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Geddinna Hole Guy
He’s known as “Geddinna Hole Guy”. The clown (always male) who yells out at golfing tournaments all over the world. More »
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Are they donning yellow and black in heaven?
HE WAS known as Captain Blood for his deeds on the field. But the great Jack Dyer won a far wider fan club when he got in front of a microphone and proceeded to butcher the English language. LAWRENCE MONEY has preserved some of his gems: More »
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A Demon’s Lament
IT’S BEEN a long, long, long time since the Long Room rang with premiership cheers from the Melbourne members. LAWRENCE MONEY shares the misery as Melbourne miss out on finals yet again: More »
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Bum-pats, high fives and hair ruffles
THEY GO high, they go low, but can they go far too far with their on-field footy celebrations? LAWRENCE MONEY investigates this strange phenomenon. More »
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Gone to that great commentary booth in the sky
FOOTY FANS never tired of the after-match exchanges between radio caller Harry Beitzel and his colleague Tommy Lahiff reporting from the dressing rooms More »
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An army of coaches
The Australian Army, according to an odd report in The Australian, has hired “executive coaches” to teach senior officers not to appear too “authoritarian and assertive”. No doubt the army’s worried about excessive assertiveness frightening the enemy.... More »
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When Silvio lost his head
The boot is never far from the mouth when LAWRENCE MONEY is prowling the airwaves for classic footy caller howlers More »
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Pass me the sand iron
LAWRENCE MONEY slices his way through a new bag of golfing terms More »
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The coach isn’t happy
LAWRENCE MONEY follows the cameras into the coach’s box and finds there are more moves than on the whiteboard: WHAT SADIST came up with the idea of positioning TV cameras outside the AFL coaches’ box? Did anyone ask the coaches first or did the cameras just ap... More »
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Which whiskers are which?
LAWRENCE MONEY returns to the golden days of Boot In Mouth when the football callers kept getting tangled up in words: The Ablett brothers are hard to tell apart – although one has a beard.” It’s a footy howler that rings down through the ages – so how appropr... More »
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Boot in Mouth
As a Melbourne Herald columnist LAWRENCE MONEY introduced an immensely popular segment called Boot in Mouth, featuring the verbal slips of the football commentators. Lou Richards was hurt at first but then grew to love it, even if he kept miscalling its title:... More »