I saw Dustin Fletcher at a grocery store in Moonee Ponds yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly
Does it ever annoy you that blokes like Kevin Walsh and Alan Ezard had to keep working like the rest of us saps once their careers ended, yet someone like Brice Gibbs or John Patton has the opportunity to never lift a finger again?
Yellow boots Reimers! Shame he never came good as he was properly despised by opposition fans. Feel like we need a Milne type villain and he is the closest we got to in the last 20 years.
We have made several decent decisions in offloading “Milne types” to St Kilda in order for them to be St Kilda types, let us not undo the one decent element of list management from the Dodo era.
I found this information about Alec Kookaburra Epis, a great defender, who played in two premierships in 1962 and 1965:
Later in life Alec directed his interests and fierce energies into vintnering, and established Domaine Epis with vineyards at Kyneton (Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot vines) and Woodend (Pinot Noir and Chardonnay), in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges.
Alec would have loved to have married and had children, but is pragmatic about life not having turned out that way. Today he is less hands-on at the vineyard and has moved into a retirement village in Melbourne, near the Bombers’ home ground at Windy Hill. He is still full of life, happily chats to everyone, and his characteristic kookaburra laugh often rings out. He still watches his beloved Bombers every week, and enjoys frequent lunches out with friends.