Unofficial Preview Praccy Match 2 Vs Saints - This time it’s serious

[ferball]

Used to being the operative phrase.

Have you ever Warwick Thornton's autobiographical flick The Beach and the story he tells about the first time he went to the Espy?

No.

I haven't watched much tv or movies in the last 5 or 6 years. Maybe longer.

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What you can't score at 3am at those flats on Robe st anymore?

Well that's a pity.

 

[Chadwiko]

What you can't score at 3am at those flats on Robe st anymore?

Well that's a pity.

If you love meth, then I'm sure St Kilda seems great.

Otherwise it's a huge eeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[danj]

NorthBall will be put to the test against a team that is very good at pressure. If its successful against them we are in for a better than I expected year but I do fear we will struggle with turnovers.
Gonna be interesting.

Edited for accuracy, some of us expect a year that will exceed our expectations.

Play Biggy on King for at least a quarter see how he goes, good learning experience.

FWIW I don’t think we will win because the emphasis will be on different aspects of our team structures and game day strategy so expect to see the magnets shuffled a fair bit.

 

[The Nostradamus]

comben on king
Corr on membrey
Biggie third tall helping out and rebounding northball style

 

[berniemccarthy]

Edited for accuracy, some of us expect a year that will exceed our expectations.

Play Biggy on King for at least a quarter see how he goes, good learning experience.

FWIW I don’t think we will win because the emphasis will be on different aspects of our team structures and game day strategy so expect to see the magnets shuffled a fair bit.

What point would there be in playing Biggy on King. There is no possibility you would do that in a match unless you were tanking. Try to win it. We can lose easily without trying as well.

 

[danj]

Also I heard a rumour all card set up no cash might have to head to sandbelt before the game and have a few

The Lobster Cave for early lunch

 

[danj]

No.

I haven't watched much tv or movies in the last 5 or 6 years. Maybe longer.


What you can't score at 3am at those flats on Robe st anymore?

Well that's a pity.

Mate you can drop your fav and go watch Dune 1 & Dune 2 back to back at Goldclass take your own bucket

 

[ferball]

If you love meth, then I'm sure St Kilda seems great.

Otherwise it's a huge eeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I've heard the best meth comes from Kangaroo Flat these days.

Have all those cake shop closed on Acland St? What about the pizza joint on Fitzroy St where you could score a pizza at 3am? I had an old friend had a flat on Fitzroy St, she has sculptures all over Melbourne. She found it very inspirational (but a little sketchy.)

 

[danj]

What point would there be in playing Biggy on King. There is no possibility you would do that in a match unless you were tanking. Try to win it. We can lose easily without trying as well.

Well Comben is out, Luke is too short, Dawson would be used to better effect playing more loosely across the backline put Luke on Membrey see how he goes. I just think Biggy is tall enough and has the speed for King but he needs more experience, why not in a practice match???

 

[The Warlord]

And don’t mention the toilet

Why, what happened?

 

[danj]

I've heard the best meth comes from Kangaroo Flat these days.

Have all those cake shop closed on Acland St? What about the pizza joint on Fitzroy St where you could score a pizza at 3am? I had an old friend had a flat on Fitzroy St, she has sculptures all over Melbourne. She found it very inspirational (but a little sketchy.)

Best place is in stkilda east a bar called the King of Tonga

 

[The Warlord]

No.

I haven't watched much tv or movies in the last 5 or 6 years. Maybe longer.

The Beach is a six part doco where Thornton goes to live on a beach up near Dampier with no internet etc and just his son to shoot as cinematographer - basic idea is Thornton's near 50, he's achieved what he wanted to do as a young bloke (tell Aboriginal stories on screen) and now he's reflecting on his life and what else he can do.

Each episode is based around a story from a stage of his life he tells.

He talks about coming down to Melbourne in the 80s when he was still trying to make it because even though Sydney was where all the film was at, Thornton thought Melbourne was cooler coz of the music he liked - Birthday Party, Boys Next Door, Paul Kelly etc.

He'd got a government grant of some sort, and when he got off the bus at Spencer Street he knew he wanted to go to St Kilda to the Espy and have a beer, like the holy grail of cool, but it was too early, so he started walking around to kill time.

