Sheedy, Two Little Piggies and the Big Bad Fish
Possibly my favourite off-field footy yarn. I first read it in Paul Salmon's 'Fish Tales'. A brilliant story about a legendary coach and his star player going to a kindergarten Dads' day.
I was interviewing Paul Salmon for a biography I’m writing about Allan Jeans. A focus of the book will be rivalry between Essendon and Hawthorn in the eighties, and I wanted to hear a little of the Essendon side of things from the Big Fish. He was magnificent, as always. There is scarcely a more articulate or more universally liked man in footy than Sal…
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