Delisted #22: Irving Mosquito - Parts ways with the club, unable to return from injury - 13/8

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Contract Status: Retired
Last Game Played: Round 16, 2020 (injured)
Injury Status: Has taken indefinite leave - 11/5
Ruptured ACL confirmed - 7/9
Serious-looking knee injury against Geelong - 6/9
 
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Essendon have long been the champions of Indigenous Australians in football, and as such its no surprise to see a large number of indigenous kids that tend to have grown up supporting the Bombers.

In turn, my personal experience has been that Essendon fans themselves tend to take a sense of pride in being that club - as a result our Indigenous players are often among the very favourite players we have.

So kid goes to a club he'd be absolutely delighted to be at, and a club gets a kid that are absolutely delighted to have him.

It adds an extra scoop of delightful however, to know he was snatched from under the noses of historically the most racist club in the games history.

Absolutely delicious.
 

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Lmao did we take haewwwthornees bloke?
 
Jade said:
Essendon have long been the champions of Indigenous Australians in football, and as such its no surprise to see a large number of indigenous kids that tend to have grown up supporting the Bombers.

In turn, my personal experience has been that Essendon fans themselves tend to take a sense of pride in being that club - as a result our Indigenous players are often among the very favourite players we have.

So kid goes to a club he'd be absolutely delighted to be at, and a club gets a kid that are absolutely delighted to have him.

It adds an extra scoop of delightful however, to know he was snatched from under the noses of historically the most racist club in the games history.

Absolutely delicious.
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Out bush in the NT 15 years ago it was all Essendon and West Coast. I reckon there would be heaps of Hawthorn these days too with the Cyril, Burgoyne and Buddy show happening a few years ago. However, part that is also to do with the jumper the local team plays in. Lajamanu plays in Sydney jumpers so there are heaps of Sydney supporters there. Yuendemu plays in Collingwood jumpers, so there are heaps of Collingwood supporters there.
 
fishardansin said:


I know I am a maths teacher and all ... but **** school!! ... get him on the track full time!
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Skol never dun nuffing for me. Footy is the fucher.
 
Looking at the video highlights, he seems to have good balance, sometimes with these flashy type players is they can be a bit fumbly but Mozzie seems well balanced and I can see a bit of Cyril in him, I can see him getting a game or two this season.
 
Bombermania said:
Looking at the video highlights, he seems to have good balance, sometimes with these flashy type players is they can be a bit fumbly but Mozzie seems well balanced and I can see a bit of Cyril in him, I can see him getting a game or two this season.
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Mate, he'll kick 8 on debut in the dream time game to help us leapfrog the Tigers on the ladder.
 

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What a great smile
 
Jade said:
Essendon have long been the champions of Indigenous Australians in football, and as such its no surprise to see a large number of indigenous kids that tend to have grown up supporting the Bombers.

In turn, my personal experience has been that Essendon fans themselves tend to take a sense of pride in being that club - as a result our Indigenous players are often among the very favourite players we have.

So kid goes to a club he'd be absolutely delighted to be at, and a club gets a kid that are absolutely delighted to have him.

It adds an extra scoop of delightful however, to know he was snatched from under the noses of historically the most racist club in the games history.

Absolutely delicious.
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Solid post and wholeheartedly agree. Except Ryder, * that guy.

Anyway welcome to the mozzie, may he be a source of annoyance/malaria to all the other clubs
 
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I got permission from Irv's guardian to capture the video off Facebook and upload to YouTube.

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Thank you for posting that video.

Brought a tear to my eye.
 
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I got permission from Irv's guardians to capture the video off Facebook and upload to YouTube.

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Thanks heaps for that. Just so unassuming in his response and a lovely moment for a kid who has come a long long way to get where he has today.

How’s the comment, ‘so they weren’t full of s**t’?...
 
Welcome Irving. You’ve landed at a club with a fair record with schoolboys. 1000 games out of Madden, Watson, Fletcher. Hope you can add a few hundred more.
 
terrific selection.
i guessed we would go small forward though i thought Cameron would be our target.
will excite
 
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