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...and that was my most recent GF appearance. I'm available, Gil, Dil and Co...
From the vault.
The 2 men who wrote one of the greatest footy songs of all time -THAT'S THE THING ABOUT FOOTBALL - sing it on stage together at the 2002 Grand Final.
@gregchampion
and Mike Brady.
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Dear AFL Match Day Experience Dept: two trendy terms: 'read the room' - and 'tone deaf'. Music at the footy is as welcome as footy scores at a rock concert. Mind-blowingly out of touch with the sanctity of the sport that you're custodians of.
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The AFL/original VFL club songs are sacred. The fans are imprinted on the sound of those originals. They've lived with them and sung with them for 40-50 years. They're embedded in footy/Victorian culture. Of all the screwy ideas...
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All credit to ABC radio grandstand for hiring Ian Chappell. Whatever they may say of him...maybe grumpy etc... for me, you do get the feeling you're listening to genuine cricket history ; someone who's seen it all, been there, done that, and knows how to share it.
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The old footy songs cannot be improved - or don't need to be. It was the sound of the times, and it's still the sound of now. They could have just re-mastered them. I agree it's over-thinking, over-meddling. If it ain't broke, break it.
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John Clarke. For me, the greatest comic mind of our time. Up there with Barry Humphries. Fred Dagg lives on in my heart. What a loss.
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One of the two founding fathers of the Coodabeens. Suspended for 18 years due to extra judiciary technicalities. A return to the airwaves ? Bring it on ! Bring it back !
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I'd be content if my tombstone just says: 'the Bob Dylan of football songs'.
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Dylan. Social media protest may be the only way to get it up. Good on yas.
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Plenty of people I know expressing their depression and horror at the referendum result. As am I. Sad days, sorry times.
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No praise high enough for Eddie Betts's heroics yesterday. Not only the tackle that single-handedly won the game, but the double effort/intercept on the boundary 60? secs earlier. And he's an even greater Ornament To The Game off the field.
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Commentating on fireworks. A career highlight. Is there anything more absurd to commentate upon ?! "There's a red one. And - a yellow one".
Throwback to our last NYE broadcast on your radio. Circa 2014. Calling the square and black fireworks at midnight.
Happy New Year from the Coodabeens!
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Yes. I am. The Crows, via Bill Sanders asked me to record/produce their song around 1995. They are still -to their credit, using that version - because there has been at least one other AFL recording made since then, but, they've stuck with the original.
Good win Crows, you continue to trouble the top teams. But can
@gregchampion
please confirm or deny whether he's one of the singers in the Crows' club song?!
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Coodabeens Torch's Talkback : we are compiling a new talkback Compact Disc (!! remember them?) for release possibly pre-Christmas. First new one since 2002. Pearl, Wayne, Nige, Cliffy, Guru etc.
@Coodabeens
@MCC_Members
@Covey7911
@gregchampion
@AndyBellairs
@abcmelbourne
Guys can you please put all of Tony’s talkback and your cassettes on Spotify? Generations need to hear them
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To claim that The Voice is divisive, is like claiming that women are divisive to mens' desire to control the world.
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Wow. Rhett Bartlett, you legend. I've never seen this. [And I never want to see those spectacles again!] What a bunch of old pals.
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Oh Rhett Bartlett - you've done it again (!!) 😂😅 Great to see this. If not for you Rhett, they would be gone forever.
Glorious.
Online for the first time ever,
@gregchampion
sings his lament about Ch7 losing the rights to Broadcom and the ABC.
@Coodabeens
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Swans lose due to two ‘touched’ reviews (!) as Guru says: what goes around - comes around. Then, it goes around again. And comes around again. Then, it keeps on going, and coming around.
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"I wish they would put the names of the footy commentators on the screen more often"...said nobody ever.
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Praise to the AFL (whom we often gripe about), for (hopefully) restoring the proper length of quarters. The game was a dud with shorter quarters.
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Few things require a tweet but Phil Liggett's absence from Le Tour is a monster crime. SBS your coverage is a sad shadow of its former self
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Hail the mighty Barmy Army. All credit to them. Their singing is a joy to hear. They brighten the game. The British culture of singing at sport events is something I only wish we had too.
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Yes, warmest wishes for Christmas & NY from we Coodabeens. See you for Coodas' season
#38
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Happy Christmas from our family to yours! See you in Season 2018.
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Peter Dutton. A shadow of a parody of an angry right wing dinosaur.
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Some people have empathy for the family. Some, empathy for their people. Some for their country, or for all humanity. Greta - has planet empathy. That's what sets her apart.
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Given the ABC's gender fairness awareness, the term "Dear Old Auntie" will now be replaced with "dear senior relative to whom one is related by virtue of her having married mum's brother".
