Vale- Geoff McClure

BlueMark · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:21 pm

Passed away after a long battle with cancer.

A great sportswriter for The Age and a passionate Carlton man

Will be sadly missed

Best wishes to his family

camel · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:36 pm

That's sad news.

buzzaaaah · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:31 am **Posts:** 17889

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/farewell ... -q9p7.html

RIP

aramari · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:48 pm

I liked his work, and his surname.

Was a refreshing break from the pomposity of most of our footy scribes

RIP

DownUnderChick · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:49 pm

Loved his team - nice reading how Juddy came to see him. He would have been stoked with that.

RIP and condolences to his family and friends.

Blue Vain · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:35 am **Posts:** 17792

Quote:

In his days at Carlton Ian Collins used Chook as a scout during one of his stints living in Tasmania, and their long-time association had all the fire of the best administrator-journalist relationships. "We went back to the old days ... he'd call it as it was, and I'd call it as I saw fit. He'd write a story and I'd say he didn't get it quite right, and he'd fire back, 'Well if you bloody well told us what was going on there wouldn't be a problem!'

Andyblue · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:56 pm

I had the honour of sitting next to him at a game last year. Oustanding gentleman, had some great stories and was a deeply passionate blue. R.I.P.

Belisarius · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:20 am **Posts:** 548

Pretty sad :sad:

The bloke was a real character :thumbsup:

Kaptain Kouta · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:41 pm **Posts:** 63509

R.I.P.

I liked his work.

Condolences to family and friends.

bondiblue · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:41 pm

Vale Geoff McLure.

Great post AndyBlue....thanks for sharing that moment in time.

Obviously chook was loved, respected and always greeted with a smile.

This man must have been remarkable.

I didn't know he was a Bluebagger....I always loved his surname.

Thanks for the good times chook.

Go Blues.

Now lets win a flag for Sir Richard and Chooka...and people like them who have done the club proud.

Blues Clues · **Joined:** Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:01 pm **Posts:** 2099

Grew up reading "our" Carlton man Macca ply his trade. Slattery, Ron Reed, The Beast, Macca - all part of our journos hall of fame.

Thanks for the memories champ, RIP.

CK95 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:25 pm

Very sad news, loved Geoff's work & was not aware he was ill.

First realised he was a Blueboy the Monday after the 99 prelim when his piece was just Carlton through & through. Including a great little snippet about the match against West Coast the week before. Apparently Sheedy had appeared from behind a tree in the MCG car park after the match & made cut throat gestures at a passing Kevin Hall, in reference to them playing us the following week. :lol:

(Geoff told the story 100 times better than that)

RIP

Go Blues.

P.P Blues · **Joined:** Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:20 pm **Posts:** 32

I got a call from Geoff one morning, it was the day after St Paddy's day several years ago and got very lubricatated
at Pugg's before heading off to see the blues win the wizard cup

came decked out in irish flag and popped it over the fence to the irishman who ended up in the paper wearing it

it was (i believe) de bolfo who came to the players race at the dome and called out to get the flag,
and asked for a contact ph number to get it back.

next moring geoff called to get some info, and it was on the back page of the spts section the next day
it was funny the way it was all really hush hush and obviously he was sneaking heaps of positive blues stories into
his back page for years. did a lot of great work for the blues in a hushg hush way and really nice guy

Best wishes to his family.

kkk · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:40 am

Every week in The Age tipsters column Geoff McLure - "Carlton".

Phoenix · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:07 am **Posts:** 328

R.I.P. Geoff McClure.

Getting up each morning for work was made a lot easier reading Geoff's back page column.

Will be sadly missed.

Condolences to family.

PD'sPC · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:24 am

RIP Geoff "Chooka" McClure.

Many thanks for keeping the Blues' flame burning, especially during the very bleak years of the '00s......your column was always a pleasure to read. :thanks:

I will never forget your tips.....Carlton by 1. :smile:

Vale- Geoff McClure

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