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We would have still won
GREAT POST.
To be fair, I can't imagine it's all that easy to operate a keyboard when your head is so firmly entrenched up your own ass.
Then someone your age should really have something more constructive to do that troll message boards.
Well I have just received a link to this forum and OMG..how things get misconstrued and changed around. I am the mum..yep the didnt get off her arse, change the story around, miss opportunistic, sh*t mum!
So my my I cannot believe reading all these 14 pages how things have been changed around..for anyone that cares to read the actual truth I will write it here..
My son is Rugby League crazy. His grandfather played for both Penrith and Balmain and spent a lot of years playing for the Windsor Wolves and is a life member out there..football is in our blood and always has been.
I actually never encouraged him to follow rugby league and for a while there it wasnt mentioned in our home. When he turned 3 or 4 I think someone was watching a Storm v ? game on our TV and he walked past and stood there jaw open and watched the entire game and said I LOVE that lightening team... I had a little Penrith jersey for him at the time just because we lived in that district and thought it might be the team he eventually grew up to support.
From then on football took over..he collects all the NRL footy cards ..not just the newspaper ones but the ones u pay for everytime you enter a newsagent. He uses his pocket money to buy those and Big LEague every week. He asks for NRL DVDs for Xmas and Birthdays and as soon as he was able started playing the game he loves. He plays in Under 8s now and whilst the smallest on the team, he wins Best Defense and Best and Fairest etc due to his determination to wrap them up around the legs week after week. He currently plays first receiver and calls the shots out there. His team mates respect his quick thinking and his determination to never shirk from tackling the biggest kid in the other team..any of you people bagging him, please I urge you come and watch him play a game and then think about the whole kids a whinger sook etc comments..u will be pleasantly suprised!
We attend every Penrith home game that we can, he goes to every Parramatta home game with his dad ( a huge Parra supporter) - these are the home games closest to where we live. He also attends our own clubs A Grade teams because he (not I ) thinks he should be supporting them. He tries to get to every Windsor Wolves game as well..and its bloody cold out there.
To address some of the comments on this forum:
1) WHy take him ... okay all day on Friday I was apprehensive due to stuff I had read in the paper etc, but you have to understand ..this is HIS game..his two favourite teams (yes he wears his Parra jersey to every game there apart from the Storm one). All his idols on one field.... It was hard to say no to something he has looked forward to for so long (oh the person that says he shouldnt be out that late at night... it was a Friday night ..thanks for your concerns on his welfare he is in bed 8.30 every other night). I actually told him it might be best not to wear his jersey and he screwed his face up at me and said why not they are my team? We compromised and he wore a less obvious Melbourne Storm Hoodie.
I did say to several ppl that I didnt really want him to go but was told I was over-reacting "its a family game".
So he did go to the game..sorry if you think it is irresponsible.
2) Comments made to him or around him - look every time that kid wears his jersey into a shop or down to training he cops it. People are always saying Storm Suck..and now Storm are cheats..he laughs it off every time and never comments back. Why people in shops feel the need to approach a 7 year old (yes he is 7 not 8 as mentioned on here) in a shop to tell him the team he supports sucks is beyond me but he takes it all in his stride. At the game, he did receive many comments from adults about storm sucking etc... he again said nothing.... and yes a lot of swearing, yelling out stuff went on around him..I urge you all to understand it is not exactly what is said but the hostility and bad vibes around him that made him nervous. As mentioned he doesnt miss many Parra home games and is usually fine with it all. He also never cries on the field when he plays and to be honest he never really cries at all. So he quietly told his dad and others that where there with them that he was a bit scared and wanted to go home. When asked why he said people are really really angry and its scary. So for those asking why dad didnt go to security etc and saying we are bad parents..I believe the right thing was actually done - the child was nervous and scared and was removed from the situation... oh and for someone that said he left because storm was losing..u musnt know many seven year olds..these kids dont much worry about the score. They come off from their own games on a Saturday and an hour later will ask "Did we win today"...
