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David
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Ingmar started playing football for the first time this year, for the Hampton Rovers U10s. He’s starting a fair way back and still hasn’t mastered some skills, but he’s enthusiastic and good at following the coach’s instructions. This morning he played his third match, and was named captain (they rotate the position every week). Played two quarters in defence and did a great job for the most part staying tight on his opponent and laying a couple of tackles.
I thought his team were going to get smashed today – they trailed 2.5 to 0.1 at half time and had barely managed to get the ball past halfway. Unsure precisely how it happened, but after a rev-up from the coach they turned it around completely in the midfield in the third quarter, evening up the contest and finally getting a goal on the board before running over the top of the opposition in the final term for a narrow, hard-fought win. It was pretty exciting watching from the sidelines, and Ingmar was really happy afterwards. Not a bad way to spend a cold early Sunday morning! _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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What'sinaname
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^ Slay! _________________ Fighting against the objectification of woman. |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Nice work there David, getting up in the cold and taking the kids to sport on the weekend is like a rite of passage.
Whenever we kick the footy I have to pester my grandson about his ball drop. If he holds it properly, his wrists come up and he flats it like a mung torpedo. I'm trying to get him to kick like the kid next door who is a brilliant little footballer but holds the ball pointing down with hands across it. When he does it, he can kick a drop punt, when his concentration invariably lapses it could go anywhere.
Do you get outside and kick the footy with him? Work on his marking and skills? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
to wish impossible things
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Yeah, we do a bit of kicking to each other and marking in the local park around once a week, but not as often as I'd like to as I'm pretty busy with work. Would definitely be good to do that more regularly.
Ingmar kicks the same way as your grandson – can get some decent distance and it goes surprisingly straight, but he needs to learn to kick proper drop punts. Marking is a bit hit and miss. Handballing is probably the area he needs most work on: he tends to stop and think before doing it rather than completing a pick-up and handball in one motion like most of the boys in his team. But he's done hardly any Auskick and wasn't even that interested in football until last year, so I see all of this as a positive learning curve – and thankfully U10s is still at a level where you can work some of this out through playing rather than needing a baseline skill level to begin with. _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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pietillidie
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stui magpie
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Yeah, good stuff. The grandson watches F all sport on TV, just enough to pick up bad habits when he tries to play, but he has a go at everything.
I reckon Cricket will be his go, he can bowl properly with pace and hit to all areas. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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think positive
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It’s been 17 months…
Finally my RAV4 is in production!
Hopefully my new personalised Collingwood plate will get here first!
Wooohooo! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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pietillidie
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stui magpie
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think positive wrote: | It’s been 17 months…
Finally my RAV4 is in production!
Hopefully my new personalised Collingwood plate will get here first!
Wooohooo! |
In production? How much longer do you have to wait? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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pietillidie
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think positive
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nope thats next years, guessing the wait will be 3 years!!!
its this one, in silver, the GLX model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZ3Z-lQG7w
and these just came today!!
Stui the ive been told about 6-8 weeks so 6 to go!!! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
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Nice plates. I thought about going for the Magpie theme when I got mine but I didn't want the ute to get keyed in carparks. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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think positive
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stui magpie wrote: | Nice plates. I thought about going for the Magpie theme when I got mine but I didn't want the ute to get keyed in carparks. |
yeah that does worry me!!!! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
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Get the front and rear dash cams from the dealer, at least then you can put video of any arsehats up on social media. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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think positive
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thats a plan!! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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