Bumped Experience meeting/seeing Collingwood players + Coaches

[AmellyPies]

I've seen and met a few coaches and players but majority of the time i've gone all fanboy and pretty much froze or said something completely stupid.

I was in the Collingwood shop with a mate earlier in the year, As I walked out near the Premiership cups I was looking at the discount gurneys than all of a sudden my mate nudges me and I look up and Robert Harvey walks bye, I say "G'Day" and he said hello back, no fuss right? well then next comes Bucks, I froze and said "Hi Nathan Buckley" it was so embarrassing but Bucks was all good about it and said "How are you?" which was pretty cool.

Another one was a year before and same situation in the Collingwood shop, Alex Fasolo walked out of the gym and I basically froze and just nodded me head to him..

If you've got any stories about meeting Collingwood players put em down!

 

[sirlothie]

Hi Nathan Buckley lol...

Every time I see them I play it cool and act like I don't know them...

 

[AmellyPies]

Hi Nathan Buckley lol...

Every time I see them I play it cool and act like I don't know them...

My mates been hanging crap on me about that for ages. Omfg. haha

 

[Mkcaptain]

I dropped my freshly reloaded MyKi card in the Westpac Centre cafe last year, Jackson Ramsay saw it and picked it up and brought it over to me. He has been a favourite ever since.

Darcy Moore was a legend to chat to. Don't have a bad word to say about him. Same with our old fave Tony Armstrong.

I've never met any of them outside of their official capacity so until I learn otherwise I'm assuming they are all good blokes

 

[Mkcaptain]

I've seen and met a few coaches and players but majority of the time i've gone all fanboy and pretty much froze

Sums me up far more accurately than I care to admit. It's pathetic how much I place these ordinary blokes on a pedestal just because they have a contract with the club I support

 

[Vicky Park]

I've posted about this before, and it concerns His Mickness, but I was very excited and happy at the time.

It was in Grand Final week, 2010 (week before the draw). I have an embarrassing habit of decorating my house in Collingwood gear when we are in the finals. The deeper we go, the more signs, scarves, Collingwood garden gnomes, etc, I drag out to the front of the house.

In those days, my husband and I used to see Mick and Nanette on their morning walk, mainly in the Fitzroy Gardens, although he also ventured further afield, to the surrounding suburbs.

Anyway, I opened my door one morning to go to work, and Mick was standing out the front, smiling at the decorations. He then smiled at me, before walking away. I was ecstatic at the time.

 

[Anzacday]

I've posted about this before, and it concerns His Mickness, but I was very excited and happy at the time.

It was in Grand Final week, 2010 (week before the draw). I have an embarrassing habit of decorating my house in Collingwood gear when we are in the finals. The deeper we go, the more signs, scarves, Collingwood garden gnomes, etc, I drag out to the front of the house.

In those days, my husband and I used to see Mick and Nanette on their morning walk, mainly in the Fitzroy Gardens, although he also ventured further afield, to the surrounding suburbs.

Anyway, I opened my door one morning to go to work, and Mick was standing out the front, smiling at the decorations. He then smiled at me, before walking away. I was ecstatic at the time.

And if it happened again I'd like to think you be better prepared for it

 

[Vicky Park]

And if it happened again I'd like to think you be better prepared for it

You mean more and better decorations?

Or better prepared for His Mickness? Still saw quite a bit of him in the Fitzroy Gardens over the last few years. I think he walked to Princes Park as part of his fitness routine, when he was the coach of that unnameable club.

 

[AmellyPies]

You mean more and better decorations?

Or better prepared for His Mickness? Still saw quite a bit of him in the Fitzroy Gardens over the last few years. I think he walked to Princes Park as part of his fitness routine, when he was the coach of that unnameable club.

Rumour he still does.. With Money Bags.

 

[Soups]

Was at the same bar as the pies Sunday drinks after the 2011 gf. It wasn't silly Sunday, it wasn't really silly at all. Everyone was quite tame. I thought they would be drowning their sorrows but maybe they got roudy after they left. But I was very star struck seeing as Swanny and Pendles were 2 feet away.

Funnily enough Nick Giannopoulos was there as well with about 3 girls hanging off him. Thought that was hilarious.

