EP Sport - back with a vengeance

[steiger]

Dead thread. lets talk some sport. c'mon

Okay - off to Adelaide this arvo to play in a bowls tournament at Grange Bowling Club on Sat. & Sun. Prizemoney is $7,200 amd although we will be up against quite a few state bowlers, we've got a pretty good rink and hopefully will give them some curry.

[skipper46]

does anyone know when baseball starts?

[silicone skyline]

Dead thread. lets talk some sport. c'mon

Okay - off to Adelaide this arvo to play in a bowls tournament at Grange Bowling Club on Sat. & Sun. Prizemoney is $7,200 amd although we will be up against quite a few state bowlers, we've got a pretty good rink and hopefully will give them some curry.

Haha! Crackerjack!

[steiger]

Dead thread. lets talk some sport. c'mon

Okay - off to Adelaide this arvo to play in a bowls tournament at Grange Bowling Club on Sat. & Sun. Prizemoney is $7,200 amd although we will be up against quite a few state bowlers, we've got a pretty good rink and hopefully will give them some curry.

Haha! Crackerjack!

Might crack something else if we get up to our usual tricks Sat night in Hindley st.

[overloaded]

or Hanson Rd with AG

[bish]

This is the greatest spray of all time and should be sent to AFL HQ as well as Parliament House...give footy back to the people


Sam Kekovich speech to Centre Square

Grand Final Day 2008


My fellow Australians,

I’ve been invited here to talk to Centre Square, in these big marquees on Punt Road Oval. And speaking of Punt Road Oval, let me tell you something for nothing - Jack Dyer would be spinning in his grave if he could see the place right now. Full of a bunch of Collins Street corporate criminals, Chapel Street designer cats and Toorak poodle rooters who have about as much interest in football as Paris Hilton has an interest in astrophysics.

Captain Blood didn’t break every bone in his body and commit multiple acts of on-field heroism and homicide so he could see his beloved home ground turned into an over-priced pre-match party for chardonnay-swilling spivs and their assorted hangers-on attending their one footy match of the year, whilst tens of thousands of hard-working honest battlers who love the game and love their team are denied the chance to attend the greatest game in the world.

I’ve had a gutful. Whilst this bunch of Armani-wearing, Audi-driving, Prada-carrying try-hards monopolise priceless vantage points in the MCG, millions of genuine footy fans who have followed their team through thick and thin have to make do by watching the game at home or down at the local pub, whilst the Melbourne spivocracy get to sit on their fat posteriors in a marquee and wouldn’t even know the way to the MCG without a tour guide.

Since most of you haven’t attended a single match this year and know nothing about football, let me give you a few tips – Geelong wears blue, Hawthorn wears brown, and in case you were wondering, there’ll be no fashions on the field at half-time, and no, the Lexus Centre across the road is not a prestige car dealership.

Centre Square is not only unfair. Centre Square is not only inequitable. Centre Square is downright un-Australian! And so are all of you! In fact, I bet you’re all so un-Australian that you all hate the Anzacs, you booed Cathy Freeman, and you want to cull cute cuddly koalas because one of them once jumped out in front of your Range Rover on the way to Mount Hotham.

But it’s not just you who are at fault. I also blame the AFL – those out-of-touch, opera-loving elitists at AFL headquarters who are responsible for this unconscionable abomination need to take a good hard look in the mirror. That is if they can handle the sight of moral and spiritual bankruptcy staring back at them.

I also blame the government. Our new Prime Minister has clearly failed his first test of leadership if he thinks it’s acceptable to allow an event like this to go ahead without a pre-emptive strike by the SAS. The PM is doing nothing to ease the squeeze on working families on the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity who just want to see their team in the Granny. But he’d better get his act together and do something about it, or millions of angry footy fans will do it for him. Revolutions have been started and governments have been overthrown for lesser outrages than this. And people ask why we need capital punishment.

So cut off your silver tails, tear up your fur coats and get fair dinkum. Our great Australian game is the greatest game in the world – the game of the people. Not some once-a-year marquee piss-up for an overpaid, over-dressed pack of passionless corporate cretins who only turn up for the free chardonnay and then spend the actual game looking about as interested and excited as a line of Easter Island statues.

So don’t bother coming across to the MCG this afternoon, because you’re not welcome. The next train out of Melbourne leaves Richmond station in 10 minutes – so make sure you’re on it. Or, better still, under it.

So don’t be un-Australian - everyone here in Centre Square can get stuffed! You know it makes sense. I’m Sam Kekovich.

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WADH

[Media Park]

Posting when intoxicated... Bad.

[tiger07andbeyond]

No umpires for round 1 next season. Boycott. front page Times.


thoughts?

[sherrin22]

Good on em.. some of the treatment of umpires in this town is disgraceful, i would hate to be an umpire here..
however bad you think the umpiring is its a fact of the game and you've just got to deal with it..
when bottles are being thrown at umpires, infront of their children!, and threats being made then its definately a fair call by the umpires org.
goodluck recruiting umpires to make the standard of umpiring better when they get treated like that..

[coyote ugly]

They have every right to be upset but no need to have a go at us or the tribunal

[mhg]

7th team? put themselves above PLFL. Punish all teams when there may be a pattern of behaviour.

[Media Park]

From the football I've seen this season, there is only one "problem club" in the PLFL.
I think a more appropriate measure would be to refuse to umpire games involving that club.

Midway through the season I was asked to be my club's Steward in the Reserves, and I was supposed to curb any poor behaviour from our supporters. As far as I know, that only happened for one week? That is one measure that should have continued I think- although I think the "problem club" might have a problem, as their steward would probably say a few words.

[sherrin22]

i think they have every right to have a go at the tribunal..
it effects them directly and if they report someone the person needs to be dealt with and givn a consequence not just let off so they have to keep reporting them.. not on.. and yes the problem club does have a major problem, if it wasnt such a big political issue the league shuld split them up.. unfortunately it would never be allwoed and hey've really started the snow ball rolling now..

[sherrin22]

as for the league umpires are their most valuable asset without them nothing can be done.
i know it would be hard but they need to think up more stratergies to curb umpire abuse and drunk behaviour at the umpires..
police presence may be a thought and anyone deemed to be behaving disorderly shall be warned.. two strikes and your out..

[overloaded]

There will always be a problem with the club but the time has come to deal with it and the PLFL have to make a stand and not be piss weak!
If the 'offending club' doesnt pull its weight it should take drastic action and make it a 5 team comp simple as that!!

what about the fiasco at port augusta over the weekend??

[coyote ugly]

what fiasco?

[Media Park]

I didn't think it was Pt Augusta (assuming we're thinking of the same thing), but an indigenous footy carnival (that was a non-alcohol event) saw a near-riot between two groups of heavily intoxicated indigenous people.

[overloaded]

I didn't think it was Pt Augusta (assuming we're thinking of the same thing), but an indigenous footy carnival (that was a non-alcohol event) saw a near-riot between two groups of heavily intoxicated indigenous people.

I thought it was Pt Augusta?

It musn't only be here where we have an issue

[silicone skyline]

I didn't think it was Pt Augusta (assuming we're thinking of the same thing), but an indigenous footy carnival (that was a non-alcohol event) saw a near-riot between two groups of heavily intoxicated indigenous people.

I thought it was Pt Augusta?

It musn't only be here where we have an issue

No, It was a team from Port Augusta playing a team from Raukan(?) I think in the footy at Richmond oval.

They were having a big sports weekend down there.