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And have done for a period of time, how many posters played Footy and to what level! I am in no way having a go at anyone but just thought, given some very articulate  comments on this site just wondered if we have an posters of AFL, VFL, or high league interstate experience??

I myself played 10 years of VAFA and after that coached a bit in senior footy of similar standard!

Over to the "Leviathans" of "Lunch Box Legend" pedigree! Suburban or Bush I would like to hear from you!

And no Dazzle It is Wonderin!! NOT Wondering for this topic!

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7 minutes ago, picket fence said:

And have done for a period of time, how many posters played Footy and to what level! I am in no way having a go at anyone but just thought, given some very articulate  comments on this site just wondered if we have an posters of AFL, VFL, or high league interstate experience??

I myself played 10 years of VAFA and after that coached a bit in senior footy of similar standard!

Over to the "Leviathans" of "Lunch Box Legend" pedigree! 

Post here!

Who did you play for in the VAFA pf? I've played in the VAFA and Northern FL. A thoroughly unimpressive career that continues with the odd game here and there.

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50 VAFA C grade games then 2 years in a 'second tier' territory league for me (My identity creeps slowly now to revelation to my nearest and dearest!)

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Reasonable player in the O&M under age comp, played a couple of games for Bushies as well, but lack of pace as a midfielder really gets exposed as you go through the ranks these days. 

 

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Played under 13's for Bentleigh Juniors. But parents didn't want their kids to play against me because they didn't want them to get hurt by my sledging. 

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Played rugby union but did play one game for school on an exchange trip to Papua New Guinea.  They pantsed us and I confirmed for myself what a good decision it was to not play afl.

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Meggs played 1 game for Camberwell Under 19s and then a few years in E grade VAFA.

However the pinnacle of my career was undoubtably playing footy alongside our current coach and including 2 finals ....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in under 11s ?

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in my childhood one of the single best things was kick to kick with my brother, and demon buddy, Ray. there was no biffo, just lairising and plenty of practise perfecting drop kicks and torps. I played fantasy football with a soccer ball from the age of about 7 before progressing to Springvale under 12's and under 14's. All the kids grew into gorillas over summer that year and i decided i would play soccer for a few seasons. i used to love juniors football at springvale but was always an outside receiver. the main playmakers seem to wax together so the best i could do was pick up the crumbs. i remember peter bundy standing on my hand at the bottom of a pack one day and my hand instantly puffing up. i also dabbled with a season of fantasy marble football in 1970. at the end of that season i threw all the marbles away cos i had become addicted. i think that season my brother became addicted to fantasy  balloon footballer, which was basically an indoor sport.  I then played a couple of seasons for Dingley and Parkdale in the firsts and seconds in the federal league in my early 20's. i remember one game i kicked a beautiful torp. goal from the half-forward flank and got promoted to the ones the next week. it was a brief appearance and i was soon back in the twos.  One game i got king hit in a game at parkdale  and spent the second half chasing the guy around for payback. a couple of years ago i had a run around with the gippsland vets team, it was a lot of fun and great doing drills again with all the true believers. last friday i took a group of kids for winter sports and lamented that most of the kids can't kick any more. good to see some girls participating though. 

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Never played but i would love for any of you to beat me in a 100m sprint in my early teens, I was a quick little bugger, good triple jumper too. Then addictions to multiple things, sex drugs & Nirvana, kicked in and that was the end of any kind of sport i participated in, expect back yeard sport, cricket kick to kick bball soccer.

Nice topic PF.

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I played for 8 or 9 seasons as a junior in the DVFL. I planned on taking a year off after high school and coming back to play u19's/senior footy but got stuck into the weekend partying and never went back much to my regret. Now I'm too old with kids and don't think I could play even if I wanted to, though I keep telling my brother I'm gonna put in a pre-season just to come back and play one game alongside him in the ammo's.

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5 points down in the Grand Final vs the Hawks - 30 seconds left on the clock - Tom McDonald with the perfect intercept mark and takes off from fullback and drills a perfect 40 metre pass ( that is his strong suite) to Viney - he goes straight through CHB and runs head first through 3 hawks knocking them over like 9 pins and handpasses to Oliver who is set upon by five Hawks but still gets the handpass off to Petracca who sidesteps two and bombs it long to 60 metres out where Nutbean jumps on top of Frawley's head and takes mark of the year just as the siren goes. 

 

Nutbean goes back - no pressure and send through an 65 metre torpedo straight through to give the Dees the premiership. wooo and hooooo....

 

Yes - I play football in my mind every night when I go to bed.....( sometimes i dream of girls too)

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14 minutes ago, nutbean said:

5 points down in the Grand Final vs the Hawks - 30 seconds left on the clock - Tom McDonald with the perfect intercept mark and takes off from fullback and drills a perfect 40 metre pass ( that is his strong suite) to Viney - he goes straight through CHB and runs head first through 3 hawks knocking them over like 9 pins and handpasses to Oliver who is set upon by five Hawks but still gets the handpass off to Petracca who sidesteps two and bombs it long to 60 metres out where Nutbean jumps on top of Frawley's head and takes mark of the year just as the siren goes. 

 

Nutbean goes back - no pressure and send through an 65 metre torpedo straight through to give the Dees the premiership. wooo and hooooo....

 

Yes - I play football in my mind every night when I go to bed.....( sometimes i dream of girls too)

You need to have a version of this dream where Buckenara runs over the mark, you get a 50m penalty and kick the ball out of the ground from the goal square.

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I played one game of U12s against Jack Viney.  I came off at 1/4 time and complained to my mum that he hurt me, so Mum started a petition to have Jack pushed up to the U16s. I am proud that Mum and me had such an important part to play in 'fast tracking' Jack's progress as an A grader.

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I played from the age of 8 to I was 26 when I played at tooradin in the u 17s also played reserves so to 2 games in one day, played about 55 senior games just a small rover with a bit of ticker but nothing special.Mustv come close to 300 games.

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