Keep punching!

[Bunk Moreland]

RIP Scotty Palmer

Thanks for all the Saturday night updates as a kid! Pre internet, a totally different world.

 

[Cleavy]

RIP

 

[Hojuman]

" Palmers Punchlines " Tweets for the '70's.

R.I.P. Scotty. True football man.

 

[raymond35]

A genuine legend.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

A huge party of footy in his day. The face of breaking news in many ways, with his "punchlines".

 

[aussierulesrules]

Keep punching.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

He was the Sam McClure/Damien Barrett/Tom Brown of his day but with personality & without the ‘dickheadedness’

 

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

Vale Scotty Palmer

Keep Punching

 

[Nostradumbass]

Damn, always loved his segment when I was a kid.

R.I.P

 

[JackFlash]

A very important part of footy news when i was growing up...A sad day! Somebody you could trust with the news, nobody like him today!

 

[Rosscoe]

Great memories, thanks Scotty..keep punching

 

[hilly]

He was the Sam McClure/Damien Barrett/Tom Brown of his day but with personality & without the ‘dickheadedness’

And also appeared to be actually interested in footy, not in petty arguments or ego boosting.

Keep on punching.

 

[BF Tiger]

Vale.

Loved his segment. Hope he’s been inducted in to the AFL media HoF.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Vale.

Loved his segment. Hope he’s been inducted in to the AFL media HoF.

Has to be.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Few good stories going around today. Good one about him calling the SANFL in 1990 to get a few quotes about Port Adelaide leaving for the AFL.

He actually didn’t know at the time that Port had done the deal with the AFL in secret, behind the backs of the other SANFL clubs and in violation of a pact that no SANFL club would break away without agreement or before 1993. So he’d inadvertently blown the whole thing open.

He got a few quotes, none that were printable however.

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

Sad news.

One of the best footy journos going around when I was growing up. Also a passionate Pies man.

Keep Punching!

 

[Kapow!!!]

Outside of the dulcet sounds of Diesel and Hunters and Collectors his was the most recognisable voice of AFL of the burgeoning AFL era with the scoops around the grounds. Vale, a treasured memory of many nostalgic AFL fans

 

[lumpinee]

Scotty Palmer was/is VFL,AFL royalty,thanks for the memories Scotty

 

[PetterdHoisted]

How did media ownership work back then?

was Herald-Sun journo, right? But appeared briefly on Channel 9 Sunday mornings? All very vague memories.

Mentioned above he was a Pies fan, but I never detected any bias? unlike todays conflicted mess...

 

[Freomaniac]

Gutted

 

[Sphynx]

Would have been the GOAT if 30 years younger with Twitter etc.

 

[captain blood 17]

Another part of the childhood sadly gone

 

[Freomaniac]

Outside of the dulcet sounds of Diesel and Hunters and Collectors his was the most recognisable voice of AFL of the burgeoning AFL era with the scoops around the grounds. Vale, a treasured memory of many nostalgic AFL fans

Agreed

 

[carloss]

Would have been the GOAT if 30 years younger with Twitter etc.

https://twitter.com/ScotPalmer

 

[windyhill]

Saturday winters went like this. Off to wherever Essendon were playing with Dad. Home, fish and chips, chunky bar, football replay including Palmers Punchlines, bed.
RIP Scotty.