Peter Blucher

It was a very, very, very special honour.

You know, I was staggered, to be honest, and I didn't have a drink all night, and I sat there quietly, nervously, anxiously.

But, no, it all went really well, and, you know, I was...

I'm just proud to talk about a bloke who, I mean, I was such an insignificant part of it, but he meant so much to so many people and did so much for a football club, which was a rabble when he arrived at Carrara and was on the verge of becoming a really great, great side when he left.

Well, there were a lot of anecdotal stories, but a really significant influence.

Firstly, when he arrived in 1991...

In his first couple of weeks, he walked into a McDonald's store at Broadbeach wearing a bear shirt.

The girl behind the counter had no idea who he was, but she said, oh, you like the footy?

Here's 20 free tickets.

So they couldn't give him away then.

Now you can't buy one, and that's pretty symptomatic of what's happened.

But in his last year, he was only ever going to stay five years, and at round 15, when it was reconfirmed he was going home at the end of that year, they were 4-11, 14th on the ladder, and they were just a mess.

Round 16, so the very next week, they played Hawthorne at the Gabba

They were 45 points down.

Peter Knight, the ex-Bears coach, took his side into the shade.

Wolsey jumped all over that, as you can imagine.

You know, they're cooked.

We're on all over the top of them.

And they did.

They kicked 9-7 to 1-3, the biggest three-court time comeback in history until...