Universal Love RIP Russell Ebert. The greatest man!
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bomberclifford
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What an arsewipe of an organisation.
They've clearly used this as a template:
... and only written one paragraph that's actually about Russell.
One of the greatest players to play in their league's history and they can't even be bothered to write an obituary properly.
And they wonder why we pushed to enter the VFL/AFL.
Tin ******* Pot.
manureid
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What in the actual *. What a pissant organisation.
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Sounds like some of it relates to another player, maybe Brian Faesche of Westies?
Maybe he, or someone else from West also passed away, and the work experience guys at the Tiser mixed the two together?
Whatever, it's pretty ******* stupid and unprofessional that no one proof read it to pick it up
Irrespective of who's family it was, would be embarrassing and traumatic for any family to see something like that at a time of grief!
RussellEbertHandball
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Yeah its Brian Faesche's profile/obituary. Now if he passed away a week or two ago you could see how there was a stuff up but he passed away in March. What a pack of incompetent arseholes. The guy at the Tsier wouldn't have put the wording together.Sounds like some of it relates to another player, maybe Brian Faesche of Westies?
Maybe he, or someone else from West also passed away, and the work experience guys at the Tiser mixed the two together?
Whatever, it's pretty ******* stupid and unprofessional that no one proof read it to pick it up
Irrespective of who's family it was, would be embarrassing and traumatic for any family to see something like that at a time of grief!
Edit SANFL saying its a stuff up by the Tsier.
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bomberclifford
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Sounds like some of it relates to another player, maybe Brian Faesche of Westies?
Maybe he, or someone else from West also passed away, and the work experience guys at the Tiser mixed the two together?
Whatever, it's pretty ******* stupid and unprofessional that no one proof read it to pick it up
Irrespective of who's family it was, would be embarrassing and traumatic for any family to see something like that at a time of grief!
It's from Brian Faehse's obit. He died earlier this year.
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Typical *ing Murdoch Advertiser. Calls the great man 'Brian', says he played for West Adelaide...Bloody disgrace of a rag.
But it ain't the crows so who cares anyway, right? Seething.
www.abc.net.au
But it ain't the crows so who cares anyway, right? Seething.
Russell Ebert obituary riddled with errors - ABC listen
It says he played 222 games for West Adelaide.
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Posted in the media thread but cross post here for completeness. SANFL says the Crowvertiser fcked it up.
Russell Ebert obituary riddled with errors - ABC listen
It says he played 222 games for West Adelaide.
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Posted in the media thread but cross post here for completeness. SANFL says the Crowvertiser fcked it up.
Russell Ebert obituary riddled with errors - ABC listen
It says he played 222 games for West Adelaide.
Bullshittttt.
Ask Chandler who at the snafl received the proof that get's sent through for checking.
Unlikely to be a mistake, it would be an almost impossible mistake to make.Typical f*n Murdoch Advertiser. Calls the great man 'Brian', says he played for West Adelaide...Bloody disgrace of a rag.
But it ain't the crows so who cares anyway, right? Seething.
Russell Ebert obituary riddled with errors - ABC listen
It says he played 222 games for West Adelaide.
Probably a camry cow supporter with zero class.
Just seems a very odd mistake to make.
It had to be done by a very junior member of staff at either organisation who had no idea who they were talking about. That is about the ony rational explanation.
The SANFL, no matter what a petty bunch of campaigners we think they are, would not be that silly or disrespectful to do it on purpose. Ebert was a SANFL great.
It had to be done by a very junior member of staff at either organisation who had no idea who they were talking about. That is about the ony rational explanation.
The SANFL, no matter what a petty bunch of campaigners we think they are, would not be that silly or disrespectful to do it on purpose. Ebert was a SANFL great.
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Yep.
The Advertiser is a just click bait paper that employs very few journos or copy editors these days.
Of course it was a mistake made there. They make many every single day. They just don't give a fck. about accuracy anymore.
Thankfully no one with half a brain reads that rag these days but it just shows zero respect or care for this state and its people.
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I really hope that they can let as many people in as possible. I know there's funeral caps but if it's outdoors on the oval surely they can let 20-25k in.
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Yea I heard that too.
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F Me! how can that happen with such a high profile tribute, someone's head needs to roll, simply not bloody good enough.
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What a monumental fk up. Russell Ebert would probably have laughed it off but this was meant to be an obitiary. Honestly, was it that hard for someone to proof read it before it went to print?
