Neos Osmos: Notes for IYKYH 18 July

Thursday, 18 July 2019

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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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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 19^th 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 Magpies, Engadine 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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