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Ken McGregor [noun]: the Anti-Perrie.
"Ken Mac-Greg-er"
Other meanings include
-Legend
-Great
-Champion
-Future Captain :o
-Better than Perrie:thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu:
-What Nick Gill aspires to be when he grows up (look at the hairstyle).
 
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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22702249-21543,00.html

Kenny's heart in the right place

KEN McGregor admits to being an emotional wreck after Adelaide's dramatic, last-second loss to Hawthorn in this year's elimination final.
Sitting in a corner of the Telstra Dome changerooms, a misty-eyed McGregor was reflecting on the Crows' once-promising season coming to a screaming halt, life without the club's greatest player, Mark Ricciuto, and his own future – which didn't appear to be at Adelaide.
"It was a very emotional time," McGregor, who kicked four goals in a strong display up forward, recalled.
"We'd lost a game we should have won, Roo had played his last match and was in tears and I was thinking it could be my last game for the club I love so much too.
"There was definitely a lot of emotion going on in the changerooms and there were all sorts of thoughts going through my head."
Most of them had out-of-contract McGregor agonisingly saying goodbye to the team-mates he had come to love and the the club he had grown up supporting and spilling blood, sweat and tears for in 145, hard-earned AFL matches.
"At that stage I really wasn't sure If I had a future at Adelaide," McGregor, 26, said.
"I desperately wanted to stay but the signs weren't good and I wasn't sure whether they wanted me anymore or would offer me another contract.
"Being a bit older, being in and out of the side and not knowing which direction the club was going to take, I was definitely worried about things, particularly late in the season when I couldn't get a game. It was really tough."
Crowd favourite McGregor was also dealing with his own demons.
If he wasn't getting a regular game in a side which lacked talls and goalkickers, was it time for him to make a stand, move on and seek greener pastures elsewhere?
"I had to weigh that up," he said. "Were their better opportunities at another club?"
McGregor's manager, Justin Reid, had talks with Victorian clubs the Western Bulldogs and Essendon – who were both keen on adding a versatile key position player to their lists. But, deep-down, McGregor – who the Crows publicly stated was tradeable – did not want to leave.
And when Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg sat him down in his office and assured him there was a place for him at Crowland, he couldn't put pen to paper quickly enough.
He signed a new two-year contract and now hopes to finish his career at the place he started it, saying he only ever wanted to be a one-club player.
"I didn't want to go anywhere because, to me, the Crows are my club," McGregor said.
"But there were times when I didn't think I'd have much choice and I might have to leave.
"After I had a good heart-to-heart with Triggy and I knew they wanted me to stay it clinched the deal as far as I was concerned.
"I decided this is my club – I've always wanted to be a one-club player – and I didn't want to be seen running away from it.
"The club's been good to me, the supporters have been great and I wanted to repay them by showing some loyalty."
McGregor, who has seen long-term team-mates Jason Torney and Matthew Bode have their careers taken from them after an off-season clean-out at West Lakes, now hopes he can finish his career at Adelaide. "To know I've given my all for the Adelaide Football Club – and the Adelaide Football Club only – will be a great feeling when I hang up the boots," he said. "That will be special to me." McGregor, whose versatility is a key to his game, wants to cement an attacking position next season but also intends to train as a ruckman over summer.
"If a ruck role comes up or someone is injured I wouldn't mind having a crack at that," he said, mindful that the Crows have lost lead ruckman Ben Hudson and the emerging John Meesen to the Bulldogs and Melbourne respectively. "It's something I feel I'm capable of doing."
And another string in the bow for the Crows' Mr Fixit!
 

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Re: #16 - Ken McGregor

Ken McGregor Interview 19/12/07


http://www.youtube.com/v/gz58R_uDqqs


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