Fat Pizza's Trivia Question #32

[Fat Pizza]

Which Fitzroy wingman from the 1970's claimed to have been the first Royboy to give away a free kick for kicking out of bounds on the full?

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[FitzroyRamone]

David Rhodes?

 

[Fat Pizza]

Good try. He played in the same era.

 

[Levo]

Alan Thompson!

 

[Fat Pizza]

Yes. Alan Thompson. Well done, Levo.

I actually won a box of 10 blank videos from the Coodabeen Champions back in 1985, by correctly answering this very same question. In true Coodabeens tradition, they called the videos "Famous Mickey Conlan Handpasses" & 7 of the tapes had been stolen before they gave me the prize.

 

[Levo]

you fit Conlans and Kevin Barletts hand passes on the back of a postage stamp, that's why they never played tennis 'cause they had to hit the ball back.

 

[Fat Pizza]

Most of Mick's handballs were to himself.

My theory is that he was saving up for a Grand Final, where he was going to surprise everyone by hanpassing within range of the goals. If you have a look at a video of the 1989 Reserves Grand Final, he does exactly that & helps seal the Premiership for the Roys.