IN the latest episode of MG Moments, club legend Alfie Trebilcock describes the time he helped star player Max James turn around a tough day at the office.
Trebilcock, who has volunteered as Port Adelaide’s boot-studder for over 50 years, remembers an upset James storming into the changerooms after a poor first half.
“Max James, he was having a bad day in the first half,” Trebilcock recounted.
“I used to always stand in the doorway in case any player wanted anything.
“He threw the boots. Not at me, but down.
“And he said, ‘What have you done to these boots!’”
Perplexed with what to do with the star man’s boots – James was a member of Port’s breakthrough premiership side in 1977 – Trebilcock took them to his workbench in the changerooms for a closer inspection.
“I picked them up, took them into the room, had a look at them, couldn’t find nothing wrong,” he remembered.
“I left them there for about 5-6 minutes and took them back – ‘They’re alright now, Max’.
“He played a boomer in the second half.
“After the game he said, ‘Thanks very much’ and I didn’t touch the things!”
