FROM GRIT TO CLORY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE TERRIGAL/AVOCA PANTHERS.
I have a new book out, The Panther has Landed, which is a memoir of my time playing AFL on the Central Coast of NSW. It is part memoir but mostly history of how a fledgling club, the Terrigal/Avoca Australian Football Club, rose from the ashes of a founding in 1976 to become the most successful AFL club on the Central Coast of NSW by 1999.
In 1976 Australian Rules Football was a struggling outsider in Rugby League heartland. A small group of pioneers set out to build something from nothing on the Central Coast.
The book is a 469-page deep dive into the foundation, survival and ultimate triumph of the Terrigal/Avoca AFC. Follow the journey from raw, unstable beginnings in 1976 to becoming the most successful AFL club on the Central Coast by 1999.
IN OTHER NEWS:
I am more than halfway into the second book, Juvenile Pirates, and for those that have already read, Juvenile Sailors, which are a few, then I apologise for the long delay. Unfortunately life has got in the way and when you work five and a half days a week, maintain fifteen and a half acres and try and write then something has to give. I am now retired and have set time aside to write, come hell or high water, so luck permitting the next book should be out within the next twelve months.
For those who haven’t read, Juvenile Sailors, check out the book via the menu and you can purchase it there if you so desire.
On another note the long term plan was that there was going to be three books, a trilogy, with the third one based in the USA on the events leading up to the American fight for independence. I’m thinking of calling that one, Juvenile Privateers.
Some of you might relate to the fact that once I had started to write the first one it seemed to take on a life or its own. When my intention to write only one book turned into at this stage three. Will it end there? Buggered if I know because the first book turned into two, the second book turned into three and who knows what will happen when I start the third.
