Toast Warren Tredrea - Elected to the Port Board (Football discussion only)

[RussellEbertHandball]

Warren was captain for 24.4 games in 2004.

Poor Matty Primus only played 2 quarters and about 5 minutes before he did his ACL in Rd 3 v Hawthorn. He did kick 4 goals in that game.

 

[Poo Eckert]

It really depends on the issue.
If you have an emergency, you're better off going into the public system because they have all the specialist teams on site ready to go pretty much at any moment. This is the opposite of the private hospital system where instead they call in specialists to consult depending on the situation.

I learned this the hard way back in 2019 when I got Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Stumbled into a private hospital's emergency department in Adelaide on a Friday arvo, thinking that being a private patient my issue would be expedited. Instead, I didn't see a neurologist until Tuesday evening and in that time I went from being extremely wobbly on my feet on the Friday to being paralysed from the neck down by the time I saw the neurologist. Had I gone to the RAH that Friday arvo instead I would have been seen by the neurology team that evening and treatment would have started and things definitely wouldn't have gotten to the point that they did! Even as I got worse the nurses told me "you picked a horrible time to get sick!" Implying that the weekend was a dead period for the private hospital and that I wouldn't be properly seen for a few days anyway. In hindsight I would have moved to the RAH immediately at that point.

The irony was that the neurologist who saw me in the private hospital was actually one of the heads of neurology at the RAH anyway.

If you have an issue that is run of the mill elective surgery though, the private system is far superior simply because you won't have a mile long wait list to deal with. I've had patients at my work (I work in healthcare) who have been on the public waitlist for a new hip, and in that time they go from being relatively functional to not being able to walk 20 metres up the road to get their newspaper in the morning. Going private removes that wait time and as such, one's quality of life isn't as reduced.

Yeah my sister has been living with a benign brain tumour 9 months now as public wait period is ridiculous.

 

[Poo Eckert]

Warren was captain for 24.4 games in 2004.

Poor Matty Primus only play 2 quarter and about 5 minutes before he did his ACL in Rd 3 v Hawthorn. He did kick 4 goals in that game.

It’s weird isn’t it, Primus was Captain but Tredrea really was the captain. Maybe the club needs to acknowledge both?

 

[Jonts]

Adelaideans are weirdly obsessed with where people go to high school. Never seen anything like it outside of Adelaide. Unless you are talking about US universities.

What high school you went to in Melbourne is a big deal*

*Private schools only

 

[Chewy316]

What high school you went to in Melbourne is a big deal*

*Private schools only

Is it?

I lived in Melbourne from 2011-2019 and high school education was never brought up - and that was despite a large number of my friendship circle at the time were recent grads of very good private schools.

In Adelaide it is near impossible to avoid meeting someone and by the end of said meeting not knowing where they went to high school. It's such a clicky Adelaide thing, for better or worse (largely worse ). I reckon even at my workplace I'll have at least one patient a week ask me what school I went to.

 

[Incarnate]

St. Michael's like Michael Wilson, Greg Anderson, Darryl Poole, Darren Cahill etc.

Ebert cousins maybe?

 

[Pappagallo]

Is it?

I lived in Melbourne from 2011-2019 and high school education was never brought up - and that was despite a large number of my friendship circle at the time were recent grads of very good private schools.

In Adelaide it is near impossible to avoid meeting someone and by the end of said meeting not knowing where they went to high school. It's such a clicky Adelaide thing, for better or worse (largely worse ). I reckon even at my workplace I'll have at least one patient a week ask me what school I went to.

I don’t think it’s necessarily a cliquey inquiry. Adelaide is relatively small and when you meet someone new you often find that you have mutual acquaintances or friends of friends and that discovery is made through the school/work question. It’s just way of finding common ground that works here but wouldn’t in a bigger city like Melbourne or Sydney. Only rarely have I been asked the question and felt I was being “sized up” by my answer.

 

[dirty2]

I live in the Barossa... We are all related so don't need to ask what school we went to...

 

[Powertron]

I don’t think it’s necessarily a cliquey inquiry. Adelaide is relatively small and when you meet someone new you often find that you have mutual acquaintances or friends of friends and that discovery is made through the school/work question. It’s just way of finding common ground that works here but wouldn’t in a bigger city like Melbourne or Sydney. Only rarely have I been asked the question and felt I was being “sized up” by my answer.

Maybe historically it was that. It’s now 100% a status question.

 

[PowerBaz]

Is it?

I lived in Melbourne from 2011-2019 and high school education was never brought up - and that was despite a large number of my friendship circle at the time were recent grads of very good private schools.

In Adelaide it is near impossible to avoid meeting someone and by the end of said meeting not knowing where they went to high school. It's such a clicky Adelaide thing, for better or worse (largely worse ). I reckon even at my workplace I'll have at least one patient a week ask me what school I went to.

I recall working on the SACA fit out and Adelaide Oval branding and dealing with McLachan and all those types, basically you had to go to Saints or PAC to get up the management level.

 

[Janey]

I don’t think it’s necessarily a cliquey inquiry. Adelaide is relatively small and when you meet someone new you often find that you have mutual acquaintances or friends of friends and that discovery is made through the school/work question. It’s just way of finding common ground that works here but wouldn’t in a bigger city like Melbourne or Sydney. Only rarely have I been asked the question and felt I was being “sized up” by my answer.

