I don’t remember when but the one time coming back from Gosford after a win, could have been the 4-5 win. 3 carriages full, rocking the train so much that the train had to stop and tell us all to stop.
In my previous job, I once sold a fridge to Guy Sebastian.
Who ordered a pizza on the train and had it delivered to a station and picked it up as the doors opened? That was on the way back from a Newcastle or a Gosford I am sure.
I know it’s a move away from the current topic, but there’s new rules for the MLS this week.
- injured players down for greater than 15 seconds, need to stay off the field for 2 minutes
- subbed players have 10 seconds to leave the field, otherwise the sub has to wait 60 seconds
- in stadium VAR announcements.
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These are excellent rules.
Where does the MLS stand on Guy Sebastian?
I remember one game at home against Perth in the rain that we were losing with no prospect of finals football when the cove collectively decided to ignore the game and do a greatest hits of cove chants.
Responding to a “Sydney Croatia” chant in an away FA Cup game with “Sydney Australia” .
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Great initative.
Assume the fourth official will start the timer and inform the main ref of timings?
Just need to add automatic yellow card for picking the ball up to prevent a quick FK plus bin the VAR and by crikey it’ll be the most watchable league in the world.
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The Guy Sebastian Story
Where: Gosford, OFC qualifying tournament, second round, Bay 13
When: 2005
Who: Factor, Hilly, Me and the rest of the Year 1 crowd, about 100 people in total.
We were watching Sydney Fc play, I think it was Queensland Roar, and there was a small group of guys apparently on a Bucks night in Gosford at the front of Bay 13 (2 bays over from where the Yellow Army are now), one of them bore a striking resemblance to Guy Sebastian, who was at the height of his fame.
Naturally he became the focus of some chants and he and his mates reacted quite negatively. Naturally, for the sake of harmony and out of respect for their desire for us to stop, we switched to non-stop Guy Sebastian chants, over a period of about 20 minutes they got more and more enraged, and started to yell rude things at us and challenge us to a fight.
In a sincere effort to calm things down, Factor, the mild mannered accountant suggested that Guy & Co “Come up here and say that to my face you fucking wankers” or words to that effect.
Completely misconstruing Factor’s peacemaking attempts as some sort of challenge to violence, our visibly enraged K-Mart Guy Sebastian, who it should be said was pretty much off his tits on crap stadium beer, started running at some pace up over the rows of empty seats between the bottom and top of the bay. He made it to within 4 rows of where we were standing before he stacked hard, falling face down, arse up about 3 meters from us with his head on the ground of the row in front of him and his nice white Target Essentials T-Shirt all dirtied. Immediately 20+ pairs of hands shot into the air in the universal gesture for “Wasn’t me mate, never touched him” to the police and security in the vicinity.
Naturally, in order to assist poor Amazon Basics Guy Sebastian, everyone started pissing themselves laughing and lobbing half-empty beers at him. No Warranty Guy Sebastian did not appreciate this very much at all, and his mates started walking up the aisle to collect him.
A security guard, who had clearly been watching all along, helped Dollar Store Guy Sebastian to his feet and him and his group out of the staduum and towards an evening of being refused entry to some of the most desperately sad establishments in NSW.
That’s the Guy Sebastian Story.
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You missed the fun bit when Guy went arse over apex 20 Sydney fans putting their hands up to show the Cops/Security that we had nothing to do with this.
“Wasn’t me Guv’nor”
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That’s brilliant. 
If some of the other mentions here (gay nightclub, homemade Rajika) are as good as this, there’s gotta be a book deal or TV series hiding in here somewhere.
Thanks for explaining.
There is definitely a book and I keep promising myself to start the activity of collecting the oral history (ooh-err) of The Cove, but work always beats me down.
This offseason would be the best possible time, coming up on the 20th Anniversary.
Hmmmm.
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Make the call, name the place, set up the podcast mikes and recording equipment.
I changed comps recently and last week played on a pitch with flags at halfway (a yard or two back from the sideline), I reckon for the first time since I was a kid.
Anyone else still put these up when dressing the field? …Why?
We played in Concord. They had an electronic scoreboard, clock, team names, a proper dugout and we even had 2 linesman!
It’s pretty common in CDSFA to have the sideline flags.
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My old club used to have halfway flags. One of the grounds even had square(ish) nets.