He finds an op shop and in it there's the most amazing cowboy jacket, full leather tassels, the whole deal. He's torn coz he's on a budget but he loves the jacket so much he tried it on, fits like a glove, so he buys it it

He then gets the tram down to St Kilda, to The Espy. As he walks in he's painfully aware of how hip and white it is. He almost loses his nerve, almost walks out but fixes his courage to the sticking place, goes up to the bar, orders a pot and sits down.

After a minute a bloke rocks up to the bar, skinny unhealthy bloke, who orders a beer and sits down next to him.

Thornton twigs that its Rowland S Howard - THE Rowland S Howard who wrote Shivers! He tells the camera he really started shitting himself, Christ I'm in St Kilda sitting next to Rowland S Howard, a bloke from Alice Springs like me, I'm such a pretender, I don't belong here.

Then Howard turns to him and says scuse me mate, and Thornton says yeah, and Howard goes - mate, that's the coolest ****ing jacket I've ever seen.

Thornton tells the camera back in his doco that at that exact moment he knew if he put in the work, he'd make it, because he'd tristed his instincts to buy the jacket and if ROWLAND S HOWARD thought it was the coolest jacket ever, what greater authority could there be?

Megan Washington sings a lovely version of Shivers as he's telling the yarn.

But imo Maria Hoy's version is better - and the film clip a great reminder of back when St Kilda was undeniably cool as all get out.

 

[The Warlord]

I've heard the best meth comes from Kangaroo Flat these days.

Have all those cake shop closed on Acland St? What about the pizza joint on Fitzroy St where you could score a pizza at 3am? I had an old friend had a flat on Fitzroy St, she has sculptures all over Melbourne. She found it very inspirational (but a little sketchy.)

Good North man Greg Fleet posted on Twitter a while back about the fish n chip shop in St Kilda where he bought his first cap of heroin.

 

[danj]

Good North man Greg Fleet posted on Twitter a while back about the fish n chip shop in St Kilda where he bought his first cap of heroin.

I remember catching the 86 tram to st Kilda in the early ‘90’s on Sunday’s for the market on the Esplanade and going to the Espy and Prince of Wales for beers and pool. There was one tram driver who used to be stoned on hash and happily chat to passengers over the mic hat on a jaunty angle as his offsider did the tix.

Different days….

 

[The Warlord]

I remember catching the 86 tram to st Kilda in the early ‘90’s on Sunday’s for the market on the Esplanade and going to the Espy and Prince of Wales for beers and pool. There was one tram driver who used to be stoned on hash and happily chat to passengers over the mic hat on a jaunty angle as his offsider did the tix.

Different days….

Good conductors on that line

 

[winalotroos]

Mate you can drop your fav and go watch Dune 1 & Dune 2 back to back at Goldclass take your own bucket

Yep and The Gentleman ( Guy Ritchie film ) is a must.

I can compile a list of recommendations if you like.

 

[Johnny99]

Last time I was at Moorabin, I was with a couple of mates to watch Derek Kickett play for North in a practice match. That was a long time ago.

 

[winalotroos]

The Beach is a six part doco where Thornton goes to live on a beach up near Dampier with no internet etc and just his son to shoot as cinematographer - basic idea is Thornton's near 50, he's achieved what he wanted to do as a young bloke (tell Aboriginal stories on screen) and now he's reflecting on his life and what else he can do.

Each episode is based around a story from a stage of his life he tells.

He talks about coming down to Melbourne in the 80s when he was still trying to make it because even though Sydney was where all the film was at, Thornton thought Melbourne was cooler coz of the music he liked - Birthday Party, Boys Next Door, Paul Kelly etc.

He'd got a government grant of some sort, and when he got off the bus at Spencer Street he knew he wanted to go to St Kilda to the Espy and have a beer, like the holy grail of cool, but it was too early, so he started walking around to kill time.

He finds an op shop and in it there's the most amazing cowboy jacket, full leather tassels, the whole deal. He's torn coz he's on a budget but he loves the jacket so much he tried it on, fits like a glove, so he buys it it

He then gets the tram down to St Kilda, to The Espy. As he walks in he's painfully aware of how hip and white it is. He almost loses his nerve, almost walks out but fixes his courage to the sticking place, goes up to the bar, orders a pot and sits down.

After a minute a bloke rocks up to the bar, skinny unhealthy bloke, who orders a beer and sits down next to him.