At my age, people don’t realise I was ever young enough to go to school.

 

[manureid]

It really depends on the issue.
If you have an emergency, you're better off going into the public system because they have all the specialist teams on site ready to go pretty much at any moment. This is the opposite of the private hospital system where instead they call in specialists to consult depending on the situation.

I learned this the hard way back in 2019 when I got Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Stumbled into a private hospital's emergency department in Adelaide on a Friday arvo, thinking that being a private patient my issue would be expedited. Instead, I didn't see a neurologist until Tuesday evening and in that time I went from being extremely wobbly on my feet on the Friday to being paralysed from the neck down by the time I saw the neurologist. Had I gone to the RAH that Friday arvo instead I would have been seen by the neurology team that evening and treatment would have started and things definitely wouldn't have gotten to the point that they did! Even as I got worse the nurses told me "you picked a horrible time to get sick!" Implying that the weekend was a dead period for the private hospital and that I wouldn't be properly seen for a few days anyway. In hindsight I would have moved to the RAH immediately at that point.

The irony was that the neurologist who saw me in the private hospital was actually one of the heads of neurology at the RAH anyway.

If you have an issue that is run of the mill elective surgery though, the private system is far superior simply because you won't have a mile long wait list to deal with. I've had patients at my work (I work in healthcare) who have been on the public waitlist for a new hip, and in that time they go from being relatively functional to not being able to walk 20 metres up the road to get their newspaper in the morning. Going private removes that wait time and as such, one's quality of life isn't as reduced.

Went through bowel cancer surgery/chemo at around the same time as a friend of a friend. He went through the private system, I went through public. Having compared treatments and aftercare, turned out the public system was FAR better.

Like you said, it is certainly 'reason' dependent, both sides have good and bad to them.

 

[Papa G]

I recall working on the SACA fit out and Adelaide Oval branding and dealing with McLachan and all those types, basically you had to go to Saints or PAC to get up the management level.

It's a bit different these days..... I mean they even now let women into those postions. The world has truly gone mad.....

 

[MrMeaner]

Adelaideans are weirdly obsessed with where people go to high school. Never seen anything like it outside of Adelaide. Unless you are talking about US universities.

It is definitely a thing in Melbourne.

Taperoo High was enough for me. There are times when I wonder if I had gone to a private school more doors would have opened for me. But then, I would have probably been shunned for living in Osborne (that's if my parents had put my name down early enough and could have afforded the kinds of private schools that give advantages in the law).

 

[Chewy316]

I don’t think it’s necessarily a cliquey inquiry. Adelaide is relatively small and when you meet someone new you often find that you have mutual acquaintances or friends of friends and that discovery is made through the school/work question. It’s just way of finding common ground that works here but wouldn’t in a bigger city like Melbourne or Sydney. Only rarely have I been asked the question and felt I was being “sized up” by my answer.

That may have been the case 30 years ago.

I'm a 2009 high school grad and from my experience with getting asked that question by my peers of similar age over the last 15 years, it's 100% been to get sized up.

 

[MrMeaner]

I remember getting asked what school I go to by a particularly preppy private school kid one time. My answer prompted the response, "oh, what's it like coming into the city from the country." They had assumed that Taperoo had to be a town like Pinnaroo or Wallaroo.

To some extent, allowing them to assume that was better for me than them knowing the truth.

In Melbourne, no one has any idea where I'm from.

 

[Capital Power]

At my age, people don’t realise I was ever young enough to go to school.

At my age I get TWO veterans badges from Chief. Not sure if I should feel honoured or slighted, but I'll pin both to the walking frame .

 

[Pappagallo]

That may have been the case 30 years ago.

I'm a 2009 high school grad and from my experience with getting asked that question by my peers of similar age over the last 15 years, it's 100% been to get sized up.

Geez how old do you think I am lol.

 

[gbear]

Is it?

I lived in Melbourne from 2011-2019 and high school education was never brought up - and that was despite a large number of my friendship circle at the time were recent grads of very good private schools.

In Adelaide it is near impossible to avoid meeting someone and by the end of said meeting not knowing where they went to high school. It's such a clicky Adelaide thing, for better or worse (largely worse ). I reckon even at my workplace I'll have at least one patient a week ask me what school I went to.

Never been a school thing for me, but definitely get asked where I went to university. I finished school in 1998. However where I send my kids to school, is often a question that is asked in social and work circles.

 

[OneGreatClub]

As a public school teacher for 43 years, I say that the public school system has sucked all that time!

Some good, like Glenunga and Marryatville, but mostly all schools were underfunded, with many teachers having to teach way outside their comfort zone, and having to cope with all levels of abilities in their classes.

A grandchild has 7 students in her class. I once had to teach 34 students in a 12 Maths 1 class.

Many other advantages too.

Oops. Outed myself as a boomer and nerd now!

Geez what school has 7 in their class?
My grandson has 26, and this is a Catholic school, primary.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Anyway…back to Tredders?

 

[DSL64]

I thought this was a thread about the Treddinator...

 

[GremioPower]

Outed myself as a boomer and nerd now!

I’m younger, but you are my kind of people!

 

[GremioPower]

Which school did Tredrea attend?

 

[TazD]

Which school did Tredrea attend?

Qanon