Shagga retires...

[Dutchy]

Great career, premiership player, Norm Smith Medalist and genuine match winner....thanks for the memories..

[am Bays]

Who?? Oh you mean the ex Swannie....

[Psyber]

I still don't know who he is...

[magpie in the 80's]

Shannon Grant - Kangaroos

[Media Park]

After his 300th this weekend? Or the conclusion of the Roos season?

[magpie in the 80's]

why would you want to call it quits just because its your 300th and you have a finals still to come.

anyway its at the end of the season

STAR North Melbourne forward Shannon Grant will retire at the end of this season.
The surprise announcement came ahead of his 300th game against Port Adelaide at the MCG on Saturday.

The 1999 premiership player and Norm Smith Medallist said he decided to quit because he was taking longer and longer to recover from the rigours of AFL football.

[rod_rooster]

why would you want to call it quits just because its your 300th and you have a finals still to come.

anyway its at the end of the season

STAR North Melbourne forward Shannon Grant will retire at the end of this season.
The surprise announcement came ahead of his 300th game against Port Adelaide at the MCG on Saturday.

The 1999 premiership player and Norm Smith Medallist said he decided to quit because he was taking longer and longer to recover from the rigours of AFL football.

Surprise announcement

[Dutchy]

Who?? Oh you mean the ex Swannie....

Nah Schwass retired years ago! nice trade that one

Funny thing was he played in a losing GF to the Roos in '96, how many players would have lost a GF to a team they won one with?

Was a bit of a suprise, thought he had one more in him however I think the great form of the forward line esp with Thomas, Campbell and Jones playing well and younger they would get priority in 2009 and he is too slow to play in the midfield these days...

[Thiele]

Well done Shannon on an excellent career thanks

[Psyber]

Shannon Grant - Kangaroos

Ahh.. Yes, I'd heard of him. I don't know many players by their nicknames.
In fact, when I think about it, I don't know actually know anyone, personally, who is commonly known by a nickname, although I am aware it is a common social pattern in some circles...

[rod_rooster]

Shannon Grant - Kangaroos

Ahh.. Yes, I'd heard of him. I don't know many players by their nicknames.
In fact, when I think about it, I don't know actually know anyone, personally, who is commonly known by a nickname, although I am aware it is a common social pattern in some circles...

Why the confused emoticon? Is it not socially acceptable in the upper-class elite you insist on continuously reminding us all you are a part of, to have nicknames? Heaven forbid people do not adhere to the formal standards you and other snobs would accept. Sorry, not all of us wish to reel off how successful, how many fancy cars, how much money we make etc. etc.

Bit of advice, stop telling us how much better you think you are from everyone else. It's getting boring. I don't think you even realise you are doing it but that is a typical trait of snobbery.

[Dutchy]

Shannon Grant - Kangaroos

Ahh.. Yes, I'd heard of him. I don't know many players by their nicknames.
In fact, when I think about it, I don't know actually know anyone, personally, who is commonly known by a nickname, although I am aware it is a common social pattern in some circles...

You idiot...

Norm Smith Medialist, guess you dont know what that is either?

[Wedgie]

Shagga?

[spell_check]

Perhaps a play on his name - Shannon Grant.

I knew who it was when I saw that Dutchy started the thread, despite me not knowing that was his nickname.

[Punk Rooster]

Perhaps a play on his name - Shannon Grant.

I knew who it was when I saw that Dutchy started the thread, despite me not knowing that was his nickname.

blokes with the name "Shannon" cop the nickname "Shagga".

Although Dutchy could've said Shagga Grant (North Melbourne players aren't exactly household names...)

[spell_check]

Perhaps a play on his name - Shannon Grant.

I knew who it was when I saw that Dutchy started the thread, despite me not knowing that was his nickname.

blokes with the name "Shannon" cop the nickname "Shagga".

Although Dutchy could've said Shagga Grant (North Melbourne players aren't exactly household names...)

Grant is one of the first players that come to mind from the Kangas, along with Brent Harvey, Daniel Wells and Scott McMahon. Grant is another player from the late 90s which was probably the last years the AFL was not a combination of basketball and soccer.

[McAlmanac]

Ahh.. Yes, I'd heard of him. I don't know many players by their nicknames.
In fact, when I think about it, I don't know actually know anyone, personally, who is commonly known by a nickname, although I am aware it is a common social pattern in some circles...

[Psyber]

Why the confused emoticon? Is it not socially acceptable in the upper-class elite you insist on continuously reminding us all you are a part of, to have nicknames? Heaven forbid people do not adhere to the formal standards you and other snobs would accept. Sorry, not all of us wish to reel off how successful, how many fancy cars, how much money we make etc. etc.

Bit of advice, stop telling us how much better you think you are from everyone else. It's getting boring. I don't think you even realise you are doing it but that is a typical trait of snobbery.

Rod, you reacted like this to something else tonight too, suggesting I was too "elite" to go into a pub, which wasn't what I had said in the earlier thread you were obviously responding to. I don't know what has stirred you up. I commented on that on that thread with a couple of examples of where I have been in pubs.

The confused emoticon here was simply to indicate my mild bemusement at the time about the custom of nicknames. None of the guys in my class at schools in Adelaide's inner western suburbs had nicknames either, but I do know it is part of the Aussie culture somewhere. I suspect there are sub-cultural, not "class", differences, of some sort, that shape our experiences, and I was slightly puzzled and thinking about that too, and used the emoticon to indicate that, not as a put down to anyone. I wondered how it comes about that I could have been born and raised in Adelaide's western suburbs and had such different experience.

If I were a "snob" would I admit that "westie" background and risk being seen as a Bogan among the "elite"??
Would I mention as I have in some threads, knowing Hells Angels, as well as a few politicians?
Surely I'd only mention the "positive" stuff that strengthened an "elite" position...

Just a few guys on this site are a bit intolerant of anyone showing values that aren't the same as theirs and appear to read any comment that reveals a different view as a put down, and trot out the accusations of snobbery. That intolerance is a typical trait of inverted snobbery. Describing my different experience is not saying I am better, just that my view or approach is different. What am I supposed to do, pretend to agree with them, or be like them, in everything, or just bugger off from the site and not disturb their prejudices by existing?

Australia used to be tolerant of differences.
I suspect a change may have arisen as certain politicians in the late 20th century have tried to gain ascendancy by polarising the population, but I don't really know enough about it to be sure.

[JK]

Good for you Psyber, is much harder to remain true to yourself than it is to flock like sheep taking shots at an easy target

[Booney]

I must ask Psyber,if you went to high school in the inner Western suburbs of Adelaide how could you not have anyone with a nickname there with you?

I went to Underdale,very inner Western suburbs,about as inner and western as you can get and I only was known by my nickname.

Perhaps you are a fair bit older than me....things may have been different.