therisingblues wrote:I am sure you have answered this before JAS, but why is it that you have so much interest in little old Adelaide and the SANFL and Norwood?
No great secret...just not terribley exciting so I'l try and keep it short(ish)
Always had a few tenous links to Aus. Dad spent several years living and working in NSW/Vic border area in the 50's and wanted to return with us for good in the 70's but mum said no. One of my best mates married an Aussie and they and my goddaughter live near Brisbane and my step-mothers brother lives in Melbourne.
I got a liking for online rpg's a few years ago and through that got chatting to some Aussies. We mostly talked sports...me rugby union and them footy and cricket. I liked the sound of the footy and remembered watching it on tv with dad as a kid on the rare occasions it got shown. One of them suggested that I should take a look at the Redlegs website and forum etc to learn more about it.
Eventually I was persuaded to join the forum and everyone, without exception, has been incredibly tolerant and patient as I try to learn more about the game. Same applies here when I joined SAFooty during the 'Great Server Crash'. Wasn't always easy to understand what was going on when I only got to hear and not see games so they put up with lots of questions...much better now I have Redlegstv (plug

) Listening to the comentaries on RPH and LifeFM I got totally hooked and signed up as a Redleg.
I know that not having grown up supporting a team I'll never have the same sense of history etc (a bit like living here for 17yrs but always being an incomer) so I'll always be a 'work in pogress' but I is learnin'. But then no matter how hard BDP tries

I'll never jump ship...never have, never will (sorry boys you're stuck with me now)...and why would I when they wear the same colours as my beloved Munster
Haha...told you it wasn't exciting. If you (or anyone else) wants to know anything else feel free to ask
Might as well take the opportunity to say thanks to the guys and gals on the Redlegs forum and on here that I've spoken to and interrogated both in private and in public for their tolerance and patience and willingness to answer even the most basic footy questions
Regards
JAS