Tim

It must be a tough gig being on the ball as a God 24/7! 😉

I can see your point, A, but it would be a major inversion of what they do at Captain’s Run if he plays after not being with the senior group this morning.

And a great result at that!

On the credit side for Kade the match committee must see something as they voted him 8th in last year’s B&F.

Nathan Buckley said he was in his top 10 of hardest players to play against, and built like a whippet. He’s one of 45 former players (for us) in the Hall of Fame, so not sure relevance of Team of Century reference, leaving aside the salient comment from @Gator on that anyway. Absolute fave of mine, have a signed photo of him on the wall leading the team out. Star of our club. Well done, and well deserved, Junior!

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.)

Until then 186 connoted the cc capacity of a Holden engine. After that 186 took on a very different meaning for me. Eerie memories of a previous “Day of Infamy” for our great club, 28 July 1979 out at Waverley against Fitzroy where we conceded 238 points and lost by 190. What is it about the last week of July for us?

I have a memory of Daicos scoring the “winning goal” from the boundary pocket late in the game, and as the Filth supporters were having a collective orgasm, G. Lyon was instructed by the umpire to take the free kick for an infringement against him in the goal square. Magnificent. Breakout game for the young Ox - his first 3 Brownlow votes game. Alan Richardson playing in the black shorts, and Jako had Pert moved off him after rebounding from the earlier dragging by Northey and finishing with 7.5 (10 marks, no handballs!). Magnificent.

His 9th game. 14 marks, 22 kicks - 19 of which scored! And on the day he got 3 more Brownlow votes than he had handballs, another trademark of his game style.

40 scoring shots to 29 and we lose.

Of the 13,000-odd players who’ve played AFL/VFL, he tops the poll for having the winning-est career of those having played 100 games or more: 81.05%. Saw him at a local cafe last year, sporting his Demon cap. Nice man.