Almanac Teams: Royals
Football Almanac Royals
As a young fella growing up in the late 70s my political awareness developed. One of the areas I was interested in was breaking free of the perception/understanding we were a British colony. An independent Australia, with our own head of state, our own flag, was something I wanted to see.
How wrong was I!
There has been much political change the last 40 years some good, some not so good, some ridiculous. However we still retain Betty Battenberg and her family as our head(s) of state. To show due respect here is a side I’ll call the Royals, representing the subservience Australia has for a feudal anachronism that is totally irrelevant in much of the contemporary world.
B: Sedat Sir (WB), Jack “Prince of Full Backs” Regan, (Coll), John Lord Jnr (Melb).
HB: Joe Prince (St K/SM/Carl), Earl “Duke Of” Spalding (Mel/Carl), Stewart Lord, (Geel).
C: David King (NM), Alistair Lord (Geel), Jack King (Haw).
HF: Sir Douglas Nicholls (Fitz), Wayne “King” Carey, (NM/Adel) Jake King, (Rich).
F: Aaron Lord (Geel/Haw/Geel), Leo King (Geel), John Lord (Melb/StK).
Foll: Steven King (Geel/StK), Lou “King of Moomba” Richards, (Coll), Brian Royal (Foots).
Inter: Stan Castle (SM), Leigh Tudor (NM/Geel), Tony King (Haw/St K), Clinton King, (Syd/Coll/Rich).
Emerg: Trevor Castles (Melb), Wayne Duke (Fitz), Billy King (SM),
Who would be the coach ?
Glen!
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Ray (House of) Windsor – Brisbane. Surely he could replace one of the Kings!
Obvious choice for Coach would be Kingo Taylor – it’s a no brainer.
Top idea Glen!
Phil McQueen (Geelong 2 games, 1920) adds some Benny Hill flavour.
Peter Darley (South Adelaide) was the original ‘Jumbo Prince’ before Rick Davies (Sturt/Hawthorn) was given that epithet.
Not to mention my Blacks 1982 premiership teammate, Richard ‘King’ Karutz
https://www.footyalmanac.com.au/rockys-ratpack-1982-the-king-is-dead-cancel-that/
And yet, not a Queen among them Glen !
Every time I look at a coin or a $5 note, I cringe. Seems many in this country don’t want to let go of ‘mummy’ and become adults. That aside, terrific idea.
Adam ‘Wallis’ Simpson as coach ? Tenuous, I know, but she became part of them.
A few more noms:
Peter Marquis (Melbourne)
Sid Silk (Essendon)
Pat “Duke of” Wellington, Essendon 70s
Jeremy – the McGovernor General.
“Long may we say God Save Carlton and Alex Fasolo because nothing will outmark the McGovernor General”.
Rick Davies, The Jumbo Prince.
Wasn’t Knuckles Kerley also known as King?
Royalty usually claim to be descended form God, or are their representatives on Earth, so surely GODRA should be at FF.
Of course, the surname Fitzroy was given to the illegitimate children of royalty, so there is an entire club that qualifies
Allan ‘The Baron’ Ruthven (Fitzroy – 1950 Brownlow)
Justin Charles, Bruce Andrew, Greg Philips, Alan Edwards, Max George, Choco Williams, Max James, Harry O’Brien, Henry Playfair, Albert Thurgood;
While I’ve got you here, why “Jumbo Prince” and not just plain Jumbo (P.T. Barnham’s elephant)?
The Royal Wedding – with apologies to “Coming to America”
Mr Elton John as Randy Watson: “Sexual Chocolate, Sexual Chocolate, ladies and gentlemen!” (throws microphone to the ground in a fit of pique.)
Mr Thomas Markle Sr. as Mr. Cleo McDowell: “He’s a prince, darling, a prince! You hit the jackpot! He’s got his own money, I mean his own money!” (shows picture of Prince Harry’s Grandmother HRH Queen Elizabeth on one pound note)
HRH Prince Harry as Eddie Murphy/Prince Akeem: “I’m going on a date with Meghan!”
HRH Prince Philip as the neighbours: “Shut up! F*** you!”
HRH Prince Harry “F*** you toooo!”
The Most Reverend Michael Curry as Reverend Brown:
“I love the Loward, and if lovin’ the Lowad is wrong, I don’t want to be right!”
HRH Queen Elizabeth: “Philip, apologise to Mr. McDowell.”
HRH Prince Philip as King Joffe Jafur: “I will do no such thing, he is beneath me.”
Now that we’ve got a team of Royals, it would be most interesting to see how it would go against the Bruces, Brians, Bills and Garys. Here’s a challenge to our readers, can you select a team of Cyrils or Claudes?
Fisho, i was thinking of a team of Cyril’s, or Cecil’s. It would be interesting.
Apart from Cyril Rioli you’d surmise most would be from pre- WW2 , as the names went out of vogue after then.
Glen!
Due to the recent very high profile Meghan and Harry interview about a The Royals, I have decided to come up with a Word 11 Cricket Team to do with the Royals. This includes surnames of cricketers that sound like common Royal names such as William, Edward and Phillip, as well as other Royal issues.
The players don’t necessarily need to have played Test cricket, just first class cricket.
Here is The World Cricket 11 Royal Team:
1. Jack Edwards (NSW, Sydney Sixers)
2. Nick Knight (England) (KNIGHTed by the Queen)
3. Josh Philippe (Sydney Sixers, Aust Twenty20)
4. Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
5. Ashwell Prince (South Africa)
6. Wally Edwards (Australia)
7. Ross Edwards (Australia)
8. Ray Phillips (QUEENSland)
9. Collis King (West Indies)
10. John “The Duke of” Hastings (Australia)
11. Brad Williams (Australia)
Jack Edwards, Ashley Prince and Kane Williamson can help with the bowling.
