By Geoff Newstead
Here’s the first installment of Mustang Murmurs for 2016. If you have anything interesting or funny
or just downright stupid that you’d like to share then let me know (I’m the good looking dude behind
the bar).
A win for Coxy
As you probably know, we lost some long serving and valued members during the off-season and the
players wore black armbands during the Round 1 Donny East game as a show of respect, so it was
great to see the late Noel Cox’s wife, Norma, and children Jody, Sharon & Shane and son-in- law Mick
Kist at the game. I reckon Coxy would have been pretty chuffed with the great win altho he probably
wouldn’t have said much (‘cause he never did).
Say What ?? (1)
Even coach Paris Harvie must have been pretty excited with the way the boys were playing against Donny
East. Evidently he got a bit confused with one of his adages at ¾ time when he said we’d “knocked
the sails out of their wind”
Say What ?? (2)
Still at Donny East and the crowd on the hill was also getting a bit excited with the early season form
of our boys. Everyone was cheering them on when the booming voice of George Georgiou yelled “go
Kilometers”. Everyone stopped barracking and gave George a puzzling look. His explanation “I’ve
gone metric – I’m cheering Miles” Sometime you’re quite funny George, and then there’s time like
this…
Old Stalwarts
I know we have a lot of great helpers at our great club but there’s a couple that just keep turning up
year after year. Freddy Jordan has hardly missed a training session since mid-November and, as all
the players and coaching staff know, he does a great job looking after the balls, water, training bibs
and many other things, but you may not know that before each home game he goes down to the
Heights and gurneys the asphalt in front of the rooms then cleans all the front windows inside and
out. Fred also vacuums and cleans up the change rooms after each home game. Another old fella
who deserves a mention is Eddie Sudomirski. Eddie has suffered a few health problems in recent
years and has found it difficult to continue his timekeeping duties. However, with his replacement,
Ian Toleman, also suffering health issues at the moment, Eddie has stepped back into the role until
Tolly recovers. Thanks to both of you for your years of dedication to the club and you can be assured
it is greatly appreciated.
Best BAR None
While on the subject of helpers, we once again have the outside bar roster up and running this year.
I think this must now be pretty unique in the league to have around 30 blokes volunteering their
time to help out the club. I lost a few from last year but actually had even more to replace them with
the new crop of dads coming through. The old adage of “Many hands make light work” is definitely
appropriate in this instance.
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