44 minutes ago, Deeoldfart said:

I'm old enough and lucky enough to have been around for our Flags through the the 'golden era' of the 1950s and 1960s, and for me its hard to go past Froggy's goal in 1964 as my second favourite Demon moment.  All seemed lost after Gabbo's run and goal, and moments later we had our noses back in front.  The tension was unbelievable, and when the siren sounded a 'valve' was released and the Demon crowd erupted.  Premierships never tasted sweeter.  We had stolen a Flag from the 'filth' and it went some way towards dulling the darkest memories of 1958.  The joy and satisfaction were enormous, but back then, finals and premierships seemed to come easy for the mighty Demons.

I had to wait 23 years before my most cherished Demon moment of all, and I see from the posts above that I share it with quite a few Demonlanders.  Western Oval, final round of 1987, shouting my lungs out for the Dees while trying to pick up a score from the Cats / Hawks game from 'trannies' in the crowd. When we finally made it, in Robbie's last year, the euphoria was palpable ..... there wasn't a dry Demon eye in the crowd around me.  Just keying these few words is giving me goose bumps.

I wanna experience moments like these again please, and I don't have another 23 years to spare!

That makes two of us Deeoldfart. I am a similar age and I do not have 23 years. In fact I doubt I have more than 15 on the high side. I believe I have one decade left for the Dees to be a power. 

My father, a fanatical Melbourne supporter, passed away a couple of weeks prior to the Freo match in 2008. He had already organised a couple of tables in the dining room for that day so a whole group of family and his footy mates went along and kept a seat free for him. We were lucky enough to get tables in front of the windows but we were playing 'typical' Melbourne footy and were 50 points down by half time. 

Biggest     Melbourne    comeback    of    all    time.

A fantastic last couple of quarters where, at the time, the team just seemed to do it for him. There were some tears during the song

My sister and brother and I then spread some of his ashes at CHF scoreboard end after the game

Edited July 20, 20169 yr by fndee

7 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Anybody under the age of 25 want to admit what they thought Deeoldfart was talking about here?

To the nearest "Ladyboy"

"Do you have a score update from down the highway?"

1 minute ago, fndee said:

My father, a fanatical Melbourne supporter, passed away a couple of weeks prior to the Freo match in 2008. He had already organised a couple of tables in the dining room for that day so a whole group of family and his footy mates went along and kept a seat free for him. We were lucky enough to get tables in front of the windows but we were playing 'typical' Melbourne footy and were 50 points down by half time. 

Biggest     Melbourne    comeback    of    all    time.

A fantastic last couple of quarters where, at the time, the team just seemed to do it for him. There were some tears

My sister and brother then spread some of his ashes at CHF scoreboard end after the game

Wow that is really cool...

A question for the old timers - how did following the Demons in the 70s and most of the 80s feel compared to our last 10 years?

Geez we have have had some lean patches since all those flags... hopefully our current finals drought doesn't last anywhere near as long as the one we broke in 87'

Edited July 20, 20169 yr by Petraccattack

8 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Wow that is really cool...

I have often thought someone should write a book of personal experiences at the G. So many more things have occurred there than just football, cricket and the occasional concert.

Most cherished moment: The week leading up to the 2000 grand final

Most despised moment: The 2000 grand final

9 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

A question for the old timers - how did following the Demons in the 70s and most of the 80s feel compared to our last 10 years?

Geez we have have had some lean patches since all those flags... hopefully our current finals drought doesn't last anywhere near as long as the one we broke in 87'

I'm not that old, but was fanatical as a 5 year old. 

It was as bad, but for longer.  No finals in 23 years in a 12 team comp.  I'm a 70's onwards supporter and it was pretty miserable. 

How does 1 win in 1981 (with Flower kicking a goal after the siren at Footscray) sound ?

Edited July 20, 20169 yr by ProDee

Hard to go past the 94 and 98 Finals series'. Schwarta lit up the 94 series and the wizard lit up 98. The last couple of weeks of the home and away in 98 and then the finals series was probably my favourite period as a Dees fan. I don't reckon there'd be many times in Demon history where we played in front of more than 50k 5 weeks in a row.

For some reason, the 2000 finals series never captured my imagination like 94 and 98. Probably because we all knew in our hearts that we were going to get done by Essendon anyway. 

Apart from that, my uncle took me to our last game at Victoria Park when I was 6 or 7. Collingwood were on top and we were about 12th or something and we won by about 7 points with Jacko kicking 7 or 8 and giving the crowd the bird after every goal it seemed like. I couldn't see half the ground for the entire game but I didn't care. 

To be honest, standing on a frozen terrace down at Kardinia Park last year with 6 or 7 demon supporting mates all three sheets to the wind behind the goals as the dees stormed home in the last quarter was pretty special - made up for a lot of forgettable days at the footy in the last decade.  

I'd bloody love us to play in another final. You remember finals forever. That's why I was so shattered with how we played on Sun cos I thought we were still a sneaky chance this year. Don't know what I'd do if we ever won a flag - would probably just spontaneously self-combust. Not a bad way to go really. 

Edited July 20, 20169 yr by Ricky P

14 minutes ago, ProDee said:

 No finals in 23 years in a 12 team comp.  

