James Tird's farerwell... change of location..
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James Tird's farerwell... change of location..
Tirds, farewell after match will be held in the 2nd cubicle of the men's toilets at level 2 Ponford Stand...
Could not be any better IMO, I will never forget his comments about the umpires after we smashed them...
Clue... Tird...
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Could not be any better IMO, I will never forget his comments about the umpires after we smashed them...
Clue... Tird...
Have one
Don't wait for the light at the end of the tunnel to appear, run down there and light the bloody thing yourself!
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Re: James Tird's farerwell... change of location..
Are you fair dinkum. Wish we could do something as good to our legend.St Fidelius wrote:Tirds, farewell after match will be held in the 2nd cubicle of the men's toilets at level 2 Ponford Stand...
Could not be any better IMO, I will never forget his comments about the umpires after we smashed them...
Clue... Tird...
Have one
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What beautiful timing for Hird and Sheedy to finish at Essendon around the same time.
James has been Kevin's pet for more than 15 years
Now the mastercoach can take his lapdog and stroll off into the sunset
Look at the dutiful love and respect in Jimmy's eyes
Wait a minute, I've seen that look before
James has been Kevin's pet for more than 15 years
Now the mastercoach can take his lapdog and stroll off into the sunset
Look at the dutiful love and respect in Jimmy's eyes
Wait a minute, I've seen that look before
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Re: James Tird's farerwell... change of location..
indeed.plugger66 wrote:Are you fair dinkum. Wish we could do something as good to our legend.St Fidelius wrote:Tirds, farewell after match will be held in the 2nd cubicle of the men's toilets at level 2 Ponford Stand...
Could not be any better IMO, I will never forget his comments about the umpires after we smashed them...
Clue... Tird...
Have one
I went to the G today primarily to see the farewell...(didn't watch the game as I'm an MCC member so it's a freebee entry!).
I've never seen 80,000 people all standing and applauding both Sheeds and Hird as they came out....very moving acknowledgement of two incredible careers.
Sheedy has brought more to footy as a coach than every other coach combined in the past 25 years.
Well done Sheeds & Hird.
...and St.Fid, show some respect!
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Re: James Tird's farerwell... change of location..
pfft good luck.saintspremiers wrote: ...and St.Fid, show some respect!
First to attack anyone who shows any type of different opinion to him, and then comes out with this type of infantile thread.
Well done James Hird and Kevin Sheedy. AFL football is better because of the two of you.
Lance or James??
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, "Enough is enough." For me, that time is now. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in <redacted>. Over the past three years, I have been subjected to a <redacted>investigation followed by <redacted> witch hunt. The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for <redacted>and on me leads me to where I am today – finished with this nonsense. (Oops just got a spontaneous errection <unredacted>)
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i guess his brownlow medal and anzac day medal and all his other awards count for nothing yeah that's right it's the jumper he has been playing in that has made him such a great player.brown-coat wrote:Hird, you're a champion for playing at Essendon. Had you been a footscray player you would be a nobody.
Well done.
note to self put $100 on mark bolton for the brownlow as he plays for essendon
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Yes, Hird is one of the all-time greats: has struggled heroically to overcome many serious injuries throughout his career (he was even badly injured when playing for Ainslie in Canberra).
But has played many extraordinary games and can be proud of everything he has achieved: including his umpiring comment and including rightly describing as a "disgrace" a man who is IMO the worst official in any professional sport on earth. Unfortunately, it backfired, with the AFL presumably scared to get rid of him as he so richly deserved because they didn't want to be seen to be kowtowing to Hird and the Bombers. (It will be interesting to see what happens to that particular umpire in 2008: my prediction is that he will disappear as quickly as the sub-prime mortgage market).
About Sheedy I have mixed feelings. He is a genuine old-style Aussie, which I like. I also admire what he has done to bring Aborigines into the game (good for the Aboriginal people themselves, and also terrific for us fans to watch what they can do).
He can be an excellent tactical match day coach: having outcoached our brains trust on quite a few occasions (including one only too memorable match at the TD in 2005, alas).
But, looking at his career as a whole, I think he hasn't really delivered what he should to such a proud and high-profile club: 4 premierships in 27 years doesn't seem quite good enough really.
I think that he perhaps is a little bit too "academic" as a coach and isn't quite good enough at motivating his charges to perform at their best week in, week out. After all, he clearly had gathered together a wonderful group of talented players to work with from 1992 onwards but, after the triumph in 1993, it was another 7 years before they even made a GF (which, of course, they won).
