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He was a nervous Hawks fan after Friday's debacle (Buddy is no chance IHHO BTW). I am told I woke up out of anasthaesia (spelling?) at 7:15 and apparently the first thing I said was "Has the game started?" The staff at the Alfred are great. I was put in front of a telly but was only semi conscious untill about half way through Q1. The first thing I remember is smarmy Milne kicking the first goal. Watched the rest of the game very high on pain killers.
Swansongster you Star!
I must admit, I have only missed four or five home games because of a broken leg , then started catching a cab to the SCG and tried to manage on crutches (there is a real reason why you don't see anyone over the age of 30 on crutches - its dastardly), and a total of 4 others due to various styles of death or dishonour illness etc, since 1996. Actually come to think of it, I also haven't missed a ressie game since they started back after disappearing to Port Melbourne either. Its just a general knowledge that its pointless inviting me to anything, including family stuff, during the season. Non negotiable. I must be a RF!!If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhoodComment
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When you are spending the footy season in England on the trip of a lifetime, and you get out of bed at 4am every week to watch the game live on the internet. When you leave cricket club piss ups early on said trip so you can get a bit of sleep before the Swans' game. When you take your laptop on the train, and in the car with you to games and sit in front of it watching the footy until they drag you away from it to go on the field. When you take a 40 minute train trip at 5am to watch a final with all the other footy fans in the Aussie Pub in London, only to get there and find they're not showing it, so you get straight back on the train and rush back home to watch it on the computer.
And finally, when your immediate family arrange their weddings outside footy season because they don't want to risk it clashing with a Swans game.
Great story Swansongster, I would have been sitting right there with you. Or perhaps had even knocked back the trip to Jindabyne if there was no guarantee of the footy being on."It's up to the rest of the players in the room to make a new batch of premiership players next year," Adam Goodes, triple Bob Skilton Medallist, October 7, 2011.
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!Comment
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Try this site:
Complete AFL TV Schedule for USA and Canada | Australian Football Association of North America
or you could contact @AFL_TEAMCANADAComment
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I'm loving all your answers! Keep them coming!Comment
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When you work on a ship for 2 and a half years and buy a radio so that you can listen to radio Australia (pre internet) and you have to steal 10m of wire so that you can attach one end to the antenna and the other end to a 2 Kina coin (PNG) because it has a hole in the middle to tie the wire around and is nice and weighty. You then have to prise open your porthole to feed the wire out every weekend but try to hide it from the ship's Captain who does inspections (he only ever found our still once!). The worst part about it was that in places like the Philippines and Indonesia, the enterprising locals snaffled dozens of my Kina coins during that time!Comment
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Back in 2005, I travelled 12 hours down by train to Melbourne for the GF then 12 hours back straight after the match. In 2006, I did the same thing but by bus after I tried to get flights and accomodation and couldn't by which time the train was also booked out.Red & White forever.Comment
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My wife and I tried to stream a game on our laptop whilst on honeymoon in the Maldives earlier this year. We couldn't find a stream so settled for live text updates and paid through the roof for the privilegeComment
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Rock up late to your own 18th party so you can watch the 2005 semi final against the cats.Comment
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When you rock up for a first time ski holiday in September 2005 with friends - staying at Jindabyne (no snow bunnies in sight, alas) and three days in decide that you are a hopeless skier and hey, I'm half way* to Melbourne anyway, so ditch said friends (most of whom remain today) and drive down on the Thursday for the Swans/St Kilda prelim on the Friday night. Arrange accommodation at St Kilda supporting friends house in Frankston and buy two tickets online from the Perisher Centre web kiosk!
Omens are good when the decision is taken that snow chains (WTF do you do with snow chains!!!) makes the Alpine Way too hard to contemplate (and illegal and likely deadly for a non-snow experienced driver in a brand new Astra), thus leaving the 'quickest' way down to be via "The Barry Way"! Described as a 'major unsealed road' at the Jindabyne tourist centre (when 'deserted dusty goat track' is more appropriate), some 13 hours and a mere 750 odd km later arrive at friend's house in Frankston having picked up a helium balloon table piece with red and white balloons and streamers at Bairnsdale along the way.
Delight in soaking up the atmosphere at the G as the boys smash the aints in the last (consoling as best I could - which wasn't very well) my heartbroken (but not really surprised) aints supporting companion.
Couldn't get grannie tickets (and wanted to share the moment with friends and family at home anyway) so head back to Sydney via more conventional route, leaving the balloon arrangement at forlorn STK friend's house as a kindly reminder ....
Balloon arrangement lasts for a over a full week and finally gives up the ghost and softly lays down on their coffee table around 5pm on the 'BIG DAY'! Swear this is true!
Having subsequently bought balloon arrangements which struggle to get through a single day, there was something in those balloons that knew history was on the way ... oh - and if you need balloons for an occasion, the party balloon shop in Bairnsdale (if still there) is the place to get em. Your kids will be playing with em for a week at least!
* as it happens, not really. Took longer to drive from there than it would have from Sydney, but anyways ....Comment
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I managed to drag my girlfriend halfway across Paris to a little expat pub to watch the game. Paris. She was not impressed, but there was no way I was missing it.Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!Comment
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