 

Says it all.   Thats the stuff of nightmares right there.

12 minutes ago, ProDee said:

I'm not that old, but was fanatical as a 5 year old. 

It was as bad, but for longer.  No finals in 23 years in a 12 team comp.  I'm a 70's onwards supporter and it was pretty miserable. 

How does 1 win in 1981 (with Flower kicking a goal after the siren at Footscray) sound ?

I asked the same question of my old man during the dark times of 2013. He reckoned this decade has been worse because at least in the 70s and 80s we had Robbie.

Also, it might not be that relevant, but I think our winning percentage was higher between 64 and 87 than it has been between 06 and now.

1987 semi-final versus the Swans. We won by 76 points but Robbie Flower started on the bench after kicking 5 the week before. I can still hear the cry of "Robbiieeee" as he ran onto the ground for the first time, and even the memory of it sends shivers down my spine. I could not talk for 3 days after that final. By far my best Dees moment ever and proud to say it includes the best Dees player I have seen, the late and great R. Flower. 

The 94 year. If we had all our players fit and available come finals time (which we did not) no one would have beaten us. Still the best Melbourne team I have seen. 

And I have to agree with the comments about Trav Johnstone in the losing semi-final of 2002. How the hell we lost that game after the first two quarters I will never know. But the kicking skills of Trav make Watts look like TMac. His goal on the run from the right hand boundary - football perfection. 

This past decade has been far worse. The gap is widening every year and we just can't seem to climb no matter who calls the shots

back in the 70's & 80's it was still oranges at 3/4 time

 

1 hour ago, Ricky P said:

I asked the same question of my old man during the dark times of 2013. He reckoned this decade has been worse because at least in the 70s and 80s we had Robbie.

Also, it might not be that relevant, but I think our winning percentage was higher between 64 and 87 than it has been between 06 and now.

Yes, thank God for Robbie. 

We've recently had a worse condensed time with incredible turmoil, but the longevity of mediocrity places the 70's and 80's period firmly on the dais with this past decade. 

What's worse ?  23 years in jail on a low security prison farm or 10 years in jika jika or H division Pentridge ?

2 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Yes, thank God for Robbie. 

We've recently had a worse condensed time with incredible turmoil, but the longevity of mediocrity places the 70's and 80's period firmly on the dais with this past decade. 

What's worse ?  23 years in jail on a low security prison farm or 10 years in jika jika or H division Pentridge ?

That's a question for Collingwood  supporters. They can speak from experience.

I love my footy club and have few fond memories but really!! Too many of us live on very long good memories and frankly it is a parallel universe in today's time and age.  The supporter base needs to come into the 21st century and demand excellence from a club trying to climb to success.  Talking about the past might help some, but to me it's in the past.  I'm over the past, I want success and only think of the NOW!!!

1 hour ago, Ricky P said:

I asked the same question of my old man during the dark times of 2013. He reckoned this decade has been worse because at least in the 70s and 80s we had Robbie.

Also, it might not be that relevant, but I think our winning percentage was higher between 64 and 87 than it has been between 06 and now.

We were far better then though still poor. I posted the figures in another thread a while back. In the 1970-86 period we averaged around two more wins per season than 2007 to present. 

1 minute ago, Soidee said:

I love my footy club and have few fond memories but really!! Too many of us live on very long good memories and frankly it is a parallel universe in today's time and age.  The supporter base needs to come into the 21st century and demand excellence from a club trying to climb to success.  Talking about the past might help some, but to me it's in the past.  I'm over the past, I want success and only think of the NOW!!!

Reminiscing is fine. The enjoyment of supporting a club does not just have to be on the few hours of gameday. It's more fulfilling to be able to digest events and remind oneself of what was enjoyable about games past.

Just now, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Reminiscing is fine. The enjoyment of supporting a club does not just have to be on the few hours of gameday. It's more fulfilling to be able to digest events and remind oneself of what was enjoyable about games past.

As I said, it helps some, my point is - the more I think of past glories, the more I think our mindset is stuck on those past glories.  Actually, supporters should be telling the club how putrid it is to keep losing at Etihad...the club needs to know how jacked off we all are.

1 hour ago, fndee said:

I have often thought someone should write a book of personal experiences at the G. So many more things have occurred there than just football, cricket and the occasional concert.

Jump on a book called "From the outer"
Amazing book about people from all walks of life and how AFL has effected them, there is a chapter in there about a heart broken Fitzroy supporter that had me in tears.

Getting to see Robbie Flower play in a final.

11 minutes ago, Soidee said:

As I said, it helps some, my point is - the more I think of past glories, the more I think our mindset is stuck on those past glories.  Actually, supporters should be telling the club how putrid it is to keep losing at Etihad...the club needs to know how jacked off we all are.

Honestly mate, there's about 400 threads where you can whinge about how terrible you think we are. Can we at least have one thread that puts a smile on our faces?

5 minutes ago, The Sailing Demon said:

Jump on a book called "From the outer"
Amazing book about people from all walks of life and how AFL has effected them, there is a chapter in there about a heart broken Fitzroy supporter that had me in tears.

Thanks for the recommendation. Will take a look.

bobby running the length of the ground at essendon ,untouched, to goal

crompton kicking for goal 1964