Nothing but the Pub

(Editor's note: A mate mentioned the other day that he'd had a session with Fred Brophy at the Kilikivan Pub and my mind went back to a very memorable night with Fred at his (unfortunately now on the market) pub at Cracow a few years back. This is the yarn I did on Fred and his pub back in 2014) Look, I’ll get onto the pub in a sec, just want to yarn a bit about the publican himself for a moment because the Cracow might be an impressive two story classic Qld country watering hole, but Fred Brophy, who owns it casts a far larger shadow on the Australian Countryside. Fred runs the last touring boxing tent in Australia. He’s out-lasted that other icon, Jimmy Sharman and now might just be the only boxing tent showman in the world.   He’s the fourth generation of Brophy to bang the drum and shout, “Who’ll fight my boy?” and in 2011 was awarded the OAM. Not sure what it was for but if you told me it was for pugnacious larrikanism then I’d believe you. He’s been bo...