Celebrity Square

[Mobbenfuhrer]

How many folks of major public profile used to follow the Roys? How many of them did you actually see at the games? We were discussing this at Roystock, and its led me to show a few nominees here :

John Blackman (seen at matches)
Ken Morgan (seen)
Bert Newton
The folks who played Libby & Toadfish on neighbours (seen)

My memory has already failed me ...

(A mate once yelled to Kym whatshername "Hey Libby, I love you, but I hate yer show." She gave him directions.)

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[killer]

You missed Frank Hardy

[killer]

also author Barry Dickins ("the royboys")

[killer]

and the Queen (well she turned up to one game)

[Mr Ripper]

The cast of Cop Shop and one or two of the early cast of Neighbours. All of 'em (at various times) shared a box in the Ryder Stand at Vicky Park that was right behind my pozzie. Gawd they could smoke too. Ewwww.

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[Mr Ripper]

Craig Huggins (GoldFM DJ)
Matty Lloyd

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[UK Roy]

Originally posted by killer:
and the Queen (well she turned up to one game)

She left early as well!. Not a true Roy.

[Levo]

There's plenty Mobbenfuhrer Cockaletchie Kid John Fitzgerald, Julie Anthony, John Waters, Jimmy Hannan and his gorgeous daughter Melissa, all the Cop Shop Mob inc Gil Tucker and loads more mostly thanks to Alan and Galia Hardy (Alan producer of the Henderson Kids and All the Rivers Run, Sullivans etc) for getting all to do those freebie concerts in the 80's.

[Levo]

And don't forget Henry Bolte one of our patrons in the 60's along with Sir John McEwan (?)former PM

[Fat Pizza]

Jon English - nearly stepped on me once down at the Junction Oval. I was only little & he was a big bloke, especially in his platform shoes.
John Waters
Stephen Cummings
Ugly Dave Gray - I never saw him at any matches, but he did wear a Fitzroy jumper one night on Blankety Blanks.

[Mr Ripper]

Do I vaguely recall Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver being presented with Roys jumpers on the back of the Sun on Saturday morning?

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[CDFCLad]

Anthony Morgan (I think) he was a comedian of the Denton Show and others fame. Saw him wearing the absolute filthiest Roys guernsey of all time.

[Mobbenfuhrer]

Frank Hardy.

Alan and Galia Hardy.

Was there a relationship? I always guessed so.

Galia was also involved in the kids show 'Kelly', a lassie-ish sort of production.

Thanks for all your submissions, folks!

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[Fat Pizza]

Gary Pert presented a Fitzroy jumper to Pam Shriver many years ago & she said last year that she still has it.

Frank Hardy was Alan's father. Galia is Alan's wife. Alan's sister, Shirley Hardy-Rix was also a keen Fitzroy supporter. Nice family.

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[Levo]

And Jimmy Wynds lookalike Wally Masur,

[windyhill]

Paula Duncan came up ok in a roy jumper.

[Levo]

And Lynda Stoner about a bees dick behind Paula is wearing the colours.

[Mobbenfuhrer]

Originally posted by Fat Pizza:
Shirley Hardy-Rix was also a keen Fitzroy supporter.

... and then there's her feller. Here we are at the footy being ABSOLUTE yobs, with Mr Rix chuckling along behind us, even when we drew visits from the local constabulary ...

... and then I'm watching TV a few days later and the lump which formed in my throat when I noted Mr R on the tube, and especially his profession!

I took it to him one day, and he was most amenable. That took a load off my mind!



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[Bloodstained Angel]

Karen Knowles
Brooke Satchwell

and the guy who plays Toady in neighbours, whattisname ? Ryan somebody ?

[Olmy]

Isn't the lead singer from "The Living End" A Fitzroy supporter???

There are a fair few Roys supporters on Triple-R radio. w

[Levo]

And Mick Conway Ex Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band stood with at the Junction Oval right pisspot, he kept falling of me esky.

[Levo]

Actually Graham Riordan ex "Backboners" saved Rixy one day from getting a hiding and he didn't know he was a walloper.
See how nice Fitzroy people are toward the constabulary.

[Levo]

Hey Kev all coming back through a haze, and I can see Antoinette Byron (the sheila form the cop show skirts), and Mark Kratzman.

[Levo]

Kev it's coming back through a haze Antoinette Byron (from Skirts the Cop show) and Mark Kratzman.

[FitzroyRamone]

Of the current AFL players, Simon Prestigiacomo (Collingwood) was a huge Fitzroy supporter and was distraught when he was picked up by the Pies. Fraser Gehrig also wanted to play for Fitzroy as he supported them as a boy (he's uncle being Ross Thornton.

Cheers,
FitzroyRamone

[Olmy]

Originally posted by FitzroyRamone:
Of the current AFL players, Simon Prestigiacomo (Collingwood) was a huge Fitzroy supporter and was distraught when he was picked up by the Pies. Fraser Gehrig also wanted to play for Fitzroy as he supported them as a boy (he's uncle being Ross Thornton.

Cheers,
FitzroyRamone

Luke Power, was a fanatic Roys supporter, and read once, that Matthew Lloyd was also a Fitzroy supporter before being drafted in 1995.

Mick Dwyer was also a Roys supporter, and Beau McDonald has a Fitzroy connection somewhere. I think he's related to Gary Sidebottom . . . ?????

[Mr Ripper]

Big Beau is the nephew of former Roys Garry and Allan Sidebottom.

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[Beausgirl43]

He sure is Ripper.
YAY BEAU, LOVE YA MAN.
cheers...

