Ron Barassi

We're gonna talk about all sorts of things today.

The Barassi line, the Ted Mulcaher line, which you've, uh, this could, this could be, um, th- this...

I hope that enters, um, Australian lexicon, um, just like the, the, the Professor of Football Ian Turner's description of the Barassi line, um, ca- came to define.

George, um, tell us these three great shocks one by one.

Um, what was the moment when you realized that these weren't three separate atomized trends, but came together to actually explain what's happened to Australia in the 21st century?

Yeah, that's right.

I know when Barassi left, uh, Melbourne, the, the jumpers were burned and all different things.

It was trad- Yeah, a bit different, bit better.

But uh, yeah, w- we do need to take out, I think, the emotion of how he's wanted to leave for the last 12 months 'cause, um, you know, he's...

Mm-hmm.

The ruck's Peter Moore, Ron Barassi, and Gary Ablett Jr.

And then the interchange was Lachie Neil, Nathan Buckley, Bernie Quinlan, Paul Salmon, and Doug Wade And I think that's gonna be real hard to beat.

As mat-

[laughs] The ruckman, Peter Moore's up against Polly Farmer, uh, which, no, wouldn't have happened.

Mm-mm.

Ron Barassi's going up against Dick Reynolds, and Bobby Skilton's taking on Gary Ablett Jr.

That's fun times.

It could be...

See now, Barassi, that isn't not necessarily aligned with North Melbourne, but without Barassi, they don't win their first premiership.

That is correct as well.

Right.

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How do you do with Cesare and Barassi?

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I think it's Danger before Hodge.

Forward line, Quinlan, Lockett, Eddie Betts.

Insane.

And the interchange, Jeselinko, your beauty, Barassi, Peter Moore, Dangerfield, and Templeton.

Now I'm, I'm, I'm much closer to that team-

Simon Madden talking about playing the ruck.

Ron Barassi was in there, too, wasn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He left probably the greatest club in, in Melbourne back in 1965 after Essendon won the premiership and he, and he led Carlton to that famous 1968 victory against Essendon after 21 years that Carlton hadn't won a premiership.

Ron Barassi went from Melbourne, yeah, to Carlton.

You're, uh, yeah, that was a big, uh...

Well, that was, uh, very controversial at the time.

Wasn't it, Stan, when he, uh, when he left the Demons, uh, the famous number 31, and joined Carlton? A lot of, uh, fans very, very upset, uh, when he did that, the great Ron Barassi, and then had success at Carlton.

Thank you very much for that.

That was a big...