Popular RSL club dumps Anzac Day tradition ahead of long weekend

Anzac Day is set to look a little different at a major Sydney venue with the traditional game of two-up scrapped. 

The game in which pennies are flipped in the air and players bet on whether they land heads or tails was popular with diggers and is by law only allowed to be played in NSW on Anzac Day, Victory in the Pacific Day and Remembrance Day after 12pm. 

The North Bondi RSL Club, that hosted bustling crowds partaking in the game in previous years, has decided to do away with it this year so as to maintain a family atmosphere, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

The club's CEO Blake Johnson said veteran members had requested the change.

'On past Anzac Days, when the club commenced two-up mid-afternoon, the environment became significantly more rowdy and most younger families left the venue,' he said. 

He said this year the club instead want...
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