 

[BEEG]

Lol nothing i can share on here.

 

[SApies]

I went to school with Brodie, top bloke. Seems to have matured a truck load in the past couple of years.

 

[Magpie Girl]

I met most of the team last January at the family training day match. You may recall all the photos I took of TradeDraft and his heroes
Other than something banal like 'hope you have a good year' it's hard to know what to say cos you know thousands of people have said the same thing

However I did have have a great conversation with De Goey at Vic Park one day while watching the VFL
He and his Dad were sitting next to me. Now he's a really friendly and nice guy, and very easy to talk to

 

[TradeDraft]

You don't know what to ask them and What you allowed too

 

[Saintly Viewed]

I dropped my freshly reloaded MyKi card in the Westpac Centre cafe last year, Jackson Ramsay saw it and picked it up and brought it over to me. He has been a favourite ever since.

Darcy Moore was a legend to chat to. Don't have a bad word to say about him. Same with our old fave Tony Armstrong.

I've never met any of them outside of their official capacity so until I learn otherwise I'm assuming they are all good blokes

Jackson Ramsay being a good defender and mopping up in defence for you, nice

 

[Saintly Viewed]

Lol nothing i can share on here.

So nothing to share then.
You know with your name, hmmmm, yes better you don't share

 

[Saintly Viewed]

I don't worry too much about meeting etc players.
They do it on the field, that's enough for me.

My not exception was, Gordon Carlyon, I loved talking Collingwood history with him, as I used to write some Collingwood stuff here and there. He was an encyclopaedia on our team.
But that's years ago.

Then there's racing, that's a whole other thing

 

[Tarkyn_24]

I told Josh Fraser he was the best ruckman in the competition. In my defence this was during 2006 when he was in a pretty rich vein of form, but still.

Think my favourite though was when aWest Coast supporting mate of mine facepalmed Nic Nat when we went across for a West Coast /Collingwood game in 2012. Nic was walking along the Yarra when my mate saw him. I think he meant to go for a high five but just resulted in an awkward hand in a strangers face moment.

 

[robbos13]

met a bunch of past players at glenelg oval in adelaide last year or so at a legends match between pies and crows. rupe betheras, phil carmem,licca,presti etc etc.
didnt think much of it but was kicking a full size footy on the ground b4 the match around a bunch of kids with small footy's when phil came up and had a chat about all sorts of things b4 a few of the others came over , leeroy and a couple others.
ended up kicking the footy for about 10 mins then caught up in the clubrooms for a beer afterwards.

also have told this b4 on here but as a young fella when browny was captain i was at vic park after training one night and the lights got turned off except one corner when browny came over to have a kick and a catch with my brother and i b4 inviting us into the change rooms for a meal and sat us between the rocca brothers..

 

[sirlothie]

also have told this b4 on here but as a young fella when browny was captain i was at vic park after training one night and the lights got turned off except one corner when browny came over to have a kick and a catch with my brother and i b4 inviting us into the change rooms for a meal and sat us between the rocca brothers..

That's awesome, sounds like a dream!

 

[loki04]

Never met a single pie player.

Don't think I'd approach one outside a family day/training session etc even if I did see one.

 

[AmellyPies]

Never met a single pie player.

Don't think I'd approach one outside a family day/training session etc even if I did see one.

Nothing wrong with just saying G'day.

 

[joff]

Said gday to Darren Millane at a game in 1990 at the players car park he gave me and me mate a smile and gday back. Spotted Lou Richards buying some flowers and even though he was in a hurry he had a quick chat lovely fella he was,that was about 1990 they've been my 2 brushes with magpie royalty.

 

[Gavin Brossisca]

I was told to f*** off by Daics about 16 years ago back when I was 18. He was having a quiet beer with Mark Harvey at a bar in Ascot Vale, I'd had a few drinks too many and walked over exclaiming "it's the Macedonian Marvel!". His response was fair enough really.

 

[sirlothie]

Was at a game once with my brother and a few mates and I look up on some stairs and said 'hey look, there's Eddie!'

Embarassingly he must have heard and turns around and gives us a wave. Pretty cool though.