ABC News | After more than a century, a proud country football and netball club is folding. Its demise tells a bigger story about rural Australia.
The night before Quambatook Football and Netball Club’s final ever home-and-away game, two men found themselves in the clubrooms, engaged in good-natured, if occasionally strained, debate.
One of them was to give a speech at the conclusion of the men’s seniors game.
The club’s young president, Rhys Carmichael, insisted it should be delivered by Malcolm “Dasher” Knight, a club legend several decades his senior.
Knight objected. The speech, he argued, should instead fall to the 27-year-old football playing president, Carmichael.
Neither of the men wanted the club’s final moments to be about him.