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It's supposedly been ****ed up after SANFL signed off on the proof.
Having a hard time believing that's possible, but
RussellEbertHandball
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Last night on AA, listening to Bucky talk about Russell, it dawned on me how much of a masterstroke it was by him and Rob Snowdown to ask Russell to help run and be the face of our Community programs after being set up with the help of a primary school principal who took 12 months off work, to help work through the education department maze.
Port 'lost' Russell for over a decade, almost 12 years - the length of time of our premiership drought he played a major part in breaking in 1977. Look at the next 22 years after both those events. When Bruce Weber sacked Russell, there was a lot of ill feelings about it, but Russell went down the road and endeared himself at Woodville. Many of those players had been coached by Blight between 1983-87 and he leaves to go back to Victoria and is replaced by Russell. Pretty good time to be a Woodville player and improve the club's lot. He then starts spreading his influence and builds a close relationship with Woodville's CEO and future SA footy powerbroker Bill Sanders.
The crows come in and Woodville merged with West Torrens after the 1990 season and Russell has further disappointment of missing out on the job as coach of the new merged club.
But in typical Russell way, he gets on with it, goes and coaches the state U/17 side in the Teal Cup and SA wins it in 1991, the first time since 1980 when SA had those emerging superstars all at once, Kernahan, Bradley, Platten, McDermott, etc (1981 team had Motley, McIntosh, Hall etc that played the final v Victoria in front of 92,000 at Waverley Park before a Collingwood v Hawthorn game). He coaches SA again to Teal Cup victory in 1995 the last year it was an U/17 championships. He coached the Teal Cup / U/18 state side up to the end of the 1998 championships, and also coaches the State of Origin team between 1996 and 1998.
It's that period where Russell spreads his influence far and wide and well past Alberton and Port supporters to the wider SA footy public, plus that 10 years or so he worked at 5AA on their sports shows and footy coverage, where at times he was gruff and blunt about things. I think by 1999 anyone from Port's administration he held a grudge against had long gone, so he had no problems by then then taking up Bucky's offer.
Then when the game becomes full-time professional and we are asking these 18-19-20 year old kids to leave home and be full-time footballers, no study or outside jobs, we as a club had to help educate them as they couldn't train and go to footy planning meetings 40 hours a week, so the community programs helped us educate and keep these young men occupied.
Imagine being an 18/19 year old kid, not knowing much about the PAFC, Adelaide and SA, and you spend the first few years at Port regularly driving to schools and communities in the city or country, regularly stopping off at great bakeries and have Russell talking to you about Port, footy in general, the great people involved with the club, and life in general, and being educated by such a humble champion. Ollie in his 2nd or 3rd year at Port said that Russell said to him, to come with him for a short drive to a school and they ended up in the Riverland. Shaun Burgoyne talks about Russell's influence in his book via these programs, even after he had left the club a dozen years later.
It's an important reason why our players don't want to leave. If the great man was prepared to make an effort to help you out, why would you want to leave if you are regularly getting A grade games? Its something the crows don't have, probably don't have anyone who could do the mentoring and education with the depth the way Russell did.
It's why the club has to think long and hard about how, and who they replace Russell with, in our community programs.
Bucky also talks a bit about how hard he trained by himself on Tuesday night's at Alberton when he was playing for North when the rest of the Port side were also training.
Russell maintained a long and strong friendship with Ross Glendinning and AA interviewed him last night. Ross regularly spoke to Russell, every couple of weeks whilst he was ill. Talks glowingly about Russell's time at North. Ross was working for Budget rent a car at melbourne airport, so he was the one who picked him up or organised a rental car for him in 1979, so they spent a lot of time together that year.
An emotional Pauly V also talks about Russell and the stuff he did in the community programs and the people he influenced. Said he either calls him Ledge or Uncle and said Russell was the 2nd person he meet at Port and talked to him about the Aboriginal people he grew up with in the Riverland and some are Pauly's relatives.
Port 'lost' Russell for over a decade, almost 12 years - the length of time of our premiership drought he played a major part in breaking in 1977. Look at the next 22 years after both those events. When Bruce Weber sacked Russell, there was a lot of ill feelings about it, but Russell went down the road and endeared himself at Woodville. Many of those players had been coached by Blight between 1983-87 and he leaves to go back to Victoria and is replaced by Russell. Pretty good time to be a Woodville player and improve the club's lot. He then starts spreading his influence and builds a close relationship with Woodville's CEO and future SA footy powerbroker Bill Sanders.
