Meeting AFL players?

[RunBurgundy]

Met Darren Jarman in the late 80's and he was awesome. He signed an autograph for me whilst waiting to put on the dogs at angle park

 

[Paul Kersey]

Reading this thread reminded me of an unusual encounter at a bar in Fitzroy a few years back.

I was ordering a beer and I turn around and Richo was right there: he had walked up to me and said something like "G'day mate, have we met before?" It was really strange as I obviously knew who he was so I just replied that I don't think we had met but that I knew who he was. We ended up having a beer and a chat about footy and music for a good 20 minutes. He was a really chilled out and friendly bloke but it was such a weird start to the conversation and it left me a bit confused as it is the opposite to how you would expect things to happen when you meet someone famous.

You a bloke? If so, maybe Richo had plans for you. Haha.

 

[NarklesHelmet]

You a bloke? If so, maybe Richo had plans for you. Haha.

Ha ha, hadn't thought of that! I often get mistaken for other people though for some strange reason, must have a generic looking face!

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Mark McGough went to school with people IU know well through another friend. Some young kid (year 7 or year 8) went to shake his hand and got basically given the signal to get ******. According to them he is an absolute ******* silly to everyone he doesn't know snd this came from a brother of a guy who was one of Mcgough's best friend.

Also Brad Otten was really good with acknowledging and spending time with the kids at the VFL prelim in 12 ******* huge unit too. I am not much ashorter than him (an inch maybe) and he makes me look puny compared to him even when I get the giant comments made to me.

McGough taught at my sister's old school and was fine. Met him at East Freo games and was fine.

 

[SBYM]

Wanna meat up, Doc ?

Alma Park?

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

I have had david hale stare at me when i was walking around.

I think it was because we have the same style of hair although i don't have a rug or a bald spot. Come to think of it i think he was pitying me.

 

[BACCS]

Turned around at the gym the other day and was a little shocked to see Ben Rutten doing chinups... just assumed he used the gym at our West Lakes facility. He is even more of a beast up close!

 

[Barry Zuckercorn]

Fraser Brown and Scott Campeorale asked me and a mate where they could score some hooch from in Northbridge back in '95. Night before the game too.

Had the pleasure of seeing a nude Guy McKenna at his bucks do. Most weavil premiership players were there, Craig Turley and Chris Lewis the best of them (special mention to Mainy who was Black & White Cab ambassador at the time, due to his lack of license for DD, for getting us a quick cab home).

Fraser Brown was my favourite player growing up but the only encounter I ever had with him was a Sat night in the late 90s. I had been on the piss with a mate at some little bar in Chapel St and we decided to hit that felafel joint on Toorak Rd before heading home. Out of nowhere, this car pulls up out the front. The driver gets out and leaves the car's running. Storms in and says he's picking up his order for 20 felafels. It was the great man himself! Couldn't tell if he was pissed or in some sort of mood but he storms out with his food and 2L bottle of soft drink, gets in the car (no passengers) and fanged it out of there

Fair to say he cemented his spot as my favourite ever Carlton player.

 

[BLPC08]

Turned around at the gym the other day and was a little shocked to see Ben Rutten doing chinups... just assumed he used the gym at our West Lakes facility. He is even more of a beast up close!

Off-season training i'm guessing. I used to see the Clokes, Sam Blease and Gysberts at the Genesis Ringwood gym throughout the summer. None of them were lifting particularly heavy weights (yes, even the Cloke's)

 

[Ahern2Boof]

Off-season training i'm guessing. I used to see the Clokes, Sam Blease and Gysberts at the Genesis Ringwood gym throughout the summer. None of them were lifting particularly heavy weights (yes, even the Cloke's)

Not surprised Gysberts wasn't lifting heavy weights. Kid couldn't handle 20kg.

 

[JimDocker]

Interesting about Mark McGough.

I know 2 retired school teachers who both taught him back in Yarrawonga. Their son now lives opposite East Fremantle Oval and in one of their trips over, they went to watch an East Fremantle game. When the game finished, McGough came running over and gave them both a hug and had a chat with them for 10 minutes or so. They both speak very highly of him.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

ive met joel Bowden when he was playing came across as arrogant also met leon davis he was ok sort of bloke quiet tho and my mates gf's sister was dating rodan a few years ago

 

[BloodRet]

I met Brad Scott at a dog park, but then it started pissing down so he had to leave mid conversation.

 

[stanga]

was drinking at the Armardale hotel one mad monday and clinton king gave us 50 bucks to take mark chaffey home in a cab back to wheelers hill , saw him out the following monday at cheers and he bought us a jug of bourbon and coke , nice bloke , the cabby didnt like pulling over on the monash for him to spew tho

 

[clivenator26]

Reading this thread reminded me of an unusual encounter at a bar in Fitzroy a few years back.

