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11 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Was it just that snippet or the whole game he had? Being Name A Game I thought you meant they had a copy of the whole game.

No that was a short segment, now all over YouTube but I had definitely not seen it until the 1980s. The full replay apparently does not exist.

4 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

You didn't happen to buy that tape did you? Surely someone has a copy somewhere!!

You can view that short clip on YouTube.

I know in '64 we beat them at Kardinia Park after beating them pre-season in Hawaii and San Francisco!

We got a TV with a massive aerial in 1963. On GF day the TV was on channel 2 which provided regular racing and football updates on a rolling paper telex device. Melbourne v Coll  scores kept appearing beside  Caulfield race 7 etc when finally Collingwood's 'winning' goal appeared, only to be trumped with 'final scores' showing Melbourne as winners. We went overseas for a year and the next game (now on my portable radio) was round one 1966. It was match of the day but Melbourne was now an inept team that could barely get the ball into the forward line whilst StKilda were rampant. Many years later I walked into a video store in Swan St Richmond where you could purchase 'name a game' videos. I asked the guy at the counter if I could look at the '64 footage and saw for the first time the TV footage of Crompton's goal. I was spellbound with Crompton's fist-pumping and Tony Charlton's commentary  that MFC would be 'the talk of all Melbourne tonight". Apparently the full '64 TV footage was wilfully destroyed.

On 8/28/2021 at 2:16 PM, Stiff Arm said:

No one wants to trade Gus. Nevertheless we can put up some suggestions without being shut down, right?

He is very close with Andrew at Freo and has extended family in WA. Doesn't mean he will go to WA because of that, just that it could be an influence. 

I'm yet to read those shutting down this discussion put up valid hypothetical alternatives.

Having said that, we have much bigger fish to fry today 

Go Dees!

On that we can all agree

This is the modern-day version of swap cards. Trade out our soul and buy in Cristiano Ronaldo.

1. Catch a blue train from Springvale station to Richmond.

2. Buy a tin of koolmints and eat them all in one go. Look for the donut van and buy six hot jam don't.

3. Read the Footy Record all the way back to Springvale 

4. Buy 20 cents chips one piece of flake and a can of RC cola. 

5. Play pinball at Rocky's with Ray.

6. Get up early Sunday for a copy of The Sunday Observer. 

7. Watch highlights of the game on WOS.

On 29/08/2021 at 10:48 AM, sue said:

I think you are right.  What really gets up my nose is the TV commentator immediately saying it looked like Toby was just going to one of his mates or something similar.  Instantly finding excuses for a star player when blind freedy could see he was in deep discussion with the umpire and had no regard to his team mates at all.  Typical.

They weren't exactly chasing up Daisy Pearce for her views either (ch 7). It was all mansplaining by the boys.

1 hour ago, Freddy Fuschia said:

The Boys Club working hard to get him off.

What happens in the Grand Final, stays in the grand final. That's what MFC have got to be prepared for.  Not capitulate like we did in 2000. Another poster correctly pointed out that the Greene nudge is exactly what pub bullies do to instigate one-sided brawls.

If Greene gets off it will be with a twenty million dollar AFL Biro.

2 hours ago, Pates said:

Don’t think so, he was an Adelaide born boy. His Melbourne connection was that he and Viney were best buds so he was really close to the whole Viney family. 

Ok, that was the connection.

Ollie Wines?

Apparently he will be right for commentary on w/e. Got some facial burns.

40 minutes ago, MurDoc516 said:

He will go to North if he does leave. Pies don't have the currency unless we accept futures.

North supporters would be browned off if that happened.

Completely suckered the Geelong backs into thinking he was taking a shot:

Footscray v Port Adelaide, the other-other white meat.

20 hours ago, tiers said:

Why, oh why, does the media insist on using the ugly terminology to describe our position.

We are "top of the ladder" as it has been since the dawn of the footy era. We are not "top of the table", an ugly term purloined from overseas soccer.

If we finish top of the ladder that is enough to define our success. Again that's how it has been since the dawn of footy. That ugly expression "minor premiership" has crept in from rugby and has no place in our great game.

Curse those journos and commentators who use these terms in the hope of sounding fancy and "sophisticated". They don't, they sound like presumptuous prats and bores.

