A 3-hour bus ride isn't easy at the best of times but especially at the crack of dawn travelling to a freezing rural destination.

This week on 'My Footy Memory' Michael recounts the time he played on a frozen oval that had various barn yard animals running at will whilst a game of footy was being played.

Michael lined up against a large peruvian, comfortably rotund, ragged, rocky and wooly sheep, in a contest that was a game within a game where Michael was asked by his team to not only win the game but survive against his aggressive animal opponent.

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