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Former AFL coach Robert Shaw’s online support group unites Tasmanian football families – ABC News
Former AFL coach Robert Shaw started a private Facebook group during the COVID-19 lockdown, hoping to connect Tasmanian footballers and their families. But what surfaced, was something much bigger.
When life as he knew it ceased to exist in March of this year, former AFL coach Robert Shaw figured he had two options to fill the long hours of lockdown: write a book or start a Facebook group.
Facing a winter without the reassuring hum of football chatter, Shaw worried: what would happen to all the club diehards in his home state of Tasmania when the padlocks went on the front gates of grounds around the state?
“COVID-19 forced isolation,” Shaw said.
“We needed to take care of each other a…
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