Talking about motivation, I cannot believe how prone the Bombers were tonight to start to walk around with hands on hips when things went against them. And this in a game which - on top of all the sentiment - they should have been highly motivated to win to stay in the hunt for the finals.
At the end, I was thinking that the decision to move Sheeds on, although very harsh, was understandable. And I wondered whether, if I were the Demons, I'd really be that keen to take him.
But has played many extraordinary games and can be proud of everything he has achieved: including his umpiring comment and including rightly describing as a "disgrace" a man who is IMO the worst official in any professional sport on earth. Unfortunately, it backfired, with the AFL presumably scared to get rid of him as he so richly deserved because they didn't want to be seen to be kowtowing to Hird and the Bombers. (It will be interesting to see what happens to that particular umpire in 2008: my prediction is that he will disappear as quickly as the sub-prime mortgage market).
About Sheedy I have mixed feelings. He is a genuine old-style Aussie, which I like. I also admire what he has done to bring Aborigines into the game (good for the Aboriginal people themselves, and also terrific for us fans to watch what they can do).
He can be an excellent tactical match day coach: having outcoached our brains trust on quite a few occasions (including one only too memorable match at the TD in 2005, alas).
But, looking at his career as a whole, I think he hasn't really delivered what he should to such a proud and high-profile club: 4 premierships in 27 years doesn't seem quite good enough really.
I think that he perhaps is a little bit too "academic" as a coach and isn't quite good enough at motivating his charges to perform at their best week in, week out. After all, he clearly had gathered together a wonderful group of talented players to work with from 1992 onwards but, after the triumph in 1993, it was another 7 years before they even made a GF (which, of course, they won).
Talking about motivation, I cannot believe how prone the Bombers were tonight to start to walk around with hands on hips when things went against them. And this in a game which - on top of all the sentiment - they should have been highly motivated to win to stay in the hunt for the finals.
At the end, I was thinking that the decision to move Sheeds on, although very harsh, was understandable. And I wondered whether, if I were the Demons, I'd really be that keen to take him.
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Yep..well done to the pair of them
You dont coach the one side for 25 years or play in two premierships and win a Brownlow without having a clue
You dont coach the one side for 25 years or play in two premierships and win a Brownlow without having a clue
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Premiership medals mean something.n1ck wrote:What about the two premiership medalsRiewoldting wrote:Damn straight.LENNY LEADS THE WAY wrote:anzac day medal
Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.
Hird > every St Kilda player ever.
A medal struck for being best on ground in a home and away game doesn't.
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exactly i think hird may have played a minor roll in those wins he is a star who lifts those around him any sarcasm from other supporters is just cluelessn1ck wrote:What about the two premiership medalsRiewoldting wrote:Damn straight.LENNY LEADS THE WAY wrote:anzac day medal
Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.
Hird > every St Kilda player ever.
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True, but none of our coaches (other than our dial-up coach Malcolm Blight) in the past 20 odd years have been trumpeted as a "supercoach".casey scorp wrote:Hmmm??? I'd have taken one.meher baba wrote:But, looking at his career as a whole, I think he hasn't really delivered what he should to such a proud and high-profile club: 4 premierships in 27 years doesn't seem quite good enough really.
4 premierships in 27 years isn't all that special: Matthews has already achieved the same result in a shorter period of time, including 3 in a row at the Lions and the Mt Everest-like challenge of getting the Pies to a premiership in the modern era.
Really, with the talent at his disposal at the Bombers over the 1992-2002 period, 2 premierships is only about a pass result IMO. But perhaps I'm harsh.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Riewoldting wrote:Damn straight.LENNY LEADS THE WAY wrote:anzac day medal
Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.
Hird > every St Kilda player ever.
Hird
· All-Australian 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003
· Essendon Best and Fairest 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003
· Brownlow Medal winner 1996
· Norm Smith Medal winner 2000
· International Rules Series 2000 (captain), 2004
· Jim Stynes Medal 2000
· Essendon captain 1998-2005
· Essendon premiership side 1993, 2000 (Captain)
That enough evidence for u
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I don't know what your source is, but it makes no mention of Anzac Day Medals.LENNY LEADS THE WAY wrote:
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Hird
· All-Australian 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003
· Essendon Best and Fairest 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003
· Brownlow Medal winner 1996
· Norm Smith Medal winner 2000
· International Rules Series 2000 (captain), 2004
· Jim Stynes Medal 2000
· Essendon captain 1998-2005
· Essendon premiership side 1993, 2000 (Captain)
Which is disappointing, as an Anzac Day Medal means more than every other accolade combined.
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