AS A child growing up in the 1950s and early 60s, Frank Cleary would go to the football with his mother every Sunday and watch the Queanbeyan Blues get hammered.
The period was the leanest in the club's 80-year history, and for 13 seasons from 1952-1964, the Blues failed to win a group-eight premiership.
Cleary said watching Queanbeyan lose was just part of the weekend routine.
``That was our whole Sunday, we'd have Sunday lunch then pack into that old showground and watch the Blues get flogged every week,'' Cleary said.
Things changed however in the mid-1960s when Temora native Bill Sullivan accepted an offer to captain-coach Queanbeyan in 1964.
The then 25-year-old said he never looked back once arriving in town.
For the full story please see Friday's Queanbeyan Age. Available at newsagents and supermarkets around the region and our Monaro Street office.
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