As much as we may say that The AFL should have done more, the reality is - what could they have actually done to stop it?
All over now. We'll never know. Just such a damned shame.
So true.
And that's what Adam was like , great post
What an absolute legend
At the first Paul Kelly Cup (1998) my son was playing and we got chatting with the three Swans players who had come down to watch (Kelly came later and chatted with him too).
If the great Paul Kelly only gets a tunnel named after him, I won't be holding my breath for Goodesy to be getting anything named after him anytime soon.
The Sydney what Ground?
Yes of course the ground was originally established as a cricket ground, but it's been our home ground for 40 years as well and we're probably the biggest tenants. Already just about all stands are cricket related, we should be entitled to one as well?
Cricket:
They will never change the Ladies stand, Brewongle would be the only chance.
No it isn't, the SCG is on Gadigal land. Brewongle is a little town out Bathurst way, what the connection is to the SCG is anybody's guess.
Here you go Jewels - SMH, 12 years ago:
Thank you Mr Crust. I had always wondered why it was called Brewongle and, up until they started doing the Welcome to Country, had presumed (like others it seems) that it was the indigenous name for the area, now we know.Here you go Jewels - SMH, 12 years ago:
FINALLY, it seems, the mystery of how the Brewongle Stand at the Sydney Cricket Ground got its name has been solved.
For several generations, cricket-goers have wondered why it was not named, like most of the other stands, after a hero of yesteryear like Don Bradman, Bill O'Reilly, M.A. ''Monty'' Noble and Victor Trumper.
"Camping place" ... the original Brewongle Stand in 1977.
Traditionally, the favourite theory has been that the name ''brewongle'', an aboriginal word for ''camping place'', simply reflected the indigenous people's connection with the area.
Then, in the 1990s, it was discovered in SCG Trust minutes that the stand unofficially came to be called ''the Brewongle'' after a popular tea room of the same name operating within.
Only now has the full story - or almost all of it - been pieced together by writer and cricket historian Phil Derriman, largely through the National Library of Australia's Trove collection of old newspapers.
Writing in the latest SCG members' diary, he reveals that an existing tea room had indeed been taken over in 1894 by two women, presumably sisters, referred to as Misses A. and M.Lee. They renamed it Brewongle.
Though they were only referred to in print by their initials, Derriman believes they were Alice and May, unmarried daughters of a wealthy grazier, Thomas Lee, who owned a big property outside Brewongle, near Bathurst.
When, later in life, Mr Lee moved to Sydney he settled in a house in Double Bay, which in turn was named Brewongle. He died there in 1893. ''How his death affected his daughters Alice and May is anyone's guess,'' says Derriman.
''But it's at least reasonable to speculate that it encouraged them to become financially independent by starting a business. In the following year, as we've seen, Misses A. and M.Lee took over the tea room at the SCG and named it Brewongle, thereby ensuring that the SCG's main grandstand would one day be named Brewongle, too.''
Were they Alice and May? To Derriman it certainly seems so, though it has still to be positively confirmed for the ''final piece of the Brewongle puzzle to fall in place''.
In a nutshell, named after the town near Bathurst, current population 124.
Don't know how that town was named.
