I posted this in the wests tigers forum...
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: History Lesson for me!
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I was in hospital a couple of weeks ago for a knee reconstruction and when i was recovering i started chatting to the old bloke in the bed next to me.
I recognised his name but couldn't pick it. We started talking about footy and it clicked. It was Brian Hambly - Australian 2nd rower from the sixties.
He was pretty stoked that I had heard of him - me being in my mid twenties and all!
Anyway he started at souths and played for parra during the sixties.
The best stories were about playing for the kangaroos under Keith Barnes in 59 and Arthur Summons in 63. Getting stuck in to the poms with Noel Kelly in england in 63, when he got sent off in an all in brawl!
He played against the great magpies and dragons sides in the early sixties and was offered to go to both clubs.
he went to parra cause he had mates there like ron lynch. and he coached the eels in the late sixties.
he was telling me how him and ron lynch didn't make the parra legends team but dean pay did what a f***en joke!
anyway it was a honour to meet the bloke, a real champion. it was great to hear the old war stories especially about wests.
my old man was stoked when he came to see me and saw brian there. he spent the next 2 hours talking to brian about pratten park and the 63 grand final and how wests were robbed and forget all about me. bastard
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: History Lesson for me!
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I was in hospital a couple of weeks ago for a knee reconstruction and when i was recovering i started chatting to the old bloke in the bed next to me.
I recognised his name but couldn't pick it. We started talking about footy and it clicked. It was Brian Hambly - Australian 2nd rower from the sixties.
He was pretty stoked that I had heard of him - me being in my mid twenties and all!
Anyway he started at souths and played for parra during the sixties.
The best stories were about playing for the kangaroos under Keith Barnes in 59 and Arthur Summons in 63. Getting stuck in to the poms with Noel Kelly in england in 63, when he got sent off in an all in brawl!
He played against the great magpies and dragons sides in the early sixties and was offered to go to both clubs.
he went to parra cause he had mates there like ron lynch. and he coached the eels in the late sixties.
he was telling me how him and ron lynch didn't make the parra legends team but dean pay did what a f***en joke!
anyway it was a honour to meet the bloke, a real champion. it was great to hear the old war stories especially about wests.
my old man was stoked when he came to see me and saw brian there. he spent the next 2 hours talking to brian about pratten park and the 63 grand final and how wests were robbed and forget all about me. bastard
