I also doubt that many of the Diggers would have been upset by a little gallows humour.
News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent
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Wear the suit and tie like Don.
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Wear the Aussie flag as a cape.
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The transportation by Ships would have been slow and miserable too ..
Seasickness, homesick missing family and the boredom ..
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The areas helping Eagles generate belief in rebuild
Nathan Schmook has taken a look at the areas helping the Eagles believe in their rebuild
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Wow - never thought I’d live to see the day where we’re the best ground ball team in the comp. Early days yet of courseThe areas helping Eagles generate belief in rebuild
Nathan Schmook has taken a look at the areas helping the Eagles believe in their rebuild
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I spoke to my grandad about the war once as he was a gunner on a World War II destroyer, and the s**t he told me in 10 minutes was enough to give me nightmares. The thing is he wasn’t even trying to upset me. I don’t know how those guys slept at night after the things they went through.
One of mine was in Changi prison in Singapore for several years during the war. One of those skeletons you see in photos walking around. Busted eardrum from a guards rifle butt. The stuff they went through was horrendous. Took him years to recover and he never really talked about it other than to tell us about one of the Aussie prisoners (he was a Pom) who could fart tunes to entertain the prisoners... We all need a talent.
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I recommend the book hells heroes by roger maynard, has changi prison in it. Also if you get the chance go to the museum there its amazing
My father didn't like to talk about the WW2 much but he used to love seeing his m8's at the dawn service then later at the march.
Many couldn’t. I visited an old uncle in a rehab hospital. He was ill and in short term, another was in since ww2. Said it was ok but the screaming at night was terrible. ADF s’side is an ongoing problem today.
They also had to deal with disease - many died from dysentery, typhoid and the spanish flu also...and to have to blindly follow orders still being governed by outmoded military tactics. 'I want you ro run up that hill into a wall of machine gun fire...'
The following is a quote from an article relating to the Spanish Flu back then, the Gallipoli myth (of Aussies laughing in the face of death)
" In the realm of national consciousness Gallipoli had forged unity and identity through its projection of a character type. But national character is a poor base upon which to advance a State apparatus capable of generating patriotism sufficient to over-ride regional, class and religious loyalties. In 1915, an external menace had driven Australians together; by 1919, an internal danger (Spanish Flu) revealed yet again how easy it was for Australians to stand apart. If national unity involved loyalty to the Commonwealth as an administrative machine, the Pandemic showed how little of it there was.. "
Curiously, we saw this repeated in the recent Covid Pandemic when many Aussies lost their marbles over toilet paper and were reduced to fighting amongst themselves, like a rabble, in supermart aisles...how thin is the social veneer and 'Aussie Mateship' and how quickly we and our myths fall apart? (Unlike the indigenous myths and stories that have been going for 40-70,000 years, even though we've tried on numerous occasions to rip apart their social fabric- just saying). But yes, nonetheless we should remember the poor souls who gave up their lives in many wars on the understanding of protecting their/our country. (certainly this was the case in fighting the Japanese in New Guinea etc)
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Also no phone reception so they wouldn't have been able to log onto Bigfooty to kill the time.
I do think the bright colours of the Eagles gear did stand out a bit but at least they weren't in the Mascot costume.
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IF ...
the G-Train was a very good Eagles player before becoming a great at the Saints ...THEN ...
here comes the lookalike J-Train. Fraser Gehrig. Jake Waterman. The former being the second-last player to kick 100 goals in a season, the latter being the one who has booted 11 in the past two weeks to help this mighty club finally feel good about itself again. Loving Waterman's emergence, particularly after his debilitating illness of last year.holy s**t managed to not bring it up (harley).
im shocked i say, SHOCKED.
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I think seeing Waterman doing so well after his illness is genuinely one of the best footy stories going around. I’ve been on and off in Jake’s talent. Over the last couple years I’ve gone off him being an undersized kpf but last two weeks he was able to get on top some decent key back. A break out year this year were he could kick 50 not only helpf this young side going forward but also helps oscar out in the coming years
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They made a decent point on SEN earlier. The argument was that resting Harley is basically the fault of the AFL due to WCE having one less bye than some other teams who played on Opening Round. And if the AFL wanted to keep milking their hype train they should have made the fixture more equitable for us.
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To be fair it was only Dwayne dribbling out what just came into the echo chamber of his skull… Gerard and Kane were in no hurry to agree to a conspiracy theory like that.
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Eagles rested Reid after internal tests showed scary injury reality
Harley Reid's match-winning heroics in the Western Derby last week were made even more amazing when West Coast's internal measurements showed his body was "flagging".
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This article says Reid was due a rest after testing by WC. The fixture hasn't been kind in terms of playing so many games away (including a pre season game in Adelaide) but I don't think it's completely down to the AFL. Reid is still a first year player and plays at a high intensity and in the guts.
Good management really. Ginbey was probably pushed too hard last year and paid the price. A fitter squad gives us a chance to treat first year players as they should be treated.
They will try anything.
Quote some idiots off X and you have yourself a story.
If he keeps developing Oscar might find it hard to break back in.
