Tim

At the Boxing Day Test I was sitting near Hassa’s cousin and premiership teammate Len, who was sitting next to multiple premiership teammate Bryan Kenneally. Father and son premiership player Kenny Emselle thereabouts also. All looking in good nick.

One of our greats. The North footage would seem to be from 1967 where we won by 3 points at the ‘G, with Peter Smth running around in the #4 jumper previously made famous by his father - the coach that day. The Collingwood one would be from 1968 at Victoria Park, again where we won. Greg Parke visible in the footage in his first season - kicked 4 straight. At 1.27 the Geelong player who attempts to kill Hassa with a head high is good old Sam Newman.

Interesting video. Scrappy affair - boy, the standard of play improved considerably over the years. Particularly liked the easy “brown cows” saunter onto the field by both teams at the start, including the bloke with his hands behind his back. Corporate branding hadn’t taken hold, with Carlton players seeming to have four different types of jumper among the team and South players having the sash going either way, as per photo below.

Also won a Brownlow Medal, the same Chicken Smallhorn.

Like night follows day, Dew follows Frost, I guess.

That is a complete mis-take of what happened I would suggest. To put it another way, if messing up an interview were the one reason only that she left then we really do have a problem at board level.

Two small observations from the footage about kicking. Amazed to see at one point in the video John Townsend at about CHF going to the city end, wheeling out of a tackle and under pressure doing a drop kick with his left foot to move the ball forward. And how about Brian Dixon in the lead up to the famous Crompton goal at the end? Collingwood full back kicks off after a behind, goes to a pack and marked by Dixon (well done!). His “give it everything” kick then goes all of 30 metres to a contest where Crompton is still at least 30 metres out when he snaps the winner. Thank heavens for his tish-house kicking skills in that instance!

The Bombers on steroids…now that’s an idea to conjure with.

The round 6 video at the 1.50 mark: very Malcolm Blight-like, but not in a good way.

Maybe…was thinking more Hawthorn, in the Rochford Devenish-Meares tradition.

Great post, and the opening line in particular nails it.

Nasty, unnecessary and wrong post.

In their Richmond top 5 there’s no mention of Dusty. Nuff said!

Goal umpire called it a point, so without the arc it would still have been a point.

And in 2 of those 7 games we got some revenge against the Cats, with M. Gawn front and centre in both! (And btw, Max was lucky enough to miss 186, but was called up for the next game, a 76-point relative cliff-hanger loss against Carlton.)