Call me an old fuddy duddy but some things we should hold sacred. Our great game and its traditional terminology are sacred and must be preserved.

Go dees.

Or even "toppermost of the poppermost" (The Beatles) would suffice.

His story is essential reading for Dee fans.

1 hour ago, Jaded said:

Channel 7 reporting Hawkins expected to have no case to answer. Of course. 
[censored] I hate that club. 

How many players has that player concussed etc for no consequences.

Gawny and Brayshaw getting ahead of themselves on their podcast.

21 hours ago, tiers said:

Posted this in an earlier thread on Tassie team. Dated 6 August before Carter.

Tasmanians are already committed to existing clubs and the state is too small to host a new team.

One the other hand if a Melbourne based team can be convinced/cajoled/coaxed/compelled to move across Bass Strait in the hope of picking up an extra supporter base, then it might work. A joint Victorian and Tasmanian partnership playing home games in Hobart, Launceston and Melbourne. North stand out as the obvious first, last and only choice.

When considering whether or not Tassie can support a team on its own, there is a relationship between population (proxy for money) and the number of national tier 1 competition teams (AFL and NFL) that can be supported. It takes minimum of 500,000 population to support one tier 1 team and Tassie barely qualifies.

Tier 2 and 3 competitions such as NBL, A-league, netball, AFLW and the multitude of cricket formats are more appropriate. They should stick to the lower tiers.

It should and probably will happen. Roos have no fanatical supporter base like the sainters who have a long history of misery to maintain.

Tread lightly the mighty Dees also have our share of misery.

10 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

Yep such a memorable win that final in 1990. A high point. We’d just beaten them the week before in the final round of the season … so 2 wins v the hawks in 2 weeks felt like a big statement. Dees were real contenders! 

Unfortunately the following game ( after a week off to let the magpies and eagles replay their draw) we played the eagles at waverley and got fully thrashed. despite the weeks rest and despite the eagles travel schedule. It’s a loss that remains one of my worst memories as the 1990 flag was just so winnable. it remains “ the one that got away” in my brain. so it was a big high  right next to a big low…. and of the two memories the loss makes a deeper impression. 

I went to that game. WCE totally outsmarted us by continuously kicking across the ground 'to the fatside', always unmarked players. We couldn't lay our hands on the ball.

16 hours ago, Win4theAges said:

The AFL's finest hour giving us two games in Cairns' monsoonal weather.

They couldn't give a toss about us last year.

No that was when we smashed Adelaide in '98 who then side-stepped us through to the GF. Taken from Dud AFL Finals Fixturing, Vol 1, P1.

7 hours ago, Smokey said:

Do you think the crushing weight of an entire generation of failure is helpful for the current group of players? Why would the club go out of their way to put further burdens on the playing group like this? This thread is trash. 

Regarding the demonlanders who say "don't read the riot act' etc it would be perfectly proper for one/ some of the boys from that campaign to speak to the group re the mindset issue which was the case then and seems to be the case now. Our game plan is overly-reliant on groundnpound so we do tend to drop off when we drop off. (If that makes sense).  Our challenge is that we have a mini-finals before the real finals, and we have to be up for both. 

PS the header is obviously not meant to be taken literally!  He who controls the past controls the present etc

Apologies George Orwell.

1 hour ago, drdrake said:

I think it is more about making the most of the opportunity you have.  We are on top of the ladder, 2 and a half games clear of 5th, there is an opportunity to give yourself every chance to play off in a GF.  Also how quickly it can all turn, 2 years later the 2004 playing group was done we dropped off the cliff in 2007 and have been struggling to climb that cliff for the past 14 years.

We are in  great position, take the challenge and don't look back with regrets of what could have been.  What can be is a double chance that gives you the best opportunity to play off in 

1 hour ago, rpfc said:

Let me get this straight; the team NQR team that made its way from 1st to 5th needs to come and yell at the team that 10 points clear of 5th with 5 rounds to go. A team that has beaten every other team in the 8 that it has played, and has 5 bonafide stars of the game?

Paul Wheatley - you yell at Trent Rivers. 
Brad Miller - give a spray to Charlie Spargo.

Honestly.

As long as it's not David Hughes.

I was once like you are now
And I know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found
Something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Think of everything you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not.