OzLuke
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@TheDaBoss said in [AFL crackdown on fan abuse](/post/1025344) said:
He'll get ostracized by his colleagues for setting the bar too high....Like Sergeant Nicholas Angel from Hot Fuzz....
AFL crackdown on fan abuse
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He'll get ostracized by his colleagues for setting the bar too high....Like Sergeant Nicholas Angel from Hot Fuzz....
diedpretty
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Apparently this is the security firm - Behavioural Awareness Officers :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:
Apparently this is the security firm - Behavioural Awareness Officers :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy:
innsaneink
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Just saw a story on North Melbourne's majak daw returning from injury.... Journo outside the clubhouse, there's a sign on the wall outside saying "Home of Shinboner spirit"???
What the?
What the?
GNR4LIFE
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@innsaneink said in [AFL crackdown on fan abuse](/post/1029427) said:
Shinboners are a nickname North Melbourne have had forever.
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The team's nickname, "the shinboners", dates to the days when many of the players worked at the local abattoirs and spent their days separating meat from shinbones. Hannan says local butchers used to decorate their windows with the bones, a trend that has (thankfully) faded with time.
There is an alternate explanation for the origin of "the shinboners". Former club president Phonse Tobin changed the nickname to "The Kangaroos" in the mid-1950's. He disliked the term "shinboners", as he wanted "a mascot we could show... I always hated the name. It projected an unfavourable image... I always thought too, that the club should have a mascot we could show. You can't very well hold up a shinbone. In selecting a new name, I wanted something characteristically Australian. I found the answer one day when I saw a giant kangaroo on display outside a city store."
Father G. Dowling, North's historian, says the origin of the "shinboners" may have been due to the Irish population playing hurley at the football ground, using their hurley sticks with little regard for their opponent's shins.
- information from Football Life, August
The team's nickname, "the shinboners", dates to the days when many of the players worked at the local abattoirs and spent their days separating meat from shinbones. Hannan says local butchers used to decorate their windows with the bones, a trend that has (thankfully) faded with time.
There is an alternate explanation for the origin of "the shinboners". Former club president Phonse Tobin changed the nickname to "The Kangaroos" in the mid-1950's. He disliked the term "shinboners", as he wanted "a mascot we could show... I always hated the name. It projected an unfavourable image... I always thought too, that the club should have a mascot we could show. You can't very well hold up a shinbone. In selecting a new name, I wanted something characteristically Australian. I found the answer one day when I saw a giant kangaroo on display outside a city store."
Father G. Dowling, North's historian, says the origin of the "shinboners" may have been due to the Irish population playing hurley at the football ground, using their hurley sticks with little regard for their opponent's shins.
- information from Football Life, August
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