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1 minute ago, Danelska said:

Mmmm, me neither, Not wanting to be a pi$$ing contest...and I stuck fat through 186 :( :( 

Had the opportunity to go to 186 and was unable to accept due to having the missus pull rank with a prior arrangement. Was ropable at the time and so so thankful after the fact. Thank you for your service.

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51 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

That game was a Northey special. 11 goals to 10, a typical Northey era slog.

Was behind the goals where Lyon kicked that goal. The stands at Arctic Park were so shallow, if you weren't on the boundary fence it felt like being a mile away from the action. (In reality it was probably only half a mile.) Wrensted was so far away no one at our end properly knew what happened until the siren went and the score went up. Go Demons WTF!!!

 

"The umpires have put away the whistle!" Standard practice at the end of a close one in those days. These days the umps do it for the whole match.

 

It was sunny in all the rest of Melbourne. That's why it was called Arctic Park, bad weather was sucked to it like a magnet.

Was built under a rain belt so It would rain on que about 1pm / 2pm every Saturday, timed beautifully to coincide with the first bounce. 

The VFL intended it that way!  In order to honor long held traditions, they wanted to go as close as possible to reproducing the old fashioned slog fests, similar to those at the suburban grounds Arctic was built to replace.

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5 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Was built under a rain belt so It would rain on que about 1pm / 2pm every Saturday, timed beautifully to coincide with the first bounce. 

The VFL intended it that way!  In order to honor long held traditions, they wanted to go as close as possible to reproducing the old fashioned slog fests, similar to those at the suburban grounds Arctic was built to replace.

I don't recall ever sitting in sunshine at that ground.

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58 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

That game was a Northey special. 11 goals to 10, a typical Northey era slog.

Was behind the goals where Lyon kicked that goal. The stands at Arctic Park were so shallow, if you weren't on the boundary fence it felt like being a mile away from the action. (In reality it was probably only half a mile.) Wrensted was so far away no one at our end properly knew what happened until the siren went and the score went up. Go Demons WTF!!!

 

"The umpires have put away the whistle!" Standard practice at the end of a close one in those days. These days the umps do it for the whole match.

 

It was sunny in all the rest of Melbourne. That's why it was called Arctic Park, bad weather was sucked to it like a magnet.

Was a shocker of a place. No public transport, terrible car park, and had its own micro climate usually unfavourable.  However, my main dislike was that you were so far away from the play, you felt disengaged particularly when play was on the other side of the ground. In home and away games it generated little crowd atmosphere. But does anyone remember the very early days when the outer had only concrete steps and no seats!

Posted
2 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I don't recall ever sitting in sunshine at that ground.

lol i don't recall sitting too often.  Standing was the order of the day in order to get warm!   The idea was to keep moving and bending as many body parts as possible, which more often than not was the elbow, using a tinny as a dumbbell.

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26 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Was built under a rain belt so It would rain on que about 1pm / 2pm every Saturday, timed beautifully to coincide with the first bounce. 

The VFL intended it that way!  In order to honor long held traditions, they wanted to go as close as possible to reproducing the old fashioned slog fests, similar to those at the suburban grounds Arctic was built to replace.

It was partially built on my uncles dairy farm. It was the wettest muddiest farm in the state. You needed a tractor to get from the house to the dairy (50 metres) in winter. None of my cousins had shoes, they all wore gumboots all year.  True.

Edit: They sold to the VFL and moved to the bush, Clyde now better know as Casey Fields.

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3 minutes ago, ManDee said:

It was partially built on my uncles dairy farm. It was the wettest muddiest farm in the state. You needed a tractor to get from the house to the dairy (50 metres) in winter. None of my cousins had shoes, they all wore gumboots all year.  True.

Edit: They sold to the VFL and moved to the bush, Clyde now better know as Casey Fields.

The VFL couldn't have picked a more appropriate location for wet slushy footy MD.  Hats off (or maybe on!) to your uncle.  Hope he received a bonus from the VFL for all the gumboots left behind.

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2 hours ago, pitmaster said:

Sean White was the hero that day. It poured rain through the first half and we could barely score a goal - had two by half time. But Sean was sent forward at the start of the third quarter and started hauling in marks, kicked two goals himself and spearheaded a nine goal second half. Great memories indeed.

White was a marvel with the football, getting the football, passing the football, taking marks with the football, running with the football, kicking for goal with the football, handballing with the football, being furthest away from the football and still winning the football, and finally, smacking an opponent in the mouth if he dared gain possession of the football. He was pretty focussed for an Irishman. 

