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Garry McKenzie

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Writes on soccer history & music. Ex-media at Western Pride & Palm Beach FCs. Had many years on radio. Twitch chats. Games fan. NFFC fan.

Brisbane

Joined February 2009

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6 years

NOTE: I am currently sharing old newspaper articles about Quilp aka John (Jacky) Baramba Lynch, an Australian Indigenous soccer player from the early 1900s. Some articles reflect views and language of the time which may offend. I certainly do not agree with those views.

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5 years

@SarahKanowski Obviously a get in out out quickly plan. Like a heist movie.

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@isobelroe Paying taxpayers' money to pay for something already paid for by taxpayers' money.

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If Rowles is a sudden bolter for a longterm Socceroos spot, we desperately need to find a good centre back named Rock.

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@wendy_harmer Why does the ABC think it needs to prolong this debate? Why foster it?

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3 years

@LucyThack This is upsetting. How is living in housing commission relevant? I grew up in housing commission in the same area. A lot of different people lived there, from a lot of backgrounds. We don't need to know. I feel for the family.

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@KarstenW_ @LegoLostAtSea Do not throw it back. One less thing in the sea which should not be there (if we forget the romance for a second). Best open and make its journey purposeful.

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@susanamet ping @TheRealPBarry

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@joeylynchy players should just refuse to take the field. They have the right to be safe.

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@shaunmicallef @mrtonymartin

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@murpharoo About time cows paid their way.

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3 years

RIP Cliff Sander. Ipswich Socceroo and Olympian.

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A soccer game in Australia in 1878. Germanton near Albury and the Yarra Yarra team would be named after the creek. Said to be the first game in the colonies @PaulMavroudis :

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2 years

@squires_david Please do not feature Kerr in the next 12 months. Thank you.

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4 years

@slamup @FionaKatauskas The doctor up here said it was because the parents have run out of leave because semi-regular covid tests eating up their leave one to three days at a time. Thus a rhinovirus went through Queensland schools in June because kids went sick.

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@VinceRugari Given Taggart, Duke and Maclaren's ages, Cummings is perfectly placed to be a transitional Socceroo striker over the next cycle.

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@Asher_Wolf @R_Chirgwin So child protection laws if a kids appears in the background and is broadcast to the company?

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4 years

@Max_Morris My mother knew a woman whose first name was Fairly who then married a Mr Shore

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3 years

For the last few years I set myself the task of listening to 100 albums I never heard before, old and new. The first one this year was the 80s pop of ABC's The Lexicon of Love.

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@jessradio Soccer in the UK during WWI - Women's factory teams played, then after the war women were effectively banned from playing. There's a lot of details about it on the web.

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#GameofPopLife Day 7 - Children Laura Marling - Strange Girl I got a car when I was born. So I found it strange my daughter did not come with one.

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Laura Marling - Strange Girl (Official Audio)

'Song For Our Daughter' is out now. Listen/order here: https://lauramarling.comFollow Laura Marling:Facebook: https://lauramarling.lnk.to/FBInstagram: https:...

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@aleaguemen @IsuzuUTE Henrique

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#GameofPopLife Day 2 - Uni or Business Ral Donner - Poison Ivy League At my poor, provincial Uni I dreamt of wearing top-tier college ties, until I met those who did.

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@bajo @goosemangus Scene from the ABC canteen...

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#GameofPopLife Day 17 - Television Mental As Anything - Possible Theme for a Future TV Drama Series Stuck as a doctor, still dreaming of making music. So maybe I can do soundtracks.

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Mental As Anything: Possible Theme For a Future TV Drama Series

Their second single. A rare clip from Music Express (Adelaide) in 1979. Picture quality isn't great but hopefully the rarity value makes up for it!

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 12 - Give and Take Sistatron - Give Me All Give it up for Red! Sorry, I meant give it up Red.

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#GameofPopLife Day 24 - The Toll Bridge Thomas Leer and Robert Rental - Monochrome Days (from Off The Bridge) Another grey day, another toll to pay. Things are starting to feel... monotonous...

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Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - Monochrome Days (Official Audio)

'Monochrome Days' from the long awaited reissue of Thomas Leer and Robert Rental’s influential 1979 album, The Bridge. Listen/Buy: https://mute.ffm.to/TheBri...

