Terry Danaher

And then, of course, Dad was on the front foot early and got Assumption to support Neil's schooling.

So they thought they had the right to...

You know, give Neil a crack.

He played with South Melbourne at the time, the Sydney Swans, but Dad wasn't going to have any go.

But he was pretty quick to... He made sure that he wrote a little note down and got Abraham Purack, the secretary of the club, to sign it.

And he published it up and put it in his pocket because he probably thought he might need it later on.

And when I got the flick, I got sacked at the club.

Neil was sort of in his last school at that time and then the next year it was a real battle to get him across and I think eventually they'd pulled out that little bit of paper and slapped it down on the desk in front of everyone.

You've still got that left.

I said, my oath I have.

You take it up there to the board or whoever and get it sorted.

And I think that in the end was the...

The clincher.

They released Neil to, well, not that they had him, but they let him go to Westman, and that's how Tammy followed.

So I was pretty lucky, really, in a lot of ways.

He told me I'd been sacked once, and for God's sake, buddy, have a bit of a go, will you?

And I thought, well, yep, I am getting on a bit.

I was only 21 or 22 at the time.

I woke up to myself.

Yeah, well, yeah, I think that, yeah, Johnna,