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This interview was conducted in 2012I played my first game for North Melbourne when I was 16 and my last when I was 46.I only broke a finger once, the little finger on my right hand. I had that when I was picked for my first Test. I went to see my doctor on the way to the MCG and said can you shove a needle in it. I played my first two Test matches with those two fingers taped together.Any time I wasnt playing cricket, I worked for APM, Australian Paper Manufacturers. I started there when I was 16 and eventually I got to the stage when I had toured once everywhere and the thought of missing out on the accountancy future didnt appeal to me greatly.I was Lakers tenth wicket at Manchester. The photo that somebody sent me, Laker and the keeper and everybody is up in the air appealing and Im already walking off the ground! I knew I was plumb.I got to know Bradman quite well. He used to always go to the cricket at the Adelaide Oval and sit in the same chair. He used to invite me home for dinner on Saturday night. I think it was probably to keep his ear and eye on Australian Paper Manufacturers shares! He was always easy to get on with. He knew as much about APM as I did, and I was the head office accountant. He was just that sort of bloke. He would read something and it was there forever.My brother Dick played football for North Melbourne. He got five Brownlow Medal votes. I was on North Melbourne Football Clubs list in the mid-1940s but it was at the time that I knew I was going somewhere in cricket.I made a hundred against New Zealand. It was called a Test over there but I dont think it was recorded as a Test here.Bill Lawry was probably the best captain I saw. Every time I saw him captain a side he did something good and smart. I reckon Ian Chappell was about a ten times better captain than Greg.We got dudded by the curator [at Old Trafford in 1956]. We didnt hold it against Laker. He didnt have anything to do with the pitch. He just bowled extra well on a pitch that was perfect for him. Tony Lock didnt bowl well enough.I played baseball for Victoria too. I played against the United States Navy. All these Yank sailors came out and we played them at Junction Oval. One of the Yanks belted our pitcher the length of the St Kilda Oval. He could have crawled around his hands and knees and got a home run, instead of which he ran like mad, jumped the last couple of yards in the air and landed on the home plate. He never moved again. He died on the spot.Healy was the best of the recent keepers. He could bat too.I went to New Zealand as vice-captain. The manager was an older bloke called Clyde Smith. He was president of the first club I played with in Tasmania. He nominated me as captain of vice on the trip to New Zealand, and until he died he was still calling me that.If I was looking for a batsman to bat for my life, Arthur Morris and Bill Lawry would be line ball.I happened to have been appointed manager of the 1977 tour, when the lid blew off World Series Cricket.The rules have changed a bit. The boundary line worries me a bit - some of them are 30 yards inside the fence. Where thats going to finish up nobody knows.I spent maybe six years running the bar at North Melbourne Cricket Club, as a non-drinker. The first beer I had in my life, I was 23. It was Dicks 21st birthday. Our father took his three sons into the city - got a leave pass from Mum, because he wasnt allowed to drink at home - and bought us dinner, with beer, at some pub or other, and then he took us to the Tivoli, which had some pretty dicey girls dancing.I always had something to fall back on. The board of APM had issued an instruction that if Maddocks was playing cricket, he was to be paid half his salary as well. That happened all of my cricket life, I was paid half my salary by APM even though I wasnt there most of the time. We flew to the West Indies and came back by ship. We went to England by ship and stopped off in Sri Lanka, which was then called Ceylon. We played a match there, at Kandy. It took us a few hours drive to get there and back and how we didnt kill dozens of people, Ill never know. The road went through all these villages and theres kids all over the place, old people on walking sticks, and the bloody taxi drivers that took us went straight through the middle.I think the players that went with Packer would have been left out on a limb if it had gone on. I think the players who stuck with the board and the states would have won that fight in the long run because Packer would have got sick of paying all that money.Dick died when he was 40, from a heart attack. He was the unlucky one.We started a table-tennis club at North Melbourne and one of our opponents was Frank Sedgman. He was a kid, getting into tennis. We got to know him quite well through table tennis.Footwork is the most important thing for a wicketkeeper. If your feet are right, everything moves with it.Mum told a good story for years about her first day at a Test match. She was sitting up in the old Grey Smith Stand and some smart-arse in the crowd expressed the opinion that I would never hold my place because I drank too much. My mother was sitting there knowing that I hadnt had a drink! She said it was the hardest thing shed ever done not to turn around and say something.It all started with North Melbourne Football Club. In 1932 I was six years old. 