September 22, 2025 • 7 mins
Fitzy's old footy club had a big win on the weekend- winning the A-Grade Grand Final for just the fifth time. Fitzy's old team mate and now assistant coach for the team found a very specific item that has become a life-long good luck charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
My local footy team that I grew up playing in
the Portlander Cockle Divers that I've played before Old Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
On Saturday we won the A grade.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Premiership for the first time in twenty eight years with
do you know what?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Can I just say this is why.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sporting clubs are so good because it just doesn't bring
the players together the winner, but it brings the community together.
Like it's just That's why my wife was saying where
is my husband?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Because I just couldn't leave the club. Everyone was so
jovial and it just means do you know what?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Sporting clubs are a place where people go for a release,
to get away from all the stressful things in their lives,
forget about the world and go down the club with
people that you love and are there for the right reasons.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And that's what I saw Saturday night whip. There was
just god.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Actually we had a couple there was Harry Himmelberg from
gw Wes was over there. We've got a player on
our side that used to play for GWS sax Brown,
so there was a few AFL players there. Then you've
got all the old guys who won premierships inte eighty eight.
My dad was there, he won nineteen sixty five and
in nineteen eighteen three.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I was eighteen sixty five. I think, well he was
he was a really young man.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then he captain coached in nineteen seventy three and
I played in the nineteen ninety seven premiership. So we've
only won four premierships. This was our fifths. A There's
a beautiful story though, right. There's our assistant coach, Paul Vaughan,
and he was my captain in nineteen ninety seven when
I played in that premiership.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And I love this man. I looked up to him
when I was a kid and.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
He inspired me with football and he took me under
his wing and I absolutely adore him.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And he's the assistant coach now of the A grade
team whip. And he told me a.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Story and he got quite emotional on Saturday night that
when he was on his way on the way to
the ground, he'd written a few notes.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He did this inspiring speech to the boys on.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Thursday as well, but he wrote a few notes that
he wanted to bring up before the game and he
looked down and he'd forgotten his pen. So when he
got to the ground where the grand final was at,
he went into the local clubrooms and said, look, can
I borrow a pen?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Is that okay? And they said, yeah, noorries.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They handed him a pen and on the pen was
the name of a funeral company, and it was the
funeral company that he just used to say goodbye to
his parents in the last couple of years, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And there was this moment where he looked at the
name of the.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Funeral company went, oh my god, that was where we
said goodbye to mom and dad. And then he reckons
for the whole game whip. He was holding this pen
in his two hands and he's just talking to it
as if it was his mum and dad and saying,
come on, come on, dad, get this over the line.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We can do this for four quarters of the game.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And we got by two points and he said, mate,
I will never ever he stolen it from the club,
But he said, I will never I will never ever
get rid of this pen. It is now my good
luck charm forever.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
And he can hold onto that, knowing that's all of
the average funerals about five thousand dollars to head back
from the funeral and then he's had a win.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So he finally got something out of it. I thought
that was a beautiful story. And good luck charms. You
know what when something like this and a momentous occasion
in your life happens and you're holding on to something,
I mean, it signifies that for the rest of your life.
Thirteen twenty four to ten, What is your good luck charm?
Cheryl's given us a call from Saint Andrews. What's your Cheryl?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
My good luck charm is my sister on crystal that
I wear around my neck. I actually got it when
I was in my twenties. I bought it in Sydney
as the Rocks. And I'm very lucky. I've been very
lucky in my life. I've actually won health wise. I've
been very lucky. Found by accident that I had cancer
(04:02):
and I would have been dead within six weeks. And
it was only because they did a full scheme instead
of instead of going from I had other ones which
went below my neck. Yes, and so that's one good thing.
I won one of the holidays. I've won about sixteen
holidays in competition. One of those, yeah, one of the
(04:24):
holidays was you had to unscramble three places in Tasmania
and I did, which I did it centered in It
was just an envelope. It was in a barrel and
they reckon. There was about three hundred and ninety eight
thousand envelopes. And the guy, I've actually been, I've actually
(04:44):
been in a room and like, I'll give you an example.
