Speculative and Extravagant offers for interstate "superstars" pre national league

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Peter Pianto
Not sure what £70 a week translates to 2022 money but must have been a lot in 1957



Bob Davis

WA CLUB OFFERS £1000 FOR VICTORIAN STAR - The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955) - 5 Jul 1951

A WA league football club has offered £1000 for the services of brilliant Geelong player Bob Davis (pictured) who, as a half-forward flanker in the interstate ...

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Clayton Thompson 1953

Talk of £1,000 offer to

MELBOURNE, Friday: Influential Melbourne Football Club porters are believed to have guaranteed South Australian star forward Clayton ("Candles") Thompson £1,000 to sign and league football with the Demons next season. ...

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Sth. Australia crushes ineffective WA - Adelaide, Sunday - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 13 Jul 1953

FASTER to the ball and aided by a quickthinking half-forward line, South Australia overwhelmed Western Australia in the fourth game of the National football ...

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Norm Smith 1938