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Like tomorrow night they should show some funny stuff spud did on the bounce ect instead of like last year near making us all cryI think that's a great idea! Just a short cameo of past players.
No thanksWhere do we sign to Tasmania deal
11 in melb
11 tasmania
Lock it in for 10 years please
I think that's a great idea! Just a short cameo of past players.
Not enough love for this man. Been lucky enough to hang out with him a few times. A real gentleman. Then you look at twits like De Goey and see the rapid decline of our species.
Do we celebrate our people enough? Do we educate our children about our stars of yesteryear? I don't know. Maybe before home matches and/or at half time there could be a different history lesson on the big screens... celebrate a past star/staff each time.
I threw his younger son over the fence when tackling him in a house game at MHS in the late 70's. Somehow I was sent off forHis son had bit of a reputation when I was a kid and I reckon if those party days were scrutinised like today's players are he'd have looked like JDG.
I don't know heaps about Neil but he seems like a very gentlemanly type from what I have seen of him in the media.
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If youve never read Stans book it is an incredible read. I know Stan (and knew Matthew) and the family. Hes a brilliant man.Spud’s Game 2022: Stan Alves on grief as Danny Frawley remembered as key mental health advocate
Consumed by grief after the death of his son, Stan Alves says he was “living a charade”. Before this year’s Spud’s Game, he bravely speaks of his grief and how footy saved him.
Stan Alves’ life had become a “charade”.
Danny Frawley’s former coach Alves returned to Moorabbin this week to address the playing group, for the first time since he departed the helm in 1998.
You could have heard a pin drop as players, staff and Frawley’s daughter Chelsea heard his story of heartbreak, harrowing grief, hauling himself back from the brink and just how Frawley had opened his eyes to his own players and their battles.
Alves, a Melbourne champion, lost his son Matthew — who was just 13 — in 1989 when he was hit and killed by a train while riding his bike.
Grief consumed him.
“All my strengths evaporated. All of my things that I thought were good went out the door … but I was a brilliant actor,” Alves told the Saints.
“In front of other people, it was ‘how good is he handling it?’.
“But I’d go to work, I’d close the door and I’d bawl my eyes out.
“I was living a charade.”
Alves considered taking his own life in a battle with darkness that lasted months.
“I got to the point where I thought ‘the only way I can fix this situation is to join my son’, and I found myself standing by a river out near Seymour thinking ‘this is the way to go’.
“Lucky for me, somebody came around the corner at that point of time and made me step back and I got in my car and I drove home,” he said, the feeling lasting months.
When Peter Hudson rang about joining Ken Sheldon in a role at the Saints, Alves initially told him to “nick off”.
But Hudson was insistent, rallying Alves to do it for his wife Judy and their daughter, telling him he could turn up whenever and that his family would be catered for at games and functions. A purpose.
“I didn’t just get back into football,” Alves recalled.
“I got back into life.
“(They) brought me into the St Kilda family … brought me back and gave me a meaning.
“They (the players) were my sons. I lost my son, but I got a family back because of St Kilda footy club.”
Judy became vital, working with the AFL herself to facilitate players’ families to be able to sit together at games, join in at functions and be part of the club.
It was a cause Brown said was heavily supported by Anita Frawley, as Danny worked closely with Alves to bring talking to the fore, to be as important as training.
“He looked after his teammates,” Alves said.
“When a youngster came in, Danny put his arm around him.
“Danny created great relationships with the other players. Things that even players wouldn’t know about … how Danny would come to me and say ‘you better take this player out for a coffee’. You need to have a chat. But he’d say ‘don’t you ever tell him that I told you!’.
“He was a relationship builder. That’s why he could ask something of somebody.
“He set a standard … for others to follow him.”
Alves said relationships had not only defined Frawley’s impact at the club, but were a reminder of his legacy and to current players.
“Relationships will get you through tough times,” he said.
“But the great thing is, getting through the great times with great relationships, you enjoy the highs. Because you know that you were part of it.”
THE MENTAL GAME
Current Saint Tim Membrey can’t believe how far the game has changed on mental health.
Full-time club psychologist Ben Robbins has emphasised meditation and mindfulness at St Kilda, while Membrey – who has seen first-hand the impact of mental health within his own family – says treating mental issues like injuries in a “safe environment” has only normalised tough conversations in the locker room.
Becoming a dad to Wren, who turns one this week, has also changed his perspective on the importance of seeking help and talking to mates when you need it.
Ruckman Paddy Ryder and midfielder Zak Jones – who will return for Spud’s Game – are two Saints who have taken time away from the game to deal with mental health issues in recent months, which Membrey said was a sign “it’s come a long way”.
“Jonesy was struggling at the start of the year and for him to reach out and get some help, it was like an injury,” he told the Herald Sun.
“If you have a tight calf or hamstring, you go and see the physio to get it fixed. It’s a similar thing to if you’re struggling, you go and see the psychologist.
“For us as players, we just want to have the tools to know what to say or how we can help.
“Often, you want to help so much but you don’t want everyone (all over them). But we do a lot of work in that, if someone is struggling, how to ask the right questions and what to do and what to say.
“For Jonesy to come back the way he has – he’s fit and healthy and back around the club. We love having him there and it’s good that we’re all mature enough to give him his space if he needs it, but at the same time support him when he needs it too.
“You don’t know who it’s going to be next, you know.”
SHARING THE LOAD
FORMER Saint Tony Brown thinks of Frawley every time he fires up the barbecue.
When he opens the hood and the charcoal from the last cook-up greets him, it’s a moment that still brings a smirk to Brown’s face.
The barbecue had been a central element to Brown’s induction at St Kilda at the end of 1994, with then-captain Frawley – the renowned “relationship builder” – having led the charge to show new players the ropes.
He recalls one of the Moorabbin champion’s many trademarks.
“We went up to Hamilton Island many years ago, and Spud and Anita and their girls were up there,” Brown recalled this week.
“They invited us around for a barbecue, and I still remember him saying that he never cleaned the barbie afterwards – he always cleaned it before he was going to use it again.
“It’s funny what you remember.”
It’s a habit that has crept into Brown’s own barbie routine to this day.
“Spot on (I do it),” he laughed.
Brown and good mates Austinn Jones and Joel Smith found that out the hard way, with Brown’s sense of punctuality another hallmark of his time spent with Spud.
“He was putting on a do on a Sunday afternoon … we turned up late and he had a crack at us, like ‘if we’re going to put a barbecue on for the players, you don’t just rock up whenever you want – it’s not good enough’,” Brown said.
“He pulled us into line from day one, and really set the tone.
“After that, we were there with plenty of time to spare. Whether it was dinners or the footy trip in our first year to Cairns, Spud was leading the charge.
“He just loved bringing people together and would always be the life of the party. If you gave him any feedback, he would shoot it straight back at you and cut you off at the knees if you were speaking out of turn.”
What’s the minimum number of goals to be kicked to qualify for GOTY?Jack Billings has been nominated for Goal of the Year.
You can vote for him here - Goal of the Year - AFL.com.au
Second nomination for the year I think.What’s the minimum number of goals to be kicked to qualify for GOTY?
Answer: One.
Billings meets the requirement with his unique and lonely goal for 2022.
Yay.
GeelongSecond nomination for the year I think.
Got one for the goal off Ryder’s tap work against I can’t remember who.
You missed the sarcasm.Second nomination for the year I think.
Got one for the goal off Ryder’s tap work against I can’t remember who.
You missed the sarcasm.
TBF it’s hard to tell because he’s such a whipping boy on here.You missed the sarcasm.
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