Tom Green

Just quickly, I don't know if I've ever told this story, but you know that day that Neil Danaher kicked those goals in the last quarter and Essendon won that game?

It looked like it was all over.

It was into time on and it looked like- This was his announcement game, yeah?

Or had he announced himself?

Oh, no, he'd already announced himself.

As a swingman?

No, not really as a swingman.

He'd never really gone forward and kicked that before, but-

The Coteries used to have these big bets.

So there's all these big financial guys at Carlton and all these big money guys at Essendon.

The Carltonians against the Essendonians, right?

And apparently on that particular day, because it looks so bleak, some of the Essendon men were thinking, okay, well, we're going to make a hasty retreat from here.

Because they weren't necessarily really friendly either.

They just had this ongoing bet between the two clubs.

And apparently they ponied up this and this and boys- They paid out.

They paid out.

No.

And then at a later stage, then they had to go back and then reverse the whole arrangement.

A reverse pony.

A reverse pony.