I picked this up from Adam (Supermercado)'s twitter.

The State Library has the Footy Record on line all the way up to 1989.

FOOTY RECORD

For those of my generation, here is 87 http://takata.slv.vic.gov.au/R/6N49KIKAT7UTSTMGAVJEENPDH1NURDIRPFHMYIVBCKVKB6A63P-08089?func=collections-result&collection_id=2503

Just some of the quality you can come away with...

Fantastic find

Still a rip off back in 1912 . too may ads

Seriously this is brilliant, pick any one and see a snapshot of the time , not only in football sense but in a cultural sense

Page 29 for the Record for THAT preliminary final...what a phone!

Great post WJ and thanks to Supermercado as well

For people like me who just love all this historical stuff it's just fabulous to be able to access these footy records .

The advertisements are great as well and they give us a glimpse of how our City once was - many of the buildings where these retail outlets were , still stand today .

The War years and the Great depression years will be fascinating reading .

Well done .

Edited November 19, 201113 yr by Nuggets

Wow!! This is amazing. I had all those 70's records. Thanks so much for this. Hours of quality reading.

Yeah this is a great resource - have just flicked through some random ones and there is some great stuff surrounding the expansion to the national comp amongst other things. Have a number of these from the late 80's still in a box in the shed somewhere so could remember some of the ones from 1989 especially which used to collect and read through as a kid.

Wow. Heres one page I opened from 87 that was interesting. Average Home games attendance for the year. The Dees were second to Carlton. Gee we stuffed up didn't we? Were sitting in a great position - winning games, good attendances. WTF were the administration thinking or doing??

Here is a table of the 14 clubs and their average crowds for home games, including transferred games, this year:

Brisbane Bears: 10,081

Carlton: 29,049

Collingwood: 22,860

Essendon: 16,663

Fitzroy: 12,314

Footscray: 15,520

Geelong: 19,528

Hawthorn: 18,045

Melbourne: 27,014

North Melbourne:20,630

Richmond: 17,463

Sydney Swans: 22,005

St. Kilda: 15,659

West Coast Eagles: 24,349

Wow. Heres one page I opened from 87 that was interesting. Average Home games attendance for the year. The Dees were second to Carlton. Gee we stuffed up didn't we? Were sitting in a great position - winning games, good attendances. WTF were the administration thinking or doing??

Yes very good point...it was then we should have joined once again with the MCC...but at least it's done now.

Edited November 20, 201113 yr by why you little

The club was still running on the success of the 60s. People were getting excited about the Dees again. 2 decades of crap wasn't enough to make people forget how dominate the club was. Bit like the sudden surge in popularity of the Bulls in the NBA. No one ever forgets that success.

But the doldrums in the 90s and just complete and utter incompetence all the way through to 2011 almost destroyed this club.

Teams like Collingwood acknowledged their large demographic and grew from there. Melbourne just sat and expected to grow without any real effort. Looking deeper at our support base now and we have the lowest number of <16 year-old supports, lowest AusKick sign-up numbers. The club has failed horribly in the off-field department.

But you all don't need to be told that.

The club was still running on the success of the 60s. People were getting excited about the Dees again. 2 decades of crap wasn't enough to make people forget how dominate the club was. Bit like the sudden surge in popularity of the Bulls in the NBA. No one ever forgets that success.

But the doldrums in the 90s and just complete and utter incompetence all the way through to 2011 almost destroyed this club.

Teams like Collingwood acknowledged their large demographic and grew from there. Melbourne just sat and expected to grow without any real effort. Looking deeper at our support base now and we have the lowest number of <16 year-old supports, lowest AusKick sign-up numbers. The club has failed horribly in the off-field department.

But you all don't need to be told that.

Cudi we were so bad in the seventies i assure you, that by '87 there was no connection to success at all....in the 90's we made finals.

from about 73-86 we were so poor onfield...i remember it all from school days like yesterday.

