footy observations: parrawood and drinking games
February 24th, 2010Now I’m not a Parramatta fan, especially not when being a Parramatta fan involves people wearing creepy Jarryd Hayne face-masks on the train on Sydney’s Western line. I HATE MASKS! Masks and all related bizness including but not limited to puppets, dummies and clowns.
But I know that there is some shit in rugby league that you need Parramatta for.
For one thing, they’re the club that gave us the new favourite drinking game in the Errol Office. It’s called Fui Fui Moi Moi, and you play it … all the time. Literally. It’s not just a drinking game, it’s a lifestyle choice. Every time you hear those four words, you need to track down the nearest drink and make it disappear in your mouth. No excuses! Which is how I found myself on Saturday night, sitting outside a house party in Darlinghurst, desperately trying to steal the nearest vodka when the host appeared in Parramatta footy shorts and announced that he was Fui Fui Moi Moi.
DRINK.
That’s not all, of course. There’s another thing no other club can do as well as the blue and gold do: crack my shit up in the news. Remember the Great Chinese Food Scandal of 2009? Amazing! And now Paul Osborne has been over in India schmoozing Bollywood stars to be new ambassadors for the Eels in Australia.
Joel Reddy I love your work!
If you can tell me you didnt automatically picture Joel Reddy wearing eyeliner and dancing his thoughts and feelings complete with hand gestures, then you lie, liar. I’m gonna picture that every time I get a bit sad counting down the last month until Proper Footy Season starts.
Fui … is that you?
Now that Brett Lee’s given up test cricket, it’s pretty much perfect timing for him to play opposite Fui in a Bollywood heroes and villians extravaganza. Look into it, Osborne.
It’s an idea I like a whole lot better than having to trek to ANZ Stadium in Homebush – as we like to call it, the Cavernous Shithole – to watch the Dragons play the Eels. Sure, they say, it will be better for the game. The winner is rugby league. Thousands more people will get to see the match. Um, is that really the point? There’s more to life than quantity, kids. Think about it.
Would you rather hold hands with 20 cute girls, or pash 10? Would you rather let more people spend two hours sitting in the Cavernous Shithole praying for sweet merciful death, or fewer people have a rockin good time at Parra stadium, complete with the Parramatta macarena and someone starting a fight. You know it’s Parra tradition. It may be the only stadium in the world where every time a game is played a fight breaks out … in the members section. Makes me proud to be Australian.
VOTE 1 PARRA STADIUM.
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ANZ (or GayNZ, as some witty person renamed it) isn’t actually that bad when there’s a big crowd in, which is a good chance for the Parra/St George game. And the facilities are awesome – if you get a seat up on level four, the concourse is even carpeted! Carpet! At a footy game!
But yeah it’s craptastic when the crowd is small. In its infinite wisdom the NRL has given the Bulldogs, 2009 semi-finalists, the BLOCKBUSTER SEASON-OPENING MATCHUP of… the Knights, so doubtless it’ll be me and maybe a dozen other people shivering in the rain. At least that means there won’t be any queues for pies and beer though.
I’m with you on the move to ANZ Sassy. Better to sell out the home ground (with more people wanting in for the next time) and get the big event feeling, than to shift the single match to a big game stadium and then only half fill the place. Gonna be more of an anti-climax than a poster of Tony Abbott in his budgie smugglers…
But yeah, there sure have been some good fights in the stands at Parra Stadium over the years!
I used to love going to Parramatta Stadium. Not so much because it’s a great place to watch football, but because we could go to “Kicks” afterwards. When Kicks closed it’s doors I knew my adolescence was over and adult life had begun. Every time I sit in the stand at Parra Stadium these days now I look across the car park and reminisce about the good old days. I start to get a bit teary eyed.
Damn you Fitzgerald.
And now damn you Osbourne. Populism and pandering has no place in our game. If $1 drinks opens up next to ANZ Stadium I may change my mind, but until then, ANZ Stadium sucks
I messaged Kate about this (number one Parra fan of all time and my bestie) and she is OUTRAGED.
apart from the fact i will have to trek to Homebush, i for one am quite happy with this development because i really don’t enjoy wearing a Dragons jersey at Parra stadium.
although we were planning an Errol and Errol friendz night on the tiles in Parramatta (take advantage of the delightful locals and the rockin nightlife) and NOW WHAT ARE WE SPOSED TO DO?
thanks Osbourne.
mick I felt EXACTLY THE SAME WAY when they knocked down Berry St Tavern in North Sydney. now I drive past it and it’s some weird boring office block and all i can think was BACK IN MY DAY I’D BE ON THAT PODIUM ON A THURSDAY NIGHT BUSTING MOVES TO RICKY MARTIN.
sadtimes.
bart I totally agree – even if it’s full IT’S JUST SO GROSS. last time I went to origin I was in like row zz watching men piss into plastic cups. did not enjoy.
you can’t even hear the thud when players tackle each other. travesty!
bahhaha hilius gaynz. clearly the work of a footy fan!
that knights clash must really be hotting up now gidley’s injured, huh?
Stupid stadium.
I say we just burn down Parra Stadium until they build a newer bigger stadium that we can use to house the greatest team of all.
Hell, it worked for Cumberland Oval.
Personally, I think its a great idea to play the game there. If only they could schedule Sharks v Roosters as a curtain raiser and then bomb the whole place. I for one, would enjoy life much, much more.
GAYNZ! awesome
“I messaged Kate about this (number one Parra fan of all time and my bestie) and she is OUTRAGED”
The poor, unfortunate souls that are both my friends and Parra supporters are outraged too. They pay good money for good seats only to now be thrown into the concrete abyss that is ANZ. As far as they are concerned the game may as well be played at WIN (one of them).
“although we were planning an Errol and Errol friendz night on the tiles in Parramatta (take advantage of the delightful locals and the rockin nightlife)”
Don’t be disappointed. The nightlife here doesn’t have much life left, it is in Intensive Care and hooked up to many tubes. Unless the idea of fun for you ladies is being gawked out by overweight middle-aged guys. The delightful locals are heading for The Hills.
Take joy in the fact that although Parra fans are upset now, it is nothing to the pain they will be feeling at full-time, round 1
hahaha oh i was being sarcastic about the nightlife! Parra pubs are very…’.i need 47 vodkas to be here’, u know?
although i did meet Denan Kemp at PJ’s once. he was playing reggies for the Auckland Vulcans and i made him do the Star Trek vulcan hand sign. I AM THE COOLEST PERSON EVER.
DAMN, I was 50/50 on the “is she being sarcastic”
tell you what I would love? if they actually turned anz into GayNZ for the charity shield on Saturday. IT’S MARDI GRAS NIGHT AFTER ALL.
they could hang rainbow flags in all the bars and pump cher at halftime.
Damn, I wish you had told me you were such a mask fan, I had one upstairs! I have still kept my Hayne mask for all those moments when I will be able to don the mask from my armchair. I really like the Fui Fui Moi Moi game too, I will be making that a mandatory in my drinking sessions from now on too!
Well I’m just pleased that SOMEONE thought of the 30 000 Parra supporters out there and can now accommodate them at a bigger stadium! Remember the 30 000 Parra fans Osbourne so rightfully told the Daily Telegraph would be locked out if the heartless Dragons insisted on having their match at Kogarah in R26 and first semi last year?? As a Dragons supporter, I know I spent many sleepless nights just thinking of how cruel my club could be to 30 000 fans of the AWAY team.
It just warms my heart to know those 30 000 Parra fans can finally see their team play!
hahhahahah Sammi. i like you. A LOT.
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JULIAN YOU SUCK.