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It is with great pleasure that the President and the Committee of the Marcellin Bald Eagles (Leaders of the Flock) announce that Mark “Heebie” Graham is to be the Captain for the season 2010. After an illustrious career with Hawthorn/Richmond and Old Xavs, Heebie has fitted in brilliantly with the Baldies and we look forward to a long and successful association with him. Congratulations Mark!!!!

Dear Baldies,

 

Eleven Baldies attended the EOS trip to Kennett River on the week-end and a good time was had by all with a lot of highlights. They were…

• The Weather – fantastic (see right)
• The trip down with a quiet stop along the way at the Pacific Hotel Lorne and the Wye river Pub
• Friday Night – In the words of Franki Valli – Oh what a night!!! I peaked at 1.30am but the strains of the Bald Eagles theme song could be heard at 3am!!!
• The “Nude Up Sessions” – not a pretty sight
• The Beach walk Saturday morning with the touch footy and Wilson the cricket ball which had to be saved by me before it floated back to Tom Hanks.
• The magnificent breakfasts – thanks Beatts & Ricey the chef
• The Birds – not the female variety but the King Parrot, rosellas etc who joined in with us (see below)
• Okie getting sunburnt lying in bed that morning because he couldn’t pull the blind down
• The number of times that Bird told us that Lyn was pregnant – congratulations by the way!!
• The Cherry Ripes provided by Heathy
• Beatts falling in love with the pizza maker and the wide variety of pizzas he made including a Cherry Ripe Pizza!!
• Report of a landslide on the Great Ocean Road which turned out to be Heebie’s Dan McGrew over the edge after he called out to Juan Faggio Fletch to pull over
• The afternoon on the punt at the Ocean Hotel in Apollo Bay
• The remarkable last race Get out Stakes win by Beatts and myself to reimburse the coffers by $400 when we were down to our last penny.
• The number of high fives Beatts gave when Lady Lynette ($35 on the nose) pipped my horse ($40 a place) – they paid $6 and $4 respectively
• Okie, Heebie and Bird nuding out in the car on the way back to KR from Apollo Bay. I was thinking how to explain it to Police if we got pulled over
• The number of times  AC/DC’s “You shook me all night long”  got played on the way back from Apollo Bay
• The evening meal Saturday night at the Wye River Pub
• The robust AGM chaired by secretary Dilly
• Heebies description of the BOF incident and his Poetry of the Scrotum display
• The “earlier” night had Saturday night
• Midge Dilly and Kelly Fletch on the KR waves the next morning – Dilly fitting into my wet suit
• Hyphe and Stubbles riding their bikes to Apollo and back Sunday morning
• Okie and Bird running Grey river and back
• The magnificent brunch had before leaving

 

Overall, a great time had by all.

 

The sea-gull hitting, Brodders goal cracked a mention in Daryl Timm’s Confidential Section in the Herald-Sun this morning.

Buna

 

Hi all,

 

I need your help, possibly to restore my sanity (as many of you know I did say never again!), or more importantly to raise $4000!

Yes, three mates and I have once again entered the Oxfam Trailwalk. This years event takes place on April 16^th, 17^th and 18^th of April. We have to complete a 100km course, starting at Wheelers Hill, going over the Dandenong Ranges and finishing at Warburton in 48 hours. We are hoping to finish inside of 24 hours.

The team consists of Steve Pozzan, Michael Day (both ex-Baldies), Michael Duncan (Harv’s brother-in-law) and myself. In order to begin the event, we have to raise a minimum of $4000. If you would like to sponsor us, there are two ways you can help. Firstly, follow the link: www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/251  or alternatively go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne and enter our team number, team name or one of our names into the search (see below), then click the DONATE button.

 

Team Name PFJ

Team Number 251

Walker Name David Fletcher

 

While donating online, you can choose if you would like your name and donation amount to appear and you can even leave us a message of support. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. We can also accept cheques written out to Oxfam Australia, and we can issue you with a tax receipt for this from our Donation Receipt Books.

