Injury Update

[palisades]

My kid didn't want to go to the game on the weekend because he knew we'd get smashed, so I went alone and we did get smashed. He now tells me he wants to change to the Blues. I'm praying they lose to the Saints tonight.

But he's right 2011 is a disgrace, coming off 11 wins, an encouraging list with highly rated kids, a training camp in Utah etc we were right to think 2011 would see some improvement - but we haven't got anything to get excited about yet, and in fact we've gone backwards. I can't think of one thing that has worked for us this year. Even Richmond and Essendon have absolutely leapfrogged us.

So I point my son to the bad luck we've had with guys on the injury list, he keeps saying we need McIntosh back. Well, it would be nice if someone at the club showed some respect to the members and fans and updated the Injury List.

Surely the club has a better idea than indefinite with regards to Bastinac and Hamish's and others injuries - are they in rehab, in moon boots, back on the track, hoping to play in the ressies soon, how many weeks away from it!!

If they are still Indefinite after Round 7 they are basically out for the Year.

Anything would be better that the pathetic lip service they give us of Indefinite. We need to hold out hope for something.

 

[Harris 10]

Anything would be better that the pathetic lip service they give us of Indefinite. We need to hold out hope for something.

Its not just North its the entire league who are not honest with injuries. Its crap and there is nothing to gain from it.

Clubs as a whole need to be more open with everyting, not just injuries.

 

[Bigeasy]

Kids are so vulnerable to changing teams, especially if the team they follow is unfashionable, getting ripped into daily by the press and generally performing shithouse.

My son was also swaying and he'd been following North for 10 years??? I told him that he can change religion, change his sexual orientation and even change his sex but if he changes his team, I will disown him.

I have a daughter now but at least she's a North supporter.






* story may have been slightly exaggerated

 

[blackshadow]

palisades - you need to ask your kid if he values his pocket money!

 

[Event Horizon]

My son is also asking when is Hamish back. I don't want to bore him with views that Hamish wouldn't help us much, and in fact may not get a game when fit, as some would say.

My oldest son is just 6yo, and at this stage I can keep him and my daughter in the dark of our ladder position but not for long. We better pull the finger out or it's going to get more difficult to keep kids true to the colours.

My son asked who are we playing this week? I said Melbourne. He said, "we should win, I remember us beating them twice last year! I definitely want to go this week" I didn't want to remind him we also managed to lose to Richmond this season...

 

[trevagreene]

I tell me my kids, that we have a young team. I also tell them that only North Melbourne give them presents ! ( so an occassional trip to the Roo Shop with them keeps 'em in check )

 

[Works atErrol St]

It's difficult I know.
My nine year old daughter is North through and through.
I'm lucky that she says the people in her class who have chosen Geelong and Collingwood aren't real supporters like us. I was proud when she mentioned to me she had liked video footage on the big screen at Ethihad that showed some sort of history of North. Displaying a feel of toughness and togetherness; I didn't see it. She added that when the Collingwoods of the world players retire ours will be good.

I'm fortunate with her, but my son who comes now ( seven years old) had a bizarre penchant for the Dockers. Who he reckons put in.

 

[fairdinkum]

Kids are so vulnerable to changing teams, especially if the team they follow is unfashionable, getting ripped into daily by the press and generally performing shithouse.

My son was also swaying and he'd been following North for 10 years??? I told him that he can change religion, change his sexual orientation and even change his sex but if he changes his team, I will disown him.

I have a daughter now but at least she's a North supporter.

 

[Tas]

Club probably doesn't know a date.

 

[Twinkletoes]

I'm sure some of us* were 6 to 10 during the late 80's, lamenting the team we'd had thrust upon us since birth, having missed the "Golden Era" our folks spoke of so fondly, the 1970's. Well the kids who stuck fat had the most magnificent era following our great club throughout their teens.

Remind the kids of that. Things can, and do change.

* Not me of course

 

[spurs]

What I want to know is how do you get your son and daughter interested in North when we play 2 games a year in Perth

Tough gig.

 

[Twinkletoes]

What I want to know is how do you get your son and daughter interested in North when we play 2 games a year in Perth

Tough gig.

That is tougher spurs. Do you guys have Foxtel? You'd certainly want to ensure they're seeing every game live, and that they have a full kit of supporter wear and player posters etc. It wouldn't be easy, seeing them go to school surrounded by Freo and Weagle supporters brainwashed into thinking they're the only clubs to support. Good luck!

 

[spurs]

That is tougher spurs. Do you guys have Foxtel? You'd certainly want to ensure they're seeing every game live, and that they have a full kit of supporter wear and player posters etc. It wouldn't be easy, seeing them go to school surrounded by Freo and Weagle supporters brainwashed into thinking they're the only clubs to support. Good luck!

It sure is and I'm the coach of my boys team.

I still have my boy Jack. He is backing North all the way, but my 7 year old daughter is turning 17 nowadays and tries to get Dad into trouble with Mum.

eg. I watched the North V Tigers game and was screaming at the tv. My daughter popped in to watch and said "Go Tigers" just to shit me. She just fires me up and she is still saying Go Tigers. I don't think she cares much for the Tigers but she now knows that it pisses me off and now she has the key.

 

[Z_K]

People who talk about their kids following another club are a differen't species. I know the words on the page and can read them, but they make no sense when group together to form a sentence. It confounds me. I have no conception of how that is allowed to evolve into a thought and then active support and like of another football club over the right one.

My eldest kid - and not even the good one that I like - said on Sunday she "likes the black and yellow Tigers". The missus did well and put herself between me and the child expecting an explosion of venom and ranting, white hot furioius anger, but I didn't even smash the room up and make her watch the '96 GF on a loop. I explained the way things were and that was enough, as it was for me and as it should be for everyone.

