billc3 wrote:
Blue Sombrero wrote:
billc3 wrote:
sticksaftersiren87 wrote:
Out coached the Worsfold / rutten combo completely on sat night.
Even after the SOS injury...
For a few minutes, we were kicking in the air to Hurley. Changed pretty quickly... Previous years it would have taken us a half to change a strategy like that.
Go Blues
How frustrating was that?
Don't know how you do it BS.... watching only on TV...
It's killing me not being at the games to see what other options are there...
Go Blues
G'day. Bill.
When I was a boy, I lived on Nauru (Yes, that Nauru). My dad was a mad Blues supporter. He used to listen to Radio Australia on short-wave on Saturday arvo. I'd be with him some days but I had better things to do.
Radio Australia covered all the sports of the day so they usually had either Footy (VFL) or Rugby League interspersed with race calling from the east coast meetings in season. A couple of times a year he would get the Blues but mostly it was around the ground scores only. His big fix was the monthly delivery of the Truth, Sun and Age newspapers, which he would pore over for days.
Fast forward to the sixties. i was at St Pats Ballarat as a boarder and it was the era of the transistor radio and so we could listen to the calls but there was only half an hour of footy on TV, which we couldn't see most weeks because there was NO TV the boarders could watch until about 1965.
Fast forward to the Seventies and eighties. My dad retired and moved to Melbourne and when I was posted to Puckapunyal Army base, we went every week to see them. Then I retired in the nineties and went to Tasmania where it all reverted to watching on TV with the odd trip to Melb, usually with my mate, Blue Beatle.
Fast forward to 2003 and it was like reverting to the sixties. I had to listen to a stream of the radio call during the night during the worst period in the club's history. Just so, I never missed a match. Then Camel put me (and other members of the foreign legion) on to a pirate stream that had a link posted every week and a password. Some weeks were better than others, let me tell you.
Now, of course, I get the WatchAFL legally-streamed package and it's a return to the nineties. I still have to get up and watch it during the night but for me it's luxury. I haven't missed a game for years even though my wife thinks I am mad to watch them lose week after week when I could just watch a delayed broadcast. My dad would have reveled in what I have.
Everything is relative. That's how I do it.
Cheers and Go Blues.