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The Red & Black Project

Dr Dan Eddy

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Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 28

An oral history of the Essendon Football Club, proudly supported by the Essendonians and the Essendon Past Players & Officials Association.

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The Trainers: Charlie Italia, Murray Spargo & Rob Destradi

Season 2 · Episode 28

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 • Duration 01:32:15

With over 100 years of experience, collectively, working at the Essendon Football Club, much loved trainers Charlie Italia, Murray Spargo and Rob Destradi have a catalogue of fascinating stories to share from their decades spent helping players and coaches strive for success. In this special podcast, the three life members reveal plenty of new insights into what has made the club tick for the past 40 years.

This podcast is proudly brought to you by daneddybooks.com, the Essendonians, the EFC Past Players & Officials Association, and the EFC.

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#803 Graham Moss

Season 2 · Episode 27

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 • Duration 32:32

Relive Dan Eddy's 2019 chat with Bomber number 803, Graham Moss, which originally aired on Essendon's 'Fabric of the Essendon Football Club' podcast series celebrating the club's 150-year anniversary in 2022. Few players in VFL/AFL history have had a bigger impact over a four-year span than Moss, who, like a shooting star, burst on the scene in 1973 then left spectators awestruck as he departed, just weeks after winning the 1976 Brownlow Medal; the first West Australian-born player to claim football's highest individual award.
In all, Moss played 84 games for the Bombers—the first of which he recorded 26 disposals and took 13 marks in the best Essendon debut since John Coleman, who, tragically, died just two days before Moss's first game—and he won three Crichton Medals (1974-76). He was Essendon captain in 1976. However, at 26 and in the prime years of his football career, Moss accepted an offer to captain-coach his former club, Claremont, in 1977. In the next four seasons at the Tigers, he won four consecutive B&Fs.
In 2002, Moss—one of the greatest ruckmen the game has ever seen—was selected at No. 13 in the top 25 'Champions of Essendon', then was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2012. He was an inaugural member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame (1996) and is a Legend of the West Australian Football Hall of Fame (2006).

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#736 Kevin Egan

Season 2 · Episode 26

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 • Duration 01:21:52

Bomber number 736, Kevin Egan, has pretty much done it all at Essendon. Premiership player (1965), numerous off-field roles including being Kevin Sheedy's right-hand man during the 1980s, and later on the board when the momentous decision was made to end Sheedy's tenure. In 2015, Egan was rightfully inducted into the club's Hall of Fame. In this episode, he reflects on a remarkable life in football, which included a stint at the Sydney Swans during what proved a turning point in that club's history.
The Red & Black Project Podcast is proudly supported by the Essendonians, the Essendon Past Players & Officials Association, and daneddybooks.com.

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Kevin Andrews

Season 2 · Episode 25

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 01:09:22

You may not recognise him in the street, but you certainly know his work and have likely sung his song on many an occasion. Kevin Andrews is the man who penned the most famous of songs, the Essendon theme song (he even sings it for me in this episode!). Having been forced to endure a troubled and nomadic childhood, Andrews came under the influence of Bombers Hugh Mitchell and Jeff Gamble, and it was at Gamble's parents' home - 13 Grandview Road, Niddrie - where the famous song was penned on a notepad in the late-1950s.
His connection to Essendon went further than that. In 1985, Andrews was goal umpire for the VFL Grand Final, signalling many a goal during the Bombers' thrashing of Hawthorn.
This podcast is proudly brought to you by the Essendonians & the Essendon Past Players & Officials Association.

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#820 Simon Madden

Season 2 · Episode 24

Monday, July 22, 2024 • Duration 52:55

Relive Dan Eddy's 2019 chat with Bomber number 820, Simon Madden, which originally aired on Essendon's 'Fabric of the Essendon Football Club' podcast series celebrating the club's 150-year anniversary in 2022. One of Essendon's, and the game's, greatest ruckmen—some say THE greatest—Madden won four Crichton Medals (1977, 1979, 1983-84), was selected in six VFL Teams of the Year, was a triple Essendon leading goalkicker (1980, 1982, 1991) with a career total of 575 goals, was Bombers skipper (1980-81), a regular Victorian representative, won two premierships (1984-85) from four Grand Final appearances, and, in one of the most dominant Grand Final performances of all-time, won the 1985 Norm Smith Medal. His 378 games in red and black was a club record for more than two decades, before eclipsed by Dustin Fletcher (400 games). Madden is a Legend of the Essendon Football Club, was selected at No. 5 in the Champions of Essendon, is ruckman of the Bombers' Team of the Century, and is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame. On top of all that, he's a great storyteller (most of it true!).

