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Storm tunes up to sink Sharks HYPE surrounding the AFL and Rugby League grand finals next weekend makes a Chelsea man proud of his personal contribution to this city’s enviable sporting scene. He wasn’t a star player, or even an official, but Phil Wall, a member of Chelsea SES, can lay claim to writing the theme song for the Melbourne Storm Rugby League club way back in 1998. The song was used for the first time at the start of the 1999 season – the year the team won its first flag. “It was one of those crazy things,” Wall said yesterday (Tuesday). “I was watching [Storm captain] Glenn Lazarus on the old Bert Newton TV show at the time and he was saying the club was looking for a theme song. “The next morning my wife came up to me in the kitchen and asked me what I was doing: I said I was writing the Storm’s song – it had just come to me.” A keen lyricist for more than 40
years – but who admittedly knows nothing of rugby league – Wall said he teamed with musician mate John Mohl to add a tune to the words of his song: We are the Storm. “The idea behind the title was that if the song were chosen, it would be the crowd singing it,” Wall said. “This meant that when you play Melbourne Storm in Melbourne, you are not just playing the 13 guys on the park, but also the thousands of fans in the stands, hence, we are the Storm.” That led to a funny experience at one game not long afterwards, Wall said. “After a win, I was singing along with the crowd and the lady next to me whacked me and said: “If you don’t know the words don’t sing the song.”
Tuned to success: Lyricist Phil Wall and composer John Mohl play their Melbourne Storm theme song. Picture: Gary Sissons
Robbers hit supermarkets Stephen Taylor steve@baysidenews.com.au THE same two men are believed responsible for terrorising staff in three night-time supermarket robberies at Cheltenham, Dingley Village and Ferntree Gully, Monday 26 September. In the first robbery, at 9.15pm, the men armed with a meat cleaver and a machete, and wearing balaclavas and
gloves, ran into the Centre Dandenong Rd Woolworths store and confronted three female employees at the cash registers. They demanded cash from the tills and were handed $1500 before running outside. None of the women, in their 20s and 30s, was hurt. It is not known how many customers were in the store at the time. Witnesses saw the men driving off in a silver Camry sedan with registration
plates UYZ360, which are believed to have been stolen from another car. Woolworths spokesman Craig Simonetto said there were a small number of customers in the store at the time of the robbery, with staff and customers largely unaffected by the incident. “We have now increased security measures around the store,” he said. “Security staff are now being employed. I cannot comment on the CCTV matter.”
Police believe the same pair then raided the IGA supermarket in Bernard St, Cheltenham, at 9.37pm. Offenders carrying the same weapons and with their faces covered, confronted two male staff members in their early 20s and ordered them away from the counter. They stole cash from the tills as well as another envelope containing cash and a quantity of alcohol. After throwing a sweets stand into
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the front car park the men stole the wallet and car keys from a staff member and ordered him to take them to his car in the rear car park. They got into his car but, realising it was a manual, jumped back into the Camry and sped off. The men are believed to have then raided the IGA supermarket at East Oakleigh at 9.50pm. Staff members at the supermarkets are being offered counselling.