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The long-awaited memoir of one of AFLs hardest players and most respected behind-the-scenes coaches. Youve got to have that madness in your mind to win win win. Youve got to have that somewhere but it cant consume you. This story begins in infamy. Everyones first glimpse of the man is of ferocious blows struck in grand finals his name splashed in headlines across the back pages of the tabloids. Its the 1970s its Richmond: kill or be killed. There was a time when almost every football watcher who heard Neil Balmes name would react with disapproval. My God what a bruiser . . . A dangerous fellow . . . And those who knew him would quickly deny these accusations. Hes not a brute you know hes a thinker . . . A mild-mannered bloke easygoing. The great paradox of Balme is the violence and the pacifism the mayhem and the calm the rough justice and the gentleness. Hes a cold-blooded thug; hes a soft-hearted healer; hes a villain and a hero. Balme is unique in having spent longer than anyone else in clubland. Richmond Norwood Melbourne Collingwood Geelong and Richmond again over fifty years. Hes seen and created limitless change in those decades. So how did Neil Balme go from being the infamous on-field enforcer of the 1970s to the avuncular guru the football world knows and loves today? After eleven premierships an aura surrounds the man. Get Balme to your club and premierships will follow. What has he to tell us of football of the high times and the low of the champs and the egos? Of Royce and GR of Diamond Joe of Eddie and Mick of Bomber of Dimma? And of life and the human heart? Balmes tale is unsurprisingly a mix of hard truth and unerring compassion.
Neil Balme And Anson Cameron
Penguin Random House
Paperback
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