I was ordering a beer and I turn around and Richo was right there: he had walked up to me and said something like "G'day mate, have we met before?" It was really strange as I obviously knew who he was so I just replied that I don't think we had met but that I knew who he was. We ended up having a beer and a chat about footy and music for a good 20 minutes. He was a really chilled out and friendly bloke but it was such a weird start to the conversation and it left me a bit confused as it is the opposite to how you would expect things to happen when you meet someone famous.

Think he was hitting on you bro

 

[Furn2]

I met a young hawk in Brisbane in the German club scrap from the gabba along time ago he was no 38 and he stood alone while fans swarmed around Ben Dixon.

He was tall and had a smile that could light up the room but the in the 20 minutes I talked to him I barely got more than a one word answer.

 

[ShanDog]

My wife organised her 10 year high school reunion earlier this year and Clinton Young was there (part of her school class almost all the way through to the end of year 12 I think).

Hung out and chatted to him for most of the night and a number of us all went out to the "clubs" at Horsham (lol) for a few drink and games of pool etc. Most people already hold this opinion of him but he was a really good guy. Pretty quiet but friendly and was up for footy-related chat. Just seemed like an average bloke... except we kept having our 8-ball games interrupted by the pub owner / girls / fans wanting to chat

 

[stanga]

Just walked past Dipper at the airport, started pissing myself because he had dark sunnies on inside, like he's ******* Bono or something, he did look at me (wouldn't take the silly on though he's ******* huge).

mate of mine got a black eye from dipper 2 years ago at the granny , was in line to piss at a nab function and dipper walked in and pushed up to the front , mate argued , bit of push and shove and dipper whacked him , mate was pretty happy about it all the same

 

[Spluff]

Gary Ablett Sr. played drums for our cover band for a couple of songs. Unsurprisingly, he was pretty coordinated.

 

[Ollie 22]

A few mates of mine go to Uni with Ayce Cordy and I met him out one night in mid 2010 after being introduced by one of our mutual friends at Perseverance in Fitzroy, he was lovely and he was huge. I'm 6 foot 3 and he mad me feel like a midget. Great guy good to chat to, probably helped we had some of the same mates too. If I'm being kind I'd say he'd had a couple (many) 'rehabilitation beers' to help him get over his shoulder issues when I met him but he was still a champ.

 

[RedLegs#5]

lol. If you want another non-footballing one, Shane Heal, if you looked up FIGJAM in the dictionary, don't worry about having a look for a pic of Buckley because it would be Shane 'Hammer' Heal.

When he was playing NBL with the Geelong SuperCats he also used to bounce at the Geelong Hotel. He was working there when he first made the Boomers squad and decided to wear his Boomers Australian Olympic team top to work standing on the door one night. I was with a group of mates inside the joint, one of them (the one that smacked Simon O'Donnell in the head in my earlier story) had his younger brother there too. His little brother and a few of his mates got into a scuffle with players from another local football side. It calmed down as the bouncers moved in, as they moved in I was inadvertently standing in their way so nek minut someone had me in a choker hold dragging me backwards towards the front doors. I was dragged out and released out the front, I turned and saw who it was, it was Heal, so I gave him a spray. As we were talking about the meaning of life, two of my mates walked up behind him and pulled his Australian top over his head and took off down the street with it.

Man, Heal screamed like a little girl as he took off after them. My mates were laughing their heads off. They ran down a block to Yarra St and turned left and headed down the hill, there was a little alley with some big dumpmaster bins in them, they chucked it in there on of all the shit and walked back to the Eureka Hotel where the rest of us met them.

Dunno if Heal ever got it back.

Why do all your stories involve your mates in a fight? Sound like a pack of immature f'n morons.

Met a lot of footy players, and know a few. Don't find it very exciting. Haven't for a very long time. However, as I kid I remember being quite stoked to meet all the Melbourne boys in the change rooms after a couple of games. Jim Stynes was the man.

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

My cousin and I also once played MarioKart 64 with Shane Crawford & Daniel Chick in the early 2000's.

What track? Koopa beach?

 

[Hawkas1988]

What track? Koopa beach?

From memory it was the Mushroom Cup so Koopa Beach is in that! Cracking track and game.

I was about 12 or 13 at the time and I absolutely Idolized those 2 from then on. When I found out that Chick was definitely going I was shattered.

 

[Sylvia Saint]

Off-season training i'm guessing. I used to see the Clokes, Sam Blease and Gysberts at the Genesis Ringwood gym throughout the summer. None of them were lifting particularly heavy weights (yes, even the Cloke's)

Actually that reminds me I once saw Barry Hall during the off-season - maybe about 5 years ago - at my gym. Nobody there was interested in talking to him (don't ever interrupt someone in the middle of a gym sesh!!) but did take note of the weights he was lifting. Surprisingly, he was only benching sets of 100Kg and not doing them overly comfortably either.

 

[manboob]

Surprisingly, he was only benching sets of 100Kg and not doing them overly comfortably either.

The bigger your tiggs are the harder it becomes to run. Same with your back.