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The slow news day story- Raph
it's becoming easy to pick the slowest news day of the week
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 6126086183
must take them a while to go over the tape
the other Mid week story that reoccurs is Who is going to GWS
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 6126086183
must take them a while to go over the tape
the other Mid week story that reoccurs is Who is going to GWS
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Funny I don't recall thisThe Saints, who were languishing at 1-8 before storming home, will clinch a home final if they defeat Carlton on Saturday night.
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It has been a common thread amongst the press to misrepresent the true horror of our start to 2011.dcstkfc wrote:Funny I don't recall thisThe Saints, who were languishing at 1-8 before storming home, will clinch a home final if they defeat Carlton on Saturday night.
Having 1 win after 8 rounds, with careful forgetting of byes and draws, was turned into 1-7 and now the Hun have buggered it up completely, 1-8 I don't think so, after Rd 9 we were 2-1-5.
Anyway, it does sound like a much better run coming from 1-8.
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Are they not aware that Frankston is about 7 minutes up the road from Seaford? And beautiful and secluded (not to mention high-end and very wealthy) Mt Eliza (where Banger lives), another 5 minutes from there? Plenty of cafe's (and a whole shopping centre and precinct in Frankston) in those areas. If they have that couple of hours to kill, travelling to those spots would take up as little as 15 mins of that time, with the drive from Frankston to Mt Eliza especially nice, first going up Oliver's Hill, overlooking the sea, then along the winding road through the heavily treed areas.
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haha yeah exactly what i was thinking - poor things having to spend 6-7 hours straight with their teammates and not being able to get away - how do they manage!!B W and R all over wrote:Are they also aware that most of the working population quite often spend at least nine hours straight at their place of work, five times a week for a fraction of what AFL players are paid?
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To be fair, I could see how you could easily get bored if you had to hang around Seaford all day, with time to kill, but as I said, with Frankston and Mt Eliza within 15 mins, they have little excuse for not finding something to do/somewhere to go.
For those who play golf, there are also the Long Island and Peninsula Country Clubs within 5-6 mins, which both have championship quality, top-100-in-the-country courses, in very relaxing and beautiful natural bush settings. They could join up at one of those and wander down there when they have a couple of hours to kill. They have excellent practise facilities and also bistro's, or whatever, in the clubhouses, for lunch. The Goddards and Fishers etc. would have a ball.
For those who play golf, there are also the Long Island and Peninsula Country Clubs within 5-6 mins, which both have championship quality, top-100-in-the-country courses, in very relaxing and beautiful natural bush settings. They could join up at one of those and wander down there when they have a couple of hours to kill. They have excellent practise facilities and also bistro's, or whatever, in the clubhouses, for lunch. The Goddards and Fishers etc. would have a ball.
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They could always practise goalkicking.AnythingsPossibleSaints wrote:To be fair, I could see how you could easily get bored if you had to hang around Seaford all day, with time to kill, but as I said, with Frankston and Mt Eliza within 15 mins, they have little excuse for not finding something to do/somewhere to go.
For those who play golf, there are also the Long Island and Peninsula Country Clubs within 5-6 mins, which both have championship quality courses in very relaxing and beautiful natural bush settings. They could join up at one of those and wander down there when they have a couple of hours to kill. They have excellent practise facilities and also bistro's, or whatever, in the clubhouses, for lunch. The Goddards and Fishers etc. would have a ball.
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My sentiments exactly and I hope Raphs comments were taken out of context. I travel 40 ks each way to work and including travel time am away for 12-13 hours per day and god forbid I work with the same people every day, it's so damned hard...B W and R all over wrote:Are they also aware that most of the working population quite often spend at least nine hours straight at their place of work, five times a week for a fraction of what AFL players are paid?
But you do work. I worked for the governement and we were waiting for a redundancy to be given and as such had bugger all work. We just about all went insane. Now if these guys do there 2 hours training and are just waiting aroung doing nothing to the next session I would suggest that isnt a good environment to then go out and train at 100%. I think that is more the issue than the travel part especially as only the older guys now live a fair way from the ground. All the younger guys are closer to the ground now.Iceman234 wrote:My sentiments exactly and I hope Raphs comments were taken out of context. I travel 40 ks each way to work and including travel time am away for 12-13 hours per day and god forbid I work with the same people every day, it's so damned hard...B W and R all over wrote:Are they also aware that most of the working population quite often spend at least nine hours straight at their place of work, five times a week for a fraction of what AFL players are paid?