I went on a holiday and they had a lucky
chair every night and each night at dinner, and i'd
actually won that holiday, and you said on the and
you've got a prize. Anyway, the first night I just
sat down and I won the prize. So somebody said
(05:05):
keep where are you going to sit? The next night,
I said, oh here, They said can I sit there?
I said, of course you can sit there, don't mine.
I'll just sit over here every night for sixteen for
sixteen days. I won it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No way, Cheryl, you're kidding me. Sixteen days in a row, sixteen.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Days in a row, and I've been, and I've actually been.
Another time I was out of function and I bought
five Raffle tickets and I actually my name came out
five times, which and I said.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, no, I'll take.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
One prize and then I won the Lucky Door cry.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Cheryl, Cheryl, can you Cheryl mate, can you please make
you wait in thirty three? So on the street right now,
because we're just going to have you in our studio
for the rest of our career.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Is Cheryl, you just need to be out good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Hey Cheryl, have you ever lost the crystal or have
you freaked out? No?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, I've never lost it. I've always had it. And
it's funny because it's one of those things that like,
as an example, like even with my children or friends
and like, for instance, because I am I am very intuitive,
but it'll be like my spirit guides will start talking
to me and even to the point where like people say, oh,
(06:21):
I'm not lucky, and then I'll say to them, but
because I've done a lot of really nice things in life,
like I've always helped and sold raffle tickets for charities,
and like I've always I like, I'm that type of
person and you know, and I've always you know anyway,
but I've had people that are very negative and I
never win anything, and I said, well, if you here,
I want to spy this ticket or have this ticket. No, no,
(06:44):
I won't win. And I said, well, I'm telling you
that number is going to win, and it has and
they've taken it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
L what do you do on this sad day? Do
you mind coming to ran withick with me? Cheryl? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, even and I've gone, mate, even when I've gone
to the races. It's quite funny because I've actually I don't.
I just look at the horse and I think the
horse's a really nice horse, and someone will say, oh,
look it's not going to win an ok. Yeah, but
I like to look at it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I can get really beautiful story. You're okay, you're our
good luck charm for the rest of the show. What
Unshriff It's.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
In Whippa with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast to
walk great shows like this. Download the Nova player by
the app Store or Google playing the player.
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
My local footy team that I grew up playing in
the Portlander Cockle Divers that I've played before Old Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
On Saturday we won the A grade.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Premiership for the first time in twenty eight years with
do you know what?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Can I just say this is why.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sporting clubs are so good because it just doesn't bring
the players together the winner, but it brings the community together.
Like it's just That's why my wife was saying where
is my husband?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Because I just couldn't leave the club. Everyone was so
jovial and it just means do you know what?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Sporting clubs are a place where people go for a release,
to get away from all the stressful things in their lives,
forget about the world and go down the club with
people that you love and are there for the right reasons.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And that's what I saw Saturday night whip. There was
just god.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Actually we had a couple there was Harry Himmelberg from
gw Wes was over there. We've got a player on
our side that used to play for GWS sax Brown,
so there was a few AFL players there. Then you've
got all the old guys who won premierships inte eighty eight.
My dad was there, he won nineteen sixty five and
in nineteen eighteen three.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I was eighteen sixty five. I think, well he was
he was a really young man.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then he captain coached in nineteen seventy three and
I played in the nineteen ninety seven premiership. So we've
only won four premierships. This was our fifths. A There's
a beautiful story though, right. There's our assistant coach, Paul Vaughan,
and he was my captain in nineteen ninety seven when
I played in that premiership.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And I love this man. I looked up to him
when I was a kid and.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
He inspired me with football and he took me under
his wing and I absolutely adore him.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And he's the assistant coach now of the A grade
team whip. And he told me a.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Story and he got quite emotional on Saturday night that
when he was on his way on the way to
the ground, he'd written a few notes.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He did this inspiring speech to the boys on.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Thursday as well, but he wrote a few notes that
he wanted to bring up before the game and he
looked down and he'd forgotten his pen. So when he
got to the ground where the grand final was at,
he went into the local clubrooms and said, look, can
I borrow a pen?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Is that okay? And they said, yeah, noorries.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They handed him a pen and on the pen was
the name of a funeral company, and it was the
funeral company that he just used to say goodbye to
his parents in the last couple of years, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And there was this moment where he looked at the
name of the.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Funeral company went, oh my god, that was where we
said goodbye to mom and dad. And then he reckons
for the whole game whip. He was holding this pen
in his two hands and he's just talking to it
as if it was his mum and dad and saying,
come on, come on, dad, get this over the line.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We can do this for four quarters of the game.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And we got by two points and he said, mate,
I will never ever he stolen it from the club,
But he said, I will never I will never ever
get rid of this pen. It is now my good
luck charm forever.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
And he can hold onto that, knowing that's all of
the average funerals about five thousand dollars to head back
from the funeral and then he's had a win.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So he finally got something out of it. I thought
that was a beautiful story. And good luck charms. You
know what when something like this and a momentous occasion
in your life happens and you're holding on to something,
I mean, it signifies that for the rest of your life.
