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I knew Jim Deane as a child in Port Pirie and my parents knew him well and remained in contact for a number of years. Jim was living at 27 Barry St Port Pirie, and was coaching the Port Football Club. Their name was just that "Port", their colours were green and white and they were called "The Bulldogs". I recall them wearing green and white guernseys, with jailbars modelled on the Port Adelaide guernsey.
His wife was Colleen, and at that time they had 4 children, Michael was the oldest, with 3 daughters, Anne, Tracy and Sally. They moved to Adelaide at the end of 1968 and took over the Queens Head hotel in North Adelaide. I understand they had another daughter after moving to Adelaide. When my family moved to Port Pirie in 1964, he was coach of Port(and reigning premier I think), but later coached the Proprietary Football club - Navy and Red guernseys like Norwood or Melbourne but called "Props" or "The Panthers". My recollection is that Props won the 1968 SGL premiership and signed Jim for another year, but then he suddenly moved to Adelaide. I recall Jim being a commentator in the 1980s on ABC 5AN's Saturday afternoon football.
I don't have any references for this other than my memory.
Googling him identifies the following links: - https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/obituaries-tributes-to-notable-citizens/news-story/11be53ed3f219773381fc5f994455ffa https://www.portpirierecorder.com.au/story/6200752/pirie-footy-great-in-hall-of-fame/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-04/jim-deane-magarey-medalist-afghan-cameleer-grandson-biography-l/5499176 https://www.tigerlandarchive.org/tiki-index.php?page=Jim+Deane
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/143702770
I was not aware Jim had played in Whyalla.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96230536
I remember going to a cricket match in about 1965 where Jim was playing. My recollection is that thew team he played for was called "West Colts"
https://kbonreflection.wordpress.com/tag/jim-deane/
I note that the 5th child is Julie and Jim and Colleen remained together — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graemem56 (talk • contribs) 05:33, 5 April 2020 (UTC)