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I was a little disappointed when Robert Flower died that there wasn't more footage of him either online or on TV when I seemed to remember his last season so vividly..

Anyway, turns out with technology you can do anything these days.. so I dug up these videos at dads place and they're now available on YouTube..

I loved them all as a kid, shouting out the commentary and as I destroyed various items of furniture kicking footballs up and down the hallway..

So here's 3 of his last 4 games in pretty extended packages..

Round 22 vs Footscray -

Most of the second half. Just skip straight to 24:05 for the best passage of the day and for those of us who were at the Western Oval that day pretty hard to forget.

Elimination Final vs North -

Semi-Final vs Sydney -

Flower had 4 goals to half time and some of the passages started by Wight at full back are incredible. "From Wight, to Hughes, to Healy and there was no stopping them."

For some reason we didn't keep a video of the following week..

They're a great trip down memory lane and capture three now sadly passed away former MFC players in Robert Flower, Jim Stynes and Sean Wight at their best.

..alright, Jimmy got better still

Given their recent cuts, I'm not sure that ABCs lawyers are going to come after me for putting them up, though Tim Lane might for that suit..

If you're interested I've also got more from the 88 finals series that I can put up.. curiously, the last game of that series seems to be missing from the collection too however..

 

Thanks for those, that Western oval game was the happiest I have been as a Dees supporter, absolute ecstasy it was.

The finals where we smashed North and Sydney were amazing too, to this day I have not heard a louder crowd,forget about collinwood, our chants of Melbourne.....Melbourne......shook the stands.

Thanks for those, that Western oval game was the happiest I have been as a Dees supporter, absolute ecstasy it was.

The finals where we smashed North and Sydney were amazing too, to this day I have not heard a louder crowd,forget about collinwood, our chants of Melbourne.....Melbourne......shook the stands.

A day anyone who had ventured into that hostile territory will always remember fondly...even if the heart got a real work out !!

 

I went to the first final, expecting us to be belted to be honest.......I was fairly happy with being a couple of points the difference at quarter time

I then saw some of the best team football that I've ever seen for the next 3 quarters and was just dumbfounded

The next week I thought that we had played our best footy the week before but it just kept getting better and better

I still have the videos of both games and get them out just to remember how good we were with such a young team.....

How good was Brett Lovett in the last quarter against the Bulldogs? Can't wait for his son.

Stretch and Viney were pretty handy as well.


You are a legend. Unfortunately, for virtually all of us who were at the Doggies game and were either just too young to remember, like me or not born yet, to have seen '64, that game and that season from the last 6 games on, is by far and away the highlight of my Dees following career. From memory we had to win every game for the last 6 rounds to qualify. It never seemed possible. I went to all of them. Other than that final win to crack the finals for the first time in my living memory, I also cherished going to the Collingwood Social Club with a Pies supporting friend and listening to everyone there tell me how we had absolutely no chance and I frankly didn't give us much more chance than that. And we got up and won. No better venue. As an aside their Social Club back then was still miles ahead of any facility we have today. Ie none.

Like a lot of people, went along to the Nth game not confident, then the Swans who during the season were the only team to this day to kick, I think, 150pts in three games in the one year. I think they might have been consecutive. They looked unbeatable. What a win. Won 't mention the next game. And so happy for Robbie as each win prolonged his career for another glorious week.

Thanks for those, that Western oval game was the happiest I have been as a Dees supporter, absolute ecstasy it was.

The finals where we smashed North and Sydney were amazing too, to this day I have not heard a louder crowd,forget about collinwood, our chants of Melbourne.....Melbourne......shook the stands.

A very good mate of mine played for North that day. North entered the arena first. The North boys could not believe the roar when Melbourne entered the ground.

 

A very good mate of mine played for North that day. North entered the arena first. The North boys could not believe the roar when Melbourne entered the ground.

I think the next time we enter the arena come finals time we will go very close to matching it

A very good mate of mine played for North that day. North entered the arena first. The North boys could not believe the roar when Melbourne entered the ground.

It was an amazing time. It felt like the enire city of Melbourne was behind us


It was an amazing time. It felt like the enire city of Melbourne was behind us

Yes.....It was the feel good story of the year.......We were everyone's second team........Most supporters who did not support Nth or the swans were barracking for us

Huge crowd.......Great atmosphere.....Aaahhh....Those were the days.....

I forgot all about being able to run on the ground after the match. Cmon Gill listen to the fans bring it back, pls!

Marvellous memories, thanks.

Just watched the North and the Sydney games. Lots of observations about the difference in the game between then and now, but let's just go with something else: if young Billy Stretch is anywhere near as good as his old man, we've got a good one.

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