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Dustin Martin

Sintiger said:
Yep. I commented on this issue a few months back and got lambasted for it by a few but the fact is that Dusty clearly does not want to talk to the media ( which I don’t blame him for btw)

You can’t captain an AFL team and not talk to the media
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Lambasted? not sure why this isn't new for Dusty in that he detests talking to the media and as captain, that's what he would need to do constantly.
As much as I think he would be a very good captain, he inspires others, players look up to him I can't personally see him as captain based on the reasons outlined. That's his biggest angst talking to the media.
 
I'd love to see him as captain but if the media stuff is too big a hurdle for him, make him vice captain with Taranto or Bakes as captain.
 
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AstuteTiger said:
Lambasted? not sure why this isn't new for Dusty in that he detests talking to the media and as captain, that's what he would need to do constantly.
As much as I think he would be a very good captain, he inspires others, players look up to him I can't personally see him as captain based on the reasons outlined. That's his biggest angst talking to the media.
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If the football media asked intelligent and relevant questions instead of the stale inane cliche thought up by the artistic editor in 1987 he might actually oblige. Rarely has anything a journo asked invited a thoughtful and enlightening response.

”How did you see your game?
“What did the coach say to you at the break to get you fired up?
”Player (of the week) had a game good game didn’t he? What did you think of his great effort?”
”Talk us through your goal.”

The other approach is to fish for a negative sound bite.

Week after week, after week, after week. Not worth listening to. Utter garbage.
 
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Sintiger said:
*smile* that’s a book or a movie script.

Thanks for sharing
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It's funny you say that as i have considered writing a book, but i'd write it as a fiction and change all names. The problem is that there is a story up until i turned 19, and then it gets extremely boring. The other side of it is that a lot of that year i try not to relive in my mind. I had some amazing experiences and made life long friends, but there was so much bad mixed up in that year as well. The great experiences happened during the day, and at night it was a horror show i seriously didn't think i'd survive. That belief that i wouldn't make it back home meant that i lived as carefree an existence as you could possibly imagine, which to be honest is against my natural inclinations. What i mean by that is that i tend to consider my actions and the consequences. That year i just didn't give a f

Going back to my childhood with my brothers, they were good times and funny to look back on, but probably funnier in real life than on paper. Some of the stupid ways we used to entertain ourselves with would likely sound corny in a book. But when we sit and talk about it, we all end up rolling around in tears of laughter.
 
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frickenel said:
It's funny you say that as i have considered writing a book, but i'd write it as a fiction and change all names. The problem is that there is a story up until i turned 19, and then it gets extremely boring. The other side of it is that a lot of that year i try not to relive in my mind. I had some amazing experiences and made life long friends, but there was so much bad mixed up in that year as well. The great experiences happened during the day, and at night it was a horror show i seriously didn't think i'd survive. That belief that i wouldn't make it back home meant that i lived as carefree an existence as you could possibly imagine, which to be honest is against my natural inclinations. What i mean by that is that i tend to consider my actions and the consequences. That year i just didn't give a f

Going back to my childhood with my brothers, they were good times and funny to look back on, but probably funnier in real life than on paper. Some of the stupid ways we used to entertain ourselves with would likely sound corny in a book. But when we sit and talk about it, we all end up rolling around in tears of laughter.
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thanks for sharing your story. I agree with Sin that it'd make a ripper movie. Glad that you've lived it and have kept going
 
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tigerdell said:
Glad that you've lived it and have kept going
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Hmmmm...........
The childhood yup!
The Munro College Scholarship and what it led to, is more complicated. I learned some great life experiences there and in my time in Moreno Valley CA, met great people, but the way it finished severely crippled my emotional ability to make good decisions in the following years. Hence my comment about life being boring since turning 19. Anyone on these forum boards would have lived a more complete life than me at a guess. Seriously, take away the first 19 years, believe me there is nothing to write about.

It would go something like this.............
I got up this morning and went to work. When i got home, i went for a run, did a workout, cooked ate, showered and went to bed rinse repeat!
Sometimes i mixed those things up, showered, then ate, but still hardly book worthy.
If i wrote a book, i'd kill myself off at 19. I'd only have to change one minor detail in one night of that 19th year to achieve that end. Had i died that night , i wouldn't have missed much............ well 3 great premierships, it would have sucked to miss that i guess.
Don't get me wrong, i don't wish i was dead or anything dramatic like that. I'm glad i didn't get it that night, just that looking back, not much has happened since.

You know it's almost like therapy talking about this crap.
 
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TigerPort said:
Talk away we are listening
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I said that half tongue in cheek.

It's probably better we get back to discussing Dustin Martin on this thread.

I can't tell the end of this story anyway, as often people judge me on what happened. That night was Sunday July 7, 1986 (really Monday, but it was Sunday nigt, just past midnight) F**ing worst day of my life. I couldn't come back home until almost the end of that year until everything was cleared up. That's what i call stress, real stress.

The irony is that many years later i fell in love with a girl, and what was her birthday, *smile* 7th July.

Anyway, back to Dustin Martin (Is that a sigh of "Amen to that" i can hear?)
 
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frickenel said:
I said that half tongue in cheek.

It's probably better we get back to discussing Dustin Martin on this thread.

I can't tell the end of this story anyway, as often people judge me on what happened. That night was Sunday July 7, 1986 (really Monday, but it was Sunday nigt, just past midnight) F**ing worst day of my life. I couldn't come back home until almost the end of that year until everything was cleared up. That's what i call stress, real stress.

The irony is that many years later i fell in love with a girl, and what was her birthday, *smile* 7th July.

Anyway, back to Dustin Martin (Is that a sigh of "Amen to that" i can hear?)
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Your posts on your early life have been amazing, frick. If you can organise it write the book.
 
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Just wonderful viewing - and loved the fact they saved the Clangerfield GF goal to the end
Almost brings a tear to the eye
Long may he continue …… and as a Tiger
 
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Tenacious said:
Just wonderful viewing - and loved the fact they saved the Clangerfield GF goal to the end
Almost brings a tear to the eye
Long may he continue …… and as a Tiger
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Just pure magnificence. To have lived to see this and 3 flags after 3 barren decades is still unbelievable.
 
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Given the rubbish way Neale won the Brownlow this season, can Duz win a 2nd one 7 years later without being as 100% as we was in 2017?
 
Is the Finals Goat.
No one has ever had a season like he had in 17 but after that he just paced himself in the H&A.
Top 3 overall for sure.
 
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