Which Lions team mates were school captains at the same Melbourne primary school and played for the same junior footy club?

Steve Wrigley, 26, captained Laburnum Primary school in leafy Blackburn in 1999 before Jordan Lisle, 23, took up the mantle in 2002.

They spent many hours on the school oval kicking a footy and played their junior football at Blackburn Football Club, but not in the same team as Wrigley is older.

Both had legendary Laburnum PE teacher John Hazlett, who is still at the school promoting all manner of physical activity - and 1970s disco music.

Whenever Wrigley hears YMCA he thinks of Hazlett, who encouraged his many sporting endeavours. "I would be stunned if he wasn't playing the same songs,” Wrigley says. "He encouraged every kid to get involved in sport.”

Lisle, 23, remembers doing PE to Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger. “He was outstanding,” he says of Hazlett. “All the kids used to love him. We actually bumped into him last year at a clinic in Melbourne … and had a bit of a chat about Laburnum.” 

Lisle and Wrigley didn’t have much to do with each other at school due to the age difference. “I’ve sort of got vague recollections,” Lisle says, adding that he remembers being told off. “I used to get into a little bit of trouble here and there, just being a show off.”

Hazlett, who has been at Laburnum on and off since 1986, was proud during a Lions game last year when it had two school captains on the field together. “Both really just enjoyed their sport,” he says. “If they look fondly back at the phys ed they did then it’s great.”