A little bit more information about the infamous Neale Daniher Fax before the 1993 Grand Final has come out over the last week.

It is a fascinating story.

Neale Daniher had been studying our centre square set-up during the season and the week before the 1993 Grand Final he sent a fax to the Essendon* Football club letting them know what Carlton did.

As Parkin has said, at the centre bounce Williams would basically take two players (his tagger and someone else), and the plan was for Harry to tap the ball down to the other Carlton players in a set rotation. Parkin said he was surprised no-one picked it up earlier and that he had been using it for several years.

Anyway, when sending the fax Daniher punched in the wrong number and by chance it fell into the lap of a Carlton supporter. Daniher found out and threatened legal action against the supporter if he told the CFC about the fax. The supporter never told the club.

On the day of the game Essendon* had the first 6 or so centre clearances and the game was as good as over early on.

Apparently on the Monday after the GF loss this supporter rang Parkin and insisted they meet for a chat. As you could imagine Parkin was in no mood for this type of thing but eventually agreed to meet the guy.

Parkin said they met in the social club and the supporter salved his guilt and told the whole story, apparently the supporter was close to tears when telling him. Needless to say Parkin was pretty stunned.

It is an amazing turn of events.

Still some questions though.

Who is the supporter? Does anyone know?

And what would you have done in the same situation?

I curse the Adelaide Crows for ballsing up that second half in the prelim.

After I stood in for Sir Francis Drake and rorted the Spanish Armada, and after I singlehandedly defeated the Boer, and after I wore my Winston Churchill outfit and Never Surrendered. Then I ran on in every Carlton Grand Final victory as the invisible man and kicked the winning goals. Amen

I remember listening to that game on the radio and feeling sick. The Bombers had a knack of working us over in that period, (much like we have it over them now), and I knew deep down, (even though I didn't want to admit it), that Essendon* would beat us on the big day

Remember attending the final training session before the game where Peter Dean trained the house down. Later that night, when i heard the team, i had a feeling we were going to struggle. Parkin and the match committee played it too 'safe' by going with Powell and Sholl and overlooking the likes of Dean and Kouta.

I rorted a Spaniard once.

I remember 1993 so well. Early that year dustin fletcher played a school game against my school instead of playing for the Dons. I knew this was my opportunity to help out my beloved blues who i suspected would meet the dons later that year in the finals. During the game I tried my best to injure fletcher by headbutting his elbow. Unfortunately my eye socket was not strong enough and it opened up a nice gash instead of breaking fletcher's elbow as intended. I always felt to this day that I could have done better. No Dustin, no FB, someone else to play on Kernahan, team balance all messed up for the Dons - victory for the blues. Sorry guys... if only my head was stronger.

Remember attending the final training session before the game where Peter Dean trained the house down. Later that night, when i heard the team, i had a feeling we were going to struggle. Parkin and the match committee played it too 'safe' by going with Powell and Sholl and overlooking the likes of Dean and Kouta.