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if AW ever put up the podcast you can listen for yourselves- taken in context not blatant as a whinge as being suggested- Just part of the overall niggles that were building at the start of the year.... But the interviewer - as many have- took that part of the interview - the journo has also only spoken of that comment..Raph actually did quite well.Iceman234 wrote:My sentiments exactly and I hope Raphs comments were taken out of context. I travel 40 ks each way to work and including travel time am away for 12-13 hours per day and god forbid I work with the same people every day, it's so damned hard...B W and R all over wrote:Are they also aware that most of the working population quite often spend at least nine hours straight at their place of work, five times a week for a fraction of what AFL players are paid?
but given one interviewer couldn't remember who the St Kilda Captain was don't necesarily think they can stick the facetious responses in too far
some of the Players have already moved down that way or further- or already lived in the area- so drive home after a night game would be almost as far as some country supporters do-
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GrumpyOne wrote:They could always practise goalkicking.AnythingsPossibleSaints wrote:To be fair, I could see how you could easily get bored if you had to hang around Seaford all day, with time to kill, but as I said, with Frankston and Mt Eliza within 15 mins, they have little excuse for not finding something to do/somewhere to go.
For those who play golf, there are also the Long Island and Peninsula Country Clubs within 5-6 mins, which both have championship quality courses in very relaxing and beautiful natural bush settings. They could join up at one of those and wander down there when they have a couple of hours to kill. They have excellent practise facilities and also bistro's, or whatever, in the clubhouses, for lunch. The Goddards and Fishers etc. would have a ball.
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it was on sport 927 and the podcast is up. it was not taken out of context. that was what Raph said!!!saintbrat wrote:if AW ever put up the podcast you can listen for yourselves- taken in context not blatant as a whinge as being suggested- Just part of the overall niggles that were building at the start of the year.... But the interviewer - as many have- took that part of the interview - the journo has also only spoken of that comment..Raph actually did quite well.Iceman234 wrote:My sentiments exactly and I hope Raphs comments were taken out of context. I travel 40 ks each way to work and including travel time am away for 12-13 hours per day and god forbid I work with the same people every day, it's so damned hard...B W and R all over wrote:Are they also aware that most of the working population quite often spend at least nine hours straight at their place of work, five times a week for a fraction of what AFL players are paid?
but given one interviewer couldn't remember who the St Kilda Captain was don't necesarily think they can stick the facetious responses in too far
some of the Players have already moved down that way or further- or already lived in the area- so drive home after a night game would be almost as far as some country supporters do-
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ST KILDA midfielder Farren Ray has rejected suggestions that a need to accept the club's isolated Seaford training complex was a factor in the team's revival.
Ray's teammate Raphael Clarke said earlier this week that a vow from the players to stop whingeing about their new headquarters had kick-started the turnaround.
But Ray said that the Saints' return to form was instigated by hard work.
"I think the whole Seaford thing has been blown out of proportion to be honest,'' Ray told Triple M.
"I think when we started thinking, 'It's all about us' and once we started training harder and getting Monday to Friday right, I think that's when it started happening.
ST KILDA midfielder Farren Ray has rejected suggestions that a need to accept the club's isolated Seaford training complex was a factor in the team's revival.
Ray's teammate Raphael Clarke said earlier this week that a vow from the players to stop whingeing about their new headquarters had kick-started the turnaround.
But Ray said that the Saints' return to form was instigated by hard work.
"I think the whole Seaford thing has been blown out of proportion to be honest,'' Ray told Triple M.
"I think when we started thinking, 'It's all about us' and once we started training harder and getting Monday to Friday right, I think that's when it started happening.
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It doesn't matter what any of us think should be the players' attitude towards training at Seaford: Raph's comment indicates that it's quite clearly an issue for them and the club will need to address it or it will be in trouble.
Modern day footballers are prima donnas. Operatic prima donnas (the late great Maria Callas being perhaps the prime example) are known to demand all sorts of unreasonable things or else they won't sing. Childish, silly, selfish - call it whatever you like - but the story always ends the same way: you have to give in to their demands, or they don't sing.
Modern day footballers are prima donnas. Operatic prima donnas (the late great Maria Callas being perhaps the prime example) are known to demand all sorts of unreasonable things or else they won't sing. Childish, silly, selfish - call it whatever you like - but the story always ends the same way: you have to give in to their demands, or they don't sing.
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Stan Alves had it right.meher baba wrote:It doesn't matter what any of us think should be the players' attitude towards training at Seaford: Raph's comment indicates that it's quite clearly an issue for them and the club will need to address it or it will be in trouble.
Modern day footballers are prima donnas. Operatic prima donnas (the late great Maria Callas being perhaps the prime example) are known to demand all sorts of unreasonable things or else they won't sing. Childish, silly, selfish - call it whatever you like - but the story always ends the same way: you have to give in to their demands, or they don't sing.
If they don't want to embrace the club, warts and all, we're better off without them.
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