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2023 Preseason Practice Games

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To be held at RSEA Park.

Details will come out soon I presume.

 

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    Looks like we'll play the Saints at Moorabbin prior to versing Richmond?

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    4 hours ago, dl4e said:

    Don't the tigers like to play at Holm Park in Beaconsfield for some practice games ? Just a lazy 4 minute drive from home😊

    They played the Hawks there in 2016 for a praccy match but can't recall any others.

    Wouldn't mind a game out there myself.

     

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    • Whispering_Jack changed the title to 2023 Preseason Practice Games

    mmmmmmm

     they got rid of a practice game so they could play the Harry Potter round in Adelaide and now clubs are adding a scratch match

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    22 hours ago, old55 said:

    Looks like we'll play the Saints at Moorabbin prior to versing Richmond?

    I wonder if Stkilda will flick on the sprinklers and turn Moorabbin into a mud heap for us.

    Just like the good ol' days.

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    23 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    mmmmmmm

     they got rid of a practice game so they could play the Harry Potter round in Adelaide and now clubs are adding a scratch match

    Even more amusing is that one Melbourne club (I think it's Essendon) are likely to play the Gold Coast in a scratch match in Queensland. So much for all the hoo-hah about the tiring effects of interstate travel and how unfair it is that some clubs travel more than others in the season proper. 

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    On 1/25/2023 at 1:56 PM, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Apparently (not confirmed) the practice match is going to be Thursday 23 Feb or Friday 24 Feb for anyone looking to wag work.

    Dont have to wag.... Semi or fully retired depending on volition, I'll be there!

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    On 1/24/2023 at 3:41 PM, old dee said:

    Going on past form in the Girls finals they did care two hoots about how many got in. 

    That  game was limited by ticketing deliberately. So they did "limit" the numbers of the crowd to the allowed space for spectators. 

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    On 1/25/2023 at 9:43 AM, Diamond_Jim said:

    Don't think we've had a game at Coburg since they remodelled the outer side of the ground. It certainly was a lovely venue not to mention convenient

    Played cricket there on Cup Day in 1967, recall Pentridge hovering to the north, the stench of Ryan's hanging still in the air.

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    31 minutes ago, Monbon said:

    Played cricket there on Cup Day in 1967, recall Pentridge hovering to the north, the stench of Ryan's hanging still in the air.

    circa 1965

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    1 hour ago, loges said:

    circa 1965

    Ronald Ryan was executed in February 1967.  His remains are buried in my home town of Portland.

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    16 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Ronald Ryan was executed in February 1967.  His remains are buried in my home town of Portland.

    Yes of course, the crime was committed in 65.

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    6 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    Ronald Ryan was executed in February 1967.  His remains are buried in my home town of Portland.

    Didn't know that. I'm from Port Fairy, btw.....

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    On 1/27/2023 at 10:18 PM, Grr-owl said:

    Didn't know that. I'm from Port Fairy, btw.....

    Tower hill. If I am not in south Melb 

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    On 1/24/2023 at 9:04 AM, Demonland said:

    Imagine the meltdown on here if we were to lose to Woodville-West Torrens

    With Kossie BOG and walking off the ground with the SA side before getting tapped on the shoulder and then half heartedly jogging back to the MFC boys.

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    On 1/29/2023 at 5:43 PM, 640MD said:

    Tower hill. If I am not in south Melb 

    How's the Mad Mile these days?

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    4 hours ago, Grr-owl said:

    How's the Mad Mile these days?

    Only about 1.5 KM and in front of us

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    Accident’s happen regularly 

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    Back in the 70's it could be scary.... 

    One of my favorite memories of childhood is rounding the corner at the top of the hill heading home to Port. That glimpse of Tower Hill on the right and then away across Killarney and pines of Port in the distance. Goosebumps just thinking about it....

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    16 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Including accidental use of apostrophes.

    Just too lazy to read after the auto borrecr 

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    17 hours ago, Grr-owl said:

    Back in the 70's it could be scary.... 

    One of my favorite memories of childhood is rounding the corner at the top of the hill heading home to Port. That glimpse of Tower Hill on the right and then away across Killarney and pines of Port in the distance. Goosebumps just thinking about it....

    Used to be O’Tooles corner until he sold it 

    Been here 9 years now,  my darling is local, I mow our lawn (joke)

    and look after fruit trees, do real work 10% then watch the football at Rafferty’s bar.

    get to maybe 4 games if I am very lucky

    its windy, often cool, but views from the bool to port fairy ……love it more each day

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    On 1/27/2023 at 3:49 PM, Demonstone said:

    Ronald Ryan was executed in February 1967.  His remains are buried in my home town of Portland.

    My mother tells the story of being a trainee teacher in Portland and discussing the life and death of Ronald Ryan with a class. One student chooses to excuse herself from the room for the remainder of the class. Turns out she was the daughter of Ronald under a different name...

    Edited by Engorged Onion

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    5 hours ago, 640MD said:

    Used to be O’Tooles corner until he sold it 

    Been here 9 years now,  my darling is local, I mow our lawn (joke)

    and look after fruit trees, do real work 10% then watch the football at Rafferty’s bar.

    get to maybe 4 games if I am very lucky

    its windy, often cool, but views from the bool to port fairy ……love it more each day

    One of the richest soils in the country, apparently.... You can see the before and after the Tower Hill eruption in the walls of a midden somewhere near Levy's point if I remember correctly.

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