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Thursday 18 July 2019

Notes for IYKYH 18 July




reg rapley > Beaney > Beeson

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  • Kunz
  • Goldsmith
  • Maynard


What's in a name?
Graeme McGinty's piece 
Garry Mckenzie  
Ipswich had Call Backs, Coursers, Dinmore Ivanhoes and Bundanba Riff Raffs, but the winners are Booval Pompadours.

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  • Minmi Squashers
  • Pineapple rovers
  • Berserkers
  • Blue Adriatic

And our first pome.

'What’s in a (football club) Name?' from Paul Nicholls

In Sydney in the 1880s, was a team called the Ambrose Natives
Whose members it was sworn, were all Australian born
At the same time was a club, who used to meet in Qoung Tart’s Tea Rooms
In black shirts with a blue slash, known as the Parkgrove Pilgrims

Before the Great War was a club, at whose origins I’ll take a stab
The Pyrmont Blue Swimmers - were named after a Sydney crab
Contemporary with Pyrmont, was a sterling bunch of fellas
Taking their name from their suburb, were called the Rozelle Rosellas

The Granville Kewpies were named, after an iconic doll
(And I suspect after seventeen seasons, the club it had to fold);
In the 1930s in Sydney, was a factory team much famed
The Metters Stovemakers or ‘Stovies’, as they were aptly named

Greta Blue Bells graced Newcastle fields, before the 19th century was over
And you couldn’t get more Queensland, than the mighty Pineapple Rovers
And surely the natural predator, of Ipswich’s Dinmore Bush Rats
Was a 1940s ladies team, known as the Guildford Black Cats

Growing up in the Sutherland Shire, there was an alliterative name or two
We had Miranda MagpiesEngadine Eagles, and the Kirrawee Kangaroos
There were the Lilli Pilli Berries, although none named after blossoms
But my favourite one of all, were the mighty Gray’s Point Possums

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