Harry Beitzel

He's good.

Not Prince Harry? No.

No, Prince Harry.

He's

out, is he?

On this day in 1967, a rather violent game of Australian rules football was played in New York.

Is that before you were born? Yes, mate.

In New York? What do you mean in New York? So the game was part of a tour organised by former VFL umpire and commentator Harry Beitzel, who you might remember.

Oh, Harry.

Harry Beitzel.

Oh, Harry Beitzel's a legend.

Remember, he spoke

about up on cloud nine.

Oh, God, what about that? Yeah, what about that speech? I've been living on it ever since.

See, these guys were great speakers.

Harry Beitzel, tell us about up on cloud nine.

your favourite part? Well, the funny part was we weren't very good in the 80s, but we went out, we used to have these social functions.

We went out to Channel 7 and to Hawthorne and got some of the stars of the game, people like Robert Dippy Domenico and John Platton and Ron Barassi and Harry Beitzel and Drew Morfitt to talk, just to pretend they're experts on Ajax and talk about it.

There's a very funny part in the middle with Scotty Palmer doing a monologue about all the Jewish things he'd done that week.

It's hilarious.

So who was the panel?

The panel in 1979 was Alan Ayland as the president, Jack Hamilton as the general manager, Lou Richards representing The Sun and Channel 7, Harry Beitzel representing 3RW and Alf Brown representing The Herald.

So it was the media that did it in 79 as they do now with representatives from different media outlets.

So that's sort of another reason why we've gone this way we have.

And

it marries up with the first panel that was put together.

And I think to mirror what happened, Alan Aylett, Jack Hamilton, Lou Richards, Harry Beitzel, Al Brown.

So let's come up with the equivalent of the year before of who they would be.