Captain Dan wrote:
Blue Sombrero wrote:
Jezza was supposed to go to North IIR. Apparently the story goes something like:
The North officials went to his house to sign him up but there was nobody home. They slipped a letter or the form 4 under his door but it also went under the rug/carpet/doormat on the other side of the door and he didn't find it until after he'd signed with us, which was presumably pretty soon afterwards.
Have heard something like that before. Extremely hard luck on North's part.
I thought it was more like Jezza worked for a Federal Government Public Service Department in the ACT and Carlton arranged through Sir Robert Menzies to have him transferred to a Melbourne Office of that particular department.
This meant that the signature that North Melbourne had was no longer valid (not sure of the particular paperwork it wasn't a Form Four as ACT was considered a developmental football area by the National Football Body) - it meant he was a free agent again and Carlton (conveniently
) were able to have the correct paperwork very close by for immediate signature.
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