if its donated to a good cause likely
worth while.
It was Todd who came up with the idea of “invisible footy” during an Eagles road trip to Melbourne in the late 1980s.
Camped at a motel on Royal Parade, a Vin Catoggio torpedo from Princes Park in Carlton, Todd noticed his squad was lethargic after a late-night flight from Perth and ordered an impromptu scratchie sans Sherrin in the adjacent parklands.
“But where’s the footy?” one confused Eagles player asked the coach.
“No footy, just pretend there’s a footy,” Todd said.
An amusing simulation followed with the ruckmen jumping into thin air, a player tucking, well, nothing under his arm and pretending to go off on a three-bounce run, forwards claiming marks, defenders claiming they had “touched it”.
It was all jolly good fun until one of the Eagles suggested “this is stupid” and punted the footy that didn’t exist back across busy Royal Parade.
“Go and get it,” Todd barked.
And so, the player made his way, Frogger-style across the busy road, to retrieve a footy that never existed.
On another flight home after another game, Todd noticed a few of the players becoming rowdy on the plane after a couple of beers just hours after they had shown nothing on the footy field.
Can you imagine their surprise the next time they played on the road and they ran out on to the field only to find one of Todd’s assistants with a paper cup and a nip of port.
Todd was prepared to try something outside the square.
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Todd is a bloody legend over here in the West.
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bigger legend than peter paul?
Daniel Kerr back in court on domestic violence charges. Gets off with a 2 year suspended sentence. Despite a long history of transgressions he gets to walk away again without any penalty. I hope that he turns over a new leaf but l fear all the courts have done is just enabled him to strike again. This, at a time when domestic violence levels have reached all-time highs. Mixed messages being sent out to society? I believe so.
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The reason is because he has finally been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and both his ex and his direct family advised the court that being medically managed has completely changed his character (the ex specifically told the court that she no longer fears him as he has changed). So the courts are giving him a chance to show this without disrupting the process with jail time.
Time will tell if it proves successful.
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Fair enough. Fingers crossed he stays on his meds and doesn’t transgress again.
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Do they know what he had for breakfast this morning? ■■■■■■■ weirdos
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Creepy vibes. Hopefully the stalker-like behaviour of the WA media helps drive Reid out of Perth and into The Hangar.
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Or like hopefully they leave him alone.
If he wants to hide from the media, then Melbourne isn’t the place for him, It’s Brisbane or Sydney.
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Because WC and Essondon have not built in CBA future increase into their players contracts, they are the two clubs who could offer big money for Harley Reid. Other clubs can offer big contracts, however, WC will have the ability to match.
Unless there are widespread denials and outrage from the club about that article, he is a dead man walking.
We should get into Reid while there is doubt around their club…
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Get in my football club WATERMAN
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Oohhh the return of CHUNGUS, me like CHUNGUS II
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Wasn’t there some complication last year about luxury tax and required pay out if they were to terminate his contract?
6 goals down at qtr time and have straight up given up.
He is gone.