daveytrumpet

As a Pom, a cricket fan, and a trumpet player I can understand

given recent sporting events. However, having grown up in pommy land in a time when

going to football (soccer) often wasn't a family option due to the idiocy of fans and their violent nature, I never got to enjoy the whole experience of a great family day out at the footy watching my team. In this country, and this code however I've always found it to be a fantastic event where the whole family gets involved from newborn to senior and is a wonderful part of Melbournes city lifestyle. If some twit in a velvet smoking jacket can add a bit to the sense of occasion and team pride then play on I reckon

Good on you for coming on here mate - we do appreciate your support and I hope you don't take any of the comments on here personally because they're not directed at you.

I'm I right in saying that you began your "bugling" life at the MFC as a member of the crowd who let rip with it when we had a game in the bag and the club jumped on it and made it into the pre-match spectacle? Or is my memory deceiving me?

Its all good mate, we know that it's not everybody's cup of tea

There's actually a couple of us who play at the games and Im the stand in

when the main chap can't do it. I'm not entirely sure where the club got the idea from

but there may be a connection to "Billy the Barmy Army Bugler" who made a name for

himself here back in about 2006 at the ashes (I actually studied with him at music college in London)

The MFC liked the idea and got in contact with the main "Bugler" not long after that and I think he started

Back in about 2007, (I won't name him online out of respect for his privacy) but he's a very fine Melbourne musician

who has played at an extremely high level both orchestrally and in the jazz world.

We both certainly have a ball doing the games anyway!

If its for the reason I'm suspecting, when I played at the hawks game a couple of weeks ago, they put the tune back a bit later to right before the bounce. The audio and tv guy told me I had about a minute and a half to fill and to play the song twice through.

As I was getting towards the end of the second rendition, the siren sounded and a lady from the AFL raced around the boundary

Waving at me to stop. As I was so close to the end I finished the song and came off. By that time she was showing her frustration to the guys from The Melbourne FC and the only words I spoke to her were that I had been told to play the song twice by the tv guy.