GNR4LIFE
Well-known member
I know we have a lot to complain about at the moment given the current state of the club both on and off the field, i just want to take a moment to share something positive.
2 months ago my girlfriends little brother (he's 15) broke his neck on a trampoline. Broke vertebrae's 3 and 4\. He was in Westmead Children's hospital for 2 weeks, had surgery and was in a neck brace for a month. He got very lucky, it could have ended the same way it did for Alex McKinnon or Christopher Reeve. Maybe even worse. He's out of the brace now and is expected to make a full recovery which is great.
Anyway, he's a Tigers fan, so i had the idea to contact the club. I got in contact with them and they told me they would pass my details onto the community team, but warned me they had a backlog of requests. The very next day i got call from Shaun Spence. Shaun asked me how he was going and told me he could arrange a signed jersey. He asked for my email so we could stay in contact. I thanked him and hung up. He emailed me straight away and told me he thought it could be a possibility that we could bring my girlfriends brother to training. At this point he was still in hospital recovering from surgery. A week or two goes by and we make contact again. By this time he's in a brace, house bound for the next 6 weeks. I told Shaun that he would be unable to visit training. Shaun told me to contact him when he could.
A couple weeks goes by, the brace comes off and i go to email him back. As i did Shaun had emailed me two days earlier asking if the club could do anything. I asked if the visit to training was still a possibility and he said it was. It was hard for the girlfriend and i to agree on a day during the week with work, so i figured they would most likely train the day before the Storm game. So i asked Shaun if Saturday was doable. He got back to me today and said it was, now come Saturday my girlfriend and i will be taking her little brother to Leichhardt oval to watch the boys train.
I just want to thank Shaun Spence. He's gone above and beyond.
Note: Word to the wise, if Ted somehow mysteriously pulls out of Sundays game, my girlfriend fawning all over him had absolutely nothing to do with it.
2 months ago my girlfriends little brother (he's 15) broke his neck on a trampoline. Broke vertebrae's 3 and 4\. He was in Westmead Children's hospital for 2 weeks, had surgery and was in a neck brace for a month. He got very lucky, it could have ended the same way it did for Alex McKinnon or Christopher Reeve. Maybe even worse. He's out of the brace now and is expected to make a full recovery which is great.
Anyway, he's a Tigers fan, so i had the idea to contact the club. I got in contact with them and they told me they would pass my details onto the community team, but warned me they had a backlog of requests. The very next day i got call from Shaun Spence. Shaun asked me how he was going and told me he could arrange a signed jersey. He asked for my email so we could stay in contact. I thanked him and hung up. He emailed me straight away and told me he thought it could be a possibility that we could bring my girlfriends brother to training. At this point he was still in hospital recovering from surgery. A week or two goes by and we make contact again. By this time he's in a brace, house bound for the next 6 weeks. I told Shaun that he would be unable to visit training. Shaun told me to contact him when he could.
A couple weeks goes by, the brace comes off and i go to email him back. As i did Shaun had emailed me two days earlier asking if the club could do anything. I asked if the visit to training was still a possibility and he said it was. It was hard for the girlfriend and i to agree on a day during the week with work, so i figured they would most likely train the day before the Storm game. So i asked Shaun if Saturday was doable. He got back to me today and said it was, now come Saturday my girlfriend and i will be taking her little brother to Leichhardt oval to watch the boys train.
I just want to thank Shaun Spence. He's gone above and beyond.
Note: Word to the wise, if Ted somehow mysteriously pulls out of Sundays game, my girlfriend fawning all over him had absolutely nothing to do with it.
