IAMDASH
8 Mar 2001, 18:46
This is the greatest thing since we recruited Jeff Hogg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No seriously I am rapt that this message board is up and running and praise be to grog for whoever the hell got it going. I have been a regular reader of the fitzroy coburg message board however did not want to contribute as I had no interest in the combine as I felt it just was not the roys as i knew them ( I guess I took the Barry Dickens point of view). I respect whatever Fitzroy supporters did after 96 be it Brisbain, another team, or total loss of interest like myself. I am feeling mixed emotions. Just reading the messages so far has got my blood pumping and tears in my eyes. I would like to let others know my Fitzroy story at later date(and I wanna hear yours) when I can get my head around and tell it like it was but for the time being:
-the junction oval is a beautiful place I used to sit in the cheersquad at the St Kilda end of the ground as a 6-10 year old. At the other end in the members stand with a friend of the families on really lucky days. I can rember Bernies 100th and Sandys "Its high its long its there" Didnt Brad Gotch hit him on the chest to bring up the ton. If I can recall we all broke the picket fence as we ran onto the ground. Rossy Thornton took many a kick out a the junction and used to often do the 1-2 which would see him bursting down the ground delivering to Leigh Carlson or delicate Dessy Herbert. I remember the day the Krakour brothers took us apart and the day they got there own back. I can smell the Jiffy doughnuts and remember the can collectors smelling of stale VB as they picked up the cans at about 3/4 time onwards. The paddlepop lion and the peanut man still get me excited(does anyone know what he actually said - threeannnnnndaahaaallllfffpeaaaaanutsssss)
great goals - the greatest half forward that ever lived kicked one at Waverley in the early eighties where he actually headbutted his tackler in the chest and barged through Jonah Lomu like before slotting it through the high diddle diddle. Kevin Caton kicked the greatest point I have ever seen when he hit the post from 50+ at optus when we beat Geelong by the slimmest of margins.
marks - you guys were spot on the money with Lynch, Roos etc but Graeme Hinchen took a beauty one day at the junction which won mark of the week and the bertocchi smallgoods on world of sport. The doc had super glue for fingers - the boy could play but in the words of T-shirt Tommy "you gotta learn the boy to kick.
Some of the blokes we used to give it when we were pissed and struggling - Morrish, Morrish, Morrish, Boyd, O'Connell, Hogg, Armstong, Morrish, Barker, Edwards, Glen "Kick the bloody thing" Coleman, Baldwin (theres a story to be told there) Morrish, Morrish, Lupson amongst many others( Oh Did I mention Paul Morrish). But it was all injest and we really luved em all cause they were Royboys.
Greatest wins -
any crushing win we had under Wallsy
86 round 22
86 elimination
86 semi
Collingwood 92
Any bloody win we had after 92
Adelaide 94?
heartbreaking, soul destroying, bitter, tearjerking, thats not deliberate you white maggot losses:
81 semi: Russel Brewer may the devil cometh to you.
83 straight sets exit: robbed of a flag by Glen James. Poor Mick Nettlefold. I still have nightmares about this. Week after we got sucked in by thuggery of Sheedy, Merrett, Duckworth etc. It was the year that should have been
86 prelim: so near but yet so far
Adealaide at footy park: cant remeber the year as I went so bloody( no ****ing ) beserk. it took me years to get over it. That was just criminal. And they all wondered why they thought we cried conspiracy.
Rivals and most hated: Richmond, the whole bloody lot of them, Richmond, Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon scum, Richmond..........I think you get my point.
I could go on all night but I have a 9.00 lecture in Bundoora 2 morrow morning so I have to go and get some shut eye. Maybe Ill just go watch The Winners circa 1986 and catch Tim Lane, Cleelo, Robbo and Doug "the Doyan of them all" Hayward talk about the phoenix rising from the ashes and cry and gnash my teeth.
Look forward to your replies, criticisms, corrections, tears, laughter, sorrow, reminiscing and singing of that great bloody song VERY BLOODY LOUD
To qoute that disgrace that is Tony Grieg
"Get the Lion on the line"
Go Roys
Cheers
DNash
-the junction oval is a beautiful place I used to sit in the cheersquad at the St Kilda end of the ground as a 6-10 year old. At the other end in the members stand with a friend of the families on really lucky days. I can rember Bernies 100th and Sandys "Its high its long its there" Didnt Brad Gotch hit him on the chest to bring up the ton. If I can recall we all broke the picket fence as we ran onto the ground. Rossy Thornton took many a kick out a the junction and used to often do the 1-2 which would see him bursting down the ground delivering to Leigh Carlson or delicate Dessy Herbert. I remember the day the Krakour brothers took us apart and the day they got there own back. I can smell the Jiffy doughnuts and remember the can collectors smelling of stale VB as they picked up the cans at about 3/4 time onwards. The paddlepop lion and the peanut man still get me excited(does anyone know what he actually said - threeannnnnndaahaaallllfffpeaaaaanutsssss)
great goals - the greatest half forward that ever lived kicked one at Waverley in the early eighties where he actually headbutted his tackler in the chest and barged through Jonah Lomu like before slotting it through the high diddle diddle. Kevin Caton kicked the greatest point I have ever seen when he hit the post from 50+ at optus when we beat Geelong by the slimmest of margins.
marks - you guys were spot on the money with Lynch, Roos etc but Graeme Hinchen took a beauty one day at the junction which won mark of the week and the bertocchi smallgoods on world of sport. The doc had super glue for fingers - the boy could play but in the words of T-shirt Tommy "you gotta learn the boy to kick.
Some of the blokes we used to give it when we were pissed and struggling - Morrish, Morrish, Morrish, Boyd, O'Connell, Hogg, Armstong, Morrish, Barker, Edwards, Glen "Kick the bloody thing" Coleman, Baldwin (theres a story to be told there) Morrish, Morrish, Lupson amongst many others( Oh Did I mention Paul Morrish). But it was all injest and we really luved em all cause they were Royboys.
Greatest wins -
any crushing win we had under Wallsy
86 round 22
86 elimination
86 semi
Collingwood 92
Any bloody win we had after 92
Adelaide 94?
heartbreaking, soul destroying, bitter, tearjerking, thats not deliberate you white maggot losses:
81 semi: Russel Brewer may the devil cometh to you.
83 straight sets exit: robbed of a flag by Glen James. Poor Mick Nettlefold. I still have nightmares about this. Week after we got sucked in by thuggery of Sheedy, Merrett, Duckworth etc. It was the year that should have been
86 prelim: so near but yet so far
Adealaide at footy park: cant remeber the year as I went so bloody( no ****ing ) beserk. it took me years to get over it. That was just criminal. And they all wondered why they thought we cried conspiracy.
Rivals and most hated: Richmond, the whole bloody lot of them, Richmond, Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon scum, Richmond..........I think you get my point.
I could go on all night but I have a 9.00 lecture in Bundoora 2 morrow morning so I have to go and get some shut eye. Maybe Ill just go watch The Winners circa 1986 and catch Tim Lane, Cleelo, Robbo and Doug "the Doyan of them all" Hayward talk about the phoenix rising from the ashes and cry and gnash my teeth.
Look forward to your replies, criticisms, corrections, tears, laughter, sorrow, reminiscing and singing of that great bloody song VERY BLOODY LOUD
To qoute that disgrace that is Tony Grieg
"Get the Lion on the line"
Go Roys
Cheers
DNash