MCG tram tracks and rubber sole shoes

Peter Clifford | February 19, 2023

In the 1980s New South Wales used to stay at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne during Sheffield Shield games against Victoria.

The Hilton Hotel is only walking distance to the MCG and being from Sydney we just needed to navigate the tram tracks that we weren’t obviously used to.

It was only my second game so I decided to walk back with Steve Rixon and another player so I could get to know them better.

This particular afternoon we were all knackered as we chased leather all days in the field

We walked across the tram tracks and halfway across Rixon yelled out “watch out (other players name) get off the tracks as you will be electrocuted “.

The other player responded “Don’t worry Stumper I’ve got rubber soled shoes on “.

Unfortunately he wasn’t joking and we pissed ourselves laughing!