Fat Pizza's Trivia Question #18

[Fat Pizza]

During 2000, Dyson Hore-Lacy released a book, titled simply "Fitzroy". The cover featured an AFL official, with his head obscured by a football, shooting arrows at a poor, emaciated lion, nailed to a cross. This picture was based on a sculpture, displayed in the window of the Artist's Gallery, in Brunswick St, Fitzroy in late 1996.

Who was the AFL official featured in the original sculpture?

For a bonus point, who bought the original sculpture?

 

[Olmy]

Mr. Ross "Thermonuclear Protection".

Got no idea who bought the original sculpture though!

 

[Fat Pizza]

Correct. Ross Oakley was firing the arrows.

I'll leave the bonus question open for another couple of days.

 

[Olmy]

Was it John Blackman who bought the sculpture?

 

[Fat Pizza]

Not John Blackman.

The buyer is a member of Fitzroy's board.

 

[Olmy]

David McMahon, Kevin Ryan, Colin Hobbs??

(I originally thought it was Colin Hobbs, due to his involvement with the book).

 

[Fat Pizza]

Why don't you just name the whole Board, Olmy?

Your original thought was correct.

Colin Hobbs, the man, who stirred up big Carl Ditterich in Fitzroy's last game at Brunswick St back in 1966, causing the big man to get suspended & miss St Kilda's only Premiership.