41 years ago today

[Demon Head 271]

Worse than 186 ...

 

[Whispering_Jack 29,840]

I always blamed it on our shocking kicking for goal.
 

 

[deebug 1,754]

Please no?

[dl4e 5,851]

Remember that game. It was almost laughable. Even the Fitzroy supporters were [censored].

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,790]

And yet the boys banged home 21 goals the following week to beat Essendon who were good that year.

Was this a '186' style protest? Did another Brent Moloney play ill and get subbed out at half time with 0 possessions?

Did the coach get sacked?

Did Demonland go into meltdown that night?

Feel sorry for those that made the trek down to Waverley that afternoon.

[spirit of norm smith 16,338]

I was there.  We sat through it and were stunned in silence at the end. The white flag had gone up.  

The next week we came out and beat the Bombers in a huge upset.  

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,710]

The Melbourne score that day is similar to scores this year. I assume that means we were playing 16 minute quarters while Fitzroy played the full 31 minutes and 10 seconds of Q4 and the equivalent in the other three quarters.

[Lord Travis 10,702]

Thanks for the reminder Demon Head. Great positive way to start the day!

[Wiseblood 24,637]

Some posters will be showing their age in this thread.

[In Harmes Way 7,741]

This one would be burned on your brain @Redleg?

[Delusional demon 82 1,197]

It was the loss we needed to have....right ?

 

[Sir Why You Little 37,008]

Thanks for reminding me of such a Cold day out at Waverley 

[Ditcha 500]

I was actually at this game, and 186 lost at Geelong.  After this game a number of Essendon supporters gave me a hard time. I gave them a hard time the following week.

[ding 5,126]

We didnt see it coming.

 

Plenty of learnings from it though.

 

We had a chance to bounce back the following week and took it.

 

[ProperDee 1,698]

Nope. Don't recall that happening......?

[DubDee 25,712]

The umpires didn't give us a thing all day

[Redleg 40,864]

3 hours ago, In Harmes Way said:

This one would be burned on your brain @Redleg?

Still gives me nightmares.

It actually nearly doubled when you looked at the Casey game, played as a curtain raiser, where we lost by 20 goals.

From memory it was something like a 50 goal loss over the day.

Edited July 28, 2020 by Redleg

[Rab D Nesbitt 8,358]

Didn’t do them any good in the long run considering they no longer exist. They were a club that operated on a shoestring but consistently punched above their weight. 

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,495]

Where's Fitzroy now?!

They won the battle, we won the war..?

 

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,691]

You poor bastards that lived through that, must have been torture.

I admire the old Demon guard, have been through alot of pain.

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,691]

2 hours ago, Ditcha said:

I was actually at this game, and 186 lost at Geelong.  After this game a number of Essendon supporters gave me a hard time. I gave them a hard time the following week.

?

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,691]

4 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

I was there.  We sat through it and were stunned in silence at the end. The white flag had gone up.  

The next week we came out and beat the Bombers in a huge upset.  

And the bombers paid for their footy trips for the next 3 years.

[Dee Dubya 220]

But to be fair, we didn't play Waverley that we'll. ?

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,790]

46 minutes ago, Dee Dubya said:

But to be fair, we didn't play Waverley that we'll. ?

Agreed.

It the game was at the MCG or Junction Oval we may have shaved 30 goals off the margin.

[Smokey 4,389]

1 hour ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Where's Fitzroy now?!

They won the battle, we won the war..?

 

Brilliant lol