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Additional Preseason Games vs Essendon & North Melbourne

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24 minutes ago, pineapple dee said:

As long as there's no elephants being led around the ground, the fans and the players should be safe.

Good memory pd. 

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    49 minutes ago, pineapple dee said:

    As long as there's no elephants being led around the ground, the fans and the players should be safe.

    one of those famous...it seemed like a good idea at the time activities !

     

     

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    7 hours ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

    Arden st. Still a dump I imagine but preferable to a three day trek to the wilds of Casey 

    Oval size hasn’t changed but a great little set up, they do have their own training facilities/oval and offices in one place. 

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    2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    one of those famous...it seemed like a good idea at the time activities !

     

     

    Favourite memories of Arden St? I was there with 6821 others when we fought back from a big 3/4 time deficit for a draw in R18 1971. John Tilbrook monster goal was instrumental IIRC. It's a long time ago ...

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    2 hours ago, Fifty-5 said:

    Favourite memories of Arden St? I was there with 6821 others when we fought back from a big 3/4 time deficit for a draw in R18 1971. John Tilbrook monster goal was instrumental IIRC. It's a long time ago ...

    71    blimey  i should have been there  will need to have another glass of shiraz and try and remember. no point in trying without the extra influence, yes a long time ago.    i do remember us playing them pretty well until three quarter time  and the Sam K went nuts and destroyed us, 

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    19 hours ago, old dee said:

    Taste is a strange thing demonstone I actually liked Courage.

    That was the very first beer I ever tasted (back in the 60's)... at the old Mayfair Hotel in (was it?) Parkville or Carlton.

    Edited by hardtack

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    13 hours ago, Cards13 said:

    Oval size hasn’t changed but a great little set up, they do have their own training facilities/oval and offices in one place. 

    Everyone does except you know who!

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    6 minutes ago, hardtack said:

    That was the very first beer I ever tasted (back in the 60's)... at the old Mayfair Hotel in (was it?) Parkville or Carlton.

    I don't remember that one hardtack. But I lived in Bendigo until early 70's. Back then you had vic beers in vic and NSW beers in nsw etc. Courage Huang in for a long time and almost as soon as they left we all started drink all sorts of different beers from everywhere.

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    On 1/31/2020 at 3:27 PM, old dee said:

    It was there in the 70,s Willmott so would that have been the 60,s?

    We were invited there i think by Albert Mantello

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    Pity the North game is on a weekday. Arden St was one of my favourite away grounds back in the day, even though I have no good memories of the place in a football sense. 

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    On 1/31/2020 at 1:51 PM, old dee said:

    Pity the Essendon games is not at windy hill, it's a ten minute drive for me.

    We must have lived close to each other at one stage Old Dee, I lived in The Esplanade Maribyrnong less than 10 minutes to windy hill

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    Any word on whether the North game at Arden St will be streamed on the Official Website like they did with the Collingwood Scratch Match last year?

    Also I may as well as here - does anybody know if the official practice matches are streamed on the Watch AFL app for us Ex Pats?

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    On 1/31/2020 at 11:37 AM, demonstone said:

    One day, a fire broke out in a food stall on the outer wing at Arden Street.  I think this may have been a televised match between North and Collingwood and the incident was captured on that night's TV replay.

    A wag in the crowd (OK, my brother) was heard to yell out "Hot Pies!".

    I was there that day. With a mate from school, who was a huge Nought Supporter. 
    big Crowd was in there. Lucky it didn’t escalate. 
    we thought it was hilarious at the time

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    On 2/1/2020 at 7:37 AM, old dee said:

    I don't remember that one hardtack. But I lived in Bendigo until early 70's. Back then you had vic beers in vic and NSW beers in nsw etc. Courage Huang in for a long time and almost as soon as they left we all started drink all sorts of different beers from everywhere.

    It's a good thing old those changes occurred, back in the 80s all we had in Perth was Emu Export(Red Death), Emu Bitter, Swan Lager and Swan Draught 

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    1 hour ago, Pennant St Dee said:

    It's a good thing old those changes occurred, back in the 80s all we had in Perth was Emu Export(Red Death), Emu Bitter, Swan Lager and Swan Draught 

    We really were still 6 colonies back then PSD. 1970 me and three mates drove to Perth, we left on boxing day in a HD Holden. No air con. It was as hot as hell with still 300 miles of dirt road. Southwark in SA, then the ones you mentioned in WA. Was it  Hannans in kalgoorlie? 4 guys in their 20's. My god we drank some beer in 3 weeks. 

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    21 hours ago, old dee said:

    We really were still 6 colonies back then PSD. 1970 me and three mates drove to Perth, we left on boxing day in a HD Holden. No air con. It was as hot as hell with still 300 miles of dirt road. Southwark in SA, then the ones you mentioned in WA. Was it  Hannans in kalgoorlie? 4 guys in their 20's. My god we drank some beer in 3 weeks. 

    Yes Old Dee Hannans in Kalgoorlie. You probably had a few in the Exchange or Palace Hotel 

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    4 minutes ago, Pennant St Dee said:

    Yes Old Dee Hannans in Kalgoorlie. You probably had a few in the Exchange or Palace Hotel 

    Can't remember the hotel PSD.

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    On 1/31/2020 at 7:12 PM, Diamond_Jim said:

    one of those famous...it seemed like a good idea at the time activities !

     

     

    Can't remember if it was 76 or 78 when we beat them in round 1 after they had won the premiership. 

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    On 1/31/2020 at 9:29 PM, Fifty-5 said:

    Favourite memories of Arden St? I was there with 6821 others when we fought back from a big 3/4 time deficit for a draw in R18 1971. John Tilbrook monster goal was instrumental IIRC. It's a long time ago ...

    It must have been the only good piece of play Diamond Jim did for MFC.

    Edited by President Dee Trump

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    Can someone explain how we play Essendon on 21st Feb and then a Marsh community series game on Feb 22nd

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    On 2/9/2020 at 1:32 PM, President Dee Trump said:

    It must have been the only good piece of play Diamond Jim did for MFC.

    You obviously missed his game vs Kangas (North) when he kicked at least 3 I think with a couple in the last quarter to help us win.

    Sorry D Trump but your posts are very much like your namesake Either "fake news", inaccurate,  very personal or don't add Humour to the debate 

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    24 minutes ago, loges said:

    Can someone explain how we play Essendon on 21st Feb and then a Marsh community series game on Feb 22nd

    As per the article on page 1, "The Demons will draw on players not selected in the following day's Marsh Community Series match against Adelaide, which will also be played at Casey Fields"

    So in essence, the scratch match on the 21st Feb is the 2nds team and the match on the 22nd the Seniors team.

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    1 hour ago, DemonWorshipper said:

    As per the article on page 1, "The Demons will draw on players not selected in the following day's Marsh Community Series match against Adelaide, which will also be played at Casey Fields"

    So in essence, the scratch match on the 21st Feb is the 2nds team and the match on the 22nd the Seniors team.

     Or vice versa, depending on what we want to achieve with each game.

    Edited by La Dee-vina Comedia

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    1 hour ago, DemonWorshipper said:

    As per the article on page 1, "The Demons will draw on players not selected in the following day's Marsh Community Series match against Adelaide, which will also be played at Casey Fields"

    So in essence, the scratch match on the 21st Feb is the 2nds team and the match on the 22nd the Seniors team.

    Thank you.

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