What do we really know about him? Was he once a Fremantle fringe player? He likes to hint that might be true, but there are no records to substantiate such a claim.
Is Snaps even his real name? Probably not.
Apparently, there have been sightings in Fremantle down the years – of a dodgy-looking character going around pubs either offering patrons bags of octopus allegedly ‘fresh off the boats‘ or most recently seen riding a black BMX bike that probably wasn’t his down South Terrace.
But he knows his footy and can sniff the salty breeze of the public mood.
Whoever Snaps is, he presents as someone who might have been, but perhaps never really was. His writing can be oddly lucid and sweet-natured or bitterly acerbic.
Too triggered by a twitchy mind to be reliable, but always worth reading.
Mr Truly is represented in polite company by Michael Barker and Geoff Hutchison.
And they know barely more about him than we do.
