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' Hassa '

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Hassa Mann...  front and centre.    Topflite player of the day.

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    ' Norm Smith '

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    1935–1948

     

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    1952–1967

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    so few playing images of our olden days.   It's hard to find many.

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    16 hours ago, DV8 said:

    ' Hassa '

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    Hassa Mann...  front and centre.    Topflite player of the day.

    Truly underrated - he was a brilliant player who was always into the hot zone, clearing and teaming, terrific kicking skills, agile, tough and fast. In later times, in purple patches of a few games, young Dean Kent made me blink twice - he had Hassa's attributes at times, and Kenty looked very similar to Hassa on the ground when moving towards the ball - he even kicked a little like Hassa but not as prolific or effective. Kenty kicked a big one last season, a very important goal at the end of the game. Hassa did this many times across particular games in the days of 'individual efforts'. 

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    23 hours ago, DV8 said:

    ' Hassa '

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    Hassa Mann...  front and centre.    Topflite player of the day.

    Is that John Nicholls on the far left of the photo... beast.

     

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    2 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Is that John Nicholls on the far left of the photo... beast.

     

    Yes. and barass beside him.

    Who's in front of Barass...  looks a bit like Parkin, but I'm not sure.

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    2 hours ago, DV8 said:

    Yes. and barass beside him.

    Who's in front of Barass...  looks a bit like Parkin, but I'm not sure.

    Barry Davis, Essendrug champion par excellence. 

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    10 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Is that John Nicholls on the far left of the photo... beast.

     

    Nichols was a beast - levelled by Laurie Fowler in his Richmond days prior to joining the Dees whilst being held in position for Laurie's follow through by big Neil Balme. Some say that it was justice for what Nichols could do quite regularly to the whole of the rest of the competition. As a ruck, Big Nick was more than handy for Carlscum and he took no prisoners in that effort.

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    8 hours ago, DV8 said:

    Yes. and barass beside him.

    Who's in front of Barass...  looks a bit like Parkin, but I'm not sure.

    Barry Davis. oops, should have scrolled down, already identified...

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    46 minutes ago, Deemania since 56 said:

    Nichols was a beast - levelled by Laurie Fowler in his Richmond days prior to joining the Dees whilst being held in position for Laurie's follow through by big Neil Balme. Some say that it was justice for what Nichols could do quite regularly to the whole of the rest of the competition. As a ruck, Big Nick was more than handy for Carlscum and he took no prisoners in that effort.

    Yes, what Nicholls did to Tony Anderson wasn't exactly 'nice'.

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    7 hours ago, Deemania since 56 said:

    Barry Davis, Essendrug champion par excellence. 

    ah yes, of course.

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    9 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

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    which year is this 'ET' ?

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    1 hour ago, dieter said:

    Yes, what Nicholls did to Tony Anderson wasn't exactly 'nice'.

    what happened 'dt' ?

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    58 minutes ago, DV8 said:

    what happened 'dt' ?

    In Barassi's first year as Carlton coach, Nicholls knocked Anderson senseless and essentially legless. In those days they kept players on so Anderson played the next 2 quarters from memory. There's footage of it somewhere on you tube.

     

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    24 minutes ago, dieter said:

    In Barassi's first year as Carlton coach, Nicholls knocked Anderson senseless and essentially legless. In those days they kept players on so Anderson played the next 2 quarters from memory. There's footage of it somewhere on you tube.

     

    My dad was a bluebagger and my old sister.

    Dad took us all to princes park (must have been trying to convert me)... and one day I saw from the fence, John Nicholls dueling a young Len Thompson at a boundary throwin.

    Something happened to Nicholls, and the ball was punched back out of bounds, metres away...  Next throw in, and Nicholls whacked the ball, and Thompson's nose at the same time,  smashing Thompson's nose over his face. game over for him.

     

    I remained a Dee,  against all the odds along the line... with everyone else having success.  Even the Sainters got theirs.

    It's been a long, long time.

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    1 hour ago, DV8 said:

    My dad was a bluebagger and my old sister.

    Dad took us all to princes park (must have been trying to convert me)... and one day I saw from the fence, John Nicholls dueling a young Len Thompson at a boundary throwin.

    Something happened to Nicholls, and the ball was punched back out of bounds, metres away...  Next throw in, and Nicholls whacked the ball, and Thompson's nose at the same time,  smashing Thompson's nose over his face. game over for him.

     

    I remained a Dee,  against all the odds along the line... with everyone else having success.  Even the Sainters got theirs.

    It's been a long, long time.

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    Football was a totally brutal 'sport' in those days. It was sanctioned assault and very rarely punished. Sure, every now and then someone would get rubbed out but Dermie and Co, Mathews and Co, Scott, Dipierdomenico  and Co, Nicholls and Co, Balme and Co assaulted other footballers week in week out and got away with it.

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    4 hours ago, dieter said:

    Football was a totally brutal 'sport' in those days. It was sanctioned assault and very rarely punished. Sure, every now and then someone would get rubbed out but Dermie and Co, Mathews and Co, Scott, Dipierdomenico  and Co, Nicholls and Co, Balme and Co assaulted other footballers week in week out and got away with it.

    Cowboy Neale,  Carl Ditterich,  Every club had them.

    We were one of the few with the least.   Biffen, Grinter,  not enough.

    The Cats did they have many mongrel head hunters ?

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