Dear Brad Green, President, Melbourne Football Club.

Ron Barassi Senior is honored by the Melbourne Football Club with a medal for the third place getter in the club’s best and fairest. But his son?

According to Wikipedia, the name Ronald Dale Barassi, is used in this one award: the Ron Barassi Medal (awarded to the best player in the Under-17 International Rules Series). The AFL appears to have a plan to give the premiership captain a Ron Barassi medal.

His name is also honored in both the Barassi International Australian Football Youth Tournament, and in the Barassi Line, which is a geographical boundary between rugby dominance and Australian Rules dominance.

I thought it was a shame the Melbourne Football Club does not have a specific honour named for its most famous player. So I suggested two possibilities to the club:

A. A Barassi-Williams Cup to be awarded to the winner of Port Adelaide-Melbourne clashes in honour of the great father son combinations carrying the names Williams and Barassi. In the case of the Williams name, both Mark and Stephen rank highly with their dad, Fos, as all-time great father-son playing coaching combinations. (click here for more detail)

B. A Ronald Dale Barassi Trophy to be awarded each year to the best performed teams in all clashes between Melbourne, Carlton, North Melbourne and Sydney. (click here for more detail)

Brad, today your club rejected my suggestions, without any decent discussion or explanation.

I would like to know why.

Please explain.

February 27th next year will be the 90th anniversary of Ronald Dale Barassi’s birth in Castlemaine, Victoria in 1936. What will Melbourne be doing then to permanently commemorate his name?

More than now?

Geoff Fox, MFC member, but very unhappy.