Peter Knights

Now, what

could go wrong? What could go wrong, Gerard? So they announce a coach, Peter Knights, they announce a coach at the end of October.

Now, you can imagine if you're a player that might be interested in going to Brisbane, that the end of October is pretty late to work out what you're doing next year.

Now, this...

They're also given some drafting rights to South Australian players.

Now, This is a pretty ordinary deal to build a team.

Now, this audio is from Doug Hayward from the ABC, who's talking to Peter Knights on the eve of the season.

And he gives his thoughts about what the Bears deal was like.

But really everything that they call the spirit of Crimmon lives on.

And Peter Knights does induction for new staff every year at Hawthorne.

And he says it's a 60-minute presentation of which 20 minutes is about Crimmon.

So the spirit of Crimmon's.

Jeans, three premierships, and if not for illness, it would have been four.

But he had a couple of pretty handy players.

He still had Peter Knightson, Lee Matthews, one or two others still playing pretty well when he took over.

So in a way, and he just had to freshen the place up a bit.

See if any of these ring a bell with you.

The sentiments of Robert Walls, Dennis Bagan, Malcolm Blight, and Peter Knights.

Personally I don't think the final eight's a good situation because I think that to have more than 50% of the teams playing in finals at the end of the year takes a bit of the gloss off reaching the finals.

From the Brisbane Bears point of view I think it's terrific because it'll give us a chance to play finals football earlier than otherwise would have been the case.

No, he is in the Hall of Fame.

Bernie Quinlan, Simon Madden, Robert Flower, Peter Knights, Bruce Stuhl, Keith Gregg, Malcolm Blight, Kevin Bartlett, Francis Burke, Gary Dempsey, Lee Matthews, Alex Jezolinko, Russell Ebert are all... general hall of fame inductees who were inducted at the first moment.

So, so it was a huge undertaking.

And the fact that they did 136 at the one time is probably in retrospect, seems like, well, we, we put too many in at the

And sometimes the Brisbane Bears, the 10 years of the Brisbane Bears gets left off.

But the likes of, you know, Peter Knights and Mark Williams and all these players that, you know... took a leap of faith to go to the Gold Coast to start something new, to see all these people come together this week.

And, I mean, this is one of the special moments.

I mean, I came down with my wife on the Monday and to catch up with the old Fitzroy guys, you know, Ruzi's come in from the US, catch up with Paul Broderick and his wife and certainly John Blakey and his wife.