Good offseason thread BH

1993 I approached SOS in the social club to sign a footy jumper I'd bought for a mate's 21st. Pretty aloof & unfriendly, although admittedly I'd interrupted him & Diesel having a post training milkshake.

1995 Dallas Brooks Hall function for Sticks' 200th, after the Collingwood game in rd 1. I got really drunk & most likely made a tool of myself going up to the players & saying hello, but recall Sticks, Mil, & Jack Elliot being great.

Just this year took my son to Charlie's clinic & all the players were good, Lachie Plowman probably the best & most talkative with the kids. Ed Curnow was strangely aloof to me when I tried having a chat, but I was kind of interrupting him taking kids through handball drills, so fair enough I guess.

My wife took the kids to an open training a couple years ago and says Plow was the standout interacting with the kids.

I had the pleasure of playing a round of golf with Michael Young 20 or so years ago at Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast.

Mick was teamed up to play with me and a mate, as he was there on his own (on holidays I presume). I remember him noticing that I was wearing a pair of Carlton socks, and also telling him about the Jack Newton Celebrity golf that was played there with players including Sam Newman and Mark Maclure taking part.

I felt a bit ignorant not knowing about his playing days with Carlton, let alone the fact that he was a premiership player. I began following the Blues in about '82, just after Mick's time at the Club.

Not long after the game of golf, I purchased an old footy card of Mick to remember what was a special day.


For the record, Mick won the golf.

Collected many autographs as a little fella, you may recall a Richmond charity game played at Windy Hill (of all places). Got Doull and the Buzz that day.

As a Kernahan obsessed kid he always had time.