Submitted by Grover on May 8, 2006 - 11:38pm
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Without breaking any dingo fences, relay a story or two that you can recall, no matter how hazy, or embellished.
I can recall making a trip to Whyalla (1993) to play in their Country challenge, we shared a bus down with the state mixed side, coached by Bob Coffey and managed by Gavin Schnieder. We stayed at a place that was previously a convent. The beds were easily 40 plus years old, and were so worn from people sleeping in them they had a groove that you couldn't move from even if you tried.
At the end of the first day we went to a local cafe to grab a few coffees before heading off out for tea. One of the state players, Brian Varcoe, ordered a drink that wasn't even on their menu. We all thought it was hillarious when the lady took his order (along with the others) and headed off. We had another good laugh when he had this huge pink coloured milkshake brought out. Even Bob had a huge laugh when the bill came and Brian had to pay $8 for his drink.
I'm sure there a some stories out there that are far funnier than this one
Cheers,
Grover
Just a few to start with...
A couple of things come to mind.
Fleur and Henna's repeated efforts at trying to win back the Curtain from each other at the Mt. Gambier challenge by diving for the scoreline at halfway, the ten metre line, the five metre line, in fact any line but the actual scoreline.
Con Nikolopoulos doing a half run, tripping over, proceeding to do a very good dying cockroach impersonation which distracted the defenders and then passing off to a teammate to score.
To finish, a Rob Page classic. On Tour to Melbourne, we had a team tracksuit. Pagey was concerned that we wouldn't be able to tell who owned which jacket. It was quickly pointed out to him, that we had all had our names embroidered on the front of the jackets.