Past #29: Brent Harvey - drafted w/ #47 in '95 ND - 432 games/518 goals for NM - AFL games record holder

[Kimbo]

Does announcing our captain need to be a 'big announcement'? Roos supporters will care, and will find out, but while you take any publicity you can get (and I imagine Boomer would, other things being equal), I can't see this mattering much.

 

[Ghostwriter]

Does announcing our captain need to be a 'big announcement'? Roos supporters will care, and will find out, but while you take any publicity you can get (and I imagine Boomer would, other things being equal), I can't see this mattering much.

Only just re-read the thread, didn't realise the dates.

 

[GoNorth]

There is a Board meeting next Tuesday night. Following that, on Wednesday, there will be a press conference to announce the new captain of North Melbourne. (Info from Anthony Trainor who was at the Peninsula Supporters' Dinner tonight).

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Saw this mentioned in the fine print on the Age and thought it was worth a little bit of a fuss - he must have got his games tally up more quickly than most having been such a keen representative player in state and international games, as well as such a fit, consistent performer for North. Well done.

 

[Mr Reliable]

Congratulations, Boomer. You deserve it.

Congrats also go to the person/people who recruited Boomer despite the slow on him due to his size.

 

[Twinkletoes]

The Brent "Boomer" Harvey story!

Congrats to the great man, and now Captain of our club, on a sensational achievement!

T'toes

 

[Lileasy]

good on ya boomer.

 

[NICK_ROOBOY83]

Congrats indeed.

Next will be his 300th for us...

 

[steve #14]

apparently he has only missed like 12 games (maybe a little more or a little less) in his whole career.
please someone correct me if im way off. just someone else was telling me this and i thought it was very outstanding.

 

[Kimbo]

Absolute champion who deserves every accolade and reward that comes his way! Congratulations Boomer!

 

[Boozeroo]

Sthorse pleathse??

 

[Kimbo]

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Sthorse pleathse??

http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=71557

AFL announces 10 life membership inductees

By Jennifer Witham 4:22 PM Thu 29 January, 2009

FORMER Melbourne player Adem Yze's name will been etched into the record books, with the retired forward set to receive one of 10 AFL life memberships this year. Yze, who hung up the boots last season after a 14-year career, qualified for the membership in 2008 after reaching 300 games of service.

He was joined by six other automatic inductees - Adelaide's Tyson Edwards, North Melbourne's Brent Harvey, Sydney Swan Michael O'Loughlin, Richmond's Matthew Richardson, and senior field umpiring pair Shane McInerney and Stephen McBurney.

Brent Harvey (North Melbourne)
264 games
27 pre-season games
Two State of Origin games
Nine International Rules matches
1999 Premiership
2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 Best and Fairest
2000, 2005, 2007, 2008 All Australian
1999 Whitten Medallist
2003 Stynes Medallist
2008 Australian captain

 

[DarwinRoo]

apparently he has only missed like 12 games (maybe a little more or a little less) in his whole career.
please someone correct me if im way off. just someone else was telling me this and i thought it was very outstanding.

He has missed a bit more than that but since 1998 he has played in 246 of the 257 games North have played in.

 

[steve #14]

He has missed a bit more than that but since 1998 he has played in 246 of the 257 games North have played in.

oh ohk thanks for clearing that up
still impressive.

 

[Woodson]

Well Done Boomer. Another feather in the cap.

Take the low key approach.. always.

 

[Zvim]

oh ohk thanks for clearing that up
still impressive.

He missed a bit of time for a shoulder injury.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin
Nick Sheridan | February 4, 2009

ARGUABLY no current North Melbourne player better represents the famous Shinboner spirit than the relentlessly hard-running midfield dynamo Brent Harvey.

At 172 centimetres, Harvey is, officially, the shortest man in the AFL. But that has not stopped him from becoming one of the league's elite.

The three-time club best and fairest and three-time All-Australian has not only defied the trend towards taller, bigger bodies that has overtaken the league since he debuted 14 years ago, he has done so with remarkable success.

The man they call Boomer has figured highly in the past two Brownlow counts and is now stepping into the role that, when he arrived, was filled by one of the game's greatest players — Wayne Carey — as captain of North Melbourne Football Club.

Speaking after an eventful off-season in which his club was returned to its members after 24 years of private ownership and has begun transforming its run-down Arden Street Oval home into a facility that will put it on a par with the big Melbourne clubs, Harvey told The Age this week that he was pleased with his club's present and excited about its future.

That is why he believes it is time to break from the past — or, more particularly, to put to rest the constant equation of his club's success with the mythical Shinboner spirit.

"Our hat gets hung on the hook that says the Shinboners all the time," Harvey said. "When we win by two or three points it's always a Shinboner game, no one really talks about our experience and the excitement that we've got at the footy club."

It is this message that Harvey wants to get out about his football club: that it is young, strong and has a bright future; no longer the AFL's perennial struggler, always ready for a scrap, with a foot planted irretrievably in the past.

