Toast Thanks Collingwood

[Fervy]

Hi all

Carlton fan here, but I felt this was worthy of a separate thread.

I must thank the Collingwood Football Club for something very special that the club did for a thirteen year old friend of my girlfriend's family.

The boy underwent a major life threatening operation on his brain (brain tumor) on Thursday of this past week. The operation went as well as could be hoped and we are all praying for a full recovery.

However, the Thursday previous to this, April 30, the family got an audience not only with one or two members of the team but with the majority of the team - players, coaches, etc.. The family have been lifelong Collingwood fans and the boy idolized Nathan Buckley.

They spent a fair amount of time with him and made the entire family feel very special. They made the child understand that he was on their minds and that they were supporting him one hundred and ten percent.

We often hear of the bad things that football players and teams do but the media usually always turns a blind eye to the generous acts of kindness that happens on a daily basis.

Make a Wish granted him a wish but this wasn't his wish. It was the hard work and dedication to their fans of the Collingwood Football Club that made this all possible.

From myself and our friends, thank you to the Collingwood Football Club for everything. Your support through this time has been greatly appreciated and will never be forgotten.

 

[Optimax]

Hope all is well with the young lad, never good to hear about children with a bad illness.

Also thanks for sharing the story, always great to hear about our footy club doing something good and giving back

 

[TradeDraft]

Glad that they made the Kids Day with that and was a Great Effort to help the Boy out and make him feel better

 

[mino]

Wow, fantastic story and heartening to hear. Like you say, we only ever hear the worst of footballers, I'm sure many of them do a million things like this that make huge differences to the lives of all sorts of people and we never hear a peep.

Thanks for sharing this story, best of luck to the little guy and here's hoping he makes a full recovery.

 

[Wooljay]

Jeez this gave me goosebumps, hoping for the best for your girlfriend's friend, always such a nice surprise when footballers and clubs can have a positive impact on the community.

 

[poulsman]

Great post. Thank you for sharing.
All the best to the little guy.

 

[loki04]

All the best to the young lad and my thoughts are with him and his family must be hard on them to see a child go through such major surgery.

 

[Smoky]

Side by Side

 

[Football God]

Most important thing is the child will be okay
cheers for the story mate

 

[jackcass]

Fantastic story and I know footballers from all clubs do a lot of this unheralded work with sick kids. Hope the little fella has a fantastic outcome from his surgery.

PS: I still remember how amazed I was when I heard about how much of this type of thing Pants used to do. A hard man, a lovable rogue, a heart of pure gold!

 

[didaka]

 

[Swanny36]

Thanks for sharing the story mate, hope the young fella is alright, and goes onto to make a full recovery and enjoy a Pies Premiership in the very near future.

Also glad the players could make his day.

All the best mate.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Hope the young guy will be all good.

Tragic to hear about young kids with potentially terminal illnesses.