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Vale Clive Fairbairn

Bobby McKenzie
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Sad to read of the passing of a very loyal demon, Clive Fairbairn. Clive played over 200 games with the MCC and was well known for his love of the Demons and the Melbourne Football Club.

A "Rat of Tobruk, he was a life member of the MCC, and was awarded an OAM for his services to the game of cricket and encouragement of young kids. Surprised there was no mention of his passing on the MFC website.

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    Sad to read of the passing of a very loyal demon, Clive Fairbairn. Clive played over 200 games with the MCC and was well known for his love of the Demons and the Melbourne Football Club.

    A "Rat of Tobruk, he was a life member of the MCC, and was awarded an OAM for his services to the game of cricket and encouragement of young kids. Surprised there was no mention of his passing on the MFC website.

    Salute.

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    RIP sir. May not have been mentioned on the website but I'm sure the players will honour him with black armbands.

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    RIP sir. May not have been mentioned on the website but I'm sure the players will honour him with black armbands.

    An incredible bloke.

    Years ago I went into his sports store in the city to buy my son a footy jumper and we ended up talking for 20 minutes about the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Melbourne Football Club. By my reckoning he would have been close to 70 years old at the time but he had a great knowledge of all of the young up and coming cricketers around town including one of my son's teammates who was a promising young cricketer (at the time in his mid teens).

    Fairbairn was the one who took a tall gangly football recruit at the MFC who could also bat a bit under his wing at the MCC (where he was chairman of selectors) and turned him into a fast bowler who played test cricket for Australia. That was Max Walker.

    How appropriate that his beloved MCC won a premiership for a great Demon in the year of his passing!

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    An incredible bloke.

    Years ago I went into his sports store in the city to buy my son a footy jumper and we ended up talking for 20 minutes about the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Melbourne Football Club. By my reckoning he would have been close to 70 years old at the time but he had a great knowledge of all of the young up and coming cricketers around town including one of my son's teammates who was a promising young cricketer (at the time in his mid teens).

    Fairbairn was the one who took a tall gangly football recruit at the MFC who could also bat a bit under his wing at the MCC (where he was chairman of selectors) and turned him into a fast bowler who played test cricket for Australia. That was Max Walker.

    How appropriate that his beloved MCC won a premiership for a great Demon in the year of his passing!

    Agree WJ. I also popped into to his store and spoke to him there and elsewhere quite a few times over the years and he was a lovely bloke. Sad to hear of his passing, RIP.

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