Roosistence Roominisces

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Cutting this one loose. Feel free to read and respond to it any time you like. 'Tis a great bloody read!
 

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I've added a link to this thread on our stickied History Thread, to ensure it's not lost in the BF ether.
 
The Other Dean said:
By anyone’s measure – particularly any financial ones – the night was a huge success. When all the sums were done (and just to reiterate, all the artists performed for free), we managed to raise close to $40,000.

The money we raised was eventually donated to the club, and went towards...errr...some very important, much-needed training equipment. What it was, unfortunately I can’t exactly recall. But I think it’s fair to say that if we finish top 4 this year, it’ll clearly be on account of that training equipment purchased with Roosistence money.
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Roosistence legacy lives on! :thumbsu: :hearts: :footy: :rainbow:
 
gokangas said:
Sensational read. Lots of untold stories from that few months. Glad this one is now documented so well. Bravo Dean!
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Yes sir. They were troubled times. I remember sitting next to Jozeph at the Palace Brooks Hall that faithful night and we ended up sinking a 1000 sherbets celebrating our stay in Victoria. As he said to me, "you can take the North out of Melbourne, but you can't the Melbourne out of North." I'll never forget it. I actually have that tattooed across my lower torso as a friendly reminder of that night.
 
^ I've actually just started plans to organise a 10-year anniversary, 'Roosistence 2' extravaganza.

(Tentatively titled "Keep North North".)

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Seriously-face though, thanks for the bump, Arden. Gave my lazy arse a chance to edit in Ken Taylor's name, without having to track down the thread.

Now I think of it, I'm pretty sure I still have a stash of Roosistence posters from the gig. I should totally put them on eBay and see if there's any interest there at all.
 
The Other Dean said:
Seriously-face though, thanks for the bump, Arden. Gave my lazy arse a chance to edit in Ken Taylor's name, without having to track down the thread.

Now I think of it, I'm pretty sure I still have a stash of Roosistence posters from the gig. I should totally put them on eBay and see if there's any interest there at all.
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Somebody beat you to it, teach you to be so lazy..:p
 
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The Other Dean said:
^ I've actually just started plans to organise a 10-year anniversary, 'Roosistence 2' extravaganza.

(Tentatively titled "Keep North North".)

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TOD

If you were to organise that. I would be there!!!:thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu::)
 
Happy 10th Birthday to the night of nights.

What a monumental effort it was to pull it all together by a ragtag group of North supporters, most of whom unfortunately don't post here any longer. The late, great Lidge, LT Smash , Kangalicious, snrub, Northbhoy, pharro, RoyalBlue (who I think posts as Rad Roo now), Hearts to hearts and I think The Other Dean had something to do with it as well. It was an honour to have some involvement in the organisation of this event, alongside these champions.

Thanks also to all the acts who donated their time, the POW for putting on the venue, the players who attended against club wishes, and RoCo for being a champ that night (I refuse to thank Barrett). And of course the biggest thanks had to go to Tim Rogers, the legend.

Premierships aside, this was the best night to be a North supporter, and in a lot of ways better. It's easy to jump on when a team is doing well but turning out to save your club, that's a different kind of awesome.

Roosistence reinforced to everyone that North Melbourne isn't a football team, it's a football club.

And I know it's against the rules of BigFooty to post pr0n but **** it, red card me, I don't care.

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Arden said:
Happy 10th Birthday to the night of nights.

What a monumental effort it was to pull it all together by a ragtag group of North supporters, most of whom unfortunately don't post here any longer. The late, great Lidge, LT Smash , Kangalicious, snrub, Northbhoy, pharro, RoyalBlue (who I think posts as Rad Roo now), Hearts to hearts and I think The Other Dean had something to do with it as well. It was an honour to have some involvement in the organisation of this event, alongside these champions.

Thanks also to all the acts who donated their time, the POW for putting on the venue, the players who attended against club wishes, and RoCo for being a champ that night (I refuse to thank Barrett). And of course the biggest thanks had to go to Tim Rogers, the legend.

Premierships aside, this was the best night to be a North supporter, and in a lot of ways better. It's easy to jump on when a team is doing well but turning out to save your club, that's a different kind of awesome.

Roosistence reinforced to everyone that North Melbourne isn't a football team, it's a football club.

And I know it's against the rules of BigFooty to post pr0n but **** it, red card me, I don't care.

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Just looking through those bands. Anyone else remember Bouncer? Hilariously bad hip hop.

But yes, of course, what Arden said. Awesome night and touchstone for what this club is really about.
 

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Arden said:
Happy 10th Birthday to the night of nights.

What a monumental effort it was to pull it all together by a ragtag group of North supporters, most of whom unfortunately don't post here any longer. The late, great Lidge, LT Smash , Kangalicious, snrub, Northbhoy, pharro, RoyalBlue (who I think posts as Rad Roo now), Hearts to hearts and I think The Other Dean had something to do with it as well. It was an honour to have some involvement in the organisation of this event, alongside these champions.

Thanks also to all the acts who donated their time, the POW for putting on the venue, the players who attended against club wishes, and RoCo for being a champ that night (I refuse to thank Barrett). And of course the biggest thanks had to go to Tim Rogers, the legend.

Premierships aside, this was the best night to be a North supporter, and in a lot of ways better. It's easy to jump on when a team is doing well but turning out to save your club, that's a different kind of awesome.

Roosistence reinforced to everyone that North Melbourne isn't a football team, it's a football club.

And I know it's against the rules of BigFooty to post pr0n but **** it, red card me, I don't care.

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to the music of Sgt. Pepper's

It was 10 Years Ago today,
The Roosistence was play today.
 
goalieboy82 said:
to the music of Sgt. Pepper's

It was 10 Years Ago today,
The Roosistence was play today.
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Your rhyming of today and today is Lennon-esque, Timmy :thumbsu:
 
B Tron said:
Just looking through those bands. Anyone else remember Bouncer? Hilariously bad hip hop.
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Yep and agree, but the fact Bouncer was there helping our cause that night meant I saw and heard their hip hop as if I was viewing the debut gig of Flava Flav, Ice Cube and Marky Mark.
 
TOD gone now (no idea if you lurk mate) but you know what would be good on this roughly 10 year anniversary. A similar event to fundraise (funds could be to something proactive for the club - donated memberships for those hard up etc). We could call it: Roosurgence. :thumbsu:
 

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