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7 years

The yearly migration to the NPLQ - Southern Conference has started.

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⚽️ Welcome, Jake Marshall! We've signed the young defender from Brisbane Strikers. Details: #SMFC

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#GameofPopLife Day 1 - Car Colour. Arve Henriksen - Blue Silk We've just been born. Not much shape to life yet. Anything is possible. Strangely have a licence though.

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Arve Henriksen - Blue Silk

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@battledinosaur @VinceRugari Funding of sport, especially grassroots sports should not be decided by National Male Sports' viewing figures.

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 30 - Day of Reckoning The Fall - The Reckoning. Why do I suddenly feel maudlin?

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Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesThe Reckoning · The FallMiddle Class Revolt℗ 2006 FullFillReleased on: 2006-05-24Auto-generated by YouTube.

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10 years

Radio Notional #ABCbudgetcutshows

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3 years

Yearly soccer goal and jacaranda photo.

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@Dan_THFC_ @wests_glory Rather not be funded by gambling addicts, and using cheap meals to attract gambling addicts.

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11 months

Really happy for Dan Hall. From starter at Mariners to benched by the rise of Triantis and arrival of Kaltak. Benched at start of this season but now back as first choice and Mariners look better for it.

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 3 - Degree Luke Slater - Doctor of Divinity My family thought I was studying medicine but I really getting degrees in RPGs

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7 months

@neilsherwin The rain has seen schools closed over there. There has been advise to stay home. Public transport with heaps of delays. Not sure it is a crowd to worry about.

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5 years

Here's a big shield @iansyson , dating back at least to 1929, with a missing winner recently added:

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3 years

It's all a plan for the return of the Ampol Cup.

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#GameofPopLife Day 6 - Blackmail by the Butler The Runaways - Blackmail I'm not sure how the butler discovered my attempted teenage pop demos, by my options were to pay up or go on the run.

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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupBlackmail · The RunawaysBest Of/20th Century℗ 1977 UMG Recordings, Inc.Released on: 2005-01-01Producer: Kim Fowle...

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#GameofPopLife Day 8 - Status Symbol Peter Hammill - His Best Girl "Foot down in the G Ti Cabriolet to the villa in the south of France." My visitors were giving off really strange vibes.

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Peter Hammill - His Best Girl

Prog Rock inspired T-Shirt : https://www.tostadora.it/giovacolor/prog_rock_v2/2274176

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#GameofPopLife Day 11 - Spin The Wheel Vika and Linda - Chained to the Wheel Just because the wheels are in motion doesn't mean it's cruising.

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#GameofPopLife Day 9 - Rally Race Yo La Tengo - The Race Is On Again And don't they make so much noise every year. And close off half the roads too.

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@GrogsGamut I love how the first thing the article alleges is you economists want to take everyone's decent tax cuts away, before going on to give loads of good reasons why they should be scrapped. Basic journo training used to teach most people only read the start of articles.

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4 years

1928: Good @markboric compliant photo in this match program:

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#GameofPopLife Day 18 - Lucky Day Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck Just my luck the heater broke.

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2 years

@VinceRugari All due respect to Maclaren, but Cumming has a wider range of skills.

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3 years

Survived the floods.

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@taliaualiitia A michelin

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Yesterday was a wonderfully entertaining day in the A-Liga. The football itself ain't the issue.

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#GameofPopLife Day 23 - Uncle In Prison Steel Pulse - Uncle George Well that puts things into perspective.

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Steel Pulse - Uncle George

6th song in the album Tribute To The Martyrs 1979Please subscribe to my channel and email newsletter for more playlists and cool vibeshttp://eepurl.com/b8OVir

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#GameofPopLife Day 14 - Stock Market (Up or Down) Ani Difranco - Up Up Up Up Up Up Good thing I grabbed those stocks in MySpace early. There is only one way they are going to go.

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Up Up Up Up Up Up

Provided to YouTube by United for OpportunityUp Up Up Up Up Up · Ani DiFrancoUp Up Up Up Up Up℗ 1999 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportu...

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#GameofPopLife Day 19 - Give and Take Ed Kuepper - Take It By The Hand Or rather, I'll take it from your hand, Yellow.

