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Three cheers for Mr. Justice Neemar Mukhtar!


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#1 Lisbon

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Posted 05 May 2010 - 03:54 AM

It’s good to see that honourable, learned gentlemen like Associate Justice Neemar Mukhtar sit on the bench of the Victorian Supreme Court. He decided that Fitzroy FC do have a case, and a “genuine and respectable” one to boot, against the Brisbane Lions in their action over the logo change.

It seems to me that the Brisbane boys are trying to worm their way out of a contractual obligation (to keep the old Fitzroy logo) that they freely entered into at the time of the merger and assumed that they would be able to do so, expecting that no one would care any more. Well, as Mark Williams would say, they were wrong! There’s life in the old (Fitzroy) Lion yet.

I don’t know what the final verdict will be, but I took a liking to Mr. Justice Mukhtar. When Brisbane’s lawyer said that Fitzroy had a “shrinking, if not vanishing, supporter base”, the good Justice replied “You will upset some people, talking like that. There might still be some bleeding”. How’s that for an answer?

He also said that “any follower, adult at least, of Australian football in Victoria remembers the misfortune of the Fitzroy Football Club - the Lions”.

Beneath the Justice’s robes, there beats the heart of a true barracker! I can picture Mr. Mukhtar in the stands on a cold winter’s afternoon, beer in hand, wearing his scarf, shouting bloody murder. Maybe we should invite him to join this forum.

Here’s the full Age piece - The Age

And the Herald-Sun piece - Herald-Sun

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Posted 08 May 2010 - 08:46 PM

Beneath the Justice's robes, there beats the heart of a true barracker! I can picture Mr. Mukhtar in the stands on a cold winter's afternoon, beer in hand, wearing his scarf, shouting bloody murder. Maybe we should invite him to join this forum.

I went to a country game last year up on the Victoria/New South Wales border. It was fantastic, cold day, bit of rain, but standing there with blokes having a cold beer (in cans not plastic cups) going on to the ground at 3/4 time (trying to) listen to the coaches address.

Loved every minute of it- even though the rubber base of my $10 stubbie holder (that I bought that afternoon), collapsed early doors and was somewhat ineffective from then on.

I also went to a game in Tasmania last year- Clarence v North Hobart at Bellerive Oval on the Saturday afternoon. It was Arctic Park like it was round 22 here in Melbourne.

Anyway- Eastern Magpies v us at the Doglands on the Sunday afternoon in Hobart and I got an excited phone call from my sister telling me how Footscray had won by the right margin which meant we jumped into 3rd place at their expense.

That day at Bellerive was also pure grass roots football. Cold day in Hobart, then went to the Cascade Inn in South Hobart that night and had a massive schnitzel meal. Why arent Tassie in the national league? I reckon these days that I could quite easily live in Hobart- they have the internet, fax machines, Foxtel (though it is Austar over there) unlike say in 1978 when they had just two channels- #2 & #6.






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