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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
When Carlton drafted Brad Bootsma's son!
When your older than a players fatherComment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
Not so much feeling old, but when people my age started getting drafted I knew my AFL dreams were over. Even worse, people my age drafted last year were being called mature aged recruits (!).- I'm a visionary - Only here to confirm my biases -Comment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
I don't really compare against footballers. I mean, 30 years old and they're being spoken about as if they're 80. Sure, it bothers me sometimes that I'm the same age as Gia “the fossil”, but then I think, I don't have the gray hairs, so fair's fair. And let's face it, the guy is turning 32 next month. Spring chicken.
Aside from football, I think music is what makes me feel old. When kids ask me who Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, The Who, etc. were. But again, I think to myself, “They're listening to guys like Beiber.” So fair's fair.
Forever young!!Comment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
Few years back I went out with a couple of mates for and ale, we ended up in a city pub and when I looked around I thought everyone but us was underage.
Now I have one Pup with a drivers licence and the second on his L's and they look the same age as the kids did in the pub.
I also played my first game of cricket in years last week and after keeping for 40 overs and having a bat I certainly felt the oldest I ever have the following days.It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.Comment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
I won't bother with a separate thread, but along the same lines. When did you realise you were tall/small?
I don't think of my height, but at 172cm, I hate hearing about these midgets running around up in the AFL who are taller than I.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
Midget
It took me a long time to work out I am a genuinely big guy. I was 175cm at 16, 188cm at 17, and finished on 190cm. I kept thinking of people who were taller than me as being average. It was probably only when I was at university and I had people I didn't know refer to me as big fella when first meeting them that I started to work it out.[COLOR="#FF0000"][B]Western Bulldogs:[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR="#0000CD"][B]We exist to win premierships[/B][/COLOR]Comment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
I'm 192cm and still feel short: I'm one of the shortest men in my family.Comment
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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.Comment
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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
Nothing to do with footy, but two of our new teachers at work were students when I started there! That makes me feel old.[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]Comment
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Re: When did you realise you were 'old'?
Brad Scott today: Dustin Fletcher is 'still playing and he started before I did. That makes me feel old'Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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