Listen to Gilbert McAdam and Congratulations

saintbrat · Post: # 1096391Post **saintbrat** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 9:27am

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/f ... 6083095002

more than the story

Direct link to video
http://video.heraldsun.com.au/202327559 ... wer-moment

Watch the video- great insight into Where and What Gilbert has done and where he has come from.

Well done Gilbert

OneEyedSainter77 · Tue 28 Jun 2011 11:01am

Just watched the video - terrific interview. Bloody shivers down my spine.

mcadam05 · Post: # 1096419Post **mcadam05** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 11:22am

GREAT STUFF!

i just posted an interview from 1993 he did with his brother on ch 7

westy · Post: # 1096421Post **westy** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 11:34am

That has to be the best interview I have ever heard, ever.......................

Russman · Post: # 1096422Post **Russman** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 11:40am

What a great interview.
I loved watching him play. He left the Saints too soon.
Anyone remember why he left?

mcadam05 · Post: # 1096424Post **mcadam05** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 11:44am

Russman wrote:What a great interview.
I loved watching him play. He left the Saints too soon.
Anyone remember why he left?

His wife got home sick and he was out of contract

cowboy18 · Post: # 1096448Post **cowboy18** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 1:24pm

Fantastic interview, he comes across as a very thoughtful and balanced person. Very clear in his comments on supporters and the generational shift we've seen in what's acceptable.

stevie · Post: # 1096492Post **stevie** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 3:21pm

Bloody awesome.

Love it when Gilly is on NIRS radio doing the footy. He gets so excited and his voice has that really great sort of twang to it.

Might get on youtube and look at some old footy now

Thinline · Post: # 1096521Post **Thinline** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 5:47pm

Superb fella. Terrific player. Love the fact he was one of ours. Class.

Con Gorozidis · Tue 28 Jun 2011 6:05pm

In my time favourite Saints players of all time.
I remember people used to go nuts when he got it and yell out GILBERT TIME!

I remember one day in a final at Waverley ( I think it was wet) he just completely dominated. Noone could touch him. I think it was a loss against the Dogs?

Sainternist · Tue 28 Jun 2011 6:45pm

What a trooper. It makes me happy to know he is doing well for himself. Gilly was just great at St.Kilda. It made me sad when first learning that he was going to leave the club.

I remember being so excited about the prospect of him first coming to Moorabbin. A Magarery Medallist, who was tearing up the SANFL in his team Central Districts. We were anticipating his debut in 1990, when Kenny Sheldon was coaching in his first year. For some reason he didn't make it to the club until 1991. However, it was well worth the wait.

1991 was such a drought breaking year. First time we'd played finals football for almost 20 years. Gilly played a huge part in that and the following year. A new air of optimism was injected into the club.

Fantastic to hear him talk about the 1993 game at Vic Park. I will never forget the feeling of europhoria, shaking hands and high fiving the players in the CS area after the game. As a Saints fan, that is one moment I'll always cherish.

saintbrat · Post: # 1096554Post **saintbrat** » Tue 28 Jun 2011 6:47pm

for those inteersted this was an article printed last Dexcember about the school where gilbert works

Teacher Gilbert McAdam - the former St Kilda and Brisbane Lions indigenous AFL footballer - has less clemency. He's worked around Australia with troubled youth, including petrol sniffers in the Northern Territory, and says society changed when disengaged young people had kids themselves. ''That became the norm, then it became the majority,'' he says. ''Rules start at home and if it doesn't there and doesn't happen at school then where does it come from?''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/a-sch ... z1QYQaGubf

evertonfc · Wed 29 Jun 2011 12:12am

Great interview. Loving the Herald Sun's 21-year website, too. It's been a wonderful retrospective.

The reason he's in my avatar is because he played exactly the way I loved the game being played.

He was fast - explosive off the mark - skilful, clever, inventive, daring and capable of tearing teams to shreds. At his peak, he was as exciting a player as I can remember.

It's a shame we couldn't keep him. He went on to play some good footy at Brisbane, but boy, I missed him playing for us.

mcadam05 · Post: # 1096794Post **mcadam05** » Wed 29 Jun 2011 4:19pm

Sainternist wrote: Fantastic to hear him talk about the 1993 game at Vic Park. I will never forget the feeling of europhoria, shaking hands and high fiving the players in the CS area after the game. As a Saints fan, that is one moment I'll always cherish.

heres an interview with gilly in the rooms after that game

Sainternist · Wed 29 Jun 2011 5:52pm

mcadam05 wrote:
Sainternist wrote: Fantastic to hear him talk about the 1993 game at Vic Park. I will never forget the feeling of europhoria, shaking hands and high fiving the players in the CS area after the game. As a Saints fan, that is one moment I'll always cherish.

heres an interview with gilly in the rooms after that game

great stuff! thanks, mcadam05.

yeah, the sunday footy show hosted by max walker was a fun.

jeez, dermie really wanted to see a tribuneral witch hunt for spud, eh? the dirty old metrosexual

saintbrat · Post: # 1097349Post **saintbrat** » Thu 30 Jun 2011 9:13pm

SANFL INDIGENOUS TEAM OF THE CENTURY
F: Roger Rigney Sturt Daniel MotlopNorth Adelaide Bertie Johnson West Adelaide
HF: Michael Grahram Sturt Eddie Fry South Adelaide / Sturt Richie Bray Port Adelaide
C: Michael Long West Torrens Andrew McLeod Port Adelaide Gilbert McAdam Central
HB: Gavin Wanganeen Port Adelaide Wilbur Wilson Central Byron Pickett Port Adelaide
B: Graham Johncock Port Adelaide Corey AhChee Port Adelaide Sonny Morey Central
1R: David Kantilla South Adelaide Shaun Burgoyne Port Adelaide Mark Naley
South Adelaide

Interchange:
Aaron Davey (Port Adelaide), Peter Burgoyne (Port Adelaide), Derek Kickett (Central), Syd Jackson (Glenelg)

Reserves:
Fabian Francis (Port Adelaide), Mathew Stokes (Woodville-West Torrens), Greg McAdam (North Adelaide)

Qualification:
Must have played one SANFL league match

Selection Panel:
Peter Argent, Andrew McLeod, James Moore, Michelangelo Rucci and Tim Stewart

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/1487/

mcadam05 · Post: # 1097353Post **mcadam05** » Thu 30 Jun 2011 9:34pm

Sainternist wrote:
mcadam05 wrote:
Sainternist wrote: Fantastic to hear him talk about the 1993 game at Vic Park. I will never forget the feeling of europhoria, shaking hands and high fiving the players in the CS area after the game. As a Saints fan, that is one moment I'll always cherish.

heres an interview with gilly in the rooms after that game

great stuff! thanks, mcadam05.

yeah, the sunday footy show hosted by max walker was a fun.

jeez, dermie really wanted to see a tribuneral witch hunt for spud, eh? the dirty old metrosexual

I think you will find spud got off