Polly FARMER

1962-67, 101 games, 65 goals

Graham Farmer’s polished display, maintained throughout the match on Saturday, showed him the master of all phases of the game of football. … First and foremost it is his style of ruck play which has captured the imagination of thousands of football lovers, and he dominates the play whether in the air for the hit-out or when the ball is on the ground, or in the heavy work in the packs when it is necessary to force a way through a cordon of opponents …But it is wizardry in finding colleagues with passes from seemingly impossible positions which delights the crowd and dumbfounds the opponents. GA May 1963 Without speaking one word he (Farmer) taught me everything I know. I watched how a man overcomes not the physical, not the mental, but the spiritual – that’s the most important – he was an absolute star, about one decade, one century ahead of his time. Sam Newman reflects in GA, June 2001