A set of circumstances never before occurring saw cousins Mitchell and Kevin Large in their initial games for their home team, Mitchell the son of Garry Large, and Kevin the son of Chris Large.

In the late 1980s and early 90s, brothers Garry and Chris played their football at Kandos after their father James played for the Kandos team in the early 1970s. Mitchell and Kevin's great-grandfather Jim, the progenitor of the footballing family, played his first game at Kandos as a teenager in the 1930s.

Now, 80 years later the cousins have carried the family football lineage to the present day through their fathers, and grandfather James.

Jim Large snr was already, by 1939, well known as a character around town through his boxing and playing football, having already received newspaper accolades as a youthful player brought into the top team as a replacement.

The 'Kandos Newsboy', boxer and eventual Australian champion Eddie Miller, after leaving for Sydney to pursue his boxing career, returned to Kandos in 1939 for a return 'grudge' match against Mudgee's Bob Tuite who would later be known for his touring tent boxing troupe. Jim Large, 'the Kandos Tiger' had already been well-enough recognised for his ring prowess to be billed on the same programme as Eddie Miller.

Jim was known to just about everyone in town, often seen on his rounds working for the shire council. Those who hadn't met him would almost certainly have heard of him.

He kept playing on through the 1940s and then into the 1950s, one of those people who hated to stop playing their sport, and then played his last game when he lined up against his sons James and Norm more than 30 years after he first pulled on a pair of boots.

This occasion was when the two hotels in Kandos decided to play a 'friendly' against each other, and with their respective patrons preparing for the contest, Jim asked his sons which of the pubs they were to play for, and when asked why, replied "so I can play for the other pub against the two of you", and despite the age differential, still went well against his boys, "a little less than friendly" claimed Normie.

There was a never-ending list of stories about Jim among the older population.

Jim's love of football and boxing was passed on to James and Norm who both played football for Kandos as late as 1979. James especially was heavily involved in community boxing after finishing playing rugby league, helping nurture boys and young men to better themselves through boxing.

James' sons Garry and Chris came through the ranks with the Kandos/Rylstone junior league club and Garry played rugby league at Kandos with future Sydney first grader Matthew Baker. Both brothers were involved in local boxing but Garry was a gifted boxer whose most precious prize was the Kings Cup in Thailand.

It has been more than 20 years since Garry and Chris Large retired from football, but the family story is now perpetuated by the emergence of Mitchell and Kevin playing for their home team.

The fourth-generation players had always wished to play for their home team but the dearth of junior teams in town following the closure of the cement works and later the coal mine meant as youngsters they had to travel to Lithgow and Bathurst to get a game, and with careers beckoning elsewhere Kandos could have missed out on the privilege of Kevin and Mitchell representing their family's football heritage in the top team.

The general restrictions of the corona virus pandemic have created world-wide difficulties, but one of the propitious side-effects has allowed them to come together again and allowing them to connect their positions in the 2020 team, with the selection of great-grandfather Jim Large in the Kandos team 80 years earlier.