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I know a bloke who did book reports on Specky McGee in high school. Fair to say he wasn't the sharpest.
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any good books on fitzroy and the merger.
Looks like McCartney with the glove.Looks like Sav Rocca but can't remember too much glove work from Sav
Dyson Hore-Lacey's book is the one to read if you are interested goalieboy82. Refer to my post above. Adam Muyt's book is also very interesting as it explores the different emotions of old Fitzroy suuporters.
Here are links.
http://www.blaqbooks.com.au/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2265
http://www.vulgar.com.au/muyt.html
The Coach. There will never be a better
The best...The Coach by John Powers. How lucky did that guy get? Getting behind the scenes for such an amazing season. Beautifully written capturing Barassi's temperament and the players' willingness to go into battle for him. I don't think Powers was actually much of a footy fan but that actually helps the book by avoiding any 'fanboy' gushing over events. I think I read somewhere that initially Barassi didn't want to do it, then enjoyed having Powers around the club, but then was disappointed with the book - he thought it would be more about the club and team and less about him. But over time he has come to appreciate what a fine book it was.
Second best...Sacked Coach by Stan Alves. Awful title because the book is so much more than that. Obviously it goes into Alves' Melbourne days joining the best team in the league at the wrong time as it began its demise but being among the best players, his success at North and his rise and fall as the Saints coach. Outside of footy, Alves has been to hell with the tragic death of his son, but his refusal to hate life and his embracement of the positive is truly inspiring.
The most disappointing...The North Story by Fr Gerard Dowling. I should have loved this book but I found it so unengaging. I don't even think I finished it. Maybe it was me but I thought it got mired for long sections going into too much detail over off-field events which didn't seem all that important. When it got to the greatest moment in the club's history - The 1975 Grand Final - the chapter was written as a play-by-play retelling of the entire match (ie. Burns picked up a loose ball, evaded a tackle from Rowlings and threw the ball onto his boot. The ball sailed towards the half-forward flank where Feltham and Bremner contested but it bounced in front of them and trickled out of bounds. The boundary umpire threw it in and......for the entire match!!!) I was really disappointed and wish a better book could be written. The best club history book I have read was St.Kilda's The Point Of It All by Russell Holmesby.
Master, the first edition of the north story was pre beta, vhs and dvd days so the 75 GF chapter did have some importance I reckon - although I agree with you and in actual fact I couldn't read it, I didn't need to, I owned the 75 GF vhs by the time I bought the north story so I just watched it instead.
But I think the play by play was there in the first to bring the game to life for the reader. So the North story (if you can rate it from its first publishing) is still a book for the fan IMHO
Cheers, Adam
The best...The Coach by John Powers. How lucky did that guy get? Getting behind the scenes for such an amazing season. Beautifully written capturing Barassi's temperament and the players' willingness to go into battle for him. I don't think Powers was actually much of a footy fan but that actually helps the book by avoiding any 'fanboy' gushing over events. I think I read somewhere that initially Barassi didn't want to do it, then enjoyed having Powers around the club, but then was disappointed with the book - he thought it would be more about the club and team and less about him. But over time he has come to appreciate what a fine book it was.
The best...The Coach by John Powers. How lucky did that guy get? Getting behind the scenes for such an amazing season. Beautifully written capturing Barassi's temperament and the players' willingness to go into battle for him. I don't think Powers was actually much of a footy fan but that actually helps the book by avoiding any 'fanboy' gushing over events. I think I read somewhere that initially Barassi didn't want to do it, then enjoyed having Powers around the club, but then was disappointed with the book - he thought it would be more about the club and team and less about him. But over time he has come to appreciate what a fine book it was.
Second best...Sacked Coach by Stan Alves. Awful title because the book is so much more than that. Obviously it goes into Alves' Melbourne days joining the best team in the league at the wrong time as it began its demise but being among the best players, his success at North and his rise and fall as the Saints coach. Outside of footy, Alves has been to hell with the tragic death of his son, but his refusal to hate life and his embracement of the positive is truly inspiring.
The most disappointing...The North Story by Fr Gerard Dowling. I should have loved this book but I found it so unengaging. I don't even think I finished it. Maybe it was me but I thought it got mired for long sections going into too much detail over off-field events which didn't seem all that important. When it got to the greatest moment in the club's history - The 1975 Grand Final - the chapter was written as a play-by-play retelling of the entire match (ie. Burns picked up a loose ball, evaded a tackle from Rowlings and threw the ball onto his boot. The ball sailed towards the half-forward flank where Feltham and Bremner contested but it bounced in front of them and trickled out of bounds. The boundary umpire threw it in and......for the entire match!!!) I was really disappointed and wish a better book could be written. The best club history book I have read was St.Kilda's The Point Of It All by Russell Holmesby.
No doubt there. Still got original copy.
in the beginning God created North Melbourne. Let there be a Flag winning team for them he said. and everything was good.The Dean Laidley story will be an interesting, albeit difficult read one day.
I had a guess before reading what you guys guessed and I thought top right was Leigh Brown.Reckon the top right is Grant.