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Will Minson and I were at the same Uni graduation. I saw him over the crowd (he is quite tall) eat about 30 prawn cocktails and down an indeterminate amount of champagne.
 
I was walking down Swan St one Fri night, about 1am, with a mate. It was around 2010. 2 blokes walked past us. One was Spider Everitt. As they got close I noticed his height first, and then looked at his face and realised it was him. As I looked at him, he locked eyes with me with a piercing, almost unfriendly stare. It was a bit intimidating and I looked away. Then I got a souvlaki.
 
I saw Max Gawn walking through the crowd at the 2019 SANFL grand final.
He is tall.
And Glenelg won.
 

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I got my first job as a physiotherapist in 2004, at a private practice in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. After about 6 months I broke my hand playing basketball, had a metal plate put in, and couldn't work for about 6 weeks. I didn't have income protection insurance so the clinic gave me a few shifts as a receptionist to help pay the bills. I did my first shift with the main receptionist, Jenny, there to look over my shoulder. Bob Rose walked in, and evidently knew Jenny. After they had greeted each other, Rose, who had not looked at me at this point, asked Jenny, "Is this the new receptionist, is it?" Jenny said, "Yeah, that's Rich, our new receptionist for a few weeks". Rose replied, "And how is she going?" Apologies mods if this is too interesting, and belongs in the 'Bob Rose is a campaigner' thread.
 
RichLeMonde said:
I got my first job as a physiotherapist in 2004, at a private practice in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. After about 6 months I broke my hand playing basketball, had a metal plate put in, and couldn't work for about 6 weeks. I didn't have income protection insurance so the clinic gave me a few shifts as a receptionist to help pay the bills. I did my first shift with the main receptionist, Jenny, there to look over my shoulder. Bob Rose walked in, and evidently knew Jenny. After they had greeted each other, Rose, who had not looked at me at this point, asked Jenny, "Is this the new receptionist, is it?" Jenny said, "Yeah, that's Rich, our new receptionist for a few weeks". Rose replied, "And how is she going?" Apologies mods if this is too interesting, and belongs in the 'Bob Rose is a campaigner' thread.
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Jenny sounds like the campaigner in that story, I bet her name is actually Karen.
 
rank and file said:
Bit suss on this one,
How did you know it was him if he had a mask?
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Apparently Robbie has at least one other distinguishing physical feature.

Edit: missed the post above, which said it better.
 
Walked past Chris Scott wheeling his bike along the Barwon river the last week. Bike seemed fine so not sure why he wasn’t riding it, but I didn’t ask as he was looking at the ground, indicating he wasn’t interested in engagement of any kind.
 
Sweetback said:
Walked past Chris Scott wheeling his bike along the Barwon river the last week. Bike seemed fine so not sure why he wasn’t riding it, but I didn’t ask as he was looking at the ground, indicating he wasn’t interested in engagement of any kind.
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Barwon River would suggest Chris, I suppose.

Although it was a very Brad-like coaching performance in the GF, so maybe they've been switching roles?
 
Back in when he was playing for West Coast, my physio was Brad Ebert's GF now wife Bec.
 
blueboy25 said:
Back in when he was playing for West Coast, my physio was Brad Ebert's GF now wife Bec.
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Not even a direct encounter; that's gold standard boring.
 

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Gough said:
Wow that's sad, he'd have been proper young. What did he die of?
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It’s really strange I can’t find any reference to it anywhere, just a whole bunch of notices to say that he’d passed away. He was living back in the states, had four kids and was 49. I found an article where former teammate Dion Scott talked about how sad it was.

Not that any death is a nice one but I really hope it wasn’t something self-harm related
 
PhatBoy said:
It’s really strange I can’t find any reference to it anywhere, just a whole bunch of notices to say that he’d passed away. He was living back in the states, had four kids and was 49. I found an article where former teammate Dion Scott talked about how sad it was.

Not that any death is a nice one but I really hope it wasn’t something self-harm related
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If he was an ex sportsman with lingering pain and injuries in America with the opioid madness over there accidental prescription pill od could be possible.
 
Gough said:
Boring non encounter with very obscure player. 11/10.
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During his playing days at the Swans he (Sanford Wheeler) once jogged past me as I was standing waiting to cross
at the lights at the corner of Broadway & City Rd in Chippendale. I was impressed that he was out running, it was a
very hot day in summer. He was the first African-American born player to play in the AFL. Sadly he died in March
this year aged 49 from some kind of heart disease I believe.
 

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