RIP Mainy

So I got a text message from Adam this morning saying "Chris Mainwaring died last night".

Most of you at this stage have a clueless look on your face, or you're thinking of the many ways you could take the piss outta me right now.

Ok, so I wasn't one of those tragics who cried when they found out. I was more of the 'surely, you're kidding' school.

For people who have grown up or lived in Perth, Chris Mainwaring is one of those people who was just there, creating part of the Perth experience in the 1990s. Footage of him leaping off the bench at the end of a victorious grandfinal is synonymous with the West Coast Eagles of that era.

Once he left football, we still got to catch up with Mainy on the TV where he was a sports reporter and reader. The weekend will seem that little bit more empty without Mainy to tell us who won what and how much by.

Rumours are already flying about the cause of Mainy's death. It's kind of irrelevant. He's dead and he was a good bloke, he was practically a Perth icon. It's gonna be a different place without him.

RIP Mainy, hope you're wearing the #3 with pride somewhere.