Dear Dan,
You might have noticed that our teams unexpected success - I think avid readers would recall that you were calling for the coach's head only 12 weeks ago, but that and your opinion on the tenure of our coach would be interesting reading for another time - has coincided with overseas travel.
After round 3 things were not looking so good and our friend Rob went overseas, and we started to win, he came back and we lost a couple and then you went overseas and we started winning again ... I think it might be realistic for you to consider going away again.
There has been a disturbing trend that has emerged in the aftermath of the Drew Petrie show against the Bulldogs. Facing the media both Drew and Dean made somewhat disturbing references to "actioning the moment." In the dizzy hysteria that followed this game it was easy to think that this was some nonsensical phrasing that had been used to inspire a team that surely needed no inspiration. One more cheap motivational ploy in the pantheon of cheap motivational ploys - hats in the ring etc.
But ever since that time there have been repeated references in the club's increasing media coverage to "the moment" and "being in the moment" and other variations on this inane expression. I am now attempting to introduce references to "the moment" into my daily speech. I can definitely detect a theme for they year.
Maybe there are some things that are better of unspoken. Still, it has to better than Corey Jones self-motivational document based on a word starting with each letter of Whycheproof.
I look forward to seeing you on Sunday so we can "action the moment."
Justin
20.7.07
13.7.07
A fatwa on the Australia network
Dear Justin,
Well, as you know I've spent the past three weeks in Cambodia and Sri Lanka.
Sadly, this meant that I missed attending the Great Man's 300th. I was in fact in a hotel room in Phnom Penh with cable TV, including the Australia Network, at the relevant moment. But, to add particular insult to the injury of missing the game, some nuff nuff had decided that the Adelaide-West Coast and Collingwood-Hawthorn games should be shown to the world, so I missed out altogether. I will bear a grudge for life. Surely showing the Great Man (and the great team) would build understanding and respect for our nation overseas. No wonder, forced as our neighbours are to watch crap like Adelaide's gameplan, some have come to hate our way of life.
Once again demonstrating the uncanny knack for the big occasion, the Australia Network did decide to telecast the North-Richmond game. I had left my Phnom Penh by that time, and was in Bangkok, in a much nicer hotel, but without football coverage. I gather I missed very little of note, apart from the continued resurgence of Drew Petrie. AGAIN no coverage of North this week here in Sri Lanka. Endless coverage of Collingwood and Hawthorn.
Many people, as Denis would have said, do not want to see North Melbourne Football Club succeed. Clearly, this extends to television executives and foreign affair department types at the Australia Network.
I'll be back in time for the Melbourne game on Sunday the 22nd. I hope to see you then, and hope that we can beat the dees without the heart failure and frustration from last time. And shout at your telly loudly for me this week.
Dan
Well, as you know I've spent the past three weeks in Cambodia and Sri Lanka.
Sadly, this meant that I missed attending the Great Man's 300th. I was in fact in a hotel room in Phnom Penh with cable TV, including the Australia Network, at the relevant moment. But, to add particular insult to the injury of missing the game, some nuff nuff had decided that the Adelaide-West Coast and Collingwood-Hawthorn games should be shown to the world, so I missed out altogether. I will bear a grudge for life. Surely showing the Great Man (and the great team) would build understanding and respect for our nation overseas. No wonder, forced as our neighbours are to watch crap like Adelaide's gameplan, some have come to hate our way of life.
Once again demonstrating the uncanny knack for the big occasion, the Australia Network did decide to telecast the North-Richmond game. I had left my Phnom Penh by that time, and was in Bangkok, in a much nicer hotel, but without football coverage. I gather I missed very little of note, apart from the continued resurgence of Drew Petrie. AGAIN no coverage of North this week here in Sri Lanka. Endless coverage of Collingwood and Hawthorn.
Many people, as Denis would have said, do not want to see North Melbourne Football Club succeed. Clearly, this extends to television executives and foreign affair department types at the Australia Network.
I'll be back in time for the Melbourne game on Sunday the 22nd. I hope to see you then, and hope that we can beat the dees without the heart failure and frustration from last time. And shout at your telly loudly for me this week.
Dan
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