Greater Western Sydney GIANTS General Manager of Football Graeme ‘Gubby’ Allan has suggested he was the mastermind behind Collingwood’s 1990 AFL grand final victory, after stomping on former Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy’s false teeth.
Graeme and GIANTS Head Coach Sheedy joked with the crowd at the GIANTS Grand Final Luncheon, reminiscing about the infamous quarter time brawl in which the pair came together.
“We’ve got two very different stories to the quarter time fight,” teased Allan.
“There was a massive fight on one side of the ground with the players. As quarter time broke out, I ran onto the ground to go to the Collingwood huddle… I ended up in the Essendon huddle.
“Somehow, the Essendon runner was giving a bit of cheek. He was the first bloke I’ve ever hit in my life and I hit him!
“He went down. Next thing I know, all hell broke loose in the Essendon huddle.”
Sheedy interrupted to say that that was where Allan’s story started to deviate from the truth.
“Sheeds reckons he came over the top and hit me, that’s not true,” continued Allan.
“What happened was, I was wrestling with Mark Harvey and some bloke in an Essendon top came flying in with a big haymaker.
“I saw him coming and he missed. What happened was, his false teeth fell out!
“As they fell out, I just went ‘stomp’, right in the ground.
“At quarter time, Leigh (Matthews) got our players nice and cool.
“Sheeds spent the entire quarter time looking for his false teeth. The Essendon blokes were in a mess and that’s why we won the game!”