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Been ready to sing at the GF again - since 2002, Rob :) :).
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G'day Dylan. Myself and the Coodabeens are keen, ready, and hoping there is some substance to the rumours that we may get to do this on the big day.
C’mon Punters, let’s get
@gregchampion
&
@Coodabeens
back at the Grand Final singing “The thing about Football”
Perhaps
@robbiewilliams
can do the “Wooahh-oh-oh” bit?
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The Coodabeens recorded an off-season chat for a 40 year celebration book coming out in 2020. And ! - Simon Whelan joined us ! From bottom: me, Simon, Billy, Cove, Richo at right.
Oh to be a fly on the wall for some secret Coodabeens business... (with a surprise appearance).
#coodabeens40
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Do I have the wildest mask in the supermarket ? Thanks, Coodabeens donor CGR.
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Lovely to hear they played the original Crows song recording, after the women's Grand Final win today. Glad you've stuck with it, Adelaide Football Club.
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Camera operators at footy - and now tennis : agree with T Bell in The Age today: leave the camera where it used to be!
No longer can you watch tennis or footy without ridiculous superfluous dumb camera angles that ruin the viewing. There: soapbox delivered.
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Do you have Fox Footy ? I'll be singing 'That's The Thing About Football' on Fox 360, later in the programme, which starts at 7.30 - in 7 minutes. With fellow singers Darren James [3AW] & Young Andy Bellairs.
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Pic taken after our live streamed show on Wed. eve. SEVEN Coodabeens. Thanks hugely to the Deliveredlive crew.
We had a lot of fun last night streaming into your tvs and computers!
Thanks
@DeliveredLive
for having us.
If you missed the show, you can catch up with the replay on Sunday arvo.
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The best voice in news reading ! They don't make voices like that any more (!) Only Auntie fosters voices like that. It's like losing Alan McGilvray or Drew Morphett.
We’re all saddened to hear of the passing of our colleague, Jim Graham.
A top newsreader with a great sense of fun.
And above all else, a really good bloke.
Vale Jim.
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Never a Truer Word Spoken, Richard. My pet soapbox. I did a song in round one called: 'Have You Ever Seen a Good Boundary Line Interview'.
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Go the great Parko. The doyen. These days, The Godfather of footy legends.
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Hallelujah ! Ian Chappell is back on ABC radio Grandstand cricket. With what I love: the voice of cricket history.
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"In the event of a tie, the election goes to the one wearing less make-up".
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New Richmond Tigers song, live on air last week: Forever Tigerland. Tune of You'll Never Walk Alone
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Ha ha he he ha. What a 'term' ! Gotta be a song in 'Behavioural Awareness Officer'. Surpasses 'Customer Service Representative'.
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If The Herald-Sun was human, it would be locked up with mental health problems
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Which bank......can make an annual profit of $8.65 billion - and still keep you waiting 30 mins on the phone - 'cos they can't afford enough phone answerers. Ya gotta feel for em.
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Nobody commissioned 'that's the thing about football'. Ch7 took it up in 94. Ch10 has never had any link to it.
@waybetterways
@rhettrospective
@gregchampion
Unfortunately
@Channel7
will never adopt it because it’s something
@Channel10AU
commissioned 🤦♂️
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Jey Jeff where did you find this :) ? It's not on youtube ?! I'd like to share it around a bit.
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Has there EVER been a real estate listing where schools, shops, transport and parks were NOT within easy reach ??
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(Rob). If you like 'That's The Thing About Football' - for the GF - the only way it's gonna happen is 1,000 tweets - to make the AFL notice. Maybe try tweeting Gillon...
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What a pity this bib only lasted one week before being yanked by the PTB: powers that be. 'Cos this bib was songwriting GOLD ! You don't get themes like that popping up every week.
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It's done: 3 new virus-themed songs, filmed yesterday by Ben at the Montmorency studio. Six minute concert:
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Mary, your memory is amazing ! I found it ! 1995 it was ! Ideal for this Sat.'s show.
@gregchampion
I'm pretty sure it included "It's 13 years since the Tiges were here" - so 1995? Also "And the Skipping Girl will dance all night, Punt Rd..
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@leachitup
@AFL
G'day Dylan. I'll sing the song at 11.55am on The Coodabeens. And at 8.55am on Ch. 7 Morning Sunrise, I believe. Yes - it's time to do it on the ground again... :)
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With the time investment in getting those ditties to air, not doing it for the first time in 30 weeks, is hard to take (!!) Miss yas all tho
Hope you cope with the first Saturday morning without us in 6 mths.
Here’s Young Andy’s view this morning - Pt Leo Foreshore. What’s yours?
