Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

[SonofScray]

Re: Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

Yes and a great speech by Wheels

The best of the lot. I love listening to Wheels. He might be a bit mad, which just adds to my admiration.

[comrade]

Re: Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

The best of the lot. I love listening to Wheels. He might be a bit mad, which just adds to my admiration.

I reckon Wheels and Bevo would have some whacky conversations after a few beers.

[ledge]

Re: Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

There aren't that many coaches wha are welcome back to their old club with open arms. Wheeler is definitely one of them. Did a jumper presentation to a first gamer last year IIRC?

Terry Wallace is another who is a nice guy despite the stories that go around about him leaving . He got life membership not that long ago.

[Smads57]

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I Could see him at a vfl game just watching us.

Terry is a big Willy supporter and always at their VFL games - was both a player and coach there, as well as Bulldogs.

[ledge]

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Terry is a big Willy supporter and always at their VFL games - was both a player and coach there, as well as Bulldogs.

The Ronnie James story is amazing and sad.

[Twodogs]

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Isaac Heaney was criticized today in the H/S for waterskiing and said that his critics were "only jealous" I'd love to sit down and tell him about Ron James

[Eastdog]

Re: Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

Video from YouTube about Ron James

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6OsxtjYDQs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_James_(footballer,_born_1970)

Last paragraph from the wiki page. 19 so sad way way way too young. I’m 31.

“At the age of 19, James was killed in a water skiing accident near Echuca on New Years Day 1990. He had been skiing with two friends on the Murray River and was flung into a tree. Wheeler, his former coach at Williamstown, had joined Footscray for the 1990 AFL season and was later quoted as saying James could have been a 150 or 200 game player”.

[EasternWest]

Re: Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

Isaac Heaney was criticized today in the H/S for waterskiing and said that his critics were "only jealous" I'd love to sit down and tell him about Ron James

I'm not sure what your point is. Coronavirus aside, should nobody water ski?

[Twodogs]

Re: Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

I'm not sure what your point is. Coronavirus aside, should nobody water ski?

No, not at all. Heaney was saying that water skiing was perfectly safe when the lesson from Ron James is it's obviously not. He is an AFL player and gets paid accordingly. Risky behavior like that can wait until retirement. It was only last season that Ollie Wines dislocated his shoulder water skiing and missed most of the preseason.

This is standard clause in an AFL player's contract:

[A player can] not engage in any dangerous or hazardous activity, including but not limited to trail bike riding, professional boxing or wrestling, soccer, grid iron, karate, judo, hang gliding, parachuting, or bungee jumping, which, in the reasonable opinion of the AFL Club, may affect the player's ability to perform his obligations under this contract, without first obtaining the consent of the AFL Club, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Personally I couldn't give a rat's clacker what Heaney does but the water skiing thing hits close to home because of Ron. His death was a tragedy for our club.

[ledge]

Re: Terry Wheeler: goal umpire

No, not at all. Heaney was saying that water skiing was perfectly safe when the lesson from Ron James is it's obviously not. He is an AFL player and gets paid accordingly. Risky behavior like that can wait until retirement. It was only last season that Ollie Wines dislocated his shoulder water skiing and missed most of the preseason.

This is standard clause in an AFL player's contract:

[A player can] not engage in any dangerous or hazardous activity, including but not limited to trail bike riding, professional boxing or wrestling, soccer, grid iron, karate, judo, hang gliding, parachuting, or bungee jumping, which, in the reasonable opinion of the AFL Club, may affect the player's ability to perform his obligations under this contract, without first obtaining the consent of the AFL Club, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Personally I couldn't give a rat's clacker what Heaney does but the water skiing thing hits close to home because of Ron. His death was a tragedy for our club.

The Murray is very dangerous for water skiing, do it in a safer lake or ocean