News One on One with: Russell Ebert

[OneonOneSA]

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On a personal level, this is my greatest achievement in interviews. Hope you all enjoy!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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On a personal level, this is my greatest achievement in interviews. Hope you all enjoy!

Great job. Re North Melbourne, he was modest as usual;

They were very accommodating, I flew over on a Tuesday to train and flew back after training, I ran the business here on Monday and Wednesday. Thursday lunch-time I packed up two young children at that stage and my wife, and flew over on Thursday night, worked in Melbourne on Friday as I was in the sports industry.

I played Saturday, flew back Saturday night.

It was an incredible experience and it almost felt like you were starting again, because you were playing with the best players assembled around Australia, and you were playing with a club that had been starved of success and then had it in 1975 and 1977.

For some of 1979 season he didn't fly over on Tuesday because work was too busy and trained with Port and only trained Thursday's with North.

 

[Lockhart Road]

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On a personal level, this is my greatest achievement in interviews. Hope you all enjoy!

I read it avidly. Well done.
Towards the end I was wondering if the questions would modernise into The Great Man’s role at Alberton these days. I mean, George Fiacchi was asked about his board experiences, and gave a highly quotable reply.
For example, what would Russell say when asked: “I understand you flew up to Hong Kong with Tom Jonas and Tom Logan for Grand Final weekend duties in 2013 ... and ended up starting the China Strategy. Is that true?”
Case for a sequel?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Russell's year at North Melbourne in 1979 never gets the accolades it deserves. As mentioned, Russell training with Port during the week and travelling to Melbourne to play on weekends. Despite occasional ill-informed comment, Russell (who turned 30 years of age during the 1979 season) had a stellar year with North. In his first and only year at VFL level, Russell played 25 games for North Melbourne, kicked 15 goals, polled 9 Brownlow Medal votes (3rd highest for North that year, behind Gary Dempsey and Ross Glendinning and ahead of North’s recognised VFL stars such as Malcolm Blight, Keith Greig, Stan Alves and Wayne Schimmelbusch), and accumulated 534 possessions for the season back when that was a measure of impact on a game, especially for a player with Russell’s sublime skills. Ron Barassi had no doubt that had Ebert joined the VFL at a younger age he would have been a champion of that competition, just as he was at Port Adelaide. Thankfully, Russell’s commitment was to Port Adelaide.

 

[PepeSilvia]

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On a personal level, this is my greatest achievement in interviews. Hope you all enjoy!

Interesting read, thanks for sharing. Feel like a question or two about his involvement with the club these days would've been worthwhile. Minor criticism is that your transcription/proofreading is a bit sloppy.

 

[OneonOneSA]

Interesting read, thanks for sharing. Feel like a question or two about his involvement with the club these days would've been worthwhile. Minor criticism is that your transcription/proofreading is a bit sloppy.

Definitely fair, I've edited it thoroughly now, but thanks for the feedback!

 

[Adam Marrett23]

Great read and well done on the interview.

Bought a smile to my face to see Russell mention my uncle Paul Marrett in there.

 

[davo999]

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Fantastic . Very enjoyable. I was 11 when Russell started so he’s always been my hero