Down the Hill
"I will sound like a good politician and won't comment on Sunday's U18 game because the 2 reports are before the tribunal. To set the record straight, the lad with the facial injury was nothing to do with foul play. He copped an accidental point of the shoulder in a contest. There was a lad whose head was used as a speed ball but he is OK.
Well done to Chris Curyer in winning the U18 medal. I've seen him play several times and he is a real goer who plays the game with a passion and pride in the jumper that you love to see in any kid at your club. I would suggest the HV people on here check his total votes with their President or Secretary from the handout clubs received at the end of last night. 36 votes from 15 games is incredible and for what I write next could be inaccurate.
On the slide for the U16 count, the Brighton lad listed as runner up was shown with 29 votes yet he played only 8 games. So it had to be wrong. As it turned out he polled 19 votes which is still very impressive from 8 games but probably not enough to be runner up. And the other 3 Brighton lads listed in the top 10 on the slide all had incorrect votes displayed as to what they actually received. All 4 still polled enough votes to make the TOTY but if the slide was wrong for the 4 Brighton lads then I suspect the whole slide was wrong. So there could have been errors in other grades. I just hope the lad from Aldinga who won the U16 medal was still the correct winner.
But it wouldn't be Mail Medal night without some balls up. Just ask Josh Vick and Andrew Bachmann and Van der Meer from Christies Beach oops I meant Flagstaff Hill. And what about the MC who struggles to pronounce even the simplest of names. I mean how can you pronounce Riddle any other way but he was called Ridley more than once. They thanked the guy at the start of the night who prepares all the slides and presumably gets paid but it seems pretty obvious that it is cobbled together pretty quickly and not even checked by anyone.
The quality and accuracy of the annual Brighton Bombers Presentation Night slideshow runs rings around the SFL slideshow
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Every year many errors are obvious to everyone else in the room other than the maroon coats.
When will they start to check the slides and the results before the nigh?. A bit too much to expect from a league that doesn't even check the eligibility of players in the finals series!
When are they going to get a professional MC to run the night? Davenport is an embarrassment. At the end of the night the general and his homeboys would have been patting themselves on the back for putting on, in their eyes, another fantastic night.
Is it just me, or does everyone else think about the presenting of the Mail Medal and conducting the shambles of a raffle, with the Mail Medallist kept on stage to draw the raffle. This seems highly inappropriate and demeaning for the player and shambolic end to the evening.
DTH was that slideshow or sideshow?
3 teams in the GF is our best effort for 10-15 years I reckon. Solid wins for all teams too.
Well done to all the medal winners and special good luck to a couple of great mates in Trevor Mitton and Simon Dean. Go you Shoes. 
