John Callery lights up the scoreboard

A NICE touch from the BERWICK FOOTBALL CLUB on Saturday, with the number 29 guernsey of John Callery, who passed away after a long battle with cancer on Friday night, adorning the scoreboard at Edwin Flack Reserve. Darryl Nisbet, the man who coached the Wickers, and Callery, to the 1977 flag, summed up the man who played over 200 games and won dual best-and-fairest awards as a rover and back pocket. “He was just a great bloke, as courageous as they come, and we wouldn’t have won that 1977 flag without him,” Nisbet said. “He had 17 kicks in the last quarter of the preliminary final that year, and we only won by three points.” 140386 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS

A NICE touch from the BERWICK FOOTBALL CLUB on Saturday, with the number 29 guernsey of John Callery, who passed away after a long battle with cancer on Friday night, adorning the scoreboard at Edwin Flack Reserve. Darryl Nisbet, the man who coached the Wickers, and Callery, to the 1977 flag, summed up the man who played over 200 games and won dual best-and-fairest awards as a rover and back pocket. “He was just a great bloke, as courageous as they come, and we wouldn’t have won that 1977 flag without him,” Nisbet said. “He had 17 kicks in the last quarter of the preliminary final that year, and we only won by three points.” 140386 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS