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Martin Flanagan’s speech to the Grassroots Sports Club in Hobart, Spring 2019.
Martin Flanagan is one the country’s leading writers on Australian football. This is a timely speech about footy in Tassie which Martin gave in Hobart last weekend for the Grassroots Sports Club to raise money to buy sports equipment for disadvantaged kids.