Life is Boring now!

[ScottH]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
I enjoy standing next to the track and watching the horses run by close up. However, that is a few seconds of enjoyment puntuated by many hours of tedium!

LOL. What do they have 7 or 8 races. each race takes a couple of/few minutes to run, yet takes hours for the meeting to complete.

I grew up in a bookies family and had to endure it as a youngster. many a bored moment.

[BAM_BAM]

Hubby was watching the cricket on fox the other night. I let out a big sigh. He looked over and asked me what was wrong. I explained that we watching the beginning of the interuption to the footy season.

I once loved the cricket, but it sort of bores me these days. I love spring because of the weather, but that's about all. I get hayfever too, so my nose and eyes are on high alert at the moment. I'm not a big race fan. But I do love the P$ss up Melbourne Cup days we have

I guess the other good thing about srping is the fact that I do return to my neglected family.


Oh did I mention how much the sun coming up and into my east facing bedroom at 5am drives me mad

[ScottH]

Originally posted by BAM_BAM
Oh did I mention how much the sun coming up and into my east facing bedroom at 5am drives me mad

LOL..

Our room faces mainly south but the internal blinds and external shutters my wife had installed take care of the sun, But it is those freekin turtle doves that sit outside going coo crrrroooo, cooo crrrooo that drives me mad.

[stellation]

Originally posted by BAM_BAM
I get hayfever too, so my nose and eyes are on high alert at the moment.

I hear you sister!

[Old Royboy]

First three or four days after we get knocked out is depression. Year after year. Then I pick a team to follow for the rest of the finals, normally an underdog so I inevitably back a loser, (carn the Cats!) and get depressed again.

We won 14 games this year, each game is generally replayed twice over the sumer on FF, thats 28 times I will give the T&S the #*%@'s, plus any great past wins which appear on the vault.

Summer is getting the model trains out, weekends on the south coast, watching the NFL and counting the days until the season starts agian.

I won't feel alive again until R1 1995. Am I nuts?

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by Old Royboy

I won't feel alive again until R1 1995. Am I nuts?

Perhaps yes, perhaps you made a mistake, or perhaps Emu Plains really is 10 years behind the rest of the world...

[Damien]

Originally posted by Old Royboy

I won't feel alive again until R1 1995. Am I nuts?

Yes, yes you are

I can't wait until Rnd 3 1996 personally. Maybe we can work towards getting the last game right this time around

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by lescygnes
dont do there......

annie, try a whole season without a game and nada on TV!!!!

please please please be a game in LA......

You are so realising how 1999 was like for me Mr McCormack. And why I went to every Alouettes CFL game. And fretted for live sport for much of the rest of the year, with Ice Hockey tickets being way out of my reach on $C7-$11/h.

Life without that weekly adrenalin rush that only live sport can give is a life in withdrawal.

I was really depressed on the Saturday after the Sainters loss. Poor Beaussie in his hotel room in Melbourne all on his own on the Saturday night even sounded worse. But that day I had a long chat with the CS president. After nearly an hour we were both laughing again; we had both needed to rid ourselves of some serious bad karma, I think.

In a way I'm happy to be in Sydney. When one thing finishes (aka the footy), another starts. I have already put my Swans scarves away and am no longer wearing my red members cap. For the first time in 6 months I have started wearing my yellow Sydney Kings cap again. Yes, the basketball season beckons, and I'm really looking forward to Saturday evenings cheering the Kings, then drinkees afterwards at the Convent Garden in Chinatown with our host(and storer of flags) Grasshopper!

But from my subjective perspective, it has to be said that the last 1 month or so has been a huge chore as the state of my leg's health has deteriorated from bad to worse. So some time without football is probably not unwelcome health-wise. That is not saying that'd I'd not have been in Adelaide in a shot though.

Still being told that I may not be able to walk in 5 years kinda helps you realise that football is just a game. And wgat should be the most important thing in one's life is one's well-being.

At the moment I feel kinda brittle emotionally. Will I be able to lead the chants like I have done in the past? With I be able to wave my flag any more? Will I be able to take long car/plane trips any more? All very frightening I can tell you.

I have a fair bit on my mind right now.

JF

[swansrule100]

there is cricket

[Matt79]

As my wife says..."At least I get my husband back for 6 months and not every weekend is spent watching footy!"

[OldE]

As soon as we lost, I had a message on my phone from my mother in China (who was watching the game live). It read:

You lost.
Can we have a decent conversation with you now?



As for the summer, I'll survive . My favourite Zimbabwean cricketer (Andy Blignaut) is playing for Tasmania this year, so I'll be following domestic cricket all season. Plus it's only $1 for a student. But I'll probably be absolutely insane come February. This season found me driving to Newcastle and back from the Blue Mountains on my own for the pre-season match because I couldn't face a single extra weekend without football.

Oh, AND there's the Adidas International. Something else to look forward to in the off-season

Plus, I suppose I could return to my long neglected studies....


Maybe not.


Erin

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

NBL anyone?

Anyone else here a regular watcher of NBL basketball?

Anyone willing to give it a go in the off-season?

Believe me, it will really surprise you. A thrilling game of basketball (eg-Game 5 between the Kings and Pigs) can be one of the best sporting spectacles you could see.

And Kings-Pigs games are as full of rivalry and hatred as any NRL NSL derby. Gets the adrenalin pumping BIG TIME!

JF

[pillowtalk]

Go the Spring Carnival !! Great excuse to purchase even more shoes ( just call me Imelda ) not to mention dresses, hats, bags - the lot. I love a good shopping spree.

And nothing beats backing a winner ! All those inside tips come in handy. As they say, it?s not what you know ?

Spring carnival is also an excuse to drink copious amounts of champagne

Unfortunately looks like I won?t make Melbourne this year. Will have to do the poor man's Melbourne Cup and head to Randwick.

Can't wait regardless. Already got my outfit planned for the long weekend

Bring it on I say !!

[BAM_BAM]

I also found out that Survivor starts up again next week, so that's a once a week to look forward

yes I know I'm a reality tv freak, but Survivor is one I can't miss. All that game playing backstabbing and scheming.

[Mike_B]

Originally posted by BAM_BAM
I also found out that Survivor starts up again next week, so that's a once a week to look forward

yes I know I'm a reality tv freak, but Survivor is one I can't miss. All that game playing backstabbing and scheming.

When I saw the ads had changed from "Coming soon" to "Starts Tuesday Sept 21" I got excited. Now that I've seen "Tuesday 7:30pm ads" it's even better! Looking forward to my Survivor addiciton being fed once more!