Allan Jeans

The next day is some of the most extraordinary television footy you've ever seen.

and peter mckenna the guy who was there who commentating on it grills the two coaches on world of sport the next day and and people a lot of people will have seen this already and i'd i'd you know if you're interested in this go and watch the full video on youtube but he grills those two coaches in the way that they should have been grilled um about what happened and by the end of it i tom hayfuse the geelong coach he just looks like a broken man alan jeans is trying to defend maybe the undefendable and sort of gives a bit of a word salad really to try to deflect it.

But here is Peter McKenna putting the coaches through the ringer for what had happened the day before.

I think there's a lot of Hawthorne supporters out there and Geelong supporters.

I didn't see either hit when they happened, but can recall a very wobbly and bloody Matthews being led off the field by trainers.

That's from Dan.

I was one of the students from Marcelin College that was in the commentary box with Peter McKenna that he referenced the next day on World of Sport with Alan Jeans.

We stayed at the ground with Mr. McKenna until 6.30 that night while he spoke to players involved.

The Thursday of prelim final week, police confirm that the drug squad has undertaken an investigation into Hawthorne Football Club.

They've got, they turned up at Hawthorne and interviewed Captain Lee Matthews, Coach Alan Jeans and the president.

Ridiculous stuff.

Understandably, Hawthorne and Livid, particularly Alan Jeans, who was a police sergeant, the whole inference that he would be involved in some sort of drug ring, drug scandal, is unbelievable.

Anyway, as it breaks, literally hours later, the police come out and say they've been cleared.

It's eucalyptus oil and smelling salts that are these performance enhancing drugs that Hawthorne are supposed to

They found it to be a mixture of eucalyptus and smelling salts, a concoction which has been used by Hawthorne players for 10 years to help them clear their nasal passages.

And then the magnificent caricatures.

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in Victoria, and we went into our coach's room and Allen Jeans said, "Right, first night of training, we're gonna do this, this and this."

Yeah.

You know, all that, all the yada and palava.

No, look, I'm dropping off a Ford Ranger.

I mean, this is my get-around car.

But can I just say this? I spoke, I spoke to Allen Jeans-

Yeah

No doubt.

Well, there was the Allen Joyce, Allen Jeans thing, but it was-

This is pretty unprecedented

... different because you had to-

Sly, my mate John Sylvester, Sly and I, Madhawk, was at a Hawthorne reunion for a couple of premiership sides, maybe about 20 years ago.

And Alan Jeans was there, the coach.

And he walks past Sly and Sly's talking to Richard Loveridge.

And then a bit later on, Genesie walks past Sly, and Sly's talking to Robert Dipper-Domenica.