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And of course there was the rise in the centre of the ground that meant if you were near the fence on the wing you couldn't see the other side of the ground.

But of course there was the state of the art black (more brown) and white electronic scoreboard with video

Posted
1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Had the opportunity to go to 186 and was unable to accept due to having the missus pull rank with a prior arrangement. Was ropable at the time and so so thankful after the fact. Thank you for your service.

#186bonafides

 

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4 minutes ago, Deemania since 56 said:

White was a marvel with the football, getting the football, passing the football, taking marks with the football, running with the football, kicking for goal with the football, handballing with the football, being furthest away from the football and still winning the football, and finally, smacking an opponent in the mouth if he dared gain possession of the football. He was pretty focussed for an Irishman. 

I think he was born in Scotland

Posted
1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

but those Northey teams knew how to put up a hell of a fight. It took a lot to beat them.

Northey was a superb handler of footballers, a great motivator and he certainly got a great deal out of his teams. The players were such that they continued to improve individually and collectively, with many ordinary footballers becoming something special. I was never sure how Northey had that effect on the team, how he trained them to perform so well. He was ruthless, they were similarly ruthless - and man-handled some big names and teams with contempt. Great era. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

And of course there was the rise in the centre of the ground that meant if you were near the fence on the wing you couldn't see the other side of the ground.

That happens at Etihad Marvel Stadium too.

6 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

But of course there was the state of the art black (more brown) and white electronic scoreboard with video

Loved the Blue Footy at the top of the scoreboard too. Wonder who has that footy now.

Also loved the 70s then 80s (and I think updated in the 90s) mascot emblems at the members entrance.

Posted
1 minute ago, ManDee said:

I think he was born in Scotland

He was yet grew up in Ireland and was recruited from their footy game almost alongside Jim Stynes. He took at least another year longer than Stynes to catch onto the game, I recall, but by the end of the second year he had become just another gun for the Dees.

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1 minute ago, Deemania since 56 said:

He was yet grew up in Ireland and was recruited from their footy game almost alongside Jim Stynes. He took at least another year longer than Stynes to catch onto the game, I recall, but by the end of the second year he had become just another gun for the Dees.

I seem to recall he preferred to be called a Scotsman not an Irishman, I may be wrong. 

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21 minutes ago, ManDee said:

I seem to recall he preferred to be called a Scotsman not an Irishman, I may be wrong. 

You could ask someone he dispatched to the emergency department after getting it wrong.

 

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Was there that day with a bunch of mates and its became a very memorable day for the rest of my life.

We celebrated big time after the game and found our way back to a Heildeberg pub.  I got enough courage up around midnight to kiss a girl I’d been keen on for some time.

We ended up getting married, have had 2 fantastic kids and are still together today. 

Have to thank the MFC and G Lyon for their helping hand in setting up my life. 

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1 hour ago, Deemania since 56 said:

White was a marvel with the football, getting the football, passing the football, taking marks with the football, running with the football, kicking for goal with the football, handballing with the football, being furthest away from the football and still winning the football, and finally, smacking an opponent in the mouth if he dared gain possession of the football. He was pretty focussed for an Irishman. 

scotty

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36 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

scotty

Oh I thought we were talking about Jeff White... :P

I felt so sad when he passed, about as sad as when Jimmy did. Sean as a human was well regarded in his community circles as a man of dignity... cancer seems to always take the good one's young (and for the pedants on here (all of us??) please don't attack the last statement for 'confirmation bias'.

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1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

scotty

Yep, got caught up in mists of time about the 'Irish experiment', and of course, you are correct.

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I can remember being behind the goals that Lyon kicked in the last quarter. I will never forget that day.

Posted
18 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Garry Lyon replicating the old Tom McDonald match-winning goal from last season. 

DARCY…………..: "Garry Lyon you genius!!!"

RICHARDSON: "Look at him telling them all to get back."

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Wrensted you flange, if he'd kicked that my "I'll go for whoever plays Hawthorn in the Grand Final" pledge would have landed me with Collingwood (no dignity but flag), Carlton (nothing in the last 20 years but before that flag) or West Coast (traitor to my state but flag).

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38 minutes ago, Supermercado said:

Wrensted you flange, if he'd kicked that my "I'll go for whoever plays Hawthorn in the Grand Final" pledge would have landed me with Collingwood (no dignity but flag), Carlton (nothing in the last 20 years but before that flag) or West Coast (traitor to my state but flag).

A Reverse Bradbury?

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