Laurie Holden (Jack Thompson) is coach of a Victorian Football League (VFL) team that hasnt won a premiership for 19 years. Club president Ted Parker (Graham Kennedy) brings in a star recruit at great expense, but youngster Geoff Hayward (John Howard) is a major disappointment. As the club loses a string of games, the coach, president, committee members and players start to tear each other apart.

Jock: A marvelous high mark you took last Saturday. You just seemed to go up and up!
Geoff Hayward: Yeah, i felt like Achilles.
Jock: Yes...
[laughs]
Jock: ... Who's he?
Geoff Hayward: A Greek guy who could really jump.
Jock: Ah, yeah yeah. Well some of these new Australians, you know they could be real champions, if they forget about soccer and just learn to assimulate.