00:00I was 23 and the other thing about that day was I got engaged.
00:06So I've been engaged and married, same girl, for 60 years coming next year.
00:1360 years engaged, 60 years married next year.
00:18It'd be beforehand so it could be in the paper on the Saturday, so the day before.
00:24Yeah, right. Because I had a feeling that we'd be celebrating that night.
00:32He'd come up from Port Three to coach us and George thought we could come back.
00:36And Peter was a school teacher, he'd come from Collingwood under nine hours in seconds.
00:40So we had a really good show, and Peter Lincoln was coming too, where's it going?
00:44I was told on the Thursday night at the team meeting that I'd be playing on Max McLean.
00:52Max McLean was a prolific goal kicker.
00:58And they said, he's on a half-forward flank, I'm a half-back flank.
01:03If you can keep him scoreless or goalless, we'll win this game.
01:08But if he kicks his normal six or seven, and I used to be a very loose half-back, I
01:18wouldn't kick
01:19Jason usually.
01:21I remember someone said to me, I don't care if you don't get a kick all day, just don't
01:28let Max McLean kick a goal. So at quarter time he hadn't had a touch and neither had I, because
01:37I just kept punching.
01:40And they'd shift him onto the ball, which meant he wasn't my problem. So I went kick-chasing after that.
01:49I was probably, well I was 18, as Keith was saying, Mervyn Olstead and Pat Barrington were either 17,
02:01Linky was 18, Pete, I was 18, Donny Point was 18.
02:04So as well as they had some really, like the older guys coming through and the middle ones
02:10like Keith was, some young ones too, but we were very, very lucky.
02:15And I had a fairly good day, but certainly not as good as some of them.
02:20You know, this guy, Peter Leakey was our gun, really wasn't he?
02:23He was probably the best local footballer I saw at 16.
02:29Yep.
02:30He kicked, he kicked 80 goals one year at 16 years of age.
02:3680 goals and set up forward and won the league's best.
02:40It's not funny, but the thing about that, up until then, I was always automatic in the team.
02:48But the team becomes so good that instead of me being up here, I got pushed down.
02:54I struggled at getting, there were so many good players.
02:59Put out, there is käytt ofgineers, you know,
03:00Again, all right.
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