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Thanks to Andy Bellairs, today the cricket bat-guitar was presented to the MCG Sport Museum. John Van Boxtel made the item for the clip of 'I Made a 100 in The Backyard at Mum's' in 1986. Steve Smith & Cove also in pic.
We’re going in the
@NSMNews
!
Here’s
@gregchampion
handing over the cricket bat guitar from the 1986 film clip for “I made a hundred in the backyard at mums” to
@MCC_Members
chairman, Steven Smith.
And there’s
@Covey7911
too!
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:) I am now to be addressed as Princess Gregory :)
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Aaww magnif, Cove ! At this time of year we rejoice in hibiscus, plumbago, oleander, polygala, crab apple, bromeliad, browalia...and beautiful flowering gums like that one.
Check out this ripper flowering gum next door. Full of chirping parrots feasting on the nectar of the flowers. Song idea for
@gregchampion
?
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What a joy to hear Jim Maxwell's voice on ABC cricket coverage. Drew Morphett's & Jim's voices bring back many happy past summers.
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LOVE this new idea for Red Hot Go. Re-writing it today. Please send all new footy clichés: such as Lowered The Eyes, Lost Our Structure, Ran Down the Clock etc etc. Thankyou.
@saintjct
@gregchampion
BAO - Behavioural Awareness Officer
SCP - Scrumptious Cheese Platter
6-6-6 - Six Six Six
BFAG - Beer From A Glass
RDTC - Run Down The Clock
II - Insufficient Intent
GAGF - Gil's A Great Fella
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John Forbes, was a giant Australian. It was our privilege, as the Coodabeens, to perform a number of times in Vic jails in the 80s, at events organized by Forbesy. John had a huge amount of charity in his heart. Loved by all. Love to his wife Fay.
Vale to John Forbes a man who did so much for so many.
He was one of a kind and a great Australian.
We’ll miss you Forbesy.
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G'day Rhett. I have 100-150 - of Coodabeens etc., but I could cull to a dozen or two, for you ? I think it's a ripper idea.
Message to my Twitter followers:
If you have any VHS tapes lying around at home/garage of footy games, footy shows, sports shows etc taped off the TV, I am happy to take them off your hands and add them to the vault to digitise
DO NOT THROW THEM OUT. MSG ME FIRST.
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I have rarely been to RRR since the Coodabeens left there for ABC in 1988. Tomorrow - I get to sing on RRR again ! Very pleased about this.
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New Coodabeens Talkback CD on its way soon. First talkback CD since 2002.
@johncurtin
@qship1
@Coodabeens
@MCC_Members
@Covey7911
@gregchampion
@AndyBellairs
@abcmelbourne
Pik "It's da exception that proves da rool."
Tony "The rule?"
Pik "Da rool!"
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The Coodabeens are back weekly now, this Friday. Podcast it on Saturday if, like many, you want the 'traditional' time.
@Coodabeens
@gregchampion
@AndyBellairs
@Covey7911
Boys when are you back? Saturday mornings are a bit of a drag rn.
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Tonight: Greg Champion BY REQUEST. At the mighty Arcobar, off Warrigal Road. If you have a fave old song - or footy song....
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Fellow South Australians ! Fresh from a tour of Patchewollock, Western Vic., kindly plunge into Adelaide Fringe World with me: Sat. Feb. 15, Auburn Courthouse, Clare Valley ; Sun. Feb. 16, Goodwood Institute [2 shows, 4 & 7pm].
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I'm too scared to go to the loo - in case I run low on toilet paper.
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Hey Pommyland. If you want to win The Ashes - get some better weather. 😉🙂
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I heard a rumour that the Coodabeens were a chance for the GF last year - but - thwarted by the virus. The last time That's The Thing About Football was sung at the GF was 2002.🙂
I’m all for the idea of the The Albany Shantymen being at the
#AFLGF
but it’s time to bring back
@gregchampion
and “The Thing About Football” to be sung on footballs biggest day. The song is as sacred and as loved as “Up There Cazaly” yet has been forgotten by HQ for a while.
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😃Idea provided by the great Steve Marshall !
At the 1988 Seoul Olympics one of the biggest stories was the ridiculous suspension of Australian pentathlete Alex Watson for 'excessive caffeine.'
The following year
@gregchampion
turned it into this cracking ditty.
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Love your work Tayla
Here’s a pic of me at work... think about this before your derogatory comments, animals.
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Congratulations Commonwealth Bank. Your "customer service" is now worse than Telstra's - the gold standard, in the race to the bottom. Australia's most shameful. You've been trying hard for this. You must be proud.
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Michael. A box set of all footy albums ... Nice idea. Hadn't thought of that (!) Might just do it !