The second way for you to help us reach the target, is to purchase specially commissioned wine. Once again, we have teamed up with the award winning Yarra Valley winery, Traintrak. As those of you who purchased wine in 2008 will attest, the wine is outstanding. Please refer to the attachment for an order form, and email or ring me to place your order. We have been given a limited release of the varieties, so please get back to me as soon as possible on 0422 307 145. You can send a cheque, give me cash or pay by direct debit (which is the easiest). Account details are as follows:

Name; David Fletcher

BSB: 733 073

Account number: 75 4514

 

My team PFJ are hoping to raise well over the $4000 to help some of the world’s poorest people.  Our fundraising enables Oxfam to continue their work including projects that give care to AIDS victims and orphans in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, that educate people in Laos on good farming techniques and that improve Indigenous health and wellbeing in regional Australia.   Here are some real examples about donation levels:

·         $20 can provide families in East Timor with vegetable seeds and trees, increasing nutrition and market opportunities;

·         $50 will buy 10 sacks of seeds to enable Malawian farming families to grow more drought tolerant crops.

·         $100 can provide medicines to a village in Laos to treat common illness and prevent disease

 

 

Thank-you for your help,

Cheers,

Fletch

Dear Baldies,

 

We had another great turn-up on Sunday with 26 Baldies in attendance under the supervision of Bernie Dineen. We also had a good committee meeting at Tran Tran last Thursday. Can you believe it -  9 Baldies in attendance and not one drop of alcohol consumed!! FebFast does that to people. Hang in there those doing it – we’re over ½ way.

 

SEASON LAUNCH:

The Committee has decided to launch the season on Sunday the 28^th February with 2 events. We will have training in the morning starting at 8.30am but it will be a Breaky and Beep Test session at Marcellin. Come along to show your commitment and see how fit you are or you aren’t. At lunch time we will have a family BBQ and picnic at Finn’s Reserve in Templestowe starting about 12.30pm but more details to follow. This is primarily to get the wives and partners together along with kids. Please make every effort to get along to one of these at least and preferably both.

 

SUBS:

These have been kept at $200 for the season. If you don’t intend to play but will be a supporter, then $50 will gain you a membership as well as our new Baldies caps which will be given to all those who pay their subs.  The money can be transferred to….

Marcellin Bald Eagles

CBA

BSB: 063 171

A/c no.: 10488698

Make sure you put your name in the reference section. Some from last year were unaware that subs had to be paid. The money pays for umpires, medical supplies, jumpers etc and is essential for our on-going existence. It really isn’t a big amount but if you have difficulties with it then speak to me or Mr Stubbles (= Treasurer= Damien Menzies)

 

JUMPER NUMBERS:

We need to rationalize jumper numbers as some have jumper numbers and haven’t played for a year or two. Mr Secretary will call for numbers soon.

 

EMAIL:

We also need to rationalize the email list. If you don’t want to be on it any more, please let me know and I will remove you.

 

WEBSITE:

Thanks to Sharkie and son, our website at  http://baldies.moca.asn.au/ is about to be upgraded and kept up to date. Keep an eye on it and put it in your favourites.

 

See most of you this Thursday and Sunday

 

Buna/#51

Dear Baldies,

It looks as though the Baldies will contest Division One of the AFL Masters Superules season this year after some uncertainty as to our fate. We will retain a close connection with Brinswick Over 47’s again and supply left over old fogies to that team - mind you, some excellent old fogies they are.

Training has continued over the summer with good turn-ups on Sunday mornings. Sunday morning training starts at 8.30 am. We are alos having a run on Thursday evenings at 6.30pm. NB: NO BOOTS!!!!!!! Only runners.

See you all there.

The Prez: Bernie Crimmins 0419 370 148

With the inclusion of 3 ex-AFL players in Mark Graham, Nick Holland and Paul Broderick, the Baldies travelled to Carrum confident of a good outcome after a pretty good effort against Beaconsfield the game before. We also had some young leg recruits in Luke Thompson, Jason Keays and Damien Coutts and a new wise head in Grant Hudson, ex Trinity OB. The Baldies led from go to finish and ran out comfortable winners 14-9 to 7-4 with one of those goals being a Super Goal by our new star in Brodders. Big Purce kicked 5, Brodders 3 and 1/2’s 2. Our next game will be a hard one at home against recently promoted side Mordialloc.

For the Pies supporters lamenting their Anzac Day loss at the weekend, they can at least take some comfort that it was a Marcellin Old Boy David Zaharakis who kicked the winning goal.  Not bad for a boy in only his fourth match.  Well done David.  See the Age story