Sir, it was a pleasure to speak with you, and an honour to have your nomination.
Today's nominator is at the forefront of Australian goalscorers. Socceroo #107, Frank "Snipper" Parsons has nominated one of the powerhouses of football in the Hunter, Adamstown Rosebuds, as his GrassRoots club. Starting as a 9yr old Frank played in the under 14's and worked his way through the ranks in the 1930's till he enlisted in the RAAF during WWII. His goalscoring feats for Leichhardt-Annandale after the war, where he scored a record 73 goals in a season, earned him national team honours from 1948. He, Reg Date & Artie Quill are the 3 names who dominated the score sheets over 2 decades.
Sir, it was a pleasure to speak with you, and an honour to have your nomination.
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the authorGreg Werner began playing in 1965, with the GrassRoots club of Socceroo skipper Murray Barnes, a change of suburb at age 6 and a new club, one that would become the GrassRoots club of Rob Wheatley & after a 27 year hiatus came back to playing with the GrassRoots club of Socceroos Steve Perry, Richie Bell, Chris Iconomidis & Matilda, Justine Fisher, one could say that the links with the NT are ingrained.
At age 55, when his body gave up on playing, he took up the whistle to stay actively involved. In November of 2014 he created the GFP on Facebook to fill the void left by those in control of the game & in January 2016 launched this website. |