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Piesnchess 

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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2020 2:33 am
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stui magpie wrote:
Piesnchess wrote:
Jezza wrote:
^ Haven't seen anything to suggest Balme has been stood down by Richmond.


Yes, i heard none other than Caro confirm it.


If Caro confirmed it, it's clearly false. Razz


Good grief, Stui, u dont actually doubt the pearls of wisdom from Caro do you, perish the thought. Razz

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PostPosted: Sun May 31, 2020 9:58 am
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Niall on Hocking:

Farm hand, kids detention, dead animal recycling: AFL coaches' new reality

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-and-covid-19-farm-hand-kids-detention-dead-animal-recycling-afl-coaches-new-reality-20200502-p54p8u.html

"Six weeks ago, Garry Hocking was carefully nurturing young Collingwood footballers. Now, he's working as a farm hand on a property in Ceres, west of Geelong, where he's extracting weeds, mowing, whipper-snipping and applying chemicals to the paddocks with the hands that so expertly caressed a football.
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Hocking ... said he did not know if the VFL would return this season, or what role he might retain, if any, at Collingwood. "You know there's still some unknowns and a lot of questions, no answers. What'll be my involvement if it goes to hubs, not hubs, or it comes back?

"I'm really uncertain, but I know that possibly there's plenty of work here [in Ceres] to be done."
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Hocking, who is working on the property of Rob Costa, brother of Geelong's ex-president and patriarch Frank Costa, relished the chance to be outdoors, though his hamstrings have been straining with all the bending. "Because I haven't been sort bending down doing ground balls or anything, bending over for large parts of the day ... The old hammies have been screaming. It's been good."
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As one whose playing career spanned from the late '80s to the early 2000s, Hocking is from an era when even the best players usually had jobs, and in his case, they typically weren't glamorous ones. Famously, he rolled an ankle when working for the Geelong City Council as a garbo in 1992 when he stopped running behind the garbage truck to kick the footy with a kid.

He's installed swimming pools, done paving and landscaping, sold real estate in Geelong ("tried to") and even worked as a postie, a job he had been preparing to resume when the COVID-19 crunch came. Then, with the assistance of a player he'd coached at the Geelong Falcons, he discovered Costa needed a hand on his 100-acre patch. "I was going to get back on the pushy and deliver mail. Whatever gets a few things done and pays the bills.""
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PostPosted: Sun May 31, 2020 10:36 pm
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Maybe he can change his name to Chum
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:05 pm
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Piesnchess wrote:
What'sinaname wrote:
^ All clubs were bloated.

https://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/news/238104/explainer-who-s-that-in-the-coaches-box-

It's too much when you have 26 staff on match day to deal with 22 players. Way too much being wasted on salaries and superannuation.


The tigers had to let go the Godfather of tigerland, Neil Balme i have heard, i know he was loved there by players, inspired the team, and their flags. All teams have had cutbacks, we r not alone here, far from it. Surprised


Balme would have been demanding a big salary I would imagine, meat pies aren't cheap these days.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:20 pm
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Balme would have been demanding a big salary I would imagine, meat pies aren't cheap these days.

Just lower the current requirement of a minimum 25% "meat flesh" to 10% and it'll be cheap enough again.
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