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But when it comes to determining if Raymond will find a place on the Leafs roster when training camp concludes in a week, well, that decision will ultimately fall to the head coach. Stamford Bridge is falling down. And it may take Antonio Conte longer than estimated to rebuild it.Their frailties laid bare after consecutive losses to Liverpool and Arsenal, Conte and Chelsea try to regroup at KC Stadium on Saturday against a Hull City team desperate to regain some momentum of their own.Chelseas fast start in which they gained the maximum nine points from their first three matches already seems like a distant memory. The cracks in an already questionable back line began to show in a 2-2 draw Sept. 11 at Swansea City, and a 2-1 home loss to Liverpool did not help matters any.But it was last Saturdays stunning 3-0 capitulation at Arsenal that exposed just how threadbare the defence is, alarmingly so without injured 35-year-old John Terry to marshal them. For a team that hadnt scored against Chelsea (3-1-2) in Premier League play for nearly five years, the Gunners made the Blues look like a pub league team -- scoring twice inside the first 14 minutes and adding a third before intermission.Conte turned the second half into an in-match experiment with three in the back, part of his preferred 3-5-2 formation that returned Juventus to glory in Italy.We didnt believe in what we were doing and we were punished. As a team we didnt answer anything the manager asked of us, defender Branislav Ivanovic told Chelseas official website. We have to be honest with ourselves and put more attention on the small details.The back-to-back league losses have created a tense atmosphere at Cobham, where the team trains, and owner Roman Abramovich has made repeated visits to talk shop with his new manager. It has been reported that Conte wants to tear down this team -- less than 15 months removed from their 2015 Premier League title -- and rebuild it in his fashion.Ill watch the game again and I need to find a solution to improve very soon because we played a very bad game, said Conte, who admitted the heavy loss resulted in sleepless nights. When I dont sleep, I reflect. And its important to reflect.Upon his arrival from Italy, Conte was willing to work with what he inherited, acquiring only Leicester Citys NGolo Kante and Michy Batshuayi over the summer before deadline deals added Marcos Alonso as well as David Luiz for a second tour of duty with the London side.The discussions signal Chelsea likely will be a big player in the January transfer window, where they will try to find both a creative playmaking midfielder and a central defender to create the spine to Contes liking. While Abramovich will undoubtedly presennt the needed funds, the bigger issue may be whether the type of talent Conte desires will be there to be offered all that money.ddddddddddddull Citys plight is somewhat similar to Chelsea as the Tigers (2-1-3) also are trying to recover from lopsided losses to Arsenal and Liverpool as part of a four-match winless streak that followed consecutive victories.The last two scorelines suggest that we have played against two decent teams who are going to be challenging for different things to what we are looking to achieve, caretaker manager Mike Phelan told Hull Citys official website, hinting at the relegation battle he seems resigned to fighting. Were having to learn some harsh lessons from the last two games and weve got another difficult one coming up next weekend against Chelsea.Phelan has seen his side play the relegation-threatened role most pundits tipped them to be before the season, shipping nine goals in those two defeats. Liverpool ran riot at Anfield last Saturday in a 5-1 canter, getting three goals before intermission -- two after Ahmed Elmohamady was given a straight red card. Any thoughts of a comeback following a goal by David Meyler in the 51st minute were snuffed out within 60 seconds by Philippe Coutinho before James Milner completed his brace with a second penalty.It was a tough afternoon on Saturday and one that was hard to take, Meyler said. We have to refocus our minds and get ready for Chelsea -- theres nothing we can do about the Liverpool game now, we have to move on.There are things we have to work on … weve got a big home game coming up against Chelsea now before the international break and we have to switch our attention towards that.Injuries continue to plague Hull City as Phelan will not be able to count on Michael Dawson, Moses Odubajo, Allan McGregor, Alex Bruce, Greg Luer and Brian Lenihan continue to recover from injuries. Dawson has resumed practicing with the team and hopes to be available for selection after the international break.Chelsea have won four on the trot against Hull City and are 6-2-0 all-time in Premier League matches between the teams. The Blues emerged with a 3-2 victory in the most recent contest in the 2014-15 season as goals in the first nine minutes by Eden Hazard and Costa were canceled out by Elmohamady and Abel Hernandez before the half-hour mark. Loic Remy, though, saved Chelseas blushes with the match-winner on 77 minutes. ' ' '