Great morning.i happen to see the guy who i sat next to for all those years at subi,great to reminisce .And yes he still talks to me.Another surprise was i was talking to one of the staff, and they said there was only 270 members left from year one who were still members,, that surprised me.I think they were nearly all there this morning.
We arrived and went to a lounge area ,where the players run out through the member area,the bar was open and a few went straight there but yes you guessed it ,pay as you drink.
So everyone then partaked of the scones with jam and cream, and party pies now that was a surprise.
No sooner ,(oh i forgot, as we walked into the ground the skip was really pushing hard training,and he was there pretty well all the time we were there. Trying to get fitness ,looked very good.)got seated and the players were out, nothing to strenuous, basically kick to kick around the ground.
Then it was upstairs for the photo. We were seated in a large group in the lounge area above where the players run out those seats were super comfortable,pricy i bet.
So the drones got to work, had one buzzing around not too far from the front of us and one other about 50 metres away from it,i joked if the first one gets shot down there is a backup. Got a lot of laughs.
So just before we were told the photo was to be taken ,most of the players came out and joined us, real good fun,i shook Andy's(Brayshaw) hand, said good luck,geez he's a solid boy close up.
A couple of speeches earlier from Ceo and Pres,Simon reminised about one of his playing days they came over to play us at subi,and we won ,but he said walking off the ground he thought there was a huge crowd,going by the support we gave our players, nice well we knew that. i thought.
Anyway a great morning ,looking forward to being on the ground pregame tomorrrow,the general consensus more thought we will be playing a dead rubber nearly everyone i spoke to brought up the Brodie query, but no one could give any reason why he was not playing. But one guy said since the 6,6,6 rule came in he has not produced,i said well they do the 6,6,6 at peel ,and yes he handballs more than kick. But in general they were happy with our squad, and all wanted to get Bolton as apriority. Not much if any talk about the coach .
so a great morning.