"That's the thing that I really want to drive," he said. "It's not about our backs against the wall all the time, because it's not. We're getting the new facility built, financially we're going fine off the field, our membership was great last year, so I want to drive the fact that we've got young players coming through that are exciting and talented footballers, and when we win it's because of that, not because we all put in and came from behind again."

While some would find Harvey's determination to shed the Shinboner tag almost sacrilegious, the new skipper is adamant he will not be forsaking the club's legacy.

"We'll never forget our history and where we've come from — that's a huge part of our footy club," he said.

The events of the past week have served only to galvanise Harvey's vision of his club's new direction. On Monday morning, after more than a decade of wrangling about funding and planning issues, work finally began on transforming the Arden Street Oval from the shabby emblem of North Melbourne's ongoing struggle for survival to a $16 million, first-class facility that will reinforce the club's message that it is determined to remain a Melbourne-based club for good.

It's a development that Harvey said all of the players have been following closely.

"As I said to (club president) James Brayshaw the other day, the boys just want to see something happen and once that happens we'll be that excited because we'll know it's going ahead and that happened (on Monday) morning, so there's a good vibe around the footy club at the minute," he said.

Harvey is also excited about the youth that has come into the club over the past few years. Having lost Shannon Grant, Leigh Brown, Jess Sinclair and Nathan Thompson at the end of last season, Harvey said the time has come for those young players to step up and fill the shoes of those who came before them.

"We've lost probably 800 games of experience," Harvey said. "But I always see it as, one door closes, another one opens, so blokes like Lachie Hansen and Ben Ross and these type of guys now get an opportunity, and if they grab it, it's going to be exciting."

While all of these developments have Harvey excited about the future the recent drink-driving incident with forward Aaron Edwards created a sombre present.

Harvey was quick to talk with Edwards about the $5000 fine and suspension handed him by the club and intent on ensuring all players know that sort of behaviour was unacceptable.

"We've got some new standards with where we want to go, so it's very important for the young guys who have come into the footy club, who have been there for two or three months, to realise that that's not what we're about at the North Melbourne footy club," he said. "The way we go about it is a lot more professional than that."

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/ne...excitement-spin/2009/02/03/1233423224237.html

Great work - hits all the right notes. And let's hear more about that building work in The Age!

 

[kangalover]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

I would have to say that this is one of the best articles ever written about the club and its future.
Harvs is putting out what we all want to hear and what we do not want to hear from the public and the media about our beloved football club.

Outstanding article

 

[Kimbo]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

Hits all the right notes for me. (As could be expected.)

Along with the all the positive off-field changes, Harvey has the game and image that makes this a really congruent message. I'd love to see this aspiration realised in how the media portray us. (Like in the late 70s when Lou Richards would refer to NM as "looking a million dollars".)

Now boys, let's really ram it home with some crushing victories... please!?

 

[NMFC ALWAYS]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

Those old lines of ' Shinboner Spirit ' and ' Laidley gets the best out of an average list ' shit me to no end

Watch the football world sit back and take notice this year when this Royal Blue and White striped machine gets going

The coach and certain players are in a make or break year which i believe will fire us up to perform better than we have for a decade

I wish summer would just hurry up and end , i'm ****ing hanging out for this season more so than other years

 

[kool kangas]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin
Nick Sheridan | February 4, 2009




That is why he believes it is time to break from the past — or, more particularly, to put to rest the constant equation of his club's success with the mythical Shinboner spirit.

"Our hat gets hung on the hook that says the Shinboners all the time," Harvey said. "When we win by two or three points it's always a Shinboner game, no one really talks about our experience and the excitement that we've got at the footy club."

It is this message that Harvey wants to get out about his football club: that it is young, strong and has a bright future; no longer the AFL's perennial struggler, always ready for a scrap, with a foot planted irretrievably in the past.

"That's the thing that I really want to drive," he said. "It's not about our backs against the wall all the time, because it's not. We're getting the new facility built, financially we're going fine off the field, our membership was great last year, so I want to drive the fact that we've got young players coming through that are exciting and talented footballers, and when we win it's because of that, not because we all put in and came from behind again."

Welcome to the
'NEW'
NORTH MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB.

l like it

 

[GoNorth]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

Was this article really in The Age?? What a fantastic write-up for the club. Well done, Boomer!

 

[DarwinRoo]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

Was this article really in The Age?? What a fantastic write-up for the club. Well done, Boomer!

Yes and here is a good indicator that it was.

The three-time club best and fairest and three-time All-Australian has not only defied the trend towards taller, bigger bodies that has overtaken the league since he debuted 14 years ago, he has done so with remarkable success.

 

[la roux]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

I don't know whether I'm tearing up, or barring up (no offense ladies). Jesus christ both would just be plain weird. or what i don't know

That's feckin awesome. A captain's article. It's like all the shit to do with North is being swept away and replaced with all this good stuff

The last 12 months man it's all happening, woo hoo!

 

[Chadwiko]

Re: Harvey wants less shin, more excitement spin - The Age 4 Jan

H2H been hit hard by the heatwave? Thread title says this article was from Jan, instead of Feb.