Fred Cook book.

[Twodogs]

http://www.melbournebooks.com.au/fabulous-fred.html

Fred would have quite a story to tell and i'm really looking forward to reading it.

[ledge]

Re: Fred Cook book.

He even lived with Dennis Allen at one stage , doesn't get lower than that, no idea how he survived that let alone got his head together to write a book

[Twodogs]

Re: Fred Cook book.

I don't know he lived withDennis. That guy was a dangerous lunatic.

[azabob]

Re: Fred Cook book.

Who is Dennis Allen - I want some stories!

Back on Fred Cook - according to Wiki (every UNI students referencing tool) he had a heart attack at during a game but continued playing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Cook_(Australian_footballer_born_1947)

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Fred Cook book.

Who is Dennis Allen - I want some stories!

Back on Fred Cook - according to Wiki (every UNI students referencing tool) he had a heart attack at during a game but continued playing?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Co...ler_born_1947)

Give him a wiki. He hails from Pettingill lineage from memory. Probably one of the dangerous and psychopathic Australian gangland hitmen ever, including Benji in the list. Drug dealer of some repute too. Apparently dead set psychopathic if you believe the stories.

[azabob]

Re: Fred Cook book.

Give him a wiki. He hails from Pettingill lineage from memory. Probably one of the dangerous and psychopathic Australian gangland hitmen ever, including Benji in the list. Drug dealer of some repute too. Apparently dead set psychopathic if you believe the stories.

Cheers BT.

[Bulldog4life]

Re: Fred Cook book.

Who is Dennis Allen - I want some stories!

Back on Fred Cook - according to Wiki (every UNI students referencing tool) he had a heart attack at during a game but continued playing?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Co...ler_born_1947)

He is featured in the 2010 movie Animal Kingdom.

[Twodogs]

Re: Fred Cook book.

Who is Dennis Allen - I want some stories!

Back on Fred Cook - according to Wiki (every UNI students referencing tool) he had a heart attack at during a game but continued playing?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Co...ler_born_1947)

DA went under the nickname mr Death. He was Melbourne's biggest speed dealer back in he '80s. He was also one if Melbourne's biggest speed users which tended to make him a bit erratic and unstable.

Crazy bastard owned more than a fifty houses in Richmond alone. Kath Pettingil said he went down to the deli one Saturday and bought two houses on the way there and back.

[ledge]

Re: Fred Cook book.

Tara Moss had that series of Australian criminals and they had an episode on Dennis, wouldn't be surprised if an underbelly was done on this guy.. Be plenty of books and info on him.
For Fred Cook to survive just living with this guy was a miracle.
Psychotic who would shoot you for just looking at him.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Fred Cook book.

One of my childhood heroes . Sam Newman (for all his faults) bailed Fred out a while ago .

[ledge]

Re: Fred Cook book.

Fred was coach down at FIT one year , sometimes wouldn't even turn up at training or games.

[Ozza]

Re: Fred Cook book.

One of my childhood heroes . Sam Newman (for all his faults) bailed Fred out a while ago .

Sam still looks after Fred a bit ( $$ ).

[Sedat]

Re: Fred Cook book.

There was a TV series from a couple of years ago, Killing Time, that was based on the life and times of underworld lawyer Andrew Fraser. It heavily chronicled Fraser's relationship with Dennis Allen and the Pettingill's. Allen was played by Richard Cawthorne and Fraser by David Wenham - suffice to say it was an excellent series. Lewis Moran and Victor Pierce also get a run in the series.

Well worth watching if you haven't done so already.

[Twodogs]

Re: Fred Cook book.

There was a TV series from a couple of years ago, Killing Time, that was based on the life and times of underworld lawyer Andrew Fraser. It heavily chronicled Fraser's relationship with Dennis Allen and the Pettingill's. Allen was played by Richard Cawthorne and Fraser by David Wenham - suffice to say it was an excellent series. Lewis Moran and Victor Pierce also get a run in the series.

Well worth watching if you haven't done so already.

It is good. I got the DVD because the series came and went with such little fanfare that I missed it.

[Webby]

Re: Fred Cook book.

I think Ben Mendelssohn's character "Pope" in the movie "Animal Kingdom" was also not so loosely based on Dennis Allen... And the Pettingill family.