Damien Barrett
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Appearances Over Time
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Well, we thought we'd just assist, Jim, and we rang the AFL, Patrick Keane specifically, who controls and is overseeing all these type of acknowledgements for past greats at the AFL to rectify this issue.
And within a moment of time, he had commissioned a fresh Anzac Day medal, the 1998 Anzac Day medal, to then give to Savroka.
And we have decided today, Jim, to get Savroka into the Triple M studios here in
in South Melbourne to present the medal to you, Sav, 20 years later.
As you do it, yeah.
So Bill's going to bring it over.
But the AFL decided in 2011 to retrospectively award medals for 1995, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
And our man Sav had won two of those medals in that period of time.
And here goes Bill with the medal presentation.
So the seven goals, four behinds, 20 disposals, eight marks, two clearances on that 1998 performance follows the iconic performance, which everyone talks about, the nine goals, 13 disposals, 10 marks in the inaugural Anzac Day drawn match in 1995.
Patrick Keane did it.
It's a great set-up there, isn't it?
And to tack those seven years as you did onto the end of your AFL career in the NFL system with the Philadelphia Eagles and then the Washington Redskins as they were at the time, it's just extraordinary stuff, Sav, isn't it?
I mean, to give it 17 years in totality, oh, sorry, more than 17 years in totality when it comes to your professional career at two different sports in two different countries.
You went and saw Sav play at the New York stadium in New Jersey, didn't you?
Did he, about four years later, after you got him tickets, tried to present to you a cheque for the money?
I converted it to muscle recently, yeah.
Now, the last thing you want if you're a member of the football media is to appear on Media Oka, although some people now see it as a bit of an honour.
Oh, Dwayne Russell loves it.
Dwayne Russell.