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#19 Neil McKissock

Season 2 · Episode 23

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 • Duration 01:00:25

As one of just 25 men in 152 years to have held the title of president/chairman of the Essendon Football Club, Neil McKissock is in select company. As the 19th president of the Bombers (2004-06), McKissock, a life-long supporter of the club who grew up idolising John Coleman and Bill Hutchison, oversaw a changing of the guard at Bomberland as the club struggled to replicate the on-field successes of the 1980s, '90s and early-2000s. As a member of the Essendon board since the late-1990s, McKissock drew on his business career in the finance sector to help grow the Essendon Football Club from a suburban footy club engulfed in a crippling salary cap drama into one of the most powerful and recognisable sporting organisations in Australia.
In this interview, McKissock provides a fascinating insight into what's involved in running an AFL club in the 21st century.

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#973 David Calthorpe

Season 2 · Episode 22

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 • Duration 01:59:46

A member of Essendon's famed Baby Bombers, David Calthorpe reflects with raw honesty and openness on his 92-game career at Windy Hill (1992-98), which included the 1994 pre-season premiership, an EJ Whitten Medal as best Victorian State of Origin player, and of course, that famous 1993 flag alongside a number of his childhood mates from in and around the East Keilor area of Melbourne's northern suburbs. Calthorpe—a tagger, and one of the best endurance runners at the club—walked out on the Bombers after 1998 and joined the Leigh Matthews-coached Brisbane Lions for 1999 (nine games), before playing one final season at North Melbourne in 2000 (13 games). He later returned to Essendon in off-field roles alongside then coach, Matthew Knights, where, as Calthorpe reveals, the ending left a bitter taste in his mouth.

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#684 Col Hebbard

Season 2 · Episode 21

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 • Duration 01:14:32

Former West Australian recruit, Colin Hebbard, reminisces about his 85-game career at Windy Hill (1957-61), which coincided with two Grand Final appearances in 1957 and 1959 - both losses to Melbourne - under legendary coach Dick Reynolds. A versatile player, Hebbard was equally at home on a half-back or half-forward flank, and also spent time in the centre where he played alongside the likes of Bill Hutchison, Jack Clarke, Ian Shelton and Ken Fraser. Returning home to West Perth at the tender age of 25, Hebbard represented WA in State football and later became Essendon's WA-based recruiter (1970s-90s), helping to secure the signatures of notable fan favourites Bill Duckworth, Tony Buhagiar, Graham Moss and Leon Baker.
He is a life member of the Essendon Football Club.

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#883 Tony Buhagiar

Season 2 · Episode 20

Monday, May 27, 2024 • Duration 01:06:24

From his hometown of Perth in Western Australia, Tony 'The Budgie' Buhagiar reflects on his four seasons at Windy Hill (1981-84), which coincided with the rise of the Bombers under Kevin Sheedy. Buhagiar burst onto the VFL scene after a successful career with East Fremantle (1973-80), which included two premierships. Wearing the number 20 red and black guernsey, the diminiative rover became a fan favourite at Essendon and was a member of the club's losing 1983 Grand Final against Hawthorn. The following year, he was dropped for the Grand Final, after playing in the preliminary final, and never played another game for the club. There was one final season with Footscray (1985), before he returned to WA and later served on the board of the Fremantle Dockers (2000-09).

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#804 Russell Ellen

Season 2 · Episode 19

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 • Duration 01:33:55

A product of Essendon's fruitful Wimmera recruiting zone during the 1970s, Russell Ellen played 35 games for the Bombers (1973-77). His time at Windy Hill coincided with the careers of champion ruckman, Graham Moss, and an emerging Simon Madden, meaning Ellen, a tall, lanky ruckman himself, was in and out of the senior team. He went on to play 108 games at West Perth in Western Australia, before a successful business career took him to all corners of the globe. Now based permanently back in WA, Ellen—along with a number of former Bomber players—help run the WA Bombers supporter group, one of the largest Essendon supporter bases outside of Victoria.

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