Life Member
Inducted 2013
“Gordo” started playing with the Blacks in 1982.
# 17 for a few years (then 217 as it was my registered number).
It got changed to 31 by Chocka when I got my “AUFC 1st 18” badge and started played in the A grade. “You don’t wear a 3 digit number in the A’s”.
When Chocka allocated me my new number I asked, “What sort of number is 31?” He said, “Hey, that’s the great Ronald Dale Barassi’s number Gordo”.
Nick name “ Flesh” or “Gordo”
Games played 149 or 150 if you include the SA Rep game
Premiership; 1991 Div 1 Res Whaley and the Wombats
1985 A3 Coach’s Trophy
1987-88 Social Committee
1988 Best Club Man
1988 Club Letters (Competition)
1988 A3 rep SA vs Vic Match
1989-90 Social Committee Chairman
1990 Most dedicated amateur
1991 Deputy Chairman
1992 Chairman
1993 A1 Res Assistant Coach
1993 Social Committee Chairman
1994 A6 Res Goal Umpire
1994 Social Committee
1995-6 Greys Committee
1996 P1 Res Team Manager
1998 Vice President ongoing
2013 Life Membership
2017 Club Letters (Service)
Chauffeur to the Ox
Provider of Spook Hill Wines to the AUFC.
A great servant of the club in so many ways