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@annabelcrabb Like a Tim Tam pack, cannot be divided evenly between 2.

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@rupertmurdoch @meadea So you want Bob Brown back?

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1 year

@VinceRugari Tony talked about increasing depth for years yet here we are.

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1 year

@VinceRugari Would not be surprised. This is the phase where reality will bite. I will be also interesting to know as teams drop out whether expenditure on their NPL Senior Men's squads will also drop as they are no longer jockeying for a NSD position.

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Um. Ok. James Prinsep, one time youngest Eng int, MAY have come to Australia and played for Rosebuds and got 2 teammates to go to Scotland to play professionally. Much here to unpack and verify @Peter_Eedy @IanSyson @socceroo85 @nfhistory @PaulMavroudis

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#GameofPopLife Day 16 - Miss a Turn Mighty Sparrow - First Miss Black Universe How can I do nothing with such a beat.

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3 years

@isobelroe I demand my news in a improv slam poetry style every morning.

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2 years

@susie_dent Exactly what I want to do right now. (At an event I do not want to be at.) I'll just tell people I have to go and latibulate.

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@CameronAtfield What annoys me more is that it is Strikers, City and Lions. Just three of the biggest clubs in the state, one of which doesn't even have a senior women's program. The haves have more.

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4 years

@AmyRemeikis I accept our new Queensland overlord! (Can you write-off my mortgage?)

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 13 - Sue For Damages Lazy Susan - Bobby Fischer Susan's lazy claim that no one says Reykjavik in a song led to damages being paid to John Cale and Hank Snow among others. I did warn her.

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Lazy Susan - Bobby Fischer

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#GameofPopLife Day 28 - Gold! Golden Palominos - Heaven (You Have To Be In Hell To See Heaven) I am surrounded by gold, but I really wanted a gold record. Call this heaven?

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The Golden Palominos - Heaven (You Have to Be in Hell to See Heaven)

The Golden Palominos - Heaven (You Have to Be in Hell to See Heaven). Track 1. from no thought, no breath, no eyes, no heart (the pure remix ep).I do NOT cla...

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#GameofPopLife Day 10 - Success Milestone Fridge - Five Four Child Voice You just get into your groove and the kid pipes up.

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Five Four Child Voice

Provided to YouTube by BWSCD, Inc.Five Four Child Voice · FridgeHappiness℗ 2001 Temporary Residence Ltd.Released on: 2001-09-18Auto-generated by YouTube.

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5 years

I apoke to 89yo Blackstone United Dragons founder Eric Jones. I got too much info.

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 31 - The End David Thomas and Two Pale Boys - Prepare for the End My blue car is dying. My house burned down. I have a stack of money. And a giant frown. Time to slow down and put on another record.

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Prepare For The End

David Thomas and Two pale boys

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#GameofPopLife Day 5 - Win a Quiz Show My Little Airport - 已婚男人 (Married Man - off the album 適婚的年齡/The Right Age For Marriage) I'm wedded to the translation provided by Discogs for the album title.

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阿叔今年四十歲

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@QuentinHull And Olympic sport soccer gets nothing. Again. And after the trashed pitches at Suncorp and Ballymore in the last two weeks. (Would it not be cheaper to do temporary seating at Springfield?)

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 21 - Speculate on the Stock Exchange Wells, Whitehead etc - Pick Up Sticks After the MySpace debacle, surely my Tumblr stock has an upward trajectory.

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 15 - Status Symbol Art of Noise - Crusoe (The Ambient Collection version) Oh, I remember buying this Art Collection. I should get someone to dust in here occasionally.

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Art of Noise - Crusoe (Ambient Collection version)

from The Ambient Collection, 1990http://www.listentothis.info

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3 years

@JohnFinnemore A few on here I would have picked so I will add Lindsey Davis The Ides of April. After recognising the Falco books had their course, this was a much-needed reset of that world. Flavia Albia a great protagonist.