@scoreboardlife
@Coodabeens
@gregchampion
@WPBooks
@swishtter
One thing I really wanted to see was a big 40th anniversary boxset of all of their football albums.
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A song about the Tigers' 35 year wait for Premiership Glory: 'A Lotta People Care About Richmond'.
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Here is the Max Gawn song: Still Be Driving a Pizza Van. Concept by Noel Dennison:
I haven’t listened to the
@Coodabeens
podcast yet, so I don’t even know if
@gregchampion
played it, but since Friday night I’ve had the “Max Gawn pizza van” song stuck in my head and I cannot get rid of it!
Send help!
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"Here it is ! Proof !! The election was stolen ! And so was my mind".
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Brian I'm fairly confident the Coodabeens will carry on, on Saturdays.
@gregchampion
@AndyBellairs
no footy this week so how about the Cooda’s continuing the Saturday show with a mixture of footy songs and the type of stuff you guys have done over the years.
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All talkback callers including those will be on the new CD.
@gregchampion
Please don’t forget Sauce from Sea Lake, Peter from Peterborough or that wise man from the West, Christoff.
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G'day Matty. Great to get this msg. I have a young nephew in Adelaide modernizing my digital presence !
He has..spotified me ! I'll share your msg.
Great to see
@gregchampion
on Spotify. Any chance you’ll load your classic CD “All The Fun Ones” up for us, Champs?
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Am I imagining it or -- has the Positional Heatmap disappeared from the TV coverage after two weeks of mirth from the Coodabeens. Haven't seen one heatmap in 8 games of footy this round.
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I've always been a big fan of the camera work on footy's TV coverage :) :) (!) But full credit to Ch 7 for the shot of Heavitree Gap from behind the goals at the Alice Springs footy this arvo. Sublime.
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Good on yas, Rhett Bartlett. :)
A piece of
@Coodabeens
history discovered tonight.
Recorded from 3RRR in 1986, here's the audio of
@gregchampion
unveiling a NEW song he had written.
Performing for the first time on radio, it was...
I'M A RECEIVER
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Aaawww. Priceless ! How special ! A child sings 'that's the thing about football'. 😍❤🧡💛
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Greg Champion and The Pillars Of Society playing at St. Andrews Hotel this Sunday - August 7.
Greg Champion...
http://fb.me/12Lvju3ke
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Andr*w B*lt is the panicked last screams of a dying dinosaur.
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Yes Dylan, it still exists on a 'CD'. Remember them ??😛Anything to help people recover from the fires...
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TC, that book is rare and hard to find. Nice work.
@Coodabeens
@Covey7911
@gregchampion
Picked up a bargain at the
@LifelineAust
Op Shop here in Warrnambool today. My second copy - this one in mint condition ... with the postcards!
@Digger_Pies
lives on!
@AlisterNicho
@TimLaneSport
@GerardWhateley
@rdhinds
@rohan_connolly
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I am yet to, embarrassingly, acquaint myself with the joys of Spotify...
BREAKING: Champs classic album All the Fun Ones now on Spotify. Includes I do like to be in Abu Dharbi. This is the White Album for Champs fans.
@gregchampion
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Well….only people power will get That's The Thing About Football on the GF. Next year social media would have to fire up - in may-June.
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Jim Maxwell, back on ABC cricket. A mature voice; the right tone, the right rhythm, the right content. Wish the others could all be Jim.
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Oh, so sorry to hear this ; love ya, Scotty Palmer. Biggest hugs to Lorraine. Saw Scotty and Lorraine a few times recently at Sorrento RSL and footy club.
Vale Scot Palmer.
A great friend and a legend of the history of our great city.
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Little doubt that this is the most loved, oft-requoted talkback call of our 42 years on air. I vote second pace to the Ivan from Ivanhoe call about travelling down Bourke St to Docklands.
Maybe the greatest talkback call of all time! Brilliant memories
@rhettrospective
. 🤣🤣
#TopOfTheMountain
#LapoftheTVRoom
#UmpireElder
@gregchampion
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Hey BBL. We need to see EVERY delivery from behind the bowler (!) Showing some deliveries from mid-off - awful ! Get rid of it !
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Great umpiring tonight, may I say. And last night. Well done umps.
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What a pity for China, that they can't just invade the medal table, annex all the medals for their own, and deny it ever happened. Worked in Tibet.
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Nice to hear you're enjoying it, Judith 😊
@Coodabeens
Loved all of
@gregchampion
’s parody songs &
@gregchampion
’s song segments are my favourite segments on
@Coodabeens
.
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Best letter in The Age: "so USA is the only country in the world where the OPPOSITION can rig an election" (!)
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