The crows come in and Woodville merged with West Torrens after the 1990 season and Russell has further disappointment of missing out on the job as coach of the new merged club.
But in typical Russell way, he gets on with it, goes and coaches the state U/17 side in the Teal Cup and SA wins it in 1991, the first time since 1980 when SA had those emerging superstars all at once, Kernahan, Bradley, Platten, McDermott, etc (1981 team had Motley, McIntosh, Hall etc that played the final v Victoria in front of 92,000 at Waverley Park before a Collingwood v Hawthorn game). He coaches SA again to Teal Cup victory in 1995 the last year it was an U/17 championships. He coached the Teal Cup / U/18 state side up to the end of the 1998 championships, and also coaches the State of Origin team between 1996 and 1998.
It's that period where Russell spreads his influence far and wide and well past Alberton and Port supporters to the wider SA footy public, plus that 10 years or so he worked at 5AA on their sports shows and footy coverage, where at times he was gruff and blunt about things. I think by 1999 anyone from Port's administration he held a grudge against had long gone, so he had no problems by then then taking up Bucky's offer.
Then when the game becomes full-time professional and we are asking these 18-19-20 year old kids to leave home and be full-time footballers, no study or outside jobs, we as a club had to help educate them as they couldn't train and go to footy planning meetings 40 hours a week, so the community programs helped us educate and keep these young men occupied.
Imagine being an 18/19 year old kid, not knowing much about the PAFC, Adelaide and SA, and you spend the first few years at Port regularly driving to schools and communities in the city or country, regularly stopping off at great bakeries and have Russell talking to you about Port, footy in general, the great people involved with the club, and life in general, and being educated by such a humble champion. Ollie in his 2nd or 3rd year at Port said that Russell said to him, to come with him for a short drive to a school and they ended up in the Riverland. Shaun Burgoyne talks about Russell's influence in his book via these programs, even after he had left the club a dozen years later.
It's an important reason why our players don't want to leave. If the great man was prepared to make an effort to help you out, why would you want to leave if you are regularly getting A grade games? Its something the crows don't have, probably don't have anyone who could do the mentoring and education with the depth the way Russell did.
It's why the club has to think long and hard about how, and who they replace Russell with, in our community programs.
Bucky also talks a bit about how hard he trained by himself on Tuesday night's at Alberton when he was playing for North when the rest of the Port side were also training.
Russell maintained a long and strong friendship with Ross Glendinning and AA interviewed him last night. Ross regularly spoke to Russell, every couple of weeks whilst he was ill. Talks glowingly about Russell's time at North. Ross was working for Budget rent a car at melbourne airport, so he was the one who picked him up or organised a rental car for him in 1979, so they spent a lot of time together that year.
An emotional Pauly V also talks about Russell and the stuff he did in the community programs and the people he influenced. Said he either calls him Ledge or Uncle and said Russell was the 2nd person he meet at Port and talked to him about the Aboriginal people he grew up with in the Riverland and some are Pauly's relatives.
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The Advertiser today published a tribute to Russell Ebert from the South Australian National Football League.
A production error by The Advertiser meant a previous SANFL tribute to Player Life Member Brian Faehse, who died in March, was inadvertently published under Mr Ebert’s name.
The Advertiser sincerely apologises to the SANFL, the Ebert and Faehse families, and our readers for the error.
The correct tribute will run in Wednesday’s edition of The Advertiser.
See the correct tribute below.
South Australian football legend Russell Ebert.
RUSSELL EBERT OAM
The SANFL and SA Football Commission are deeply saddened by the passing of SA Football Hall of Fame Member Russell Ebert OAM.
Russell was a champion of the game in our state, leaving an indelible mark through his on-field brilliance as the only player to win four Magarey Medals.
An inaugural member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Russell played 392 games for Port Adelaide, earned three premiership medals and six best-and-fairests. He was an inaugural inductee into the SA Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
Russell was a true gentlemen who will be remembered for his tremendous service and contribution on and off-field to the League, football and broader community in South Australia.
On behalf of Chairman The Hon Rob Kerin, CEO Darren Chandler, the SA Football Commission and SANFL we extend our deepest sympathy to Di and the Ebert family along with the PAFC football community.
