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srd75 asked: Hi Cameron. I read your post on George Doig, and the Eulogy you delivered at his funeral, and I remembered the large amount of respect paid to George on that day.

I've taken the liberty of quoting your eulogy on the website I created for George Doig, and I've including a reference to your website at the bottom of the page.

Please let me know if this is...

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In the Game

Chris Connolly described it as a need to ‘bottom-out’- something the Melbourne Football Club hadn’t done for decades. It was early 2008. Call it intuition, or perhaps a strategic analysis from an experienced football person with in innate and learned feel for the game and his club, it was nonetheless a sage observation. The notion of bottoming-out as a mechanism for creating forward momentum is...

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scottkilmartin asked: Schwabby, I can't find a 'follow' button for your tumblog. Either it's not turned on or i'm going blind.
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Watch Them Grow

There is a town called Moyston, which sits at the foot of the Grampians, about a three-hour drive north west of Melbourne. It is a beautiful part of the world, where every aspect of the landscape tells a story as it rushes past your window. Stories of yore tend to go one of two ways. Some are lost in time. Others are told and retold many times over many years. What is fact and what is real...

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Skinny Love - Kick it, Squeeze It I filmed this entirely on my iPhone 4 on a Sunday afternoon in Melbourne. I velcroed the phone to my bike helmet. Bon Iver’s Skinny Love is the song, and it also describes my bike, a Deus SR400 TT, customised by www.deus.com.au - my skinny bike, which you need to kick into action and squeeze the life out of - and it then loves you back. The graffiti is in Hosiers...

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Pleading the Fleeting Moment to Remain A day in the city with my son.

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Ron Barassi, Jim Stynes and the MCG

I had the great experience of watching a game recently with two great Melbourne people, both of whom have had a profound influence on my life. Has our game produced any greater stories than Ron Barassi and Jim Stynes? I wrote the following in the weeks after I started back as CEO of Melbourne in late 2008. Whilst clearly progress has been made since I penned this, and this season reinforced the...

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Loving the Deus. Pure.

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Some Black Keys For You

catchingechos: Loving Ten Cent Pistol Here’s a few faves off of The Black Keys’ new album Brothers. Everlasting Light 01 Everlasting Light.mp3 by cooperativemusicuk Ten Cent Pistol 09 Ten Cent Pistol.mp3 by cooperativemusicuk Next Girl 02 Next Girl.mp3 by cooperativemusicuk

Sep 4th

The Emblem of the Team We Love →

The inspiration for the emblem came from a trip to FCBarcelona last year. We were being shown around by a club official, and our discussion started with a detailed explanation of the FCB logo and all of its elements. Somehow, we have managed to homogenise the look and feel of our AFL club’s in an effort to remain contemporary. In doing so, we have hidden the reasons why our clubs are...

Sep 3rd

We Should Be So Honoured

My speech from the 2010 Keith ‘Bluey’ Truscott Best and Fairest. “In the heart of Depression Melbourne, in the early 1930’s, a man by the name of Percy Page was appointed Secretary of the Melbourne Football Club. He came from Richmond, who, with Collingwood was the power team of that time, tough inner suburban Clubs where playing a game of league footy meant food on the table...

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George Doig - The Bradman of Football

I lived in Perth for seven years and took it upon myself to fully embrace West Australia’s rich football tradition, particularly that which emanated from Fremantle. During my time in Perth, I got to know George Doig and his family. George was a beautiful and humble man whose incredible football achievements were almost forgotten. In old age, George’s legend was rekindled and he...

Aug 29th

The Saddest Loss

Artist Owen Abrahams captures the 1940 grand final in a stunning new print Article by Matt Burgan www.melbournefc.com.au OWEN Abrahams met Cameron Schwab in a chance meeting at a Fitzroy art gallery last year. Schwab, who has a passion for art, asked about two of Abrahams’ pieces, which he entered into this particular exhibition: ‘The Old Fitzroy, 1935’ and ‘Victoria Park, 1966’. Both were...

Aug 26th

How they saved the Tigers is worth celebrating -... →

Saving Our Skin… I cannot believe it is twenty years ago, but this was a remarkable time. It took great courage and incredible commitment from some great people. Jack Dyer was the spirit and Neville Crowe was the inspiration. I well recall the first words spoken to me by Jack when I was appointed General Manager o the Tigers. He said “Congratulations son, and whatever you do,...

Aug 26th

The Burden of Forgiveness

I wrote this in September 2000 When you are a kid, you don’t have much cause or reason to give your surname. Those who need to know it do, and a child’s life is such that they are rarely required to divulge this piece of information. You are simply Cameron, your mates are Davids, Craigs, Gregs, and generally there is more than one of each. Your whole identity is locked up in this single piece...

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