QUAIRADING "Going Home"

[Longsufferingnomore 1,600]

If you haven't watched this mini doco of Kozzie going home don't miss it.

It was amazing to watch Clarrie, Goodie and Shane McAdam enjoy the  moments in Kozzie's country. It is very emotional and gives a great hindsight into our Kozzie's life before football and the influence of family has had. It was also wonderful to see the joy and inclusion that Clarrie had with the community. What a great idea to include Clarrie on the trip. He really connected with everyone. Congratulations to the Club. A great initiative.

[Queanbeyan Demon 6,692]

What's the name and where can i watch it?

[Little Goffy 13,937]

Link to the youtube version;

 

[leave it to deever 17,442]

5 minutes ago, Longsufferingnomore said:

If you haven't watched this mini doco of Kozzie going home don't miss it.

It was amazing to watch Clarrie, Goodie and Shane McAdam enjoy the  moments in Kozzie's country. It is very emotional and gives a great hindsight into our Kozzie's life before football and the influence of family has had. It was also wonderful to see the joy and inclusion that Clarrie had with the community. What a great idea to include Clarrie on the trip. He really connected with everyone. Congratulations to the Club. A great initiative.

And an insightful story about poor Clarence' s bladder issues.

Yea but seriously LSNM,  a bloody good old yarn .

[WalkingCivilWar 39,256]

1 hour ago, Longsufferingnomore said:

If you haven't watched this mini doco of Kozzie going home don't miss it.

It was amazing to watch Clarrie, Goodie and Shane McAdam enjoy the  moments in Kozzie's country. It is very emotional and gives a great hindsight into our Kozzie's life before football and the influence of family has had. It was also wonderful to see the joy and inclusion that Clarrie had with the community. What a great idea to include Clarrie on the trip. He really connected with everyone. Congratulations to the Club. A great initiative.

It’s heartwarming to see where and how Kozzie was raised by his very close, very loving family, and then to see the beautiful reunion. 

Clarrie piggybacking Kozzie’s Nan up the hill… 🥹

Goody cradling Bellanie and shading her from the sun… 🥹

The kids at Kozzie’s old primary school running and jumping into his arms… 🥹

Thank you, MFC. ❤️💙

[monoccular 17,305]

What a very special reminder of what a humble past  Kozzie came from, and what he and his caring extended family and community have achieved, to whom we owe so much thanks.

And great to take Goody, Clarrie and Shane to share the whole experience.

PS - at first glance my MFCSS immediately kicked in and I thought that Kozzie was leaving us 😮

 

Edited July 10 by monoccular

[Deeoldfart 7,989]

I’m an old and emotional fart when it comes to our Dees.  I shed a few tears!  

[Older demon 2,663]

That is a beautiful story and just another one of those things this club does so well. We seem to do a lot right for a club with a suspect culture. For those critics of Clarry, look at how invested he is in this club and how we look after our own, we don't try to offload them.

It's hard to believe that not that long ago our indigenous brothers could go into town after 6 pm. 

I congratulate the club for putting this together. I am overjoyed to see how happy Kozzie is and Clarry as well.

To the critics and the press who continually look for an angle to bring this club down all I can say is you are wrong. This playing group are as tight as any I have seen and we are a club that looks after its own and a lot of that stems from our coach

 

Go Dees

[buck_nekkid 5,818]

Very nice.

no club or sponsor branding?  Thought they would have loved to be involved in something so positive?  Anyway, loved it.  Well done all

[3183 Dee 2,819]

A beautiful little doco.

How many of us would love to have the same feeling of family and community that Kozzy has?

Also, a great idea to take Clarry along - somebody at the club knows what they are doing.

[Nicko 1,377]

Well that was beautiful ♥️💙

A big thanks to kozzy for sharing something so special with everyone 

 

[Jibroni 4,907]

Love the authenticity of Kozzy's story, was beautiful to watch.

 

[Nasher 33,607]

Lots of thoughts ran through my head watching that! Isn’t privilege such a tiered thing - Kozzy had a disadvantaged upbringing compared to Oliver or Goodwin, but compared to Nan he might as well have been raised in a palace. It’s so hard to fathom the idea of having to be out of town by 6pm or getting locked up. That was THIS lifetime, not some ancient history. Far out.

Love that Goody, Clarrie and Shano took the time to head there with Kozzy and connect. The bond will run just that bit deeper with every step like that.

[Lucifers Hero 38,865]

13 hours ago, Older demon said:

That is a beautiful story and just another one of those things this club does so well. We seem to do a lot right for a club with a suspect culture. For those critics of Clarry, look at how invested he is in this club and how we look after our own, we don't try to offload them.

It's hard to believe that not that long ago our indigenous brothers could go into town after 6 pm. 

