Alan Crane - SEN SWFL Commentator (05.06.2026)

Mark Duffield (0:11)

This is Mornings with Mark Duffield on S.E.N.WA.

Welcome back to the Harvey Norman Superstore out here at Sandridge Road in Bunbury. We are joined by a local legend, Alan Crane, of course, SEN Spirits commentator. He will be doing the game tomorrow, Crane.

Alan Crane (0:34)

I will. Morning, gentlemen. How are we all?

Scotty Cummings (0:36)

Great to see you, brother.

Alan Crane (0:37)

I'll tell you what, I've got an appointment down on the temper mattress here.

Scotty Cummings (0:40)

Well, hey, wait your turn.

Alan Crane (0:41)

I was listening to you. I was listening to you, and you said it was nice and solid on the way in.

Scotty Cummings (0:46)

You've got... I've got a four or five hour block.

It's locked away. You can have a try after that. Hey, can you tell me, you two go back a long, long way without even knowing it?

Alan Crane (0:59)

We do. A very long way, isn't it?

Mark Duffield (1:01)

We go back all the way to day one. So on the 26th of January, so Australia Day in 1964, The world was a better place. The world instantly became a better place.

Alan Crane (1:16)

What happened?

Mark Duffield (1:17)

We were both born on the same day in the same hospital.

Scotty Cummings (1:20)

No.

Alan Crane (1:21)

That is absolutely correct. Yes.

Scotty Cummings (1:23)

Whereabouts?

Alan Crane (1:24)

In Boddington.

Scotty Cummings (1:25)

Have they burned that joint down yet?

Alan Crane (1:27)

There's actually a couple of plaques up there.

Scotty Cummings (1:31)

You two were born in the same hospital on the same day. Unbelievable connection.

Alan Crane (1:35)

And 62 years later, we're talking.

Scotty Cummings (1:37)

Did you ever see each other again?

Mark Duffield (1:39)

We did. So, we, when Crane was about 13, well, we're both 13, we're both the same age.

When we were both 13, I think Alan was living down at Cogenup by that time.

Alan Crane (1:58)

Before that, Duff, I used to play for Boddington.

Duff was darken. So, we had a bit of a rivalry.

Scotty Cummings (2:03)

Didn't like each other?

Alan Crane (2:05)

No, I thought he was a great bloke.

Scotty Cummings (2:07)

Could he play?

Alan Crane (2:08)

Oh, man, a superstar. Well done.

Scotty Cummings (2:11)

Crane is a team man.

Alan Crane (2:13)

And then I went and joined the West Arthur. And we had some good fun, didn't we, Duff?

Scotty Cummings (2:18)

We played together at West Arthur.

Mark Duffield (2:19)

We played in the under 14s at West Arthur. I think we've made a preliminary final, I think that year. Crane was the sentiment.

Scotty Cummings (2:27)

What?

Mark Duffield (2:27)

And I was the center half forward.

Scotty Cummings (2:28)

Crane was the sentiment.

Alan Crane (2:29)

Yeah, didn't have much to pick from that year. I might.

Scotty Cummings (2:34)

He was center forward, so you had a connection then.

Alan Crane (2:37)

I'll tell you, he kicked 100 goals and 99 of them come from me. Big Dawson was running around the place.

Mark Duffield (2:44)

Yeah, we had a bloke who made the state schoolboys a couple of years later, Peter Dawson, who also made the Tilt Cup team a year or two after that.

Then he stopped growing. He was the biggest away.

Alan Crane (2:54)

He was, wasn't he? He was a mature lad. Not like us, a couple of little pins that were running around.

Scotty Cummings (3:01)

When did you realise, when did the connection happen that you realised you were born the same day in the same hospital?

Mark Duffield (3:05)

Well, I couldn't work out when Alan started...

Then obviously there wouldn't have been too many babies born in Bonnington Hospital that day. In fact, I would say not too many, probably just two, I would think. Just us.

Alan Crane (3:23)

I wonder who's the oldest. I never got to the actual timing of it.

Mark Duffield (3:27)

We could go back and have a look at hospital records.

Scotty Cummings (3:29)

We've gone too far now, right? We've taken that one as far as we can take it, to be honest with you.

Mark Duffield (3:35)

So Crane, you're doing the game tomorrow?

Alan Crane (3:37)

We are, yes. We're going up.

Darren MacDonald and Nigel Reeves and myself will be... No, Scotty, the last time I did it was with you, mate.

Scotty Cummings (3:44)

Well, I did it with you last year and I didn't get another gig, so either Crane not happy or Macca wasn't happy.

Alan Crane (3:50)

Well, Macca opened a can of Coke on him.

Scotty Cummings (3:52)