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  • ScottH
    It's Goodes to cheer!!
    • Sep 2003
    • 23665
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    Swans remember 1933 Premiership

    Swans remember 1933 Premiership

    September 30 marks the 75th anniversary of South Melbourne's 1933 VFL premiership...
    Tags: 1933, premiership, remember, Swans, sydney
    • connolly
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      • Aug 2005
      • 2461
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      What a team they must have been. The great Nash, Mathews, McLaughlin, Diggins and Bisset. And the extraordinary Bob Pratt. Brilliant player who kicked 8 goals in a quarter, survived an assassination attempt but was injured on the eve of the 1935 GF against Collingwood, when he was hit by a brick truck - (i kid you not.The vile John Wren machine got Pratt out of the match, Collingwood won and another Wren fix went into the record books) and kicked over 180 goals for Coburg in one season before he volunteered to fight in WWII. He missed the 1945 GF due to military service and suffered a career ending injury in his first game back for the Bloods in 1946. He was the last surviving member of the 1933 team. Apparently he just flew for marks.
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        • ScottH
          It's Goodes to cheer!!
          • Sep 2003
          • 23665
          #3
          Photo and Newspaper Article on 1933 Premiership

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            • dimelb
              pr. dim-melb; m not f
              • Jun 2003
              • 6889
              #4
              Originally posted by connolly
              What a team they must have been. The great Nash, Mathews, McLaughlin, Diggins and Bisset. And the extraordinary Bob Pratt. Brilliant player who kicked 8 goals in a quarter, survived an assassination attempt but was injured on the eve of the 1935 GF against Collingwood, when he was hit by a brick truck - (i kid you not.The vile John Wren machine got Pratt out of the match, Collingwood won and another Wren fix went into the record books) and kicked over 180 goals for Coburg in one season before he volunteered to fight in WWII. He missed the 1945 GF due to military service and suffered a career ending injury in his first game back for the Bloods in 1946. He was the last surviving member of the 1933 team. Apparently he just flew for marks.
              How sure are you about the vile Wren? I saw a story that the truckdriver was mortified and visited Pratt in hospital with a gift of a packet of cigarettes (those were the days) by way of apology. Mind you, I wouldn't put much past Wren.
              He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                • connolly
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                  • Aug 2005
                  • 2461
                  #5
                  Originally posted by dimelb
                  How sure are you about the vile Wren? I saw a story that the truckdriver was mortified and visited Pratt in hospital with a gift of a packet of cigarettes (those were the days) by way of apology. Mind you, I wouldn't put much past Wren.
                  We don't know how much Wren was holding in bets for the Bloods. But Wren was the biggest SP bookie in Melbourne. Pratt had kicked 103 goals for the season and in a game of ste piece positional play was critical to our winning. Wren ran the biggest criminal network in Melbourne. Has nothing to do with his support for Collingwood. Would Wren have someone killed to protect his profits. You bet he would. The cigs were a nice touch.
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