[Mr Ripper]

Anyone mentioned Nancye Cain yet? Or Tom Reynolds.

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[OldLion]

Zig ... ( or was it Zag ).

[Mr Ripper]

The non-pervert one, hopefully...

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[Levo]

And another Hardy family member Marieke Hardy former writer on Neighbours (following her parents), plus parts in other shows and as the blonde in the car in a .05 Commercial, when a littel tacker Marieke always on Thursday took a Chocolate cake to Lakeside for Timmy Pekin and others.

[Levo]

Maryanne Fahey (Kylie Mole) and son Sam.

[FitzroyJamesDio]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Levo:
[B]And Jimmy Wynds lookalike Wally Masur,

why do you think gil tucker had his character named ROY baker

yes lots of the cop shop crew..paula and john

ken 'can' morgan

bert newton

blackers

julian clary

and theres someone else but i cant remember who..lol

[St Roy]

What about the greatest of them all! I'm only 34, but I read somewhere that Sir Donald Bradman was a Roys fan and actually attended a game at Brunswick Street in the 1950s when Smith was coach and we were winning!

[Wayde Petersen]

Jason Heatley ( ex West Coast and St Kilda, now with North Heidelburg ) was a huge Fitzroy fan and even offered himself to the club a possible place in the team.

[FitzroyJamesDio]

Dave Sillivan...otherwise known as Paul Cronin followed Fitzroy big time before he went onto take on the Bears..

and Ugly Dave Gray was a fitzroy supporter too...actually ive got him singing some fitzroy song on an old 7"..."im a lion thru and thru in my golden red and blue.." lol



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[Fat Pizza]

When Haydn Bunton was 17, he was described as one of the most promising cricketers in NSW. He was placed in the same category as Don Bradman as a "player to watch".

Jason Heatley played in practice matches for Fitzroy, but didn't exactly set the world on fire. When Fitzroy recruited Michael Dunstan from Subiaco, they recommended that Subi take Heatley. After a good season in the WAFL, West Coast picked him up.

[FitzroyJamesDio]

wasn't col'n carpenter a lion supporter

and his wife who hosted 'rock arena'(was her name suzanne dowling?) too i think..she had a boutique in acland street years ago..and had a lions scarf in the window

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[Levo]

And the Dodgy Brothers, they were Fitzroy, used to drink occasionally in the Albion Charles, trouble is we had a lot of "supporters" but no bloody members, everyone you talked to used to barrack for The Roys but none bought a membership ticket if they had ( I know if me aunty had balls she'd be me uncle)we would still be in the business of playing as Fitzroy not just talking about it.

[FitzroyJamesDio]

Originally posted by Levo:
And the Dodgy Brothers, they were Fitzroy, used to drink occasionally in the Albion Charles, trouble is we had a lot of "supporters" but no bloody members, everyone you talked to used to barrack for The Roys but none bought a membership ticket if they had ( I know if me aunty had balls she'd be me uncle)we would still be in the business of playing as Fitzroy not just talking about it.


sigh..i think youre right Levo..



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Fitzroy James Dio II

[Hellacopters]

Originally posted by FitzroyJamesDio:

sigh..i think youre right Levo..



Fitzroy James Dio, from these very pages is a bit of cult celebrity himself running and dj-ing Melbourne's home of hard rock for over a decade - The Cathouse! Get a Hair Cut!!!
He also manages bands and did the weekly heavy metal column in music street paper Inpress Magazine for over ten years. Gotchya John Buoy!

[FitzroyJamesDio]

hahaha you tosser!! yeah, well i told em to let me be number one ticket holder but they thought bert might do them more justice..might have been the upside down cross burned on my forehead that blew it for me?

THANKS JOSH!

see you at the corner tonight...youre in trouble MISTER!!..hahaha

[Olmy]

Don't forget comedian Anthony Morgan . . .

[Fat Pizza]

Originally posted by Levo:
( I know if me aunty had balls she'd be me uncle)

If my auntie had a moustache, she'd barrack for Footscray!

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[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

Hey FP - quit the stereotypes. My aunt is a Footscray supporter and she doesn't have facial hair. In fact, she has beautiful, silky hair flowing down her back. None on her head mind you http://www.bigfooty.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[Fat Pizza]

Originally posted by Waltzing Woof Biscuit:
My aunt is a Footscray supporter and she doesn't have facial hair. In fact, she has beautiful, silky hair flowing down her back. None on her head mind you http://www.bigfooty.com/ubb/wink.gif


Never trust anyone, who hasn't got a bald spot.

[killer]

Originally posted by FitzroyJamesDio:
Dave Sillivan...otherwise known as Paul Cronin followed Fitzroy big time before he went onto take on the Bears..




This could be an urban myth.
I remember reading of Cronin spining this line to the Fitzroy board when he was trying to get them to move the club to Brizi.
Any thoughts?

[FitzroyJamesDio]

Originally posted by killer:
This could be an urban myth.
I remember reading of Cronin spining this line to the Fitzroy board when he was trying to get them to move the club to Brizi.
Any thoughts?

he may have had a different agenda..ive heard him on 3AW with phil brady on remember when and hes talked about him growing up and supporting fitzroy..then he had the opportunity at the brisbane bears



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[Mobbenfuhrer]

Other references to the Roys include the movie 'Garbo' (about our friendly bin collectors, not regarding Greta) ... with Los Trios Ringbarkus.

One of the two main characters (from Los Trios) wears a Fitzroy beanie during the movie, and there is a strange man in the film who stands on the side of the road wearing a Roys guernsey.

... most of us are probably strange men on the side of the road wearing a Roys guernsey.

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