Check out where most of the teams in 1987 played their home games .

The Demons were nearly always fairly high up on the home ground attendances in the 70's and 80's . The reason was because our home games were nearly always at the G as opposed to small suburban grounds .

The Tigers were probably no.1 a lot in the 60's and 70's ( as a guess ).

And I reckon we may have been no.1 in 1971 - a non finals year ( though we did win 8 of our 1st 9 games )

http://stats.rleague.../seas/1987.html

Edit - checked the stats and we were no.1 for home attendances in 1971 with roughly 38,000 . Tigers 2nd with 37,000 .

38,000 in 1971 to 27,014 in 1987 is a significant drop , Tigers went from 37,000 to 17,463 so you could argue that we have the more loyal fans !

Remembering that we made a late run in 1987 as well .

However , it has to be said that I reckon a lot of neutrals went to the MCG back in the day and .............. venturing to a lot of suburban grounds was to say the least " An experience ". ( esp Victoria Park and Windy Hill )

Edited November 20, 201113 yr by Nuggets

We might have had good numbers through the gate in 87 but membership was putrid at just over 3000.

http://demonwiki.org/memberships

We might have had good numbers through the gate in 87 but membership was putrid at just over 3000.

http://demonwiki.org/memberships

That is amazing! Even after 5 years of finals we only had 10k. No wonder there was no money in VFL Footy. Times have changed haven't they.

Yeah I remember during the 90's the big thing was to get 20K members. That then went on to 30K, 40K and now the base everyone is aiming for is 45-50K. Pretty crazy when you think about it. Costs have also gone up from about $100 which would just get you in to home games and the members area to now $500+ which gets you into all Vic games and gets you a reserved seat.

That's a great resource and very interesting.

Just off the topic does anyone have or know of anyone that has any original Weg posters especially the dees ones, maybe your grandfather or grandmother or an old family member might have some lying around in an old collection. I have been collecting these for years and need to fill a few gaps will pay decent money no matter the condition. SMS me if you or you know someone who does 0411580577 cheers daz

That's a great resource and very interesting.

Just off the topic does anyone have or know of anyone that has any original Weg posters especially the dees ones, maybe your grandfather or grandmother or an old family member might have some lying around in an old collection. I have been collecting these for years and need to fill a few gaps will pay decent money no matter the condition. SMS me if you or you know someone who does 0411580577 cheers daz

Gardenvale collectables has a good range of all that stuff. Martin st. Gardenvale.

Cheers WYL but there prices are sky high!

Yes but it is all getting rare. WEG is no longer with us.

How much are they? Are you after originals or reprints?

Dr gonzo i am after originals have quite a collection already but just trying to branch out to fill the gaps just never know who has what and were u may find it! Prices really depend mainly on condition and what the buyer is willing to pay! Do you have some?

WYL yep agree are getting rare hence why I asked the question on here trying to find the ones I'm missing no harm asking they wouldn't mean much to alot of people but I have a thing for them and will hopefully have a full set from 1954 one day and I will frame them up and put all around my bar.

Dr gonzo i am after originals have quite a collection already but just trying to branch out to fill the gaps just never know who has what and were u may find it! Prices really depend mainly on condition and what the buyer is willing to pay! Do you have some?

WYL yep agree are getting rare hence why I asked the question on here trying to find the ones I'm missing no harm asking they wouldn't mean much to alot of people but I have a thing for them and will hopefully have a full set from 1954 one day and I will frame them up and put all around my bar.

Good luck with it...would enjoy a Beer when it's all complete!!

Dr gonzo i am after originals have quite a collection already but just trying to branch out to fill the gaps just never know who has what and were u may find it! Prices really depend mainly on condition and what the buyer is willing to pay! Do you have some?

Nah don't have any but looking at buying all the MFC premiers posters - had a look on the net and there's reprints availabel fro about $25 each don't know how you'd go with originals though.