Tony Liberatore

You play 20 games.

You win the Tony Liberatore Most Improved Award.

Is that when you really started to feel like, okay, I actually belong here?

Yeah, definitely.

But you just got to save these moments because it doesn't happen very often.

Yeah.

Tony Liberatore, he was crying.

Luke Darcy was in commentary and all things.

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the Crows-Bulldogs, um, game, like, from 1997, uh, and the, uh, Tony Liberatore moment-

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... where he's being held up by his teammates thinking that they'd qualified.

So Tom Liberatore retired this week.

Tony Liberatore revealed on 3AW that he was actually asked to retire.

So his career comes to an end.

Adam Treloar has begrudgingly retired, I think is the best way to put it again.

Northwest 45s.

is uh between williamstown and essendon at the ranch but oval at 11 30 on the 13th so well done for those two sides making the grand final the uh best affairs tony liberatore from essendon 19 votes uh another i've said before tony is a tremendous player for in his own right winning a Brownlow and all those trophies and accolades that he's had over the years.

But he keeps on winning best and fairest in the comps, which he possibly should.

He's probably the best player in that age group.

Since I started watching the Bulldogs in about 1982.

So I've got him ahead of Tony, his father, and that's, that's a lot of good Bulldogs missed out.

So to have him at number eight, it's a sad day.

Um, Bont, I ha- think I had at one, uh, Liber at eight, and they're the only two current players.

Isn't that amazing? That's-

Amazing.

And just his relationship with Tony, I think's great too, that, that-

Is it? Yeah?

This, this is the great Wisp back in his Channel 7 halcyon days as the number one reporter.

And Tony Liberatore their rover and, uh, also a new father.

I'll be interested to see how Liber goes today because he flew up with us this morning.

His wife gave birth last night and that's terrific for Liber and he's had a grin from ear to ear.

Number one son?

Yes, uh, number one son, Thomas Francis and, uh, at birth he was about one centimeter taller than Tony Liberatore I think, s- uh, Drew.

[laughs] With a nice little zinger right at the end there.

Some snappy repartee between The Wisp and the late great, uh-