Adelaide Hawk wrote:Jimmy_041 wrote:Good bloke Ugo - used to own the lunch bar on Anzac Highway
Was it a GF when he almost cut his hand off on the Friday before, and said to the Dr: :"But I can play tomorrow though Doc, cant I"
It was the 1980GF, and Ugo crushed his finger working in the quarry.
That was the GF that shouldn’t have got away. Poor Ugo.
Felt sorry for a very young & inexperienced Nick Walker suddenly thrown
into the deep end too. Great winemaking makes up for it !
The story goes that Ugo was willing to have his finger cut off in order to play.
Does anyone remember the hours of mentoring and skills practice that
Neil Balme & Neil Button gave Ugo that year, long after the other players went home ?
Woodville got a player with professional intensive personal training from two
‘giants of the game’ !
Literally !
