We'd have tea on a Friday night at home and Dad (Dan, a former Fitzroy premiership player) would clear the plates off the table, put on the kettle and treat my back with hot water and olive oil,

Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.

What kind of hurts a little is that if we had gotten the $30,000 . . . last night, it would have shown really strong support from the city.

When he has an off night like that, he has to have confidence that we can pick him up. That's what we did.

Rockne returned home [from Pittsburgh] exhausted,

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.