Teammates that didn't like each other

[Ricky Vaughn]

Decent mobile phones were available by 1997, and many people had them, stop making bulldust excuses up. Footy players these days are defended to the hilt, when many of them are overpaid bogans.

So you make something up ("probably on his mobile") then get offended when somebody points out that is overwhelmingly unlikely, and accuse them of "making excuses."

I'd never heard of that incident before, seems like a young bloke who got a bit sleepy at the wheel. It doesn't sit well with me that you wouldn't be charged for something like that.

 

[Catoggio76]

So you make something up ("probably on his mobile") then get offended when somebody points out that is overwhelmingly unlikely, and accuse them of "making excuses."

I'd never heard of that incident before, seems like a young bloke who got a bit sleepy at the wheel. It doesn't sit well with me that you wouldn't be charged for something like that.

Sleeping is a possibility too. I was trying to make the point that the media article was not fully disclosing how Milburn ended up on the opposite side of a divided highway and killed someone. Geelong Road/Princes Highway b/w Melbourne and Geelong was a 4-lane 2-way highway back in the 90s and probably earlier.

 

[Luv_our_club]

Slightly before my time to be able to undertake a proper assessment - just how good was Justin Murphy?

(Was only 12 when he left the cattery in 2001)

A friend of mind told me he was a HUGE bully at school.

 

[Predator35]

In the 90s you could only call other mobiles from a mobile. They were pretty much just walky-talkys

Nonsense. I was rocking this bad boy in 98 and could call both mobiles and landlines. View attachment 427953

 

[Feerits Elf]

In the 90s you could only call other mobiles from a mobile.

Your mum just told you that so you wouldn't ring up huge landline bills calling mobiles.

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

So you make something up ("probably on his mobile") then get offended when somebody points out that is overwhelmingly unlikely, and accuse them of "making excuses."

I'd never heard of that incident before, seems like a young bloke who got a bit sleepy at the wheel. It doesn't sit well with me that you wouldn't be charged for something like that.

I think his theory is if Milburn had been charged and was breaking rocks or had been sacked by the club then he wouldn't have taken out SOS that time. His club is no longer one of the big four. Please be easy on him.

 

[Catoggio76]

I think his theory is if Milburn had been charged and was breaking rocks or had been sacked by the club then he wouldn't have taken out SOS that time. His club is no longer one of the big four. Please be easy on him.

Congrats you've just proved Milburn is a Scumbag.

 

[masai]

It's borderline - the first time i saw a friend with a mobile was 1999 and we were year 10 (so 15/16 yrs old)

It's plausible he had one, but unlikely that enough other people had one for him to be using it while driving though -

Mobiles were commonly used in at least 1994.

 

[Percel]

I worked in a shopping mall in 96, right next door to a motorola stockist, they sold shedloads of the flip phones

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

Congrats you've just proved Milburn is a Scumbag.

Take it to the bay you weapon.

76 hey? Do if you were born then you must've jumped on that Carlton bandwagon expecting years of unbridled success well past 1995.

 

[radiojake]

Mobiles were commonly used in at least 1994.

Yeah but kids didn't have them in 1994

 

[Catoggio76]

Yeah but kids didn't have them in 1994

I did Year 12 in 1994 and a few blokes walked around High School with pagers, the older blokes were starting to get mobiles around 1994.

Geez we gave the Pager Blokes heaps.

 

[radiojake]

I did Year 12 in 1994 and a few blokes walked around High School with pagers, the older blokes were starting to get mobiles around 1994.

Geez we gave the Pager Blokes heaps.

I remember one kid with a pager...


I also remember another kid talking on his phone reasonably loudly as he walked past the library. Very vibrant conversation

next minute, his phone rings in the middle of him talking...

he copped shit for ages

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anyway, i would have thought it would be mentioned if he was using his phone during the accident - and it's funny how insignificant details can end up chewing through a few bigfooty posts

 

[Royce Hafey]

I remember a bloke I worked with in the CES who had a ten year old "brick" phone complaining about the young unemployed on his caseload all having new flip-phone Nokias. The CES was abolished and we all took packages in April 1998 so it had to be before then.

 

[SterlingArcher]

I think his theory is if Milburn had been charged and was breaking rocks or had been sacked by the club then he wouldn't have taken out SOS that time. His club is no longer one of the big four. Please be easy on him.

Pretty telling that you've had to resort to bagging Carlton. No defence of the scumbag murderous Milburn.

 

[Rezza Tiger]

Mobiles were commonly used in at least 1994.

Correct. I remember them filtering in around 93\94. Were everywhere by 97.

 

[King Brown]

Congrats you've just proved Milburn is a Scumbag.

How do you feel about Justin Murphy?

 

[Simon_Says]

SurelyTex N Lever

 

[Catoggio76]

How do you feel about Justin Murphy?

same as Wayne Carey, and a few others.... a few bad eggs do float in the now AFL system.

How is your wind assisted help from AFL Head Office going, David Evans still convicing his mates at the Australia Club that he has done no investing in Calzada?

 

[Feerits Elf]

SurelyTex N Lever

Please try to stay on topic.

 

[Simon_Says]

Please try to stay on topic.

"Team mates that didn't like each other"

 

[King Brown]

How is your wind assisted help from AFL Head Office going, David Evans still convicing his mates at the Australia Club that he has done no investing in Calzada?

Great. Sure to be back winning premierships in no time.

 

[Feerits Elf]

"Team mates that didn't like each other"

 

[MISFITS]

Take it to the bay you weapon.

76 hey? Do if you were born then you must've jumped on that Carlton bandwagon expecting years of unbridled success well past 1995.

Don't play the man
We are talking about a fatality

 

[tigerdan]

In the 90s you could only call other mobiles from a mobile. They were pretty much just walky-talkys

I'm not sure whose side I am on here but by the mid 90's almost all tradeys had mobile phones, this was back in the day when mobile numbers were all 017/018/019 prefix. It was common back then for guys to have their mobile linked to their car horn and when someone rang them on the job site the horn would start barping.

It's back in the 'Wall St' era when mobile phones were like radios, that's when Jeff Kennett got overheard calling John Howard a campaigner for knifing Andrew Peacock (there was no encryption then and some journo recorded it). But that would be late 80s era.