On SEN tonight is none other than Rino Pretto ex Camberwell, Coburg, Oakleigh and Dandenong. Also played one game for Fitzroy. Will be on the Sunday Bloody Sunday segment between 10 and 10.30. Also on the VFL hour will be David Teague and Peter German.
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Hope they ask Rino how many he kicked in the 1984 Div 2 GF ;)
You would have loved him to be at Box Hill.
Box Hill has not had a full forward as good as Pretto.
Wilkinson, Dale Carroll and any other great forwards you have had are not as good as Pretto. He actually started his career as a fullback.
He once kicked 20 goals in a game against Mordialloc and over 1000 goals in his career.
Pretto at Northcote. I wish the dragons had a player of his calibre.
Will be interesting to see what he says. He will probably mention the 84 GF as well as the 85. They lost those GFs to Box Hill and Brunswick. Of course he will talk about the 1988 GF which was the last ever 2nd Division match played.
You forgot Paul Bolton.
To be honest, I don't remember Pretto ever kicking a bag of goals against Box Hill.
He was a huge lumbering mountain of a man who marked strongly and used to kick ridiculous bags of goals - 16, 18, 20 - against the really weak teams that ran around in the dying days of 2nd division.
In 1st division he was a 70 goal a season player. Good but not great.
Still 1000 goals at any level is a fantastic achievement.
Missed this tonight, what did he have to say?
When at Camberwell their regular forward was injured in a practice game and he played at full forward. He booted 8 goals. One of his work colleagues talked him into crossing over to Oakleigh. Toughest he played on was Jack Marshall from Dandenong. Pretto could handle himself ok and was not bothered by the burly full backs. Loved playing on a Sunday as he worked in the building trade and worked most Saturdays. Generally spoke pretty well.
When at Fitzroy he thought he was only used as a backup player. Enjoyed his brief time with the Roys but then crossed over to the VFA.
In the 1985 GF against Brunswick, the wicks as they were a smaller and quicker side were told to run and run early so to build a big lead which they did. Brunswick led by about 10 goals at three quarter time but the Oaks flew in the last term to get within 4 goals by kicking 12 in the last term with Pretto booting 8 goals.
What sort of tradie was he for his day job George?
Did he mention that?
Not sure Benny he didn't say.