Looking for Old Demons Games 1984 - 1986

[langers1971 2]

Guys

Hoping someone on here can possibly assist me, i am looking for a couple of old demons games from back in seasons 1984-1986, i have already contacted both ch 7 and ch 2, as well as the afl and the club, and i am not interested in anything on youtube, i want to find people who have the footage either on tape, or already converted to dvd.

 

If you think you can possibly assist me, then get in touch.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated

thank you

 

 

[Sir Why You Little 37,310]

‘84 we won a few then choked

can’t remember 85 or 86

That says it all really

’87 we got our old Colours back

[Demonland 73,495]

48 minutes ago, langers1971 said:

Guys

Hoping someone on here can possibly assist me, i am looking for a couple of old demons games from back in seasons 1984-1986, i have already contacted both ch 7 and ch 2, as well as the afl and the club, and i am not interested in anything on youtube, i want to find people who have the footage either on tape, or already converted to dvd.

If you think you can possibly assist me, then get in touch.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated

thank you

Unless someone is hoarding games I doubt you will find anything from that period from Channel 7 or 2. Not many of our games were filmed and I presume things weren't kept for prosterity like they are today.

[Demonstone 23,343]

I've still got our first two finals of 1987 on VHS but that's as far back as I can go.

[Dr. Gonzo 24,448]

4 hours ago, Demonland said:

Unless someone is hoarding games I doubt you will find anything from that period from Channel 7 or 2. Not many of our games were filmed and I presume things weren't kept for prosterity like they are today.

Extreme short-sightedness by the VFL / channel 7. The story goes that old film was either taped over and / or sent to the tip when channel 7 was trying to free up storage space in the late 80s. It's the reason why footage of the 63 and 64 Grand Finals is only available in a limited capacity. Look at the value organisations like the NFL and WWF placed on their video libraries even back then and what they've turned it into now and realise the opportunity lost and the history gone begging.

I am one of those you refer to as hoarding games It began with my (or rather my dad's) VHS collection of Saturday night replays when I was a kid (late 80s-early 90s) and morphed into trading for any Melbourne (and some other) games I could get my hands on when I started out trying to find additional games I didn't have from the Northey era and anything with Jakovich in it.

I've traded with Langers before and he has a ridiculous collection including many replays or parts of games going back to the early-mid 60s. Unfortunately I don't think I can help him with this query.

I love chucking on some old games to have on in the background, eg the other night I chucked on an old replay of our round 22 win against Carlton in 1988 that secured our finals berth that year. I remember sitting on the second level behind the goals as a 6 year old with my dad uncle and cousin for that game because it was raining, we'd usually be in the old MFC members red seats otherwise. Anyway I digress.....