Thornton twigs that its Rowland S Howard - THE Rowland S Howard who wrote Shivers! He tells the camera he really started shitting himself, Christ I'm in St Kilda sitting next to Rowland S Howard, a bloke from Alice Springs like me, I'm such a pretender, I don't belong here.

Then Howard turns to him and says scuse me mate, and Thornton says yeah, and Howard goes - mate, that's the coolest ******* jacket I've ever seen.

Thornton tells the camera back in his doco that at that exact moment he knew if he put in the work, he'd make it, because he'd tristed his instincts to buy the jacket and if ROWLAND S HOWARD thought it was the coolest jacket ever, what greater authority could there be?

Megan Washington sings a lovely version of Shivers as he's telling the yarn.

But imo Maria Hoy's version is better - and the film clip a great reminder of back when St Kilda was undeniably cool as all get out.

Great song I have the boys next door version on Spotify, Dogs in Space filmed in Richmond

 

[berniemccarthy]

Well Comben is out, Luke is too short, Dawson would be used to better effect playing more loosely across the backline put Luke on Membrey see how he goes. I just think Biggy is tall enough and has the speed for King but he needs more experience, why not in a practice match???

In a real match you would double team King. Seems to be setting him up for a fall is my view.

 

[ferball]

The Beach is a six part doco where Thornton goes to live on a beach up near Dampier with no internet etc and just his son to shoot as cinematographer - basic idea is Thornton's near 50, he's achieved what he wanted to do as a young bloke (tell Aboriginal stories on screen) and now he's reflecting on his life and what else he can do.

Each episode is based around a story from a stage of his life he tells.

He talks about coming down to Melbourne in the 80s when he was still trying to make it because even though Sydney was where all the film was at, Thornton thought Melbourne was cooler coz of the music he liked - Birthday Party, Boys Next Door, Paul Kelly etc.

He'd got a government grant of some sort, and when he got off the bus at Spencer Street he knew he wanted to go to St Kilda to the Espy and have a beer, but it was too early, so he started walking around to kill time.

He finds an op shop and in it there's the most amazing cowboy jack, full leather tassels, the whole deal. He's torn coz he's on a budget but he loves the jacket so much he tried it on, fits like a glove, so he buys it it

He then gets the tram down to St Kilda, to The Espy. As he walks in he's painfully aware of how hip and white it is. He almost loses his nerve, almost walks out but fixes his courage to the sticking place, goes up to the bar, orders a pot and sits down.

After a minute a bloke rocks up to the bar, skinny unhealthy bloke, who orders a beer and sits down next to him.

Thornton twigs that its Rowland S Howard - THE Rowland S Howard who wrote Shivers! He tells the camera he really started shitting himself, Christ I'm in St Kilda sitting next to Rowland S Howard, a bloke from Alice Springs like me, I'm such a pretender, I don't belong here.

Then Howard turns to him and says scuse me mate, and Thornton says yeah, and Howard goes - mate, that's the coolest ******* jacket I've ever seen.

Thornton tells the camera back in his doco that at that exact moment he knew if he put in the work, he'd make it, because he'd tristed his instincts to buy the jacket and if ROWLAND S HOWARD thought it was the coolest jacket ever, what greater authority could there be?

Megan Washington sings a lovely version of Shivers as he's telling the yarn.

But imo Maria Hoy's version is better - and the film clip a great reminder of back when St Kilda was undeniably cool as all get out.

Wow that's a great story.

Dogs in space was ****en great. When I lived in Richmond the house was over the hill.

 

[ferball]

Great song I have the boys next door version on Spotify, Dogs in Space filmed in Richmond

18 Berry St.

 

[Mr north man]

Why, what happened?

Carey downfall from our club

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Moorabbin is St Kilda’s home.

It would be like saying Victoria Park isn’t technically Collingwoods home because it’s actually in Abbotsford.

Similar to Princess Park, it sits on the border of Carlton North and Parkville.

Punt Rd Oval would also be East Melbourne.

 

[Passmore]

Punt Rd Oval would also be East Melbourne.

East Melbourne Tigers

Moorabbin Saints

North Melbourne Kangaroos

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[Samsquanch]

Wow that's a great story.

Dogs in space was *en great. When I lived in Richmond the house was over the hill.

I lived in Bennett St, just near Mick Burns wood yard. Early 80s. It was a very bad house. The divvy van/s out the front meant that the Richmond coppers were settling in for a 3AM bender with my copper house mate. The neighbours hated us.