Thirteen twenty four to ten, What is your good luck charm?
Cheryl's given us a call from Saint Andrews. What's your Cheryl?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
My good luck charm is my sister on crystal that
I wear around my neck. I actually got it when
I was in my twenties. I bought it in Sydney
as the Rocks. And I'm very lucky. I've been very
lucky in my life. I've actually won health wise. I've
been very lucky. Found by accident that I had cancer
(04:02):
and I would have been dead within six weeks. And
it was only because they did a full scheme instead
of instead of going from I had other ones which
went below my neck. Yes, and so that's one good thing.
I won one of the holidays. I've won about sixteen
holidays in competition. One of those, yeah, one of the
(04:24):
holidays was you had to unscramble three places in Tasmania
and I did, which I did it centered in It
was just an envelope. It was in a barrel and
they reckon. There was about three hundred and ninety eight
thousand envelopes. And the guy, I've actually been, I've actually
(04:44):
been in a room and like, I'll give you an example.
I went on a holiday and they had a lucky
chair every night and each night at dinner, and i'd
actually won that holiday, and you said on the and
you've got a prize. Anyway, the first night I just
sat down and I won the prize. So somebody said
(05:05):
keep where are you going to sit? The next night,
I said, oh here, They said can I sit there?
I said, of course you can sit there, don't mine.
I'll just sit over here every night for sixteen for
sixteen days. I won it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No way, Cheryl, you're kidding me. Sixteen days in a row, sixteen.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Days in a row, and I've been, and I've actually been.
Another time I was out of function and I bought
five Raffle tickets and I actually my name came out
five times, which and I said.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, no, I'll take.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
One prize and then I won the Lucky Door cry.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Cheryl, Cheryl, can you Cheryl mate, can you please make
you wait in thirty three? So on the street right now,
because we're just going to have you in our studio
for the rest of our career.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Is Cheryl, you just need to be out good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Hey Cheryl, have you ever lost the crystal or have
you freaked out? No?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, I've never lost it. I've always had it. And
it's funny because it's one of those things that like,
as an example, like even with my children or friends
and like, for instance, because I am I am very intuitive,
but it'll be like my spirit guides will start talking
to me and even to the point where like people say, oh,
(06:21):
I'm not lucky, and then I'll say to them, but
because I've done a lot of really nice things in life,
like I've always helped and sold raffle tickets for charities,
and like I've always I like, I'm that type of
person and you know, and I've always you know anyway,
but I've had people that are very negative and I
never win anything, and I said, well, if you here,
I want to spy this ticket or have this ticket. No, no,
(06:44):
I won't win. And I said, well, I'm telling you
that number is going to win, and it has and
they've taken it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
L what do you do on this sad day? Do
you mind coming to ran withick with me? Cheryl? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, even and I've gone, mate, even when I've gone
to the races. It's quite funny because I've actually I don't.
I just look at the horse and I think the
horse's a really nice horse, and someone will say, oh,
look it's not going to win an ok. Yeah, but
I like to look at it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I can get really beautiful story. You're okay, you're our
good luck charm for the rest of the show. What
Unshriff It's.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
In Whippa with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast to
walk great shows like this. Download the Nova player by
the app Store or Google playing the player.
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