Magpies ready to fly

by LES EVERETT

AS we told you at the start of the season the North Fremantle amateur football club's season will have an international flavour this year.

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North Fremantle touring team coach Nathan Williams models the club's special world trip guernsey with club president Gary Hasler and player Corry Grosser. Photo by Les Everett

On October 7 a 38-person touring party will head off on a tour that will include games in London, Cork and Los Angeles.

Preparations for the tour will be capped on Wednesday with the presentation of special world tour guernseys at Hungry Jack's in Fremantle.

Organiser Baden Pratt told the Herald North's tour was not just a football trip. "The players will be ambassadors and they'll have tasks to perform everywhere we go including making speeches and looking after guests," he said. "We hope they will be growing as people as well as having lots of fun.

"What we're doing could lead to a change to traditional end of season footy trips with more of a playing aspect involved."

Baden said he had been amazed by the amount of Australian rules football played overseas.

North Fremantle will play both Australian rules and international rules game during the road trip and will be joined by a number of North expats in London.

One of the highlights will be watching Australia take on Ireland in an international rules game in Dublin on October 17.

The trip finishes in Melbourne with most of the tourists planning to attend the Melbourne Cup at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November.

From the Fremantle Herald.

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