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Back in primary school we had Mark Browning from the Swans attend our footy clinic .

Was great to have a player recognised at the time as 1 of the best kicks in the league come to our school .

Remember him kicking low left foot torps the length of our modest oval , nearly knocking kids off their feet with worm burning stab passes and 50 kids running around screaming " Browning , Browning , BROWNING " calling for passes . Good times .

Also had a young Terry Wallace show up on another occasion , I only remember him talking too us and me thinking "This blokes full of himself for someone I've never heard of." Somethings never change eh . ;):lol:

Who attended yours and did they leave any lasting impressions ?

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    Back in primary school we had Mark Browning from the Swans attend our footy clinic .

    Was great to have a player recognised at the time as 1 of the best kicks in the league come to our school .

    Remember him kicking low left foot torps the length of our modest oval , nearly knocking kids off their feet with worm burning stab passes and 50 kids running around screaming " Browning , Browning , BROWNING " calling for passes . Good times .

    Also had a young Terry Wallace show up on another occasion , I only remember him talking too us and me thinking "This blokes full of himself for someone I've never heard of." Somethings never change eh . ;):lol:

    Who attended yours and did they leave any lasting impressions ?

    Peter Knights worked for the Commonwealth Bank and came to our school and gave out those elephant money boxes on at least 2 occasions i remember.

    Nice guy, but i hated Hawthorn so much i could hardly speak to him..HaHa :)

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    Nathan Burke, was interesting at the time to see him without the helmet though he didn't really leave much of an impression. In hindsight it was pretty cool to have somebody as good as Burke rock up at my primary school and from what I remember he spoke pretty well but most of it went over my head, was more interested in the kicking drills than anything else.

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    Had Morrison & Platten from Hawthorn visit my school. Couldn't get over the rats hair. Morrison was fairly impressive from what I remember.

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    Garry Lyon and Stephen Newport came to my under 11's training at Bentleigh Juniors.

    I got them to sign one of those coin books you got with the newspaper, you'd fill it with a coin from each club with a players head on it. Wish I knew where that went.

    Gaz was awesome, I didn't pay much attention to Stephen.

    Bumped into Garry in Chinatown a year later, I was copying Chinese characters and he stopped to say hello. I think he remembered me.

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    When we were living in Townsville the NQ Cowboys rugby team visited my eldest kids primary school. When they asked the kids which football team (rugby) they barracked for she said "the Demons!" and then took them to task for their use of the word football in relation to rugby and the various reasons why AFL is really a football code and rugby isn't

    They were apparently very polite in their answers :-D

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    St Kilda's Bill Stephenson came to my school in 1963... somehow managed to win his autograph and gave it to my mother, who from that day on until she passed away was a Saints supporter. Also in the 60's, my best friends brother-in-law was Hawthorn's Gary Young who was a very good player up until he was badly injured in an on-field incident and never played. again.

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    Had an event once with swearing, vulgar stories, and many in the crowd uneasy about the situation.

    The footballer in question?

    Tony Abbott.

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    I had Alan Jarrott visit my school. Another time Andrew Purser from Footscray came and did a clinic.

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    Back in primary school we had Mark Browning from the Swans attend our footy clinic .

    Was great to have a player recognised at the time as 1 of the best kicks in the league come to our school .

    Remember him kicking low left foot torps the length of our modest oval , nearly knocking kids off their feet with worm burning stab passes and 50 kids running around screaming " Browning , Browning , BROWNING " calling for passes . Good times .

    Also had a young Terry Wallace show up on another occasion , I only remember him talking too us and me thinking "This blokes full of himself for someone I've never heard of." Somethings never change eh . ;):lol:

    Who attended yours and did they leave any lasting impressions ?

    A Young Carl Ditterich attended our primary school, & left a big impression, but mainly on our student teacher he was dating. We got told off @ our general assembly for my harassing him after school.

    Ray Biffin attended my 2ndary school, in a working situation. that was a fav'''.

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