Jim Sharman - Oldest living footballer

[gr8_1]

This is a good read:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/04/1086203632094.html

Part of the article :

In March, the Magpies awarded him life membership, 64 years after he last played for the club.

Life membership is bestowed after 10 years' service and Jim played from 1934-40, although he was captain in his final year, but what the heck, if a bloke makes it to 91, what's a miserable three years?

He never misses a Wests reunion and clearly overlooks the fact the club's modern reincarnation is a joint venture with Balmain and named Tigers.

"I've got my eyes on the young Magpies," he said of the team that plays the Storm in Melbourne tonight.

"They're coming good."

The past is hard to let go at times. Especially after all the good and bad times you go through supporting your beloved team. It seems this 91 year old Magpie fan can accept the JV but still hold onto his memories.

Even though I respect the decision of the minority of old Magpie and Balmain fans not to support the JV, I hope oneday they will be on the same side as Jim and the rest of the Wests Tigers fans.

BTW
Do any Magpie fans know this guy ? (yappy ??)
If so, whats he like ?

 

[innsaneink]

Great Story.....now thats Aussie.

From the red dust north of Dalmore Downs
Sharman's tents roll into town
Twelve will face the auctioneer
Sharman's Boxers stand their ground
Their days are darker than your nights
But they won't be the first to fall
Children broken from their dreams
But they won't be the first to fall

Fighting in the spotlight
Eye's turn blacker than their skin
For Jimmy Sharman's boxers
It's no better if you win
Standing in the darkness
Lined up waiting for the bell
The days are wasted drinking
At the first and last hotel

Why are we fighting for this?
Why are you paying for this?
You pay to see me fall like shrapnel
To the floor
What is the reason for this?
There is a reason for this?
What is the reason they keep coming back for more?

The blows now bring him to his knees
But still the crowd calls out for more
The drums are burning in his ears
The man keeps counting out the score

(Hirst/Moginie)

Related:
Midnight Oil Lyrics
Midnight Oil Red Sails In The Sunset Lyrics

 

[yappy]

Yeah, I was the one who organised to get him made a life member. Visited him at his place in Randwick and also picked him up for the AGM. I mentioned to Rick that him getting life membership might make a good story for Thirsty, so I suppose he eventually got around to it.

He's a classic. Got more story's than you've had hot baths. Showed me some fantasic photo's like the big one of him and his Joey's team that is mentioned in the article. It's about 2 foot by 18 inches. He also showed me this fantastic colourised photo of him with Alan Ridley. Jimmy was always a little guy but that Ridley was enormous. Think Richards stretched just a little and after a few good hard weeks on the roids. No wonder the poms hated him. He carved em up at the AGM. You can take the man out of the show, but you can't take the show out of the showman.

Ink, somehow I don't think the Oils where penning a tribute to old Jim, but hey I don't think he cares either.

 

[gr8_1]

I think that song is about his dad. ---> Jim Sharman I

As per the article :

Jim is the only child of Jim Sharman I, the man who started tent boxing in Australia in 1911, challenging the locals at agricultural shows from Cairns all the way to Mt Gambier.

Young Jim sounds like a character.
I wish Im going strong at his age

 

[innsaneink]

Yeah I knew it was about his dad.....my old man was mates with a bloke that boxed whose dad fought for Jim snr apparently....

 

[Gobbso]

A Living Legend. Will he be attending the Magpies Team of the Century Dinner Waitey?

 

[yappy]

dunno.

the songs not about either of em. It's about the aboriginals that fought for them both as a critique of racism and dispossession of the aboriginals in general. Basically the first foray from the oils into topics that would dominate the next album. But like the best of their work, you don't have to get the message to rock hard.

 

[innsaneink]

Sorry :roll:

 

[yappy]

you're forgiven

 

[simon says]

So you guys are saying that Midnight Oils songs have a political message in them........

Wow,Ill have to listen to them again......

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[yappy]

all except 'Beds are Burning'

that's just about the time Jim Moginie fell asleep with a durry in bed.

 

[simon says]

I thought ten to one was an album about backin roughies......