This team will play an exhibition AFL and exhibition cricket game with the AFL Royal team, named by Glen.
Entertainment for this match will be provided by Deborah HARRY, from Blondie.
As today is King’s Birthday, it got me thinking of doing a football team where every player’s surname has either King in it, or King as part of the surname. Some of the players’ names will be the same as the players named in the Royals Team in this article.
Preference was given to players who have played the most games and some players were named out of position, so they can be included in the team.
This is the VFL/AFL Team of Kings:
B: Bob King (Fitz 1916-21), Bob Kingston (SM 1961-67), Stuart King (St K 1931-33)
HB: Adam Kingsley (P Adel), Ron Kingston(Coll 1950-59), Jim King (SM/St K 1902-05)
C: David King (North Melb), Jack King (Haw 1941-1945), Billy King (SM 1940-48)
HF: Tony King (Hawthorn/St Kilda), Max King (St Kilda), Jake King (Richmond)
F: Clinton King (Sydney/Coll/Rich), Ben King (G Coast), Kent Kingsley (NM/Geel/Rich)
R: Steven King (Geelong/St Kilda), George King (Fitz 1913-16), Derek King (St K 1967-68)
Interchange: Leo King (4 games Geel 1981), David King (9 games Coll 2004), Charlie King (6 games Geel 1949), Bryan King (6 games St K 1956)
This team will play a pretend exhibition match against the Royals Team, named by Glen, at the start of this article. For those players selected in both teams, they can play half the match with the Royals team and the other with the team of Kings. If any team is then short on players, they can use the emergencies named in the Royals team.
The venue will be King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.
Entertainment will be provided by songs from The “King of Rock and Roll”, Elvis Presley.
Transport will be King Airlines.
Let’s hope for a good game of football without any king hits. but rather fit for a king!
Steven King has been named as the captain of the VFL/AFL team of Kings and Adam Kingsley will be the playing coach of that team.
Please note that as Ben King and Max King are identical twins, and have both been named in the same team, they will be the team of Kings twin towers!
As Steven King has just been appointed the new coach of Melbourne, once he has finished coaching Melbourne in his 1st game next year, he can then be appointed as the coach of the Royals team, named at the beginning of this article.
The latest Almanac Music Theme of Songs Involving Kings and/or Queens got me thinking about doing a football team where every player’s surname has either King and/or Queen in the surname, first name, a combination of the 1st and surname, a combination of the first name, surname, position on the field, the club/s they played for and if their 1st name or surname is the name of a King and/or Queen, and if King/Queen is their nickname.
The criteria is that the surname can only be used once.
Some players were played out of position, so they could fit in the team.
This is the VFL/AFL Team of Kings and/or Queens:
B: KEVIN GOSS (South Melb 1980-81/KIN in 1st name/G in surname), JAKE KOLODJASHNIJ (Geel/KIN in surname/ G in Geelong), ADAM KINGSLEY (Port Adelaide/KING in surname)
HB: KEN HINKLEY (Fitzroy/Geelong/KIN in his surname/G in Geelong), PETER KNIGHTS (Haw/KING in surname), ISAAC QUAYNOR (Coll/DEFENDER/QU in surname, EE in defender and N in surname)
C: GLENN KILPATRICK (Ess/Geelong/KI in surname/NG in 1st name), GARY HOCKING (Geel/KING in surname), DAVID KING (North Melbourne/KING in surname)
HF: MARK WILLIAMS (c) (Coll/Bris Bears/KING WILLIAM from surname), WAYNE CAREY (NM/Adel/KING nickname), NIGEL KELLETT (Foots 1989-97/K in surname/ING in 1st name)
F: RILEY KNIGHT (Adelaide Crows 2014-2020/KING in his surname), TOM HAWKINS (Geel/KIN surname/G in Geel), GEORGE YOUNG (St K/KING GEORGE from his 1st name)
R: TOM DE KONING (Carlton/St Kilda/KING in his surname), RICKY QUADE (South Melbourne/Syd/QU in surname/EEN in South Melbourne), ALAN KILLIGREW (St K 1938-45/KI in surname/N in 1st name/G in surname)
Interchange: NIGEL KOL (Geel/Melb 1983-87/K in 1st name/ING in surname), IAN GEORGE (St K 1973-74/KING GEORGE from surname), JUSTIN CHARLES (Foots/Rich/KING CHARLES from surname), TYRONE VICKERY (Rich/Haw/QUEEN VICTORIA/VIC in surname/TOR in 1st name/I in surname/A in Haw), MITCH GEORGIADIS (Port Adel/KING GEORGE/GEORG from surname/E from Port Adel)
Captain Coach: MARK WILLIAMS (played Coll/BB/coached Port Adel/KING WILLIAM from his surname)
This team will play a pretend exhibition match against the Royals Team, named by Glen at the start of this article. Both David King and Wayne “King” Carey will play one half for the Royals Team and the other half for the VFL/AFL Team of Kings and/or Queens.
Venue: QUEENSland Sport and Athletics Centre, formerly known as the QUEEN ELIZABETH II Jubilee Sports Centre, Nathan, QUEENSland
Entertainment: The rock band QUEEN, songs from “The KING of Rock” (Elvis Presley), the songs Caribbean QUEEN (No More Love on the Run)”, by Billy Ocean and “King Of The Road”, by Roger Miller
Let’s hope for a good game of football and if every player plays their cards right, there will be plenty of KINGS and QUEENS on show!