Paul Hopgood
speaker
118 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Paul Hopgood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Nilo has sacked or dropped most of us, except his golden boy, Big Nita.
And despite the direct feedback, we have a group of blokes who love and idolise the man.
Clint Bizzle remembers a two-page handwritten letter on the eve of his 150th game reminding him of why he was so important to the team.
Anthony Ingersoll was told to believe he could become one of the top centre-half backs in the league and walked out of the meeting feeling inches taller.
Guy Regani was given confidence and support that he was going to make it back to top-level footy after a significant back surgery.
And Geoff White remembers Neil crashing his Bucks party.
Everyone went silent.
Neil reached in the Esky, cracked a beer and said, the party's just started, boys.
He wanted to make sure we all stayed together and supported each other post our footy days, always concerned with how everyone was and how their families were going.
Neil wanted to catch up at one of our old demons run walk Saturday morning sessions and gave me the heads up that it was his shout for breakfast.
Fair to say, word got out and the participation rate for that week rose from around the average of eight to over 30.
Never did we have so much fun watching Nilo's face as he put his credit card over the counter.
We finally got one up on him.
We want to thank Jan, Loz, Luke, Bec and Ben for lending the ear to us for so long.
He was committed to our gang and such a father figure and mentor for many of us.
We've been privileged to become closer to you, the broader Danaher family, his friends, the wider MND family, and we'd hate to say it, but we're even now like a few of his old and former teammates that he connected us with.
We're immensely proud of the profound effect that Neil has had on so many in his fight against MND, and we join with everybody across Australia to celebrate the extraordinary life of a national hero.
You've gone a million miles, but how far did you get?
She'll let you come just far enough.
So you know she's really there.
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