 

[The OBSTacle]

Far too many of you people underestimate the value of a savage beating.

 

[Event Horizon]

People who talk about their kids following another club are a differen't species. I know the words on the page and can read them, but they make no sense when group together to form a sentence. It confounds me. I have no conception of how that is allowed to evolve into a thought and then active support and like of another football club over the right one.

My eldest kid - and not even the good one that I like - said on Sunday she "likes the black and yellow Tigers". The missus did well and put herself between me and the child expecting an explosion of venom and ranting, white hot furioius anger, but I didn't even smash the room up and make her watch the '96 GF on a loop. I explained the way things were and that was enough, as it was for me and as it should be for everyone.

Supporting another club is NOT and will never be an option in my family. I have 3 kids and all have been members since the first day of their lives.

But that doesn't change the fact that they will ask some tough questions at times. I have no difficulty explaining why supporting North is the right thing to do as compared to the big clubs that "everyone at school" supports etc etc, but when we're also not winning games it is becoming harder to do.

The easiest thing of all to say is that our club is a family club with the right values and culture, and we are NOT like the majority of fools who go with the crowd. And we also happen to kick their ass on the field, as we did in the 1990s.

 

[Twinkletoes]

My eldest kid - and not even the good one that I like - said on Sunday she "likes the black and yellow Tigers". The missus did well and put herself between me and the child expecting an explosion of venom and ranting, white hot furioius anger, but I didn't even smash the room up and make her watch the '96 GF on a loop. I explained the way things were and that was enough, as it was for me and as it should be for everyone.

Haha, just spat the lunch over the laptop reading that bolded line NB.

Agree with your general sentiment. "Why support North you ask child? Because you do! END OF!"

 

[Only Forwards]

My Ex is a Retchmond follower, My son also plays for a team that is the Tigers.

He comes to the footy every second week(game in melbourne). He knows I wear my heart on my sleeve with the Roos.

When he doubts (its not often) I just tell him how he is a 5th generation Roo and that his family have followed them for almost 100 years. I also saturate him with us, he struggles to name Retchmond players beyond Martin and Riewoldt, he could probably name most seniors and some rookies for us.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Far too many of you people underestimate the value of a savage beating.

I tend to value my freedom.

 

[spurs]

Feck this I am upgrading my baseball bat for a new one....my family WILL follow NMFC.

 

[The OBSTacle]

I tend to value my freedom.

There are certain things that I'm prepared to go to jail for.

People who talk about their kids following another club are a differen't species. I know the words on the page and can read them, but they make no sense when group together to form a sentence. It confounds me. I have no conception of how that is allowed to evolve into a thought and then active support and like of another football club over the right one.

My eldest kid - and not even the good one that I like - said on Sunday she "likes the black and yellow Tigers". The missus did well and put herself between me and the child expecting an explosion of venom and ranting, white hot furioius anger, but I didn't even smash the room up and make her watch the '96 GF on a loop. I explained the way things were and that was enough, as it was for me and as it should be for everyone.

Damn STRAIGHT!

I remember when we were kids the younger brother was stupid enough to mention to my grand mother that he was thinking of following Essendon, because "that's who all his mates follow".

A few days later Nan produced a pair of Essendon footy socks, makes the brother put them on, and sends YB out to the back yard where myself, another brother, and a couple of cousins were kicking the plastic footy.

Well...needless to say...YB may as well have had a sign painted "Treat me like shit, I enjoy it" plastered across his chest.

The Essendon socks disappeared forever from that point onwards.

 

[Limerick]

I'm sure some of us* were 6 to 10 during the late 80's,
* Not me of course

Oh I wish

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

What I want to know is how do you get your son and daughter interested in North when we play 2 games a year in Perth

Tough gig.

Got a similar issue, not from Perth originally but lived here for over 10 years now.

My own mother was a Hawks supporter, but obviously never shoved it down my throat. (My father on the other hand hates all sport and was an original member of Keith Dunstan's anti-football league). As my partner is a Swans supporter, I agreed to follow my mum's lead and not force North upon the first-born.

Big mistake! Last year he started going to family day care a couple of days a week. Lovely old lady and he got a lot out of it, but unfortunately her hubby is a Dockers man. Any other year I'm sure it would have been fine, but of course last year he was all up and about with their success and now the boy is a Dockers supporter. Held out some hope when he watched their opening game against Brisbane this year and declared he was also going for the Lions and the team in yellow (umpires), but he refuses to be swayed.

The only positive is that one of his playmates has also adopted the Dockers much to the chagrin of her Blues supporting father.

Good news is that I have not held off on the daughter, and not only has she declared her love of kangaroos, she shows much more interest in football generally. (Basically she's a pig and loves going to the pub for football and hot chips, but hey whatever works).

 

[danj]

My boy shouts out 'Go Roos!' and 'Go Harvey!' in a very loud voice at all the matches he attends, he has a ball, even last Saturday at G'long...he is only 2yrs and 3mths I hope he can keep the faith once he understands how to read the ladder and what it means to lose every now and then, who knows by then we might just be finals contenders

 

[Roosurgence]

My 19 month old daughter thinks every team on the TV is the Kangas!

That's good enough for me at the moment.

I was especially proud of her when Petrie took that pack mark in the square on the weekend and she kept saying "again" as I kept rewinding and playing it on the IQ.

I think she was more interested in Daddy jumping up and down yelling "Drewbie", than the mark itself.

3 more years of brainwashing and I think I will be well on the way to locking her up to North for life, if not disowning could be a possibility!