FAREWELL LIAM JURRAH

[Sammy J 3]

I would be very surprised to see this guy run around again. Was a star when he played, would love to see him play again, but would be very unlikely I would think.

[Dillon and Parke 5]

I would be very surprised to see this guy run around again. Was a star when he played, would love to see him play again, but would be very unlikely I would think.

You will be surprised Sammy

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

Exactly. I loved watching him play, but I can not find it in myself to hope he plays for another club after the way he treated the MFC. A person of integrity simply does not act like that, no matter the motivation. If he wanted to go live with his family he should have had a quiet word to the club and asked them to find him a trade like so many others have this year.

interesting isn't it how certain people get judged by a different yardstick than others

don't think I've read single 'wish him all the best' post regarding McLean or Scully

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,654]

interesting isn't it how certain people get judged by a different yardstick than others

don't think I've read single 'wish him all the best' post regarding McLean or Scully

Funny, have read the same boards and seen many regarding McLean - none for Scully.

None recently, but a lot a few years ago, but true to form if facts don't fit your story, make them up...

[John Crow Batty 8,863]

I liked all the excitement he brought to our club but deep down I thought he was too good be true and it would never last.

[demoniac 1,333]

Liam Jurrah's issues are issues of European settlement, The white man first arrived in Jurrah's lands in the 1920s. Good luck to him wherever he plays. And may his homelands be free of civil war. And may we respect the systems of meaning and belief of our indigenous peoples.

Tom - a 42 year old first generation Dees fan...

whose ancestors arrived from 1839 to Port Adelaide to 1841 in Maitland to 1880s in Brisbane,

Potters(SA), Snowballs(SA), Reynolds(NSW FNQ - Cooktown),Connors(NSW FNQ - Cooktown), Hanlons(BRIS), Carvers(Bris).

[binman 42,888]

Hes gone =we hate him.

Perhaps for you Biffen but not for me. When Greg Wells left the dees (whose number 11 i proudly wore on my coat when i was a young fella) i wished him nothing but success. Same went for Alves. Jolly - the same. Thompson - ditto. Healy - perhaps a little less positive vibe but certainly no hate. Even Scully i harbour no ill feeling for.

Some of my all time favourite demon players have come from other clubs - Icke, Templeton, Cottogio, Fowler, Carmen and now Clark. Why should i 'hate' players who leave the dees? What a rdiculous waste of psychic energy.

Good luck to Jurrah. I hope he fulfils his god given talent and brings joy to footy lovers agin. The real shame would be footy fans not getting th chance to see him agin in full flight.

This nonsense about him needing to publicly 'thank' the dees is actually quite weird and to be honest is a great example of the cultural divide in so far as it is more to do with an anglo saxon cultural norm relating to what is considered 'polite' and rude. Also there is an echo in some posters post of a paternalistic element along the lines of 'look what we gave him, rescuing him from the remote wilderness and giving him a chance to play AFL, how inconsiderate of him not to say grateful thanks for our largesse'.

Hate them because they leave? Give me a spell.

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