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James O'Connor sheltered in swine flu alert
By Jim Tucker
June 15, 2009 12:00am
CAUTIOUS Wallaby management cancelled a fan day at a Melbourne school yesterday in order to protect new crowd magnet James O'Connor and his success-hungry teammates from the random clutches of swine flu.
Fullback O'Connor, 18, is barely older than many of the kids who had planned to descend on Xavier College at Kew to swarm around the three-try hero created out of last Saturday night's 31-8 victory over Italy in frosty Canberra.
Japan's football team came through Melbourne airport in surgical masks at the weekend so the Wallabies are only being sensible ahead of Saturday's second Test at Docklands Stadium, with Victoria hit by more than 1000 swine flu cases.
The Wallabies are aware preparations for last Friday night's Broncos-Bulldogs NRL match in Brisbane were thrown into chaos after Karmichael Hunt was diagnosed with swine flu, players were quarantined and training sessions were cancelled.
"We thought it wise to cancel a day where the crowds would be a little uncontrolled around the players. But we're not going to run away from signing autographs for kids all week," Wallaby team manager Phil Thomson said yesterday.
"We'll have schoolboys on the sidelines watching our training at Xavier College and the players will mix in that more controlled environment."
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001023,00.html
Swine flu... I'd be more worried about keeping the bush pigs away from him...![]()
We don't have many of them in WA![]()
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Flamethrower,
You clearly never remove your goggles, hows your liver fairing!
Should be a red dot over the top of the Meekatharra Royal Mail...
"Bloody oath we did!"
Nathan Sharpe, Legend.
Good to see my old town well represented The Pilbara Princess's will not be amused!!!
Generally speaking you aren’t learning much if your lips are moving!!!
Exile
Port Macquarie
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!" - Rocky Balboa
N QLD looks scary, the backpackers must all be from middle America.