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Tuggeranong Valley footy legend Gerrit 'Chief' Wanganeen.
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Gerrit 'Chief' Wanganeen speaks about the importance of the Indigenous round of games on Saturday, July 12 in Canberra
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I'm Gerrit Wanganeen. I'm a Norunga man whose heritage goes back to the York Peninsula and
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Point Pierce in South Australia, playing about 397 games with the Tuggernaug Senior Footy Club.
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The thing that's really important for Indigenous round and for us to remember is just the impact
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that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have had on our footy club. So as far back as 1986
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when the senior club won the premiership, Les Turner and Ollie Lou, Ollie Kickett, they were key
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players in that premiership side. Ollie went on to be the president of the footy club and Jay Kickett
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in particular was a really standout player and a captain of our first grade side. Even in my time
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at the footy club towards probably the end of my playing career with the club, we proudly had the
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most Indigenous players of all of the clubs in the AFL Canberra competition. I think we had about 11
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players across our men's in the seniors. The players were lucky enough to be involved in some of the
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New South Wales OCT Indigenous carnivals and we were the first senior club in Canberra to really put a
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focus on Indigenous round and it is something that the club should be fantastically proud of because
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in a place like Canberra, sometimes there's not the opportunity to have some of the conversations
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that in the Indigenous round started and I've got a whole heap of really good mates that I've known
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through the football club that have felt comfortable to ask me questions and I'm really proud that the
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footy club could help out in that manner. I didn't play as many first grade games as, you know,
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an Ollie Kickett or a Jay Kickett or even, you know, nowadays the Logan Grays of the world that are
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still running around and but to be, I guess, recognised for some of the work that I was able
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to do off the field in some challenging times and, you know, the impact hopefully that Tugganong's had
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on the AFL competition. So it is a real honour.
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