04-06-2021, 05:34 AM
(04-06-2021, 05:17 AM)tonyo link Wrote:Going back a ways, as a young kid, I can remember watching Bruce Doull play for his first three years and the general consensus among those sitting around me at the time was that he was a very average performer. Then he moved from #4 to #11 (out of a sense of 'I'm not worthy') and the rest is history.
I heard it from a senior committee man at the time that he was given #11, didn't want it due to comparisons to John Goold, played a ripper next game in that jumper and it stayed.