3) Someone said I called 2GB and Triple M - no none of this is correct! I had a call from my crying son and wrote on my Facebook and Twitter as they are linked (my facebook is private so for friends only) how upset I was that my son was leaving his night of nights as far as footy goes, in tears. Usually he comes home and wont stop talking about every dummy and pass etc that happened in the 80 minutes. These are my accounts and I dont think it was very opportunistic venting my thoughts on there...we are parents and it is very emotive when u hear your son upset. So it seems one of my Facebook friends is friends with whoever it is that calls the football on 2GB and sent him a text or perhaps email I am not sure.... funnily enough my son heard that being read out on the way home in the car and said ohhh someone else went home sad..not realising it was about him. I had no idea it was on the radio until a journalist called Phil Rothfield contacted this friend on Facebook asking to talk to me. He then called me Saturday morning to discuss it. I played down the situation and he asked if someone could come and take a photo of my son as they wanted to do a story on how the salary cap and the whole scandal was affecting Storm fans... the headline eventually said something about hooligans... not my words
I was also sent a message on twitter from triple m asking if I would go on the air the next morning with Rabs on Deadset Legends to discuss the situation. I said no I dont think that would be a good idea. They asked if they could talk to me off air to find out the exact story. I said sure. They gave me a direct number to call the next day and again i reiterated that the discussion was to be off air. The next morning I called and next thing I knew I was being introduced as the mum who had called in... and there I was on the air. Again I tried to play it down and said noone made any direct comments etc to him... we are footy ppl we know there are idiots at the football no matter where you go!
What is annoying me the most is the people that are saying I am apparently like this and after freebies... the only free thing I have ever received is once I won a meat tray at Seven Hills RSL..but technically I paid for tickets to win that!! Not once did I ask for any of these freebies such as the stuff you have listed on here..what actually makes me laugh is all of you incensed that Peter Wynn is going to send my kid some free Storm merchandise... for the record we have spent $1000s at Peter Wynns .. my sons jerseys for both Parra and Storm come from there as they iron the name on the back etc.
Oh and for the record my son hasnt received anything from anyone as yet, so that should keep you all very happy. And if any of you are really really still upset he is getting a scarf, then please email me and I will send it to you when he receives it. I'll explain to him that some adults were very angry he was getting some stuff and we are giving it to them instead. He is pretty gracious so I am sure he wont mind.
So to conclude, I have never asked for this..it merely started with me as any parent does having a whinge on my twitter and private facebook account! I was definitely not asking for sympathy from radio listeners etc or freebies and as mentioned if any of u very grown up people are still upset that he is receiving it please email me and you are welcome to come meet him down at our footy training or one of his games and he will gladly give you the freebies he is apparently receiving.
He was and always is hassled by fans that are anti - Storm and always smiles at people. In last years GF he wore half and half and cut out pics of both teams players from Big LEague to hang around the house... his aunty was devastated when Parra lost and instead of rubbing it in like she did the previous year when Storm lost, he merely said Dont worry... next year Parra will be even better..they played really good today I thought and gave her a hug.
I am not a sh*t parent - he is a Straight A student and loves school and Rugby League equally. Oh and sorry to those asking him to go play AFL..he says never in this lifetime.
I have never changed my story around. He went to the game, I didnt, he came home half time crying and upset and WE never contacted any media organisations.
As mentioned he attends plenty of games and has never reacted this way before.
Oh and Mr Osbourne himself and I have spoken and he is aware of the entire truth and is a fantastic person and a credit to the Parramatta team.
Finally I hope League continues to be a great family game. Its a great place to take the kids that are trying very hard to be the next NRL stars. The boys in our team love their footy and remain undefeated. There could be a future NRL player in that team... we are very pro league and hope it continues here strongly...
Good Luck to each of your teams - I hope they play really well and please start thinking about good things in life, not coming on to a forum to bag the sh*t out of and make up stuff about people you dont know..I've done it before, so I know where you are coming from but to be on the receiving end is both weird and hurtful....
Thanks for letting me have my say
