So anyway Jones looks like a decent player to me (from limited glimpses). Seems to be aggressive and pretty confident. He was always considered a first round pick leading up to the draft so i’m not sure why he slid. Put an extra 15kgs on him and he could be anything.
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Probably correct these days are bullies are called out now more regularly and teachers/parents react more quickly.
Back in the 1960s more likely to get a smakc around the ear from your Dad for being weak if you were bullied.
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Ha, you know them?
Invy mainly, which is currently being redeveloped for Townhouses, but yeah, they’re across the road from the Wonny property.
Great kids, … one of them or both should wind up in the NBL at least with the amount of time the folks put into carting them around the State for their Basketball.
You the fella that spoke about being a Train Driver a while back by any chance?? 
Valiant attempt Sir.
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Worth a shot.
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Maude?
I once worked with a guy from India - Anil Diksit. (Soft s as in sugar).
He hadn’t been in Australia long. I’m not a fan of people having to change their names, but for poor old Anil suggested he go with Azza.
Azza Diksit not much better, granted
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I know Mum and Dad. Great kids too. Mums a bombers supporter too.
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They are. I’ve told them how pleasant it is to hear them out there in the Evenings laughing taking shots and bouncing the B Ball, … but how I’d love it even more to hear them punting a Sherrin to each other back & forth down the road. 
Both of them could have made pretty good footballers as well I reckon.
I once had to work with someone named ‘Mikunt’, pronounced exactly as Conor would.
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You should’ve caught the last train.
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Is that the same Michael Hunt that I heard broadcast over the PA system at the MCG in the late 80’s a couple of times (“Could a Michael Hunt please report to the First Aid Bay at the foot of the Northern Stand”)?
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Similar.
I have what was usually regarded as a girl’s name. In a small country school it was a good way to learn how to fight. Kinda like “A boy named Sue”
P.S. My name is not Sue
Or a boy named “Marion”, … who changed his name to John asap. 
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Dad was pretty handy 
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If I remember correctly that particular case of crowd larrikinism hit its peak in the the hour or so before the final of the 92 cricket World Cup at the G. And the howls of laughter from the 90 odd thousand was brilliant. Pretty sure the announcer was using the shortened version of Michael too.
Too right. Watched him give the Invy lads a touch up more than once.
“Not behd , … Good soize” , … as they say. 
Is this a names thread…
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