Ken & Neil McAullay: you ducked or you hooked

Host David Baird talks with brothers Ken and Neil McAullay about their long association with the club. They reflect on balancing top-level football with cricket, share stories from their playing days, and remember star-studded opponents and club legends. It’s a tribute to the volunteers and teammates who make a sporting community last.

In this episode

• 0:24 Introducing Ken and Neil McAullay, and Ken’s rare double of top-level cricket and football
• 3:04 Choosing between football and cricket
• 5:36 The 1972 weekend Ken won a national football carnival medal while Bob Massie took 16 wickets at Lord’s
• 8:22 Neil on volunteering for the club after his playing days
• 9:33 The Achilles injuries that ended Ken’s state career at 24, and a brief move to Scarborough
• 12:05 First Grade debuts against a star-studded Midland Guildford, and a 15-year-old silencing the sledgers
• 17:46 Modern protective gear versus the battered club kit of their era
• 18:35 Bill Shaw’s fast, WACA-like wickets at Hillcrest
• 20:58 Being called “selfish” by captain Danny McEvoy, twice
• 25:22 Tributes to volunteers like Eddie Metherall and “Pop”, and the teammates who made it special

Quotes

“To think that two teammates from Bassendean Bayswater… representing your state, Bob was representing Australia, to think that we reached those heights on the same weekend in ’72 was just quite amazing, really.”

“I suppose there’s three things in life. And there’s family and friends, you have your work, and then you have the outside interest. And cricket was my outside interest.”

“You can’t get hurt, basically, can you, playing cricket as a batsman now? Whereas back in our day, you either ducked or you hooked.”