In the 1990s, celebrities and legends played touch football at Dickson fields, surprising Tim Sheens.
Anyone stumbling past the Dickson playing fields in their lunch hour in the early 1990s might have seen a few TV celebrities and rugby league legends throwing the ball around in social touch football matches. Former Capital TV newsreader Greg Robson says one random appearance shocked the then Raiders coach Tim Sheens.
In the heart of the nation's capital, where politicians talk policy and bureaucrats bustle with purpose, a different kind of powerhouse was quietly at play every Wednesday lunchtime.
No cameras, no commentators, just bruised egos, bandaged fingers and the faint smell of Deep...