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35Daicos said:
And this one seems to have been missed: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AG3fx4WuX/
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DRISCOLL, Frank | Death Notices | Melbourne | My Tributes

Late of FrenchmansPassed away peacefully at Ballarat Base Hospital on Friday December 27th, 2024.Aged 90Husband of Liz and much-loved father to David, Richard …
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Yep , looks to be correct. If someone could update the wiki please.
 
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Essendon player Stuart Barclay died recently:
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This says he played 39 games, while Wiki, AF.com and AFL Tables have 38.

There's a notice in the Launceston Examiner on April 19 (from a football club), but it doesn't give a date: https://www.examiner.com.au/tributes-funerals/death-notices/674013/barclay-stuart/

I'm not sure about the exact date then.
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The notice in The Examiner was lodged by people connected with the City-South Football Club. As noted in the info box for Barclay, he coached them to the 1974 [NTFA] premiership.
 
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Tony Shaw
NT Football ( ND / Waratah / Nightcliff/ SM coach ) and South Adelaide (19th man in 64 GF?)
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Wiki says Shaw was BP in the GF - but yes South Adelaide
 
Robert Walls passing has saddened me. He was one of my favourite people in football, ever.

Nobody in the history of the game carried his experience in my opinion, and his forthright honesty is something I always respected and admired in him.
The fact that he experienced success at a wealthy club like Carlton and finished off his playing days at a comparatively threadbare Fitzroy where sacrifices had to be made alone gives him a degree of depth of experience.

Coaching Fitzroy to moderate success from 81-85 is an effort too-easily dismissed considering the lack of resources at the club. It was a club whose only strength was its people, and Walls clearly commanded a great degree of loyalty from those players, otherwise he would never have made the finals three times in five years.

Returning to Carlton netted him a premiership, a runners up, a third placing, and then the sack after Capper kicked a late goal at Princes Park to see the lowly Brisbane Bears defeat Carlton.

His Brisbane Bears experience is perhaps his most compelling. We will never see an under-resourced, hardly-professional club like the original Brisbane Bears, and their rise by the mid-90s was purely Robert Walls' demands for greater professionalism as well as offloading the deadwood and bringing in youth. His stories regarding then-owner Reuben Pelerman are mind-boggling.
Brisbane under Walls saw Michael Voss (1992), Craig McRae (1995), Jason Akermanis (1995), Darryl White (1992), Justin Leppitsch (1993), Chris Scott (1994) and Nigel Lappin (1994) start their careers and be developed further in subsequent years. I see Walls as crucial to Brisbane's rise as a power. All except Chris Scott were three-time premiership players (except Scott, who was not fully fit in 2003), with Voss being a Brownlow Medallist.

His story about going to McDonald's around 1991 with his sons wearing his Brisbane Bears t-shirt and the kid behind the counter asked, "Oh, you go for the Bears? You going to the game?" Walls responds with, "Yeah, I'll be there." The kid reached under the counter and gave him a heap of entry tickets.

Finishing at Richmond, his insights into the culture there are also fascinating (Richmond: The Lost Years).

I enjoyed his straightforward commentary once he had finished. His vast experience allowed him to be qualified to make comments far more than most others. Few had a broader range of experience than he.

Whether you liked him or not, his experience and insight into the game will never be matched by anybody again, and I don't think people appreciate the uniqueness or his breadth of experience.

Condolences to all of his family, close friends, and the countless people who he helped in their careers.
 
Robert Walls passing makes him the first of the four Brisbane Bears coaches to have died. Peter Knights, Paul Feltham and John Northey are still living at the time of posting.
 

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Frank Dunin (RFC 1953, 55-59) passed away this week. Keep an eye out for death notice. I am working on an obit for the club website
 

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Vale Peter Rice

The Sydney Swans are saddened of the passing of former South Melbourne player, Peter Rice, aged 87. The Mayne family (friends of Peter) have written the following tribute.
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I can't see an exact DOD for him.
 
AFL Historian and North Historian advise me that North premiership player, RIchmond player, and caretaker Bears coach Paul Feltham died December 19 2019.
Can't seem to find any details from that time of his passing, but they have confirmed he has passed.
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AFL Historian and North Historian advise me that North premiership player, RIchmond player, and caretaker Bears coach Paul Feltham died December 19 2019.
Can't seem to find any details from that time of his passing, but they have confirmed he has passed.
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Five years for an inaugural Roos premiership player and 100-gamer's death to go unnoticed. That's astonishing and kind of upsetting to hear.
 

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