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Australian National Results

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Subject: Australian National Results
From: "Bruce Johnson" <orders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:14:41 +1000
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As an interested reader if the brass band mailing list (and a self-confessed
lurker), I am disappointed at the lack of comment on the Australian
Nationals win by Hawthorn at the weekend.  Is it because it's "just another
Hawthorn victory"? (Their 14th in recent times, I believe)

I would have thought that their remarkable achievement in coming from a
pretty sad situation 3 years ago (when things weren't going well and
everyone thought they were dead and buried) to  a great Nationals win was
worthy  of comment!

And all this with an extremely young team, including a secretary aged 25,
principal players all of whom (with one exception who is 60!) are well under
the age of 30 (in fact, mostly under 25), and a conductor aged 28 (by a long
way the youngest ever to win, I believe).

It would seem that the misery merchants who were previously very open and
cutting in their criticism of the appointment of the 'unknown' 25 year old
Salvo boy to the position of Hawthorn's conductor 2 1/2 years ago must now
be eating their words.  Good!  Because as an interested bystander I have
seen the tremendous drive and passion with which Ross and the band have
worked to rebuild the band from a very ordinary position to one which, by
accounts from the weekend, has Hawthorn playing better than ever before.

I for one am proud of the achievements of this, as they have proved once
again, Australia's most successful brass band.

Bruce Johnson
[Proud brother of the conductor]


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