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3 hours ago, picket fence said:
The Collingwood /Melbourne connection yeilded
Billy Barham
John Dellamarta
Henry Coles
Wayne Gordon
All but Barham were solid enough at the times they played!
Fab Phil?
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Ed Burston, one of the legendary great white hopes of the post -Barassi era.
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On 3/30/2020 at 7:37 PM, Fanatique Demon said:
Remember Sid Catlin? This is from Demonwiki...
Catlin started 1966 in the Fourths but by Round 14 he was coming off the bench in the last quarter at the MCG as the second youngest known MFC Player at 16 years, 218 days old on debut
After winning five kicks in the last five minutes of his debut Catlin was promoted to first rover for his second and kicked 1.8. He played just one more game for the year and missed all of 1967 after suffering a knee injury in an early season reserves match before returning for a solitary game in 1968. He was again troubled by injury that year.
In 1969 Catlin followed Norm Smith to South Melbourne and played fifteen games over two seasons. In 1970 he finished third in the Gardiner Medal for best player in the Reserves competition but left the Swans at the end of the year.
Year Games Goals Brownlow 1966 3 1 2 1968 1 0 He was on Coodabeebs last year. Part of Norm Smith's 1966 massive list regeneration.
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On 3/30/2020 at 7:37 PM, Fanatique Demon said:
Remember Sid Catlin? This is from Demonwiki...
Catlin started 1966 in the Fourths but by Round 14 he was coming off the bench in the last quarter at the MCG as the second youngest known MFC Player at 16 years, 218 days old on debut
After winning five kicks in the last five minutes of his debut Catlin was promoted to first rover for his second and kicked 1.8. He played just one more game for the year and missed all of 1967 after suffering a knee injury in an early season reserves match before returning for a solitary game in 1968. He was again troubled by injury that year.
In 1969 Catlin followed Norm Smith to South Melbourne and played fifteen games over two seasons. In 1970 he finished third in the Gardiner Medal for best player in the Reserves competition but left the Swans at the end of the year.
Year Games Goals Brownlow 1966 3 1 2 1968 1 0 He was on Coodabeebs last year. Part of Norm Smith's 1966 massive list regeneration.
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Who needs the 2020 season when we can have the 1987 season.
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11 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:
At home with a cold one in hand and watching the Dees for the first time with my 4 month old lad.
That's as perfect as it gets for me.
Hopefully won't require a double nappy change at quarter time!
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1 hour ago, Engorged Onion said:
This game is looking after the welfare of those that deliver you your weekly entertainment package...
Should ask Greg Williams or Shaun Smith, or Deeontay Wilder.
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Melbourne Town Hall, with Tarax on the house.
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If we're talking the next couple of weeks then a little tap work from Tyson Fury plus odd chop out from Deontay Wilder should do the trick.
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Fun fact: Chris Aitken is bro. of Wilbur Wilde.
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Can still remember "Dillon!!!!!" called by commentators when he took pack marks. Sadly we couldn't get Dillon, Aitken and Parke onto the ground much otherwise 60s and 70s could have been very different story.
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Graham Molloy and Stan Alves both could roost beautiful torpedoes in the early 70s, before that kick was banned!
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21 hours ago, picket fence said:
Absolute collectors Items Now
I collected whole set in beautiful Color!
Dunno what happened to them!!
Before their time
RIP Paddy
Can sometimes see them on eBay, such nostalgia.
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He was one of my '64 or '66 Ampol/Mobil player cards.
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On 10/26/2019 at 12:56 PM, monoccular said:
I may be wrong but I feel that I have read somewhere that Dean Many years later admitted to staging.
It was devastating for a teenage fan to see my hero suspended on finals eve in these circumstances. As I recall it was replayed on TV but the tribunal refused to (or wasn’t permitted to) view pictorial or video evidence and believed the umpire.
These days it would be thrown out without a tribunal hearing.
And yes, it did cost us another tilt at the flag.
I think Dean refers to the incident in The Red and Blue video, was still adamant that Ron hit him.
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That was my earliest childhood memory watching this on WOS. Dean went down like a bag of spuds. Melbourne rampaged through home and aways second half of season then struggled in finals without Barassi. Same thing also happened to Ditterich in 66 and Neville Crowe in 67.
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2 hours ago, Sorry kids said:
Doubt it will motivate. Different group of course but I well remember the first game after the tragic Troy Broadbridge death who I thought would end up a future Captain.Sadly we put up little effort in that game. And so the band plays on. The power Clubs dominate and we remain homeless, win less and unable to attract the best talent on and off the field.
Didn't we beat Essendon well in that game:
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49 minutes ago, Deesprate said:
I was lucky enough that my ability to understand footy crystallised in the mid 60s just after 64. The team from mid 65 through 69 was as bad as anything in the following decades. Finishes were 7th; second last; 7th; 8th; last. Think yourself lucky you missed this embarrassment.
During '67 we were being talked about as a final four side until a late slump. Ditto'71, ditto '76, '84 until Essendon smashed us at VFL PARK. Some minor glory after that but afl is now basically a premier league and Frost to Hawks is a travesty. Take up a hobby, it's never too late.
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This post is another sad illustration of the Dees' backstabbing and white-anting culture and why we have owned the bottom half of the ladder for over half a century. So much for a supporter website...
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14 minutes ago, Demon17 said:
Really?
We now have a backline 'general' in May for the first time since ...... I can't remember.
Jamie Duursma perhaps, Earl Spalding, Neita when he played there as a 19 year old,...
Get the drift.
Anthony Ingerson.
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46 minutes ago, deebug said:3 minutes ago, demonstone said:
Pretty sure that Ian Ridley was recruited from Hamilton Imperials which were in the same league.
Portlanders who played for Melbourne were Stewart Spencer and Clyde Laidlaw, both stars of the 1950s.
Stan Alves had the distinction of playing his first three games in an all-winning, all-conquering demons team in 1965. the following week we were taken apart by the saints (and ian cooper) and for the next ten years his demons were our demons.
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This was 'peak demons', when everything was set up for melbourne to win flags. when the clubs had complained long and hard enough change came, including recruiting zones and loss of the mcg. barassi saw the writing on the wall and took his mojo elsewhere. at least we ended up with ross dillon from shep. zone in 1966.
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That was a ripping write-up by George 'on the outer' but there is a valid point made about how online sites provide/ encourage anonymous player sprays by internet experts. How many of these fair weather fans can 'put their body on the line'' the way AFL players are required to.
PS I am not referring to George here, but the many cowards who regularly slag our players.
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Stan Alves had a biog, or autobiog. Amazingly, his first three games (under Smith) occurred at the very, very end of MFC's reign of power and he went 3-0. For the next two hundred plus games of Alves' career the Dees were mostly a deadbeat team.