Peter Blucher

But anyway, yeah, so that wouldn't happen today in this day and age.

I wouldn't have thought either.

John Kennedy was just at two clubs as well.

Curse Bentley, two clubs as well.

And John Walsall.

So, yeah, no, it's a rare thing now.

It was a very, very, very special honour.

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 I was 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 they're really significant influences.

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, and they were 45 points down.

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