THE STORY

Murray Crossing, South Australia, 1990. 10-year-old George Alexander has a dream: to play netball for Australia...but he’ll need to convince his local competition to let him join first.

At the suggestion of his best friend Theresa “Reeza” Catanzariti (who has just left to a newly reunited Germany for six months), George writes to the President of the Murray Crossing Netball Association, asking her to reconsider their no-boys policy. When George’s request is denied, Reeza writes to George from Germany, describing the Peaceful Revolution that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This inspires George start his own revolution against the Association...but he just isn’t sure how.

Meanwhile, new kid in class - Craig Craig (real name, no joke!) - arrives and sits beside George in Reeza’s old seat! Worse, Craig Craig insists on following George around at playtimes and after school. Doesn’t he know George already has a best friend? 

However, thanks to Craig Craig’s eccentric, retired lawyer grandfather, Mr Prenzler, George finally realises how he can revolt against the Netball Association: by writing to the Equal Opportunity Commission, calling out the Association’s gender discrimination. Although George scores a win when the Association is forced to let him play, the battle has just begun…

Over the course of the netball season, George’s over-active imagination and blind determination to play his dream position of Goal Attack, gets him into trouble - and threatens to end his netball career before it takes off.

As he fights to prove he belongs on the netball court, George learns important life lessons: that his bully, Justin, has his own problems and reasons for acting the way he does; that being a part of a team means not always putting yourself first; and maybe it is possible to have more than one ‘best’ friend at the same time.

Once the team plays its final match for the season, George has changed (most) hearts and minds in his town...including his own.