Simon Beasley & Nola Sherwell

[ledge]

Busy following his son umpire and a bit disillusioned with the AFL, sounds a bit contradictory I know.

[Remi Moses]

Carlton won, so perhaps not perfect.

That happened often in the 80's.
You'd hear teams that would back themselves to pay for their end of season trip.

[KT31]

That happened often in the 80's.
You'd hear teams that would back themselves to pay for their end of season trip.

Have a faint memory of Dougie betting the trip money against us and we pulled an upset and won.

[Twodogs]

Have a faint memory of Dougie betting the trip money against us and we pulled an upset and won.

V Fitzroy in '83 at Western Oval?

[Remi Moses]

V Fitzroy in '83 at Western Oval?

Didn't Eastcoast Jeans put up some dollars if the club won its last three.
Pretty sure they knocked over the Roys in that period.

[Remi Moses]

Have a faint memory of Dougie betting the trip money against us and we pulled an upset and won.

That classic Johnny Damon Quote is going to apply to us if we ever salute.

[Twodogs]

Didn't Eastcoast Jeans put up some dollars if the club won its last three.
Pretty sure they knocked over the Roys in that period.

Yep, you're right. I was confusing that game with another.

From memory the sum was $21,000 if we won the last 3 games. We won the first game (came back from 39 points down at Moorabbin at 3/4 time to win it on the siren) but were 4 or 5 goals down against Fitzroy at halftime the week after. The legend goes that the Eastcoast owner walked into the change rooms, stood on a bench and pulled a brown paper bag containing the 21 large out of his pocket and said "win the game and it's all yours boys." We were kicking into a stiff breeze in the third quarter but out scored them easily and won the game.

[bornadog]

Yep, you're right. I was confusing that game with another.

From memory the sum was $21,000 if we won the last 3 games. We won the first game (came back from 39 points down at Moorabbin at 3/4 time to win it on the siren) but were 4 or 5 goals down against Fitzroy at halftime the week after. The legend goes that the Eastcoast owner walked into the change rooms, stood on a bench and pulled a brown paper bag containing the 21 large out of his pocket and said "win the game and it's all yours boys." We were kicking into a stiff breeze in the third quarter but out scored them easily and won the game.

We need the Mission Boss to go to the change rooms every week with a bag of money

[Mofra]

We need the Mission Boss to go to the change rooms every week with a bag of money

*cough* Chris Judd *cough*

[bornadog]

Unfortunately I couldn't find an online link for this article so I scanned. Hope it comes up OK.

Bump as a great read.

Nola awarded life membership at last nights AGM, along with Susan Alberti, Tom Williams Simon Garlick, Owen Madigan and the late Lynne Kosky.