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Reuniting to chinwag about the Grand Final of 1963

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"That was a game we should never have lost" is one way Des Shanahan describes the 1963 Barossa and Light Football grand final.

As some readers may recall, in a most dramatic turn of events, Freeling, the hot favourite to win that year, was defeated by Tanunda, which took home the Premiership Cup.

And through a recent series of coincidences and engineering of events by Freeling's Lutheran Pastor ...


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