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Rawhead

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Well it's a bit old, but it is offseason and I found it by accident, was an interesting blast from the (recent) past.

http://williamsonmanagement.net/articles/Sports%20Interview%20Mal%20Michael.htm


Mal: Don’t tell anyone but I recently was out of the country and did a biscuit endorsement. They paid me in bloody biscuits and then customs confiscated them when I came back home. Some kind of beef biscuit, potential for all sorts of problems the quarantine guy told me.
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LMAO



I also found this very interesting:

Mal & wife Kim owned the Alibi Room on Brunswick until recently
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I used to talk to the Alibi manager James Straker quite a bit because we moved in the same circles, and he used to tell me a bit about the owner 'Mal', but never let on exactly who Mal was. In fact I actually 'talked' to Mal on numerous occasion through the Alibi website, and even had a couple of internet blues with him. I never in a blue moon thought it was Mal Micheal.

I now realise I know quite a bit about Mal and some of his shady dealings.


Amazing.
 
Grimreepah said:
Hmmm.... bit of a tease there.
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Yeah I know, but I'm not out to character assasinate him. He already did that.



Anyways, nothing too bad, just behaved (so I was told, and kind of guessed) like every other club owner I've ever met in the valley, no better, no worse.

I was actually supposed to apparently meet him when a 'friend' had her 21st and 'Mal' was putting on a small private function for her and her friends, but I bailed cause that crowd wasn't really my crowd.

Just goes to show, never turn down a party invite cause you never know what you might learn.
 

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Ahh Mal...

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Funny how he says 'If I don't get what I want I'll move' seemingly in relation to a 4 year contract, and then he ends up "retiring" after 3 years anyway.
 
Rawhead said:
but I bailed cause that crowd wasn't really my crowd.
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You would have to dress different. ....act different. ....to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and ... need a new bedspread and new curtains .... have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. ....have to get new friends.




Great thread:D but will it be here later.



 
I hope that Lions fans remember the great service Michael gave to the club and how he was an integral member of the brilliant Lions side that dominated the competition for so long. Tormented Essendon many times that team did. We got him once his game was falling away anyway. You got the best years out of Mal.
 
bomba4eva said:
I hope that Lions fans remember the great service Michael gave to the club and how he was an integral member of the brilliant Lions side that dominated the competition for so long. Tormented Essendon many times that team did. We got him once his game was falling away anyway. You got the best years out of Mal.
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Wow, patronising.

I adre say we are very familiar with the exploits of Mal Michael. Both on and off the field.
 
There are quite a few people who know the real reason Mal wanted out of Brisbane (the city, not the club). It would be pretty crass to expose those reasons here.

It was unfortunate however, that he tried to get his PR machine to spin the story in other directions, such as the ridiculous story about the Lions not giving him time off to work on his charity. An utter, utter fabrication.
 
bomba4eva said:
I hope that Lions fans remember the great service Michael gave to the club and how he was an integral member of the brilliant Lions side that dominated the competition for so long. Tormented Essendon many times that team did. We got him once his game was falling away anyway. You got the best years out of Mal.
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Who knows bomba4eva, for some it might be a bit like a broken relationship?
There were the good times but the means to the end can still evoke frustration even bitterness.
Others might say loyalty is the sum of commitment and obligation.

In the end should the supporter now fiddle the books to ensure a balanced ledger?
 

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bomba4eva said:
I hope that Lions fans remember the great service Michael gave to the club and how he was an integral member of the brilliant Lions side that dominated the competition for so long. Tormented Essendon many times that team did. We got him once his game was falling away anyway. You got the best years out of Mal.
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I remember both the good bits and the bad bits.
 
What a coincidence, I actually ran into Mal Michael's grandfather or uncle at the gym last week and all I could make out from our conversation was "It was bulls#@!" over and over again in reference to Mal leaving the Lions and playing for the Bombers and Mal's promise to develop the AFL in PNG. He was even wearing one of Mal's old training tops. We talked for quite a while but he was difficult to understand.
 
John said:
You would have to dress different. ....act different. ....to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and ... need a new bedspread and new curtains .... have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. ....have to get new friends.







:eek:...I did not post the above....I really didn't!....;)

My little dots are catching on.....:D



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MacMum said:
John said:
You would have to dress different. ....act different. ....to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and ... need a new bedspread and new curtains .... have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. ....have to get new friends.







:eek:...I did not post the above....I really didn't!....;)

My little dots are catching on.....:D
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I like the dots MacMum...they make a nice variation from - for a space....there is also >>> too.
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TheBrownDog said:
There are quite a few people who know the real reason Mal wanted out of Brisbane (the city, not the club). It would be pretty crass to expose those reasons here.
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TheBrownDog said:
It was unfortunate however, that he tried to get his PR machine to spin the story in other directions, such as the ridiculous story about the Lions not giving him time off to work on his charity. An utter, utter fabrication.
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The many who know the real reason Mal left the Lions, and the spin he left behind to cover it up, also know that this is the measure of the bloke as a man. He was a very good footballer, but off the field perhaps not so good a person.
 
brisbanelioness said:
What a coincidence, I actually ran into Mal Michael's grandfather or uncle at the gym last week and all I could make out from our conversation was "It was bulls#@!" over and over again in reference to Mal leaving the Lions and playing for the Bombers and Mal's promise to develop the AFL in PNG. He was even wearing one of Mal's old training tops. We talked for quite a while but he was difficult to understand.
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Was he drunk? :)
 

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Rawhead said:
So much for my 'revelation' about Mal.QUOTE]

No doubt Weevil has his twiching finger on the trigger nervously watching every post in this thread.

John said:
You would have to dress different. ....act different. ....to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and ... need a new bedspread and new curtains .... have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. ....have to get new friends.
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Very descriptive and kind of seductively alluring John. May take me some time off work today and surprise the missus. :D
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Slightly off topic an article in last weeks Age by Rohan Connolly titled Be still, my beating heart and yes this all purely coincidental. :D

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FOOTBALL codes are always trying to appeal to new fans. But the latest approach from Britain's Rugby Football Union is, pardon the pun, particularly novel. The RFU has teamed up with publisher Mills and Boon for a series of eight steamy tales from the touchline, the first of them The Prince's Waitress Wife.
Other titles in the series are: The French Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress, At The Argentinian Billionaire's Bidding, The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin, The Italian Count's Defiant Bride, Blackmailed into the Greek Tycoon's Bed, The Virgin Secretary's Impossible Boss and The Sheik's Lovechild.
Here's an excerpt from the first book, describing a saucy encounter caught on camera and shown on the big screen during a match.
"Her voice rose, her cheeks were scarlet, and her reluctant glance towards the stadium ended in a moan of disbelief. 'Oh God, I can't believe this, my hair is all over the place and my bottom looks huge, and — everyone is looking.'
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mmmmm... with a good lawyer there could be money to be made here. ;)
 
Sporting Life can today reveal that the AFL is already on the case, its first football romance being written as we speak. And what a cracker it promises to be.

Here's a sneak peak: "Priscilla's heart fluttered as the quarter-time siren sounded, for now, at the huddle, she would come within touching distance of the object of her true love, sweet Michael.

" 'Harder, faster', she could hear the coach yelling, sadly, only to the players. Her pulse raced, her legs trembled. Suddenly she was jolted from her dreaming. 'Oi! Water!' a player bellowed in her direction. But there was none to be had. Priscilla had been forced to empty the contents of her supplies all over her body to douse the blazing fires that had been stoked within."
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Bugger, even Rohan Connolly knows more than I do.
 

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