David Parkin

I was four.

And I still recall the 1975 captain, David Parkin, writing a handwritten letter to me on Hawks letterhead.

What a man.

Muzz from Geelong.

If they're on the trajectory that they think we think they are, he would rise into top 10.

Only two people in league history have captained and coached a premiership team.

One of them is David Parkin, the same team to a premiership.

So Mitchell's training beautifully.

No, no, it doesn't change the game.

So David Parkin and Neil Danaher were brought together by Channel 7 some years later to relive these moments.

These things live in Parko's mind.

With Neil Curley, here's how he recalled it.

Yeah.

Fitzroy were the bogey team.

This was Neil's recollection of with David Parkin and Neil Curley around what that day was and what happened next.

Unfortunately, I done my knee 10 minutes into the next game at Wind Hill against South Melbourne and highs and lows of footy.

It's magnificent.

Neil Kearney and David Barham.

To revisit it all these years on and realise how much of what we know is actually from this film.

It's not from the hundred years prior.

And we'll screen it on Channel 7.

So that was the deal that was put together.

At the same time, David Barham is a sports producer on television.

Viewcast.

Really? Can I just interject a bit? In the pieces that you've sent through, you're excellent with the research.

Ashley Brown is writing about the keep off the wickets signs and no goalposts and senior coaches, Kevin Sheedy, David Parkin and Lee Matthews have led the chorus for AFL clubs to gain exclusive access to grounds 12 months of the year, which is just a beautiful piece of

history,

particularly

The AFL are thinking, yep, let's do a lightning premiership to celebrate our centenary.

They put together a rules committee.

Which includes Bill Deller, who was the umpire's boss, Rod Austin, who was running sort of football admin at the AFL, and David Parkin was involved in this.

He's central to everything.

They make the finals and how they make the finals and how they play in the finals is just a tremendous story.

So David Parkin is their coach.

He's his first season at Fitzroy.

They start off the season quite well.

Then- That week, the VFL officially blocks this Hekron privately owned sale.

So it's now looking as if there is no way out for Fitzroy, but they're in a final and they're continuing.

And this quote from David Parkin, who is of the opinion that, well, the further we go, the harder it is for us to be knocked out.

So if we can get a bit further down the road in the next couple of weeks, it might make it very difficult to remove us from the state of Victoria.

So

David Parkin was obviously lecturing David Schwartz at uni during the week.

So it's not a thriller, but this almost completely blows apart the argument that 7th and 8th are not worthy of being in the final.

So it knocks that on the head.

So.

Jared Healy, I mean, David Parkin tells a story that before 1995, when Carlton won the flag, that John Elliott offered the coaching job to Jared Healy in the end of 1994.

So that was there.

He's commentating on Friday Night Footy in 93-94 as it takes off.