Last night's episode of "The Front Bar" had cameo appearances from Troy Luff, Rod "Tilt" Carter and Tadgh Keneally during Ryan Fitzgerald's segment, which was quite funny. I was pleased to see the "Tilt" having not heard from him in many years. They showed clip of the only goal kicked in his 293 game career. He said Lou Richards gave him the "Tilt" nick name.
Andy Lee highlighted the story of South Melbourne's Ted Whitfield who received a year's suspension after that infamous 1945 bloodbath GF against Carlton. Ted had routine of drinking 6 beers before each game at nearest pub, which he'd done since he was 16. He would have his footy uniform dressed underneath his clothes so that he could stay at the pub as long as possible before going to the ground! Ted wasn't playing well in the first half of that 1945 GF and insisted he needed a beer, so the coach instructed an assistant to get him a beer from the local pub at half time!!! (Not sure that is true). Ted was reported for striking a Carlton player & swearing at the umpire, who had trouble jotting down Ted's number in his book because he ran away from him with his jumper off!!! Andy joked that at the Tribunal Ted's defence was that he was merely in the act of doing the traditional post game swapping of jumpers, even though the incident had occurred before half time.
This story of Ted endured to Mick Molloy to the extent that he'd placed a small framed photo of Ted to a permanent spot on their wall bar set.
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