I congratulate the club for putting this together. I am overjoyed to see how happy Kozzie is and Clarry as well.

To the critics and the press who continually look for an angle to bring this club down all I can say is you are wrong. This playing group are as tight as any I have seen and we are a club that looks after its own and a lot of that stems from our coach

 

Go Dees

Great post. 

Kozzie rightly is so proud.  This video reminds me of the trip Jimmy took to Yuendumu with Jurrah. 

 

As an aside, it is great to see Clarry so happy 😁; I chuckled at the 12 pieces of damper he scoffed down   Goodwin had a bit of a laugh about it ... will probably make him do 100 x 100 sprints ... to work it all off.  😊

 

Edited July 10 by Lucifers Hero

[Satyriconhome 10,339]

Whilst everybody is patting themselves on the back "on how far we have come", Indigenous players still have to put up with racist rubbish on Social Media, if you see it, call it out.

[58er 5,883]

Beautiful doco spot on in all ways with our Club showing how we can take care of some things together. 

The bonding of Kossie and his family plus his newborn is spine tingling and tears in the eyes stuff. 

Then to expose Clarry and Shane along with Goody is a masterstroke that will bond those guys even more with our newly emerging playing group.

I believe we have started a rebuild on the run both on and off the field. 

The Demon fans that are dooming and glooming are half empty doubters and thanks to 32,000 last week that atmosphere and noise with all the kids showed how good our start from our slump has been. We can again see the future with the old and new and not to bottom out. 

This doco shows that Clubs are sometimes more than results on the field and I will be interested in what public credit our Club is given for this initiative of soul, spirit and humanity. 

10/10 Dees congratulations. 

[Dingo 1,007]

20 hours ago, Nasher said:

Lots of thoughts ran through my head watching that! Isn’t privilege such a tiered thing - Kozzy had a disadvantaged upbringing compared to Oliver or Goodwin, but compared to Nan he might as well have been raised in a palace. It’s so hard to fathom the idea of having to be out of town by 6pm or getting locked up. That was THIS lifetime, not some ancient history. Far out.

Love that Goody, Clarrie and Shano took the time to head there with Kozzy and connect. The bond will run just that bit deeper with every step like that.

THIS lifetime means the 1960s and 1970s ? 

[rpfc 28,034]

20 hours ago, Nasher said:

Lots of thoughts ran through my head watching that! Isn’t privilege such a tiered thing - Kozzy had a disadvantaged upbringing compared to Oliver or Goodwin, but compared to Nan he might as well have been raised in a palace. It’s so hard to fathom the idea of having to be out of town by 6pm or getting locked up. That was THIS lifetime, not some ancient history. Far out.

Love that Goody, Clarrie and Shano took the time to head there with Kozzy and connect. The bond will run just that bit deeper with every step like that.

Goodwin is a lovely person. I still think he is too guarded in his appearances and would love to see him come out more.

[rjay 24,567]

3 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Goodwin is a lovely person. I still think he is too guarded in his appearances and would love to see him come out more.

You get to see a bit of why the players love him...and why he is so important to this team.

[Jaded No More 67,532]

14 hours ago, rjay said:

You get to see a bit of why the players love him...and why he is so important to this team.

Being a senior coach is about so much more than tactics and team selection.

The single most important aspect of being a senior AFL coach is bringing people together.

You can have 100 assistants who are tactical masterminds, but if the senior coach doesn't have the respect, love and support of his players, the club is cooked.

See West Coast.

[BW511 2,564]

15 hours ago, rpfc said:

Goodwin is a lovely person. I still think he is too guarded in his appearances and would love to see him come out more.

I am in agreement, I think his media persona is quite stiff and rehearsed.

The more personal, humans side is obviously very highly regarded internally and it’s good to see that in this light.

Kozzie could not possibly sell himself any better at the moment, he’s a very grounded and mature kid for his age and fame

[58er 5,883]

2 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

Being a senior coach is about so much more than tactics and team selection.

The single most important aspect of being a senior AFL coach is bringing people together.

You can have 100 assistants who are tactical masterminds, but if the senior coach doesn't have the respect, love and support of his players, the club is cooked.

See West Coast.

No one could survive their performances to be fair. But the Club have not been very proactive on trading recruiting or drafting and held onto some flag heroes a bit too long I fear.

Hope they still dither a couple more years they deserve to be bottom. 

[GM11 740]

23 hours ago, BW511 said:

I am in agreement, I think his media persona is quite stiff and rehearsed.

The more personal, humans side is obviously very highly regarded internally and it’s good to see that in this light.

Kozzie could not possibly sell himself any better at the moment, he’s a very grounded and mature kid for his age and fame

Probably due to every word and deed being heavily and sometimes venomously (in Goodwin's case) scrutinised by that same media (and others.).