The Smell of Money

Meet the dysfunctional committee of the local Australian Football Club!

Beautifully crafted by Peter and Helen Maden, The Smell of Money is full of identifiable characters and situations reminiscent of many a committee all over Australia.

The all star cast, led by Peter as Lance the club chairman; Patrick Monteath as Dennis Delaney, the young chap sent to carry out some court ordered Community Service; Bob Allen as the Club Treasurer who is trying to see through ‘found’ glasses of the wrong prescription; Libby Bancroft as the hard working, long suffering Club Secretary; Lilias Davie as the Committee Member with the ‘hots’ for the younger Dennis; Brett Neale as Norm the Coach who hasn’t had a win all season; Sean Curran as Richard Withers, mistakenly taken as a Sports Consultant, and Linda Furse, the Judge who imposed the Community Service order on Dennis Delaney.

Mayhem is the order of the day, Dennis and Patrick are seen as the Club’s saviours but things go from bad to worse! With things hitting rock bottom, a fluke of luck sees the club victorious and as they celebrate the fact that they are NOT going to adding to their big collection of Wooden Spoons, all is forgiven and it’s back to the business of running the Footy club.

Roger McKenzie