AustLit

'The mill has closed; the Tidy Town sign has fallen into the long grass and the weir is as dry as a spinster's gusset. The dieing town is poised to claim its next victim - The footy club!
Unable to field even one full side, the footy club will either have to fold or merge with their arch rivals - The Hudson's Flat Cougars. But prodigal son coach Troy Carrington has other ideas. To save the club and serve his socially aware agenda, he embarks on a program to recruit players from the Asylum Seekers Refuge Centre. Will the new players cope with pre season training whilst fasting for Ramadan? Will the old players be able to adjust to not perving at the netball to observe Islamic female privacy?
The story unfolds through the eyes of 10 year old Neil Barlow, a would be documentary film maker and Grandson of Club President Bull Barlow. Neil captures the clubs crisis in all its painful detail and along with the local radio updates from Warwick Randall, we see the Bodgy Creek Community transformation as the refugees enter their entrenched midst. The clubs fortunes seem to be on the up, largely as a result of new recruit Saeed Ali Shah who having learned the game on football mad Nauru Island, begins to win games off his own boot.
Slowly even the recalcitrant Bull Barlow starts to come around but on the cusp of an unlikely premiership, tragedy befalls Saeed back in Afghanistan and suddenly the flag doesn't seem so important.' Source: http://www.damiancallinan.com.au/ (Sighted 24/09/2012).