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IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
At 5.30 yesterday afternoon, as per normal practice, I entered the Punt Road carpark to drop my son at cricket practice to find that the car park was full.
Something was astir, and with a big channel 7 van avec camera tower parked next to the only vacant spot in the carpark, it didn't take long to realise that all the posts on PRE were coming to fruition.
As we got out of the car, a senior female reporter looking more like mutton dressed up as lamb seemed intent on finding out whether the Punt Road carpark was going to be closed and if she was going to locked in. To which, I assured her that the construction gate would normally be closed at 6, but the carpark is never closed off.
Casually we walked across to the Cricket Club Stand and upon passing the inside balcony window to the Boardroom we saw that it was packed to the rafters. I turned around to my son to say, "Guess it looks like Ben Cousins is going to be a Tiger." To which he seemed more enthused than I was.
Anyway, returning to the car, a shiny blue utility suddenly sped out of the construction car park but was caught at the red light of the car park. I thought to myself that this is where all the reporters & camera crews sprint to surround the car to film its glimpses of the suspected driver.
I've never seen paid employees on special assignment move slower. It was slower than a Tiger midfield of Billy Nicholls & Tim Fleming together in 2004. There was one young female reporter, microphone in hand, with a backside bigger than most senior accountants that couldn't break into a jog if her life depended on it.
Suddenly the light changed and the shiny blue utility did a quick left hand turn but had to stop after 5 metres because of the traffic standstill on Punt Road. Still the channel 7 camera crew had their opportunity. This time they broke from a walk into a slow jog. But they were still too slow. By the time they got there the traffic began moving and the shiny blue utility sped up north along Punt Road.
Slowly the camera crew came trapesing back. I turned around to one of the other parents of a cricketing junior to suggest that he put his jacket on as he was likely to be the only interview this camera crew was going to get.
As for channel 7, yes, your camera crews are just as enthusiastic as your football commentary.
Hopefully the camera crew are on commission only.
Something was astir, and with a big channel 7 van avec camera tower parked next to the only vacant spot in the carpark, it didn't take long to realise that all the posts on PRE were coming to fruition.
As we got out of the car, a senior female reporter looking more like mutton dressed up as lamb seemed intent on finding out whether the Punt Road carpark was going to be closed and if she was going to locked in. To which, I assured her that the construction gate would normally be closed at 6, but the carpark is never closed off.
Casually we walked across to the Cricket Club Stand and upon passing the inside balcony window to the Boardroom we saw that it was packed to the rafters. I turned around to my son to say, "Guess it looks like Ben Cousins is going to be a Tiger." To which he seemed more enthused than I was.
Anyway, returning to the car, a shiny blue utility suddenly sped out of the construction car park but was caught at the red light of the car park. I thought to myself that this is where all the reporters & camera crews sprint to surround the car to film its glimpses of the suspected driver.
I've never seen paid employees on special assignment move slower. It was slower than a Tiger midfield of Billy Nicholls & Tim Fleming together in 2004. There was one young female reporter, microphone in hand, with a backside bigger than most senior accountants that couldn't break into a jog if her life depended on it.
Suddenly the light changed and the shiny blue utility did a quick left hand turn but had to stop after 5 metres because of the traffic standstill on Punt Road. Still the channel 7 camera crew had their opportunity. This time they broke from a walk into a slow jog. But they were still too slow. By the time they got there the traffic began moving and the shiny blue utility sped up north along Punt Road.
Slowly the camera crew came trapesing back. I turned around to one of the other parents of a cricketing junior to suggest that he put his jacket on as he was likely to be the only interview this camera crew was going to get.
As for channel 7, yes, your camera crews are just as enthusiastic as your football commentary.
Hopefully the camera crew are on commission only.