Many years ago a Publican told me the secret to being a good manager or in his case a publican is to remember peoples first names. Very hard for a drip like I who gives everyone nic names and don’t know their first names although i guess i remember Nic names -which probably fits half the club !
MELWAYS TRAIN 15 JIMBO CRAIGO BB or B BRIAN -WHEEZY-TANK TEAL -BITCH – SCRUFFY – members of the SCRUFFETS club. ROCKY MAN – SNAIL aka CHRIS-THE BATTERY -PIZZA -aka AUSSIE ALEX- COFFEE -DOM DOM 1 & 2 .-THE COPPER . -COLONEL -STRETCH -TAXI TOM -JACKO & ZACKO -BOZ -(brother of Zino) . TREVY – LEAVE RAHAT ON – HANDY ANDI -SOFT DRINK -MUSTANG -THE CHOPPER -DIBULATOR- DOC- THE CARAVAN – THE SPORTS CAR (MG) -ICE BURNER -JAY-SAN -BILLY RAY -MANNEQUIN- DANCING MAN -CHAMPS . & and an Old time favourite the BATTLE AXE -And there was VIOLET -who used to Crumble in tight matches just to say a few.
Then we have the tricky spelling or the Surnames which is actually their first name, or the 30 different spellings of Mohammad, Or those with changed names , and the shortened names or add letters to give it an Aussie sound but how about the dad who spelt his own sons name wrong ! Can’t dob this lefty in but his own name is different to what we know him as.