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South Burnett Relay For Life Patron Carl Rackemann with guest speaker and rugby union great Andrew Slack and Cherbourg Mayor Arnold Murray, who did the Welcome To Country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 25, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two of Australia’s best-known sporting greats – and an almost-great – entertained the large crowd at Saturday night’s “Dinner With The Captains” in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

The dinner is a major contributor to the South Burnett Relay For Life fundraising for the Cancer Council of Queensland.<\/p>\n

Guests this year were rugby union great Andrew Slack, who played in 133 games for Queensland, 107 matches for Australia and captained 19 Tests.<\/p>\n

Andrew received a standing ovation at the end of his interview by Carl Rackemann on the stage of the Kingaroy Town Hall.<\/p>\n

Olympian Joyce Lester OAM may not be as big a household name but she should be … Joyce \u00a0has been inducted to the Australian Sport Hall of Fame, Softball Australia Hall of Fame and the International Softball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

She had the audience spellbound with \u00a0stories about her incredible career.<\/p>\n

There was some common advice in both talks – although no coach would recommend it – both sportspeople admitted they had played the best game of their careers while recovering from a night on the grog (and when they hadn’t expected to be playing).<\/p>\n

The third guest speaker this year originally was to be rugby league player Petero\u00a0Civoniceva; unfortunately Petero had to put in a late apology because of a TV engagement.<\/p>\n

Organiser Carl Rackemann then turned to cricketer Greg Ritchie, who became a very late apology after he realised he had double-booked.<\/p>\n

Looking around, Carl then located a vice-captain of another Australian team (non-sporting) that no one would have ever heard of … Mick Colliss.
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\nMick was the vice-captain of Australia’s inaugural sudoku team which took part in the 2008 World Championships at Goa in India.<\/p>\n

Mick and his three mates (self-selected) represented Australia despite the fact that only one of them knew anything much about sudoku …<\/p>\n

The audience loved it …<\/p>\n

The main highlight of the night were the auctions, which attracted some enthusiastic bidding (see below).<\/p>\n

The highest amount paid was\u00a0$3600\u00a0for a 12-seat air-conditioned suite at the Gabba for the Day\/Night ODI, Australia v England, on \u00a0January 19.<\/p>\n

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