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Essendon assistant coach Robert Shaw was thinking about making a quite start to the New Year with his regular column. But it wasn’t to be … he found some people and some decisions simply too hard to ignore. Among those in the firing line today are the Premier Steve Bracks and the Minister for Sport Justin Madden. <A href=""http://www.essendonfc.com.au/engine/shaw-archive2003.asp"">Go to Robert Shaw's first column for 2004 </A>- Bounce The Bureaucrats.
Essendon assistant coach Mark Harvey tonight paid tribute to champion cricketer and media personality David Hookes, describing him as a man who could relate to everybody. Hookes, 48, died at around 7pm tonight as a result of head injuries sustained in an incident outside a St Kilda Hotel last night. ""It is a tragic loss. I did some radio work with David on 3AW. I didn't have a lot to do with him before that but he was just the sort of bloke you felt like you had known forever the minute you walked into the room,"" Harvey said.
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