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Cardy wrote: Shit the SHARK PIT didnt even get a mention..lol

Ther you go, for "old timers"sake

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Thanks Shiny my favourite place to watch a WAFL game unfortunately we only have one meeting with EF at Moss street but if we have a bye I sneak down to that ground and have a few with the EF guys in the pit. Great bunch and no problems with opposition supporters there. My wife doesnt like it as I usually have one or two beers

I have been on the EF guys back re a possible move to Fremantle and they will have to make sure they take the Shark Pit with them in some form or do we lose that tradition as well?

ShinyDuck wrote: HBF Arena (Joondalup). Getting a friendly reception at this place is as likely as MH370 landing with 200 Nigerian schoolgirls on board.

Brilliant

Cardy wrote: The bus stop is pretty good outside the ground at EF as well it is a classic

If a similar thing was at Basso it wouldn't be the next day.

Cardy wrote: The bus stop is pretty good outside the ground at EF as well it is a classic

I have to agree!

ShinyDuck wrote:

Cardy wrote: The bus stop is pretty good outside the ground at EF as well it is a classic

If a similar thing was at Basso it wouldn't be the next day.

especially if it was a picture of the umps Shiny!!

Cardy wrote: Thanks Shiny my favourite place to watch a WAFL game unfortunately we only have one meeting with EF at Moss street but if we have a bye I sneak down to that ground and have a few with the EF guys in the pit. Great bunch and no problems with opposition supporters there. My wife doesnt like it as I usually have one or two beers

I have been on the EF guys back re a possible move to Fremantle and they will have to make sure they take the Shark Pit with them in some form or do we lose that tradition as well?

and the rest cardy

Bassendean Oval. Don’t park at the shops across the road as your car might be introduced to Mr Tow Truck. Park at the free spot across the four lanes of Guildford Road, grandstand side. Take care as you cross the four lanes for fear of being hit by a speeding stolen getaway car.

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Park and take a look at your ride as it might be the last time you see it. Enter through the Guildford side entrance and make your way through the drunken crowd. Golly the Colts game is still on.
This place is like a museum as it has lots of exhibits.
Make your way past the busy canteen/bar area and on your right will be the Bright/Bunton Lounge.

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Similar to the instructions you would see on a fire alarm, there is a sign on the side of this building saying “If you require a grumpy old one eyed Swans fan, break glass and release” Usually a solemn, unhappy bunch waiting for the old age pension cheque to arrive, this mob has been unusually upbeat over the last few weeks. The VB and shandies have been replaced with champagne and happy smiles. My first thought was medical science had discovered a cure for dementia and Alzheimers. Common thought was they are about a dozen spots up on the ladder from where this grizzly, pessimistic mob had the Swannies during preseason predictions. But alas, the real reason for their celebration was they’d just cashed the Falcons cheque for the Krakouer transfer. Past the chinking of glasses and fist pumps I make my way to the next exhibit, the Billy Walker Stand.

Take a seat, then move to the left as there is a big pillar in the way. Move again, and again, Hmmm that pillar is still there!! Look across to the right to see its partner stand in the pocket.
I wrote this little song about it:
“Old McDonald had a stand, e i e i o; and in that stand we had some termites …” no worries, all is well now.

Sitting down the second thing you notice is your bum is starting to hurt from the hard wooden plank you are sitting on, (Shiny tip: take a pillow to sit on). But the first thing you notice is the can bar across the other side of the oval.

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My goodness what a work of art she is. When its pumping it out sells the Raffles Hotel on a Saturday night. MENSA candidates gather in their thousands just to be seen there. Forget Woodstock, you can tell the grand kids you once went to the can bar. Very impressive.

After the catchy tune plays “Black and white” da da dah old Shiny has a bit of a chance to reflect on a few things about the Mighty Ducks. He’s been attending Basso for 40 years. Things were a lot simpler when Big Roo, Brad Shine, Leon Baker and the Narkles were plying their trade here. Shiny’s seen the Ducks pick up a lazy SSSmill plus from BHP/Chevron etc, $40k + for each AFL recruit, a few hundred G’s from courting the prisoners, cash being loaded into the armoured car by a front end loader from the can bar … I could go on .............. and I will.

Sure we had the dough to pay Kraks landlord, get him some new boots for his car, sunglasses here, speeding fines there, buy a house, pay for some sneaky air tickets, hush money in a failed attempt to silence a salary cap black mailer, pay our 2010 team a few hundred G’s under the table. Despite all this surely we have some left. No, we’ve been to the well a few times too often I’m afraid. … we suddenly find we have a loss of $913k (in 2011) and are still paying the taxman $15,000 a month (is this just interest?) and hear our players are leaving because they haven’t been paid for three years.
But I digress. Back to the car park. I remember pulling in one day and to my surprise there was a kid there charging $5 to park there. This was despite the club, not owning this land and having no authority to do so. He was gone the next week and hasn’t been back. I suspect SD didn’t even know he was there in the first place Hee! Hee! Perhaps SD could track him down and put him in charge of the books as someone with that kind of initiative and cunning could get us on track.

The game starts and we score a goal and our happy Walker Stand crowd starts the “Swannies forever woooooo !! “ chant and we forget the worries of paying the next bill and enjoy the show.

We’re all right,
We are the Mighty Fighting Black and Whites

Low lights: A crushing debt that will see us either needing another bailout, merger or bankruptcy.
Highlights: Watching the planes take off just like in The Castle and joining in the happy song.

I swear we must be twins shiny duck. You have experienced alll the same things I have

Shiny your talents are wasted here on us at ozfooty mate......surely one of the most entertaining threads in the history of this site.......piss taking at it's best.....not directed at one particular club......just all n sundry.....keep going mate.....a joy to read.