Garry

A beautiful, beautiful piece.

I've been in the big smoke for a day.

I came up here yesterday.

I went out and saw my old mate, Cooker, and...

I want to touch on this, okay, because it moves me every time I'm introduced to something like this or part of this, and that is that when I went there yesterday, his old mate Barry Capuana, who they played premiership football back in the 1960s and were teammates there, he's there, right?

So what he's done, he's gone and he's found photos and pictures of

of Alec.

Alec's got Alzheimer's.

For those that don't know who I'm talking about, Alec Eppes, who used to play football at Essendon.

He's 88 years of age.

They played in the 60 premiership teams together.

So he's gone.

And, you know, he's photocopied old photos of him, put them in a folder, you know, so that, you know, you can present them to him.

And so they can talk about him.

He had a medallion that had been presented to the players, the past players, because when they didn't get premiership medallions back in the day.

So he had Alex medallion, which we gave him.

Oh,

It was just, it was a beautiful thing.

And he's still got old mates like, you know, Johnny Burt still visits him and Ken Fraser did the same thing and made and wrote a poem about him that he read to him.

Did he?