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4 years

Just found out woth the Queensland v NSW games on Sat the men they will be competing for the Gibb – Masters Cup and in the women for the Watson – O’Connor Cup. @GregStock7 @grassrootsfoot1 @IanSyson @70s_mo

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@FFACup @FootballAUS @footballvic @footballnsw @FootballQLD @NNSWF @FootballTas @CapitalFootball @FootballSouthAu @FootballWest @FootballNT The first national/interstate club cup was around 1920. Many of these clubs who currently play the FFA have been around far longer than Les Murray etc. How about the Heritage Cup. Embraces all the history of Australian soccer.

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 26 - Big Final Payout - House Fire The Reggae Boys - Dolly House On Fire Good thing I insure my antiques. Don't miss them though.

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The Reggae Boys - Dolly House on Fire

Dolly House on Fire by The Reggae Boys from the album Skinheads on the Dancefloor Vol. 4 - Strictly the BossestReleased 2014-04-04 on Spirit of 69 RecordsDow...

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9 months

@GrogsGamut They have done a few of these quick win things re homelessness in the last year.

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3 years

@simonhill1894 @TheMatildas @FootballQLD It wasn't the first ever women's football game in Australia. It was the first game under an attempted association. I will die on this hill I know it.

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3 years

@GreenJ Well of you are going to complain I will take it away

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4 years

Look what I found in the clean up.

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8 years

@annabelcrabb @AntonyGreenABC @leighsales i have visions of pollie answering question then faced with "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" Pollie buckles.

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5 years

Little did they know how their season would turn out.

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1 year

@peoples_pop I nominated Voon. I first heard the song on Craig Pillings overnight show on the Student Radio Network, which I could stream to the other side of the world. I emailed and asked him what that song was and he sent me the compilation Havock Junction, a comp of Leicester bands.

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2 years

RIP Dennis Waterman. Remember seeing Minder as a kid, and On The Up, but mostly for New Tricks.

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2 years

#GameofPopLife Day 20 - Sue For Damages Sui Zhen - Infinity Street (from Secretly Susan) On a street this exclusive, there's plenty of secrets.

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Sui Zhen – Infinity Street – Official Video

Director/Producer/Editor: Becky Sui Zhen suizhen.com.auCinematographer & Assistant Direction: Joshua Aylett http://joshuaaylett.com/Assistant Direction: Pheb...

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2 years

@GrogsGamut Great work by FIFA 12 years ago to ensure this mess is nearty timed to coincide with other examples of those in power losing the plot.

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3 years

@mjrowland68 @GrogsGamut RIP Mike. The weatherman of my growing up.

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#GameofPopLife Day 29 - Status Symbol Urthboy - To The Bank I'm over the south of France. To the bank and bye bye villa.

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Urtboy - To the bank

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3 years

For all the good things to do with FQ rejigging the Queensland leagues, the worst is the start of yet another SportsTG DB, unconnected to the last 9 years of NPL or FB comps. So a third SportsTG database to check for career stats.

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1 year

@seaninsound Fela Kuti vs obscure Japanese Afrobeat (NSFW)

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@OrkneyLibrary @FiveFrogsBlog Jane Eye

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5 years

Just realised that was the first time I've been on radio since I hosted my last show 2011? Thanks to @IanSyson and @PaulMavroudis for the invitation, and @DinmoreBushrats for some amazing history and getting the club back together. You can listen back below.

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Football Nation Radio

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LIVE NOW | If You Know Your History @DinmoreBushrats President Scott Morrison & Football Historian Garry McKenzie join us now! 📺

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@VinceRugari Agree. And while everyone was laughing, they quietly built arguably the best youth system in the league.

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2 years

Scull is likely John Alfred Scull, former Halifax Town, and Idle FC football player who came to Melbourne in early 1927, and played until his family followed him in August. @MarkBoric

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4 years

That's some successful camouflage.

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Guardian Australia

4 years

Chameleon last seen a century ago rediscovered in Madagascar

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@Socceroos @redders_20 @TheWiggles Does that make him the chaotic neutral Wiggle?

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2 years

Hey @bajo , you have wonderful mods who are a great influence.

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4 years

The first question any storm heading to Brisbane asks itself is whether it can get there just as the school day ends.

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4 years

@AardigOranje Hopefully DWH can reignite playing under Davies again.

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3 years

Thanks @Jenzlinger for the pair of @CORSAIR HS80s. I can't wait to try them. ☺️

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