Tough times, but I'm still all right, Jack Terry Brown
From: Herald Sun
March 14, 2012 Video:
http://video.heraldsun.com.au/2209428940/Tiger-toughnessEileen Turner, 92, is as tough as nails just like her big brother the late legendary Richmond player Jack DyerTWO black eyes, a split lip and cut nose would knock the tripe out of most - most great grandmas anyway - but not Eileen Turner.
It takes more than that to stop Captain Blood's baby sister, the last of the Dyer brood.
With soft grey hair and a wicked gleam in her eyes, the 92-year-old rides the bumps like big brother Jack.
"That was part of having two big brothers," Mrs Turner remembers.
"If I wanted to be a part of the footy team, or cricket, or whatever they were playing, I had to take the good with the bad. I knew better than to whinge."
Happy at home in Morwell's Mitchell House, Mrs Turner insists she's fine despite managing to plant her face variously on slate, carpet and asphalt six times in five years.
Somehow she has never broken a bone and reckons she's one up on Jack right now.
"I don't think he ever had two black eyes," she says, checking a mirror.
The bruises hurt, but what really stings is the constant attention her unmistakable Dyer features attract.
"They did X-rays of my back, neck and head," she says, then a doctor made the mistake of asking about her nose.
"He didn't know what a sore point that was. I said I inherited it and I didn't like anybody asking me anything about it at all."
In VFL days, the Dyer look got Mrs Turner noticed in the stands, not just by Tigers fans.
"I've been insulted by experts," she says.
Mrs Turner says Jack was a mixed blessing, mostly good but not when young men came calling on her.
"He should have minded his own business," she says.
"Fellows who wanted to take me home, firstly they'd say, 'Are your brothers home?'. If they were, it was, 'We're not going there'."
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