Bruce Matthews
speaker
332 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
Bruce Matthews’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But yes, that's correct.
All the games were on a Saturday, so you had what was called a phone girl and they were back in the office and you dictated it.
And I had the same one for many, many years.
And she ended up marrying Greg Hobbs, one of the great sports writers of our day too.
And Wendy would take it down, you would dictate it, and everyone was doing the same thing.
There was a lot of chatter going on in the box in those days, but later on when we reverted to computers, it then went to silence.
And then you had to wait for the modem to work to make sure you could go through.
There would be the odd swear word when someone had a technical hitch, yes.
Oh, yes.
In the early days, you basically went into the rooms, the winning rooms first and then the losers, and you just went over into a corner and the coach would come over.
In those days, it was all notebooks, the occasional tape recorder.
the odd radio person with a, and basically the questions would fly and because there was no cameras, there were some lively exchanges and I actually outlined one at
My late great mate, Trevor Grant, who worked for The Age, was one of the first ones.
He would throw in the first difficult question.
And Carl Dittrich was captain coach of Melbourne.
And Carl didn't like the question.
He was dressed in, draped in a towel around his waist.
That's all Carl had on.
And he yelled at Trevor and shouted.
Went forward and Trevor shot out the door down the corridor.
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