The official Sam Reid/Daniel Currie Memorial Eker Thread

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  • AndrewP6
    Bulldog Team of the Century
    • Jan 2009
    • 8142

    Re: Ekers

    Originally posted by westdog54
    You want left field, I'll give you left field: I nominate James Sherry.

    I grew up watching James on Saturday Disney as a youngster. From there he hosted kids game show A*Mazing for many many years, and was then not heard from for a very long time, until emerging as the game day MC at Docklands, where he continues to do some reasonable work.

    Would be well into his 40s now I would suspect but still plugging away, making a living.
    I find him really, really irritating. I enjoy watching the big screens in the Victory Room, for the simple fact that I can't hear him.
    [B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]

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    • Rocco Jones
      Bulldog Team of the Century
      • Jun 2008
      • 6932

      Re: Ekers

      Originally posted by westdog54
      You want left field, I'll give you left field: I nominate James Sherry.

      I grew up watching James on Saturday Disney as a youngster. From there he hosted kids game show A*Mazing for many many years, and was then not heard from for a very long time, until emerging as the game day MC at Docklands, where he continues to do some reasonable work.

      Would be well into his 40s now I would suspect but still plugging away, making a living.
      Hahahaha, genius! That is absolute gold.

      James Sherry should be the MC for the most ordinary night of nights, The Rhino!

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      • westdog54
        Bulldog Team of the Century
        • Jan 2007
        • 6686

        Re: Ekers

        Originally posted by Rocco Jones
        Hahahaha, genius! That is absolute gold.

        James Sherry should be the MC for the most ordinary night of nights, The Rhino!
        Glad he meets with your approval.

        While I'm on a roll, for the Journo covering the 'Rhino', I nominate Mark Doran. Boundary rider for 7 for many years before they lost the coverage, his own show on SEN for a couple of years before he was canned, back to being a footy reporter on 7 News. Still getting by.

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        • Rocco Jones
          Bulldog Team of the Century
          • Jun 2008
          • 6932

          Re: Ekers

          Originally posted by westdog54
          Glad he meets with your approval.

          While I'm on a roll, for the Journo covering the 'Rhino', I nominate Mark Doran. Boundary rider for 7 for many years before they lost the coverage, his own show on SEN for a couple of years before he was canned, back to being a footy reporter on 7 News. Still getting by.
          Hahaha, you definitely have a knack for this. Loving your work!

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          • I'm Not Bitter Anymore!
            WOOF Member
            • Jun 2010
            • 1099

            Re: Ekers

            Ringo Starr

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            • ledge
              Hall of Fame
              • Dec 2007
              • 14459

              Re: Ekers

              No disrespect and I loved the guy, Bill Hunter, seemed like he was in every Aussie movie ever made for 30 years but never seemed to get a huge part or a big mention.
              P.S I was saying this to friends over the last 5 years that I thought he was the true Australian actor, never left Australia to become a mercanary, just plugged away in the good old reliable Australian way.
              A true eker for 30 years or more.
              Bring back the biff

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              • Sedat
                Hall of Fame
                • Sep 2007
                • 11431

                Re: Ekers

                Craing Willis has eked a good 25 year career in the AFL doing very little apart from making various announcements into a microphone.
                "Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"

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                • jazzadogs
                  Bulldog Team of the Century
                  • Oct 2008
                  • 5718

                  Re: Ekers

                  Originally posted by Sedat
                  Craing Willis has eked a good 25 year career in the AFL doing very little apart from making various announcements into a microphone.
                  Not only that, but he sometimes gets flown from the afternoon match in one state, to the night match in another, to do the announcements (pretty sure it happened on Anzac Day this year). Surely there are other people who can do the job. It's not exactly an elite field.

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                  • westdog54
                    Bulldog Team of the Century
                    • Jan 2007
                    • 6686

                    Re: Ekers

                    Originally posted by Rocco Jones
                    Saints- Jason Blake: Ross Lyon is to Ekers what Oscar Schindler was to the Jews during the holocaust. You are a great friend to the cause Ross.
                    I just re read that post properly and had to try very hard not to burst out laughing as the little one is having her afternoon nap.

                    Absolute quality.

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                    • LostDoggy
                      WOOF Member
                      • Jan 2007
                      • 8307

                      Re: Ekers

                      Originally posted by westdog54
                      Glad he meets with your approval.

                      While I'm on a roll, for the Journo covering the 'Rhino', I nominate Mark Doran. Boundary rider for 7 for many years before they lost the coverage, his own show on SEN for a couple of years before he was canned, back to being a footy reporter on 7 News. Still getting by.
                      If we are going for Journo's can we add Jason Bennett to the list. He eked out an appauling foxsports career and is now eking for the NFL. I call eker due to the impressive lack of impact on the footy public he managed in his various enterprises. Eked out a truely aweful interview show the name of which I have thankfully blanked from my mind....

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                      • Rocco Jones
                        Bulldog Team of the Century
                        • Jun 2008
                        • 6932

                        Re: Ekers

                        Well done to Jay Schulz. 7 goals on the weekend and signed a contract today.

                        Keep on Ekin'!

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                        • westdog54
                          Bulldog Team of the Century
                          • Jan 2007
                          • 6686

                          Re: Ekers

                          Originally posted by Rocco Jones
                          Well done to Jay Schulz. 7 goals on the weekend and signed a contract today.

                          Keep on Ekin'!
                          Didn't he play a similar match when he was at the Tigers? kicked a massive bag, may have been 7 as well IIRC. Could even have been against the Lions too.

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                          • Sedat
                            Hall of Fame
                            • Sep 2007
                            • 11431

                            Re: Ekers

                            Originally posted by Rocco Jones
                            Well done to Jay Schulz. 7 goals on the weekend and signed a contract today.

                            Keep on Ekin'!
                            Been a good week for 'my boys'. Schulz gets another contract while Spangher makes his long-awaited debut for the Swans, which will only be his 27th game since being drafted in 2005 - in true eker fashion he has a contract next season as well.
                            Last edited by Sedat; 08-07-2011, 03:54 PM.
                            "Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"

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                            • Sedat
                              Hall of Fame
                              • Sep 2007
                              • 11431

                              Re: Ekers

                              Paul Johnson surely goes into eker hall of fame territory after somehow getting a game for his 3rd AFL club, Hawthorn, on the weekend. I had no idea he was still on an AFL list, and in true eker fashion he wore a ridiculously high jumper number.
                              "Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"

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                              • LostDoggy
                                WOOF Member
                                • Jan 2007
                                • 8307

                                Re: Ekers

                                No one has mentioned Leigh Brown's upcoming retirement!!

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