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Hopefully you sat him down and told him: Son, he's a drug cheat.Wow, my 8y.o keeps going on "what's going on Dad , are we going this year" ? It's bloody pathetic that I have to sit him down and explain to him why his idol Dyson Heppell is missing a season of football. Pathetic.
No point pulling punches. The poor kid is going to find out for himself one day anyway.
You don't want to tell him fibs now and then later he discovers you were full of crap.
As for 2016, you can always buy him a new jumper with James Gwilt's number on the back, but if I was you, I would keep him well away from the footy for the next three or four years. There is no surer way for a kid to jump ship, give his dad's team the arse and start following the reigning premiers than to be subjected to weekly ritual slaughter and humiliation.
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