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You seem to be the smart pr!ck with all the prophesies

I'm sure you can read the thread title

If you put down the booze.

PD you too seem to have strayed from the spirit of this thread! Have a merry Christmas and happy New Year.

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" HIT THE BOUNDARY " --------- Alan " Butch " Gale ( commentator closing seconds 1966 G.F. )

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it".

Epicurus.

Ex coach from my glory day's

Get up you weak bugger,If you've got a sore leg ya can limp.

Grog tatses like virgins pi55 when you win.

Retaliate before they git ya.

Cows like being milked after you've had a big night on the turps.

Apologise after the game son.

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I think now is a good time to reflect on the 12 days of christmas:

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I think now is a good time to reflect on the 12 days of christmas:

and how many Christmas gathering start off with such genteelness only to descend into ............

yep, we've all been there :)

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Have you received any indications of New Year's honours Earl Hood?

BBO all is quiet on that front but then I had little indication last year of my then elevation, so you never know what the new year may have in store! I of course would be incredibly humbled should I be selected for higher honours.


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Merry Christmas to all and Happy New Year.

Let's hope Santa brings us a good 2015 season.

Have nearly forgotten what a good season feel likes!

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Well. to those I know, and to those I don't, the very best of the season to you all. A safe passage through the minefield of holidays and have a very Merry Christmas. Cheers :roos:

& to you beelze'

"Oh don't tell me Butch, this could be a draw" Mike Williamson - any time a VFL final was close in the last quarter.

ahh, the good Ol days of little stats & even less footy techno babble; we were free to laugh spontaneously or to 'WoW' the Royce Harts & Jezzas, or ooohh when the big men crunched bones. big nick or big Carl.

the 80's were great

the 90's good too, & the early 2000's were something with the lions.

now we have 5 or 6 ex players commentating & dragging the whole shebang down with too much technical blah, & too little jocularity... the game has started taking itself too seriously, & the fun has left the building.

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weren't many jews in jutland at that time ldvc despite the similarity in the name

anyway happy winter solstice (or should that be summer?) and yuletide to all good anglo saxons

happy alban arthan to all my fellow celts

and happy holidays to all others

ah, 'the spirit of the Celts'. can't beat it... but does this mean whisky? or something of more spirit? goodonja DC.

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"Oh don't tell me Butch, this could be a draw" Mike Williamson - any time a VFL final was close in the last quarter.

from a Seattle Seahawks fan page,,, Re our own VFL/AFL legend Jack Dyer,,, Dyerisms. >>>

Jack Dyerisms

Again, speaking in the language I know best, that of the NFL and the Seattle Seahawks, one of our beloved coaches was Chuck Knox who, like Jack Dyer, spoke his own language. There are plenty of Knoxisms to go around, so it's only befitting to share the Dyerisms as well! Enjoy!

From Pelic:

I read your Jack Dyer Tribute page and thought that you might like to put these on there.

QUOTES FROM CAPTAIN BLOOD

"He's a good ordinary footballer"

"He's so scared he sleeps with the lights on"

"An Essendon supporter is a Collingwood supporter that has money" (My favourite)

"Things aren't the same now that there are five teams in the top four"

"I want you to pair off in threes"

"They've got a couple of good players in Harvey"

"Flanagans trying to use some pace he hasn't got"

"There weren't too many best man on grounds"

and the old "If you don't mind umpire"

From: johnq

Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:53 PM

Subject: A few Dyerisms

Hello Becky,

Just a few Dyerisms for you.

"Geelong have copulated." - capitulated?

And describing a player who'd had a disappointing game: "He got where the ball ain't."

Have a good day Becky.

Kind regards,

John

http://www.beckys-place.com/tigerland/dyerisms.html

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from a Seattle Seahawks fan page,,, Re our own VFL/AFL legend Jack Dyer,,, Dyerisms. >>>

Jack Dyerisms

Again, speaking in the language I know best, that of the NFL and the Seattle Seahawks, one of our beloved coaches was Chuck Knox who, like Jack Dyer, spoke his own language. There are plenty of Knoxisms to go around, so it's only befitting to share the Dyerisms as well! Enjoy!

From Pelic:

I read your Jack Dyer Tribute page and thought that you might like to put these on there.

QUOTES FROM CAPTAIN BLOOD

"He's a good ordinary footballer"

"He's so scared he sleeps with the lights on"

"An Essendon supporter is a Collingwood supporter that has money" (My favourite)

"Things aren't the same now that there are five teams in the top four"

"I want you to pair off in threes"

"They've got a couple of good players in Harvey"

"Flanagans trying to use some pace he hasn't got"

"There weren't too many best man on grounds"

and the old "If you don't mind umpire"

From: johnq

Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:53 PM

Subject: A few Dyerisms

Hello Becky,

Just a few Dyerisms for you.

"Geelong have copulated." - capitulated?

And describing a player who'd had a disappointing game: "He got where the ball ain't."

Have a good day Becky.

Kind regards,

John

http://www.beckys-place.com/tigerland/dyerisms.html

Thank you for these legenary quotes, Happy Christmas to all Demonlanders and Slange Var to the my fellow Celts.

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from a Seattle Seahawks fan page,,, Re our own VFL/AFL legend Jack Dyer,,, Dyerisms. >>>

Jack Dyerisms

Again, speaking in the language I know best, that of the NFL and the Seattle Seahawks, one of our beloved coaches was Chuck Knox who, like Jack Dyer, spoke his own language. There are plenty of Knoxisms to go around, so it's only befitting to share the Dyerisms as well! Enjoy!

From Pelic:

I read your Jack Dyer Tribute page and thought that you might like to put these on there.

QUOTES FROM CAPTAIN BLOOD

"He's a good ordinary footballer"

"He's so scared he sleeps with the lights on"

"An Essendon supporter is a Collingwood supporter that has money" (My favourite)

"Things aren't the same now that there are five teams in the top four"

"I want you to pair off in threes"

"They've got a couple of good players in Harvey"

"Flanagans trying to use some pace he hasn't got"

"There weren't too many best man on grounds"

and the old "If you don't mind umpire"

From: johnq

Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:53 PM

Subject: A few Dyerisms

Hello Becky,

Just a few Dyerisms for you.

"Geelong have copulated." - capitulated?

And describing a player who'd had a disappointing game: "He got where the ball ain't."

Have a good day Becky.

Kind regards,

John

http://www.beckys-place.com/tigerland/dyerisms.html

Loved The Captain and the Major, Ian Major wasn't it? And what about Harry Beitzle and I can't remember his cohort down in the rooms who reported in faithfully every week.

But later on there was Rex Hunt. I listened in only occasionally but could not work him out, one I didn't know all his knick names for players or his modes operandi for calling games. Occasionally I would tune into a Rex game and you could not work out what was growing on, who had the ball, or which game you were at!

Tommy Lahiff now that I remember. Always down in the rooms doing interviews.

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BBO all is quiet on that front but then I had little indication last year of my then elevation, so you never know what the new year may have in store! I of course would be incredibly humbled should I be selected for higher honours.

Ahh yes humility. An elusive concept.

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For mine, this is one of the greatest xmas songs ever written...

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