Happy Birthday Peter Wheels Bedford

[Foreign Legion]

Wheels was a great player and much underrated especially considering the terrible team we were in the late 1970s. No one could do a blind turn better than him, for the younger ones , he was a bit like Sam Mitchell only a bit faster.

Just a bit faster hehe...

A great courageous player and a good goalkicker too - probably my first 'real' favourite player - bit too young to see Bobby.

[Sandridge]

Wheels was a great player and much underrated especially considering the terrible team we were in the late 1970s. No one could do a blind turn better than him, for the younger ones , he was a bit like Sam Mitchell only a bit faster.

He was way more skilful than Sam Mitchell - fairer, too.

[mcs]

Your recollection is pretty good. It is true that he, in his words "cracked the @@@@s" with the move, despite always maintaining an interest. It wasn't until people like Tony Morwood and others encouraged him to get on board that he re embraced the club.

Good on him. The word champion is bandied around often these days, but in relation to Peter Bedford is more of an understatement of the qualities of the man.

I love these stories where people still involved with the club have worked hard to reach out to those that champions of the past which had drifted away from the club, for one reason or another, and worked hard to get them back into the fold.

It sounds like Peter is an absolute gent, and was a mighty fine player. As one of the 'younger ones' around these parts, I always enjoy hearing recollections from those that lived through the dark days of our history, but saw some of these great players pull on the red and white of the Swans.

Such a shame we bottled it on Grand Final day last year and he didn't get the chance to present the cup to the boys in Red and White.