Either at the time of his retirement, or shortly thereafter, Kickett said that his biggest regret was that getting suspended for punching Phil Read had cost him life membership at Freo.
Granting life membership was therefore a social justice issue; you can’t have people - let alone admirable servants like Dale Kickett - spend the rest of their life regretting punching Phil Read.
He’s still my favourite Freo player, for what it’s worth. He was unfairly stereotyped as a forward pocket, and it took Neesham to play him where he belonged. He was a bloody ripper.
