We're locked down again, so we're Zooming again. Also Paul got sacked from his job. And his soccer team's out of action. So everything's going great. It's so bad, that Paul's even getting into "the banter". And there's so much of it.
Greg Stock has started adding match program links to his NSL season files on OzFootball.
Ian tries to buy a signed NSL match program, without success, which leads to Paul musing about why people would be offloading their collections, and the nature of people moving on from any code and onto other activities.
Also, Ian's finding out more about Victorian school soccer... also Paul and Ian trying to figure out what the size of Melbourne's player numbers were. This conversation seems to be meandering more than usual.
Thank goodness that we have Greg Werner on in the second segment to get things straightened up and focused. Greg's here to talk about the recently deceased Matildas' and women's soccer coach Joe O'Connor, and former Socceroos Alan Garside and Bill Mahoney.
Irishman Joe O'Connor and his wife Pat were at the centre of women's soccer in New South Wales from the 1960s and 1980s, and thus also at the heart of the national team in the formative decade of the Matildas.
(for some other episodes dealing with Australian women's soccer during the 1970s, when O'Connor was coaching them, see episode 56 and episode 76)
Alan Garside was part of a multi-generational connection to the Granville soccer scene. Garside was a leading goal scorer of early 1950s Sydney soccer, with his record putting him on a par with Newcastle striker Reg Date. Garside represented Australia in 'A' and 'B' internationals in the 1950s.
Goalkeeper Bill Mahoney of Newcastle also played 'A' and 'B' internationals for Australia in the 1950s.
Ian asks the question about what the strategy is for recording and discussing the story of these players; Greg suggests that's it's not just the international representatives we need to worry about, but also the large amount of state representatives, from an era when state league and interstate football held a high degree of importance. There's also the question of Australia's many 'B' international games and tour matches, which featured starting lineups that were vastly different from lineups that would have played in full 'A' internationals.
In the final segment, we have 100 Years Ago Today, where we start off in Toowoomba (and Cawdor), where Ian tries to assure us that Queensland isn't just one cultural mass, but rather a state riven with regional feeling; then to Oakey Western Suburbs, and a strange idea of what a not one-sided game looks like, and encouraging the juniors to watch the senior game to be educated; after Paul gets off his soapbox, we visit Boodua who are playing Goombunjee, and a rainbow strip; then to Hobart; then to Adelaide; then to the Melbourne results.
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