A contingent of ex-Blues including former captain and best and fairest Richard Furphy, Darryl Gust, Greg Taylor and Justin Jamieson headed to the Solomon Islands over the recent Queens Birthday Weekend to take on one of the local village teams.

A few weeks ago as the Uni Blues suited up to take on De La on the main, a few Blue Bloods were suiting up in a slightly different style.  It was Melbourne Business School’s MBA graduation day on Saturday 22 May and the Blue Bloods featured prominently with Cam Bradley, Andrew Henderson and Marcus Coleman (pictured) all receiving their MBA in Wilson Hall.  To round off the Uni Blues flavour to the ceremony Di Carmody, wife of John and mother of Dan, also graduated from her MBA program.

There were murmurs throughout the crowd as the Chancellor took Coley’s firm handshake and held him in conversation for sometime as his classmates waited for their moment in the sun.  Was he congratulating Coley on his fine grades, or grilling him on his exploits on the main oval or in the pavvy?  Over a few beers Coley revealed that the Chancellor was looking for his invite to Crimes Against Fashion Pavvy that the Dean had been spruiking and wanted to know if Lowcock would yet again trot out his sawn-off, woollen atrocity that he has worn to every pavvy for the last 10 years.

Congratulations to Braddles, Hendo, Coley and Di on their fine achievement.

A number of former inhabitants of Uni Oval featured in representative teams over the weekend.

Graeme "The Kid" Wilson was a “will of the wisp” half forward for Uni Blues in 1971-72. An absolute deadly shot for goal with a torpedo punt, Wilson rarely missed from any angle. Like many Uni Blues champs, he commenced his senior career while still an Under 19. A skinny kid with a loping stride and a somewhat anaemic look (a “worse suntan than Andrew Lowcock” says one contemporary), opposition players and coaches didn't notice or respect Wilson until they realized he'd kicked half a dozen goals from the flank and it was too late.

Horsham-bred Matt Wilson was a rover/small forward who arrived at Blues Under-19s via Monivae College in 1981. Matt was a courageous player who by his own admission might have lacked a touch of pace, but good reading of the play saw him win large possession numbers, and he went on to be a Twos stalwart of the 1980s, who was rewarded with senior selection in 1984 against Old Scotch. A resident of University College, Matt was an integral part of Pavvy life in the 80s and was an inaugural member of the legendary drinking club, the Blues Centurions

Amongst the list of names of those who have been awarded the Chris Brown Trophy for best clubman at Uni Blues is that of Lori Galli.  She regards the acknowledgement as the highlight of her time at the club.  “I was very proud to be a female and win it.  I have many fond memories of my time at Uni Blues and the people I met.  I was very new to the football culture and what went on.  But I can honestly say that I was never made to feel uncomfortable being a female in a predominately male domain.”