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Mr Ripper
14th March 2001, 09:40
Date: 30.8.86
Venue: Victoria Park
Opponent: Sydney
Time: 11 mins; 3rd quarter

Peter: "Look at the rain coming down! Predictably, the kick off-target...and a mark taken by Dwyer in the back pocket...Roos...it is coming down by the 5-ton truck load here at Victoria Park."

Lou: "And they're hailstones too, Pete."

Peter: "Thank you, Louis. You can probably hear them on the tin roof...Lokan."

Lou: "Here we go again."

Peter: "Stand at the back of the box, I think. You'd better get off er, up your chair, I'll do likewise...ball driven up towards Fitzroy's half forward line, but standing his ground well is Ian Roberts; he's gone for the pass; that's Bartholomaeus, the red-head; they're easy to pick out in the red...the...in the rain...towards centre wing...it's er, Reeves...well tackled by Smith...Reeves looks for the handpass; ooh, it's a wild one, down towards the edge of the square, into the open spaces, certainly...Osborne...gets it back to Clayton...Clayton; 20 metre handpass to Barwick...Barwick into the goalsquare...BOUNCED THROUGH! It's a goal! With the rain and the hail and the wind...and what a goal! Barwick putting through Fitzroy's seventh...7.14.56 to 4.7.31."


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