Great day yesterday as I caught up with Melbourne Footballer and Tasmanian Brad Green in the Elizabeth Street Mall, Hobart. I am pictured with Brad and an autographed 2001 photo of him.

Brad’s mother worships at the Anglican Parish in George Town. Melbourne played in the Grand Final in 2000 and the consecration of the new Church had been scheduled for the afternoon. Now any AFL supporter knows that the last Saturday afternoon in September is sacred.  I therefore moved the service to Saturday morning, the Parish organised a BBQ lunch and their Rector Chris Thiele organised a big screen in the newly consecrated Church to watch the Grand Final. Bishop changing Church consecration in favour of the AFL final hit the headlines (front page of the Examiner paper). Unfortunately Melbourne winning the Grand Final was not the news.  Brad Green’s mum arranged for Brad to sign and dedicate (or is this consecrated) the photo which I have sitting proudly on my mantel piece in the Episcopal office.

It was fun to meet Brad and to show him the photograph and to thank him for being a great role model for our Tasmanian and Australian young people.

See The Mercury article here, Green keen on captaincy. We apparently were also seen on Southern Cross News last night.