Melbourne Footy Trip

I Love football. I love blogging. Why not start a footy blog?
I'm about to take a group of kids from country WA to Melbourne for a feast of footy fun, this is the place for news , stories and pictures of our adventures.

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Addicted to blogging. Married. Father of 4. Sport Nut. Geelong mad. Chaplain. Painter. I'm an Ideas Man. Hard to beat at Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Day Ten


Ouch! The Dockers got smashed last night. Creamed. Obliterated. Shellacked. Embarrassed.
And we had nearly front row seats to witness the massacre. Right behind the goal with the Fremantle Cheer squad who were reduced to cheering points so pitiful were Fremantle.
When Murphy kicked their only goal half way through the 3rd quarter the Freo fans responded as if they'd won the game! The Freo fans in the group had to resort to teasing me about Brisbane beating Geelong for amusement. I pointed out that they had scored one goal for the entire game and my team has won 55 of its last 59 games! They didn't have much response!

It was a bit of a reunion at the footy. First with Lorea and Andrew Bell, friends and colleagues of mine from Carine HS and diehard Docker fans who were sitting a few seats up from us, and then later a lady asked the kids if I'd been the chaplain at Carine? Turns out her three kids went to Carine and had been on camps with me while I worked there. In fact her husband had coached my son Zach at T-ball when he was about 10!

Getting to Adelaide had been something of a challenge.
We got up early at Box Forest and started the big pack up and clean up and were ready on time when the taxi arrived at 10.00am. George and Donna saw us off from Glenroy and said we were welcome back any time.
Checking in at Tiger airlines was a new and awkward experience. Apart from the long delays the real issue was their strict adherence to the 15kg baggage limit, 5kg less than Virgin who we flew over with! And of course we have acquired plenty of stuff between us since we arrived, adding to the weight we were carrying. There was a lot of rearranging and redistributing into carry on luggage before we finally arrived at a combined excess of 4kg, and had to pay an excess of $15 per kilo!! It had been 11kg to start with so I was reasonably happy with the outcome!
There will need to be some efficient and creative packing before we fly home on Monday!

Upon arrival in Adelaide we looked for a bus to take us to Henley Beach but ended up having to walk a long way before finding a bus stop on Henley Beach Rd. But, nearby roadworks meant that stop was out of service! More walking with all our excessively weighted bags in tow before we finally got to the right stop and a bus came. The look on the driver's face as he pulled up was grim, he didn't seem all that thrilled to see us! Undeterred we climbed aboard and set off for Henley High School where we were met by the caretaker Klaus who gave us the keys to the gym and showed us where to find everything.

We walked down to Henley Square to get some lunch then got ourselves ready to go to the footy. We caught the Footy Express from Henley Square and I had a good chat with John and Anne a couple of Crows fans on their way to the game. We all had Hungry Jacks for tea before going into the game.
After that it was all downhill as the Dockers put on the most inept performance in their history, and that is saying something!!!!

The kids seem to finally be all footballed out and have decided not to go to a SANFL game this afternoon. We may find somewhere to watch the Eagles v StKilda game a bit later. We're about to head off to Glenelg and then find somewhere to go out for dinner as a way to wind up the trip.

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