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At the Boxing Day Test I was sitting near Hassa’s cousin and premiership teammate Len, who was sitting next to multiple premiership teammate Bryan Kenneally. Father and son premiership player Kenny Emselle thereabouts also. All looking in good nick.

Rib injuries are actually quite common in the arts of grappling.

Ah yes, good old Stroppy Poppy. I wonder whatever became of her.

His real name is Harold and he had a cousin called Len, who played 46 games for Melbourne. From Demonwiki: Mann was universally known as "Hassa", a nickname bestowed on him by Len as a child because he couldn't pronounce Harold.

For those of us old enough to remember, Barry was the doorman from the mid 70's. He formed a dynamic duo alongside Arthur Wilkinson for the best part of four decades until Arthur passed away in 2013. Barry continued on until Covid effectively made the role redundant at the start of 2020. Awarded Life Membership in 1995 he remained a devoted Demon (and Tasmanian) right up until his passing last week. Condolences to his family.

Don’t disagree, but you can’t state there was ‘zero punishment’ when he was stood down and fined, albeit a farcical response.

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Nope not the Case, from what Ive seen from training sessions is that he was and is in great nick. My concern from what my source is, that the same rib as previous has been damaged! This is shizzen news if coŕrect!!🤯

The only person I've ever heard of having the name Hassa. I'm assuming its similar to Hassan and arabic in origin?

I just hope you’re well n truly over the stomach bug you had, or as you put it, the squirts 🤒 If not, I’ll wave to you from the opposite side of Gosch’s. 😷 PS: you’ve been a Demon all along 😊

Just hope he is mentally strong enough now to be able to move forward and put his body on the line when needed... feel for the guy. I don't know if I could do it.. but il back him in. Just hope this is the very last time we hear the words petracca and cracked ribs again.

But no matches suspended …. So they took the easy way out

Somewhat revisionist. Whilst I agree that JDG was dealt with extremely lightly, even in light of the reduced charges in the US, by both the AFL and Collingwood, he was stood down from the AFL program their football program from October 2021 - January 2022, and received a $10,000 fine from the AFL.

I had a girlfriend like that when I was a young feller. The relationship didn’t go well 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Great interview. I find it pretty difficult to reconcile his (and Ridley's) views on the merger. Instead of building our own team better, the thinking was let's just take over Hawthorn. Lazy and extremely misguided IMV, but appreciate his great contribution to the club over many years. I remember vividly the NO MERGER signs in the MCC growing up.

I remember seeing an interview with Peter Hudson where he named Tassie as the best full back he had played against. High praise indeed.

Had the same thing going on with a girlfriend a few decades ago.

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I understand from 'sources close to the Club', Trac's been so far behind the 8-ball lately, he might start as a tagger in games—just to see if he can catch up.

I had that as well. I'm pretty sure Tony Charlton was the interviewer.

I had a pair of giant posters on my bedroom wall, possibly released in association with Mobil. One was of Hassa and the other Tassie. I can also recall saving up my pocket money to buy a 7" single record from the local Mobil servo that featured the Melbourne theme song on one side and an interview with Hassa on the other. Wish I still had it!

After Hassa my heroes were Tassie Johnston, Donny Williams, Barry Bourke and then Ross Dillon. Later came the one and only Tulip.

My memory tells me Jimmy played on through cracked ribs, as a ruckman! I don't expect the same from Trac but this is not a disaster.

I'm pretty sure in that North game that Mann swooped in out of nowhere and kicked the winning goal...