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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

When the members of the tribunal, besides two umpires, two players and two players’ advocates
tried to leave the room they found the door had been bolted from the outside.

A FDL spokesman said yesterday: ”One of them had to risk injury to himself by climbing over a roof so
that he could get outside and open the door.”

The tribunal was meeting in the harriers’ pavilion at Footscray Oval.

“Some time elapsed before the door could be opened,” the spokesman said. Whoever pushed home
the bolt outside the door can only be described as an idiotic no-hoper.”

The spokesman said it was believed a suspended player could be the culprit, as he and his advocate
were the last people to leave the room before it was bolted from the outside.

The FDL also investigating allegations that a club official who was acting as timekeeper ran on to the
field during a junior FDL match on Saturday morning and struck players.”

The Mail, July 1972

*****

“Dale Murphy, a junior player with Parkside Football Club, plays his 100th game in the Under 15
Grand Final on Sunday.

Dale first played with Parkside when he was eight in the under 14 competition before the
introduction of the under 12 grade to which he later transferred.

Later, the Footscray District League changed to odd numbers and Dale played in the under 13 and
now under 15 grades. -

Dale is a student at Altona North High School and is a member of the school team.

In the summer, Dale is a batsman-wicketkeeper with the Footscray Colts.

Dale is the eldest son of Lindsay and Beryl Murphy, of Valerian Avenue, North Altona.

His father, Lindsay, is a former Williamstown player and past senior coach of Parkside.

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider