John Dedes

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This stuff just brings back bad old memories at School.
Playing soccer on the Primary School netball court and a Teacher saying you cannot play with the round ball on the court, Anglo background school children calling us wog ball lovers, calling us every unsavoury name under the clouds.
But guess what happened? I have conveyed this story before .
A teacher comes up to us wog kids and says we need Footy players to fill in the school side. We said Sir they are calling us names and picking fights with us. The teacher promised no more fights.
Reluctantly we joined got Thursday afternoon off school to play footy because of us in the side we started winning and we all became friends.
But we still got picked on for wearing low cut soccer boots on the footy park.
Now all AFL players Wear these types of boots today.

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Good morning, Trung Nguyen coffee in hand, looking forward to today's results posted on FN.

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looking forward to today's results posted on FN.

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Bravo Marko.

The rest? I could have said I told you so that local clubs are getting shafted.

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Lion was paid $8k for Bugsy, remember that's the 70s

Adelaide Croatia got fees of between $5 - $10k for transfers in the 80s

The others if have to research, but I'm sure you'll find similar

Surprised someone like you would challenge this.

8k back then, with inflation factored in, is today's equivalent of 45k.

Guess is case of silly City always overpaying......

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You could buy a House in the suburbs in the mid 1970's for approx $25k worth today approx $420k.

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If any person or club or even the ffsa had a brain they would contact Skills Ready or It use to be called Skills for All, SA Govt program and put a paying soccer skills program together say for 2 years length clubs can use with the State and federal govt paying unemployment type wages to young players needed by clubs. After the two years decisions can be made if these players are needed, sold, signed on etc.
While on a kinda soccer apprenticeship they could also be doing another educational program or course in parallel with the soccer apprenticeship for later in life when the soccer career finishes.

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I agree with the text above saying that ethnic communities would follow certain clubs,now how would that grow the game,not take members from current clubs &not cause ethnic hatred to rear its head again?Another thing i don't understand is that a young person of any background in Australia would never opt to represent his country of birth-to me there must be something seriously wrong in his upbringing to state that!By the way i am not a fan of communism or any other type of regime,but in the former Yugoslavia that you were not aloud to say that you were a Croat or anything else is total bullshit-the communist dictator was a Croat himself!But you had to hide your political orientation if it was other than red!

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Good discussion again.
I have dual citizenship thanks to my Dad.
If I was young again I would have a choice I could make and hedge my soccer bets depends how luck went in selection eg Greece or Socceroos.

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,but in the former Yugoslavia that you were not aloud to say that you were a Croat or anything else is total Barossa Pearl!

Sta seres koj kurac?

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In the post WW2 era of the Greek civil war if you were a Greek communist resistance fighter you were exiled out of Greece, many ended up in Tashkent Uzbekistan approx 30,000 Greeks raised their families there . My Dads sister was one. She and her family in the late 1980's. We're allowed back in Greece . She was in her late 60's. She went back to her husbands village with a low interest govt loan built a house. She still lives there she is 90years.

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She went back to her husbands village with a low interest govt loan built a house.

and the rest of Greece is paying for it today......

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She went back to her husbands village with a low interest govt loan built a house.

and the rest of Greece is paying for it today......

Don't be silly, they'll just blame it on the Germans and refuse to pay.

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Churchill had drawn Greece on the Eastern block and then changed his mind thus Greece became politically unstable after WW2 , no food for people to eat, the Germans had taken the gold, the country was a mess.......

After the left wing Govt came into power in the late 1980's and letting the exiled families back into Greece like my Aunty was 100% correct and giving them semi compensation like low interest loans to built a family home was 100% correct.

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Furthermore
If you watch the movie " Heleni" it depicted that era in Greek History, many eldest daughters in families in northern Greece then were taken away and forced to join the resistance fighters in the Greek civil war. My Dads village was right wing on the 15 December the family home in the village was bombed by plane by the nationalists . Lucky no one got killed. The 15th of December is my Dads name day " Eleftherios" his name meaning freedom.
His village saw Italians, Germans, Bulgarians, Nationalists, Communists, try take it over in History.
It is A Greek proud village in Northern Greece that has seen much havoc.
My Dads village " Flambouron"

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The connection to the Adelaide Town ethnic named soccer clubs was this history to the homelands of our parents and their story that is why we liked to play and associate with these ethnic named clubs.
I have no association with the forced non ethnic name changes of today.

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Churchill had drawn Greece on the Eastern block and then changed his mind thus Greece became politically unstable after WW2 , no food for people to eat, the Germans had taken the gold, the country was a mess.......

After the left wing Govt came into power in the late 1980's and letting the exiled families back into Greece like my Aunty was 100% correct and giving them semi compensation like low interest loans to built a family home was 100% correct.

ahh so it was Churchill's fault you lot couldn't defend yourselves.

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johndedes

It is A Greek proud village in Northern Greece

that explains everything...youre really a Skopjian...

[God is an Englishman]

johndedes

It is A Greek proud village in Northern Greece

that explains everything...youre really a Skopjian...

Wouldn't a skopjian be from Skopje and not Northern Greece?

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Skopjian/greek... same thing

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A farce and joke fn taking off my posts and short ban.
Stinks of white Australia policy!!!!!
It is 2015.
Do not forget my parents generation from Europe built this country.

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A farce and joke fn taking off my posts and short ban.
Stinks of white Australia policy!!!!!
It is 2015.
Do not forget my parents generation from Europe built this country.

Chances are you were banned by a Greek - still, keep playing that race card. More chance of needing on this site if you're English though.

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A farce and joke fn taking off my posts and short ban.
Stinks of white Australia policy!!!!!
It is 2015.
Do not forget my parents generation from Europe built this country.

doesnt mean we have to listen to or put up with your shit.

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can the moderator deleting posts in this thread be kind enough to contact the forumites (Hawksey, Dedes and myself) and explain why???

Didn't even know I'd have one deleted.

You know you won't get an explanation though.

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I think they've been moved to the John Dedes thread.

You and Mega will be right at home over there.

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can the moderator deleting posts in this thread be kind enough to contact the forumites (Hawksey, Dedes and myself) and explain why???

It's their forum. They can do as they please.

[God is an Englishman]

can the moderator deleting posts in this thread be kind enough to contact the forumites (Hawksey, Dedes and myself) and explain why???

It's their forum. They can do as they please.

Not their forum at all. It's the bloke who plays for Birkalla's forum. They just doing his dirty work for him.

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Now they've moved threads asking why things have been deleted.

Surprised they are doing it to MB though, he's one of their own.

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can the moderator deleting posts in this thread be kind enough to contact the forumites (Hawksey, Dedes and myself) and explain why???

It's their forum. They can do as they please.

Not their forum at all. It's the bloke who plays for Birkalla's forum. They just doing his dirty work for him.

Modbury Jets isn't your club; you don't own it. But it's common speech to say it's yours.

The mods look after the boards as if it's their job (even though it's not). It's 'their' forum.

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Modbury Jets isn't your club; you don't own it. But it's common speech to say it's yours.

The mods look after the boards as if it's their job (even though it's not). It's 'their' forum.

It is my club, I'm one of the owners.

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can the moderator deleting posts in this thread be kind enough to contact the forumites (Hawksey, Dedes and myself) and explain why???

It's their forum. They can do as they please.

Not their forum at all. It's the bloke who plays for Birkalla's forum. They just doing his dirty work for him.

He's at Cumberland United now.

[God is an Englishman]

Apparently not, at Sturt now.

More clubs than Jack Nicklaus.