Growing up in the 90's

We have all seen these at one time or another, but I thought I would take some time to delve a little deeper!!!

You're a 90's kid if:

U remember watching Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain , and Two Stupid Dogs. - Was a huge fan of Pinky and the Brain, come to think of it, I still am :D

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE! - Only a million times!!!

You just cant resist finishing this... "Iiiiiiin west philladelphia born and raised..." - Oh how the Fresh Prince takes me back, the greatest show of our time!!

You remember TGIF on ABC. Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World. - All crap, but yep, can remember them all!!!

You remember when, 2Pac and Selena died. - Can remember 2Pac, but who is Selena?

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons. - Only every single Saturday!!!

You remember reading "Goosebumps" - Read and hated!!!

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school. - Yep, Scooby Doo!!!

You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books. - Hahaha

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not... Even bigger hahaha

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record "Your FAVORITE song of ALL time" - Sitting next to the pause button durning the Top 40, if you were off school you rang the radio station to request the song, just so you could tape it :D Just me?

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show. Greatest computer game of all time!!!

Captain Planet. He's a Hero. - Saturday Morning cartoon at it's best!!

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together. - Reckon this belongs in the naughties to be honest...

You remember when super nintendo's and Sega Genisis became popular. - Duck Shoot

You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos... but never taped anything funny. - When you missed something funny you were devo'd..

You remember watching home alone 1, 2 , and 3........and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders" - Hahaha

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool. - Remember the coke yo-yos, you got different colors for how good you were!!! They were awesome!!
You remember when Mortal Kombat wuz tha shit! - It sure was "Finish Him" "Subzero Wins"

U remember eating Warheads.(those sour candys) - Destructive lolly at its best

You remember watching the 1st Batman, Aladin, Ninja Turtles, and 3 Ninjas movies. - :D

U remember Ring Pops. - And push pops

if you memeber when every thing was "da BOMB" - Haha, American tryhards

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players

Making those little paper fortune cookie things.. and then predicting your life with them. - If it didn't work out right you did it again until it suited you :p

You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell" - Damn Straight, who didn't love Screech!!!

You played and/or collected "Pogs" - Haha.. Pogs...

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere - Late 90's

You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet. - I remember when they had just introduced the Internet into school, only 2 computers in the computer room had access.. Now they all have their own iPad!!!

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers,and Ninja Turtles. - Well Ninja Turtles yeah...

You had a favorite New Kid on the block, and you knew all of there names - Secret shame!!!

You owned a portable tape player. - Yes way!!!

If you even know what an original walkman is. - Had to love the Walkman!!

You know the Macarena by heart. - If you don't you are missing out!!

"Talk to the hand" ... enough said - Hahaha

You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!" - Hahaha

You know the significance of the number 23. - MJ

You went to McD's to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds...at the play ground.

When you got on your bike and rode around to a mates place, not text them. - Can't even speak to the person next to you without a computer these days!!!

When we were younger:

Before the MySpace frenzy...

Before the Internet & text messaging...

Before Sidekicks & iPods...

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX...

Before Sponge Bob, Dora and Ben 10
...Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When petrol was $0.50C per litre & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded stuff on VCRs .

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.

When 2Pac and Biggie where alive.

When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.

Way back.

when it was all about N64

Ah... Those were the days!!!!

A memo to Hume City Council

I know most of the people that read this couldn't care less, but I had to vent, and vent I will....

As has been published in recent times, the Hume City Council has decided to enforce a law on our local clubs that doesn't allow them to charge spectators on the gate at our local games.

I would like to delve a little further into this decision.

Some will respond favorably with what I have to say, while many will say "just get the permit" or "just ask for a donation", before I go into the detail of why this ruling has the potential to end the future of our local clubs and our local competition, I would like to respond to these two points.

"Just get the permit" - If most had the opportunity to view what is required to gain this permit through the Hume City Council (or any other that follow suit) they would be surprised by the amount of requirements that are needed to be met, just to submit the application. Local football clubs are run by volunteers, people that provide their time free of charge to the club and in extension the local community. To ask these people to have to jump through the hoops and over the hurdles placed in front of them is completely unfair. The permit exists, as mentioned earlier, for an event like a rock concert. Since when, after 100 plus years, has a local football game ever been compared to an event like a rock concert? Where do the similarities exist, the only place where one exists is that people are charged for entry.

"Just ask for a donation" - While the local community, especially in the RDFL is tight knit and all clubs would support each other 100%, there will be examples of people that, when they find out about this story, refuse to pay at the gate. Currently, and RDFL club could budget for between $1000 - $1500 on the gate for every home game. Facing this uncertainty, how could you possibly expect to set your budget at that level into the future?

Now lets look at how this all came about.

A Hume City Council "Employee" attended a game of local football at Clarke Oval and refused to pay the entry fee. He was quite rightly asked to leave if he wasn't willing to pay the entry fee. This employee then complained when he got into work on the following Monday and started this spiral that is attacking the very fabric of local football. Because after 100+ years of local football, one Hume City Council employee was too tight fisted to pay $10. Shameful.

Finally, and more indepth, lets look at the impact that this ruling could have on our local clubs.

I will base the following on estimates of my time, local clubs could probably give you more accurate numbers.

Gate takings for a regular season home game would be budgeted for between $1000 - $1500 per game, 9 home games = between $10 and $15K per year.

Gate takings for finals, which goes to the RDFL, would make up approx 30% of total revenue per annum.

Hosting a final, with bar, canteen, raffles etc - Budgeted would be between $8K - $10K

Loss of gate takings for the RDFL during finals would mean the requirement to make up losses in other areas, most likely league affiliation fees, this rise would equate to anywhere up to $2K.

So using the Sunbury Kangaroos as an example, they had intentions of hosting a final in 2011, they would lose.

10 - 15K on gate takings during the year.

8 - 10K on revenue from missing out on hosting a final.

2K increase in league affiliation fees.

All in all, the Sunbury Kangaroos would lose between 20 - 27 thousand dollars a year in Revenue just by having the ability to charge a gate fee taken away.

If they were able to take "donations", a guaranteed loss would occur, irrelevant of whether people think it wouldn't happen, but up to 50%. So over the course of the season they would still lose 5 - 10 thousand dollars in gate takings as well as 8 - 10 thousand dollars in a probable final. Best case scenario would be a loss of revenue with this change of 13 thousand dollars!!!!!!!! How could a club possibly survive into the future?

This is my take on what the future holds for our clubs. It is already known that this rule is in place across all councils. While the other local councils are not going to impliment now, they haven't ruled it out!!! Local Football is under threat, it is as simple as that!!!