Further to the Robbie Flower/Round 22 Video thread, my brother has in numerous boxes VHS tapes containing the replays of all Melbourne winning games from 1987 to the mid 2000’s.

Included are 1987 Round 22, 87 Elimination vs North, 87 Semi vs Sydney, 87 Channel 2 Friday football show with Tim Lane and John Northey et al, and the as yet un watched 87 Prelim vs Hawthorn.

All are taped from the TV replays, some with ads, many without ads. Most are complete games, but some are individual quarters dependant on what the broadcaster aired.

If anyone has the capability to turn this VHS resource into a digital format he would be very happy to make them available.

Perhaps even someone from the Club might be interested?

Any ideas?

I have the capacity to do some conversion. Prob don't have the time to do all games, but could certainly do selected games. Is there much from the Jakovich/Schwarz era (93/94ish)?

Edited June 22, 201015 yr by ChaserJ

I have the capacity to do some conversion. Prob don't have the time to do all games, but could certainly do selected games. Is there much from the Jakovich/Schwarz era (93/94ish)?

Hi CJ,

Perhaps you could pm me with your details and we could hook up, just out of interest, where are you?

I have a copy of "c'mon demons" on VHS. A lot of people on here wouldn't have even heard of it - it was a great production from the mid-80's of a song featuring the players of that time, and some celebrities that are melbourne people.

I think you will find it on youtube somewhere - it is quite entertaining! For those younger supporters, there will still be a few familiar faces and some that you have never seen before!

Here tis;

edit - pasting the link.

Edited June 23, 201015 yr by billy2803

I also have numerous games on VHS many earlier ones (1987-1990) are now in pretty bad shape though due to re-watching them plenty as a kid. I have the capacity to record them to a hard drive and convert to divx however my equipment isnt set up at the moment. Its actually quite simple you just need a composite (Red, white yellow plugs) converter which plugs into your USB drive and a VCR to plug into it. You then just switch it on and leave it recording to your hard drive using a suitable program which would come with the composite converter. Once its recorded you can use a divx converter to convert to divx or xvid (smaller file sizes).

When I get around to converting all these I will upload them somewhere so that the Demon community can share them. What your brother has is a treasure trove and it would be great if someone can convert these and upload them somewhere. Once I set up mine I would gladly offer my time to do the conversions but it isnt feasible at the moment. Maybe in another couple of months time though.

Further to the Robbie Flower/Round 22 Video thread, my brother has in numerous boxes VHS tapes containing the replays of all Melbourne winning games from 1987 to the mid 2000’s.

Included are 1987 Round 22, 87 Elimination vs North, 87 Semi vs Sydney, 87 Channel 2 Friday football show with Tim Lane and John Northey et al, and the as yet un watched 87 Prelim vs Hawthorn.

All are taped from the TV replays, some with ads, many without ads. Most are complete games, but some are individual quarters dependant on what the broadcaster aired.

If anyone has the capability to turn this VHS resource into a digital format he would be very happy to make them available.

Perhaps even someone from the Club might be interested?

Any ideas?

do you have the 1987 night series qtr final match v hawthorn, demons won by 29 points?

cheers