. He became...
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Mike Perry is a Richmond premiership player. He played Centre Half Forward in the 1967 Grand Final. Mike was educated at Scotch College and played 2 seasons for the Old Collegians side in the VAFA in 1963 & 64. He won their Best & Fairest...
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Silvio Foschini was born in 1963 in Melbourne to Italian parents. He played soccer as a child but then played 107 games of VFL for The Swans & St. Kilda. In 1981 at 17 he debuted for South Melbourne, the last year that the Swans were a...
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Rene Kink was a hefty 183cm, 91kg build footballer who played 181 games for Collingwood, Essendon & St Kilda between 1973 & 1986. He is from Ararat, and commenced playing for Collingwood, playing a preliminary final as a 16 year old, and...
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Book launch – ‘Sons Of Guns’ by Matt Watson – hosted by John Harms. Sons Of Guns goes inside a number of famous football families and covers successes, failures & incidents that may never before have been made public...
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