Review 20 year Anniversary 99 Prelim.

[rog1995]

20 years since that famous victory in that 99 Preliminary final. One of the best days I've ever experienced at the footy.

 

[thylacine60]

ok

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

A very memorable game for sure .

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

Best radio call of a game i’ve heard......Huddo, “Lance, you are the man!!!!”

 

[AB_Blue]

Listened on the wireless.(gotta love the Saturday afternoon replay[emoji30][emoji30])

Sat on mums kitchen bench and all I can remember is the ABC caller(Tim lane i think) mentioning koutas name every 30 seconds...bloke played a last quarter for the ages.

Frazer brown’s tackle lives in infamy....pretty sure


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[KennyHuntersBlues]

Was on a footy trip up the river listening around the camp fire
Teammate * supporter was so confident he was donning the sash
Suffice to say the jumper didn’t fare well after being thrown on the fire in disgust after the siren

 

[Franc de Borges]

The anniversary was yesterday.

 

[Loose at HB]

This game is probably my earliest footy memory and one of my favourites. I was only 4 years old at the time and I remember this day vividly. Both my parents were working so I had been left in the care of my grandparents, and in particular, my mad Essendon-supporting grandfather.

I was sitting on the floor of my grandparents' living room in front of what I remember to be an about 12 inch screen television, clad in a variety of Carlton gear such as beanie and scarf. I didn't move for the entire afternoon until the siren went where I proceeded to start running around the house in celebration, much to the disgust of my nonno who clearly must have thought my parents had done a positively shithouse job raising me so far. My dad always tells me that my nonno had attempted to corrupt me into supporting * when I was about 2-3, so I would imagine seeing this little upstart tearing your house down after a 1 point Carlton win was probably the last thing he wanted to see.

It's a great memory but also a little sad that in the 20 years since I haven't yet formed another one that I look back on with the same fondness (maybe 2013 EF but there's something about 99...). Hopefully this group we're bringing together at the moment can help to change that

 

[gab213]

Was at that game and it was definitely a great one but pales into insignificance compared to the 68,70,72,79,81,82,87 and 95 Grand Finals

 

[BigBreakfast]

Joined tonight because of this thread. Watched this in a hotel on GC while celebrating a mates bucks weekend. Cracker of a way to dive into a weekend in Sin City. That tackle from Fraser though!

 

[bigblueboy]

Essendon and Kennett both unbackable favourites go down on the one day. Epic.

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

Song comes on the music channel, Alanis singing “it’s like rain...”

Wife and I look at each other and say “bloody hell, that song is from 1995, 24 years ago.....” Seems like yesterday.

My youngest son, loves the Blues, born in ‘98......three years after we won our last. He’s friggen 21 now.

It’s been too long.

Click into gear you bastards.

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

Joined tonight because of this thread. Watched this in a hotel on GC while celebrating a mates bucks weekend. Cracker of a way to dive into a weekend in Sin City. That tackle from Fraser though!

Welcome mate I'll look after ya

 

[thylacine60]

Essendon and Kennett both unbackable favourites go down on the one day. Epic.

both lost the unloseable...........

 

[thylacine60]

Welcome mate I'll look after ya

yeah good luck with that, brekky...........

 

[BigBreakfast]

yeah good luck with that, brekky...........

Sounds ominous. Been reading for years now, Blues member for 10 years, finally jumped the broom into Big Footy.

 

[Jeremias]

What a day. Will remember it forever.

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

both lost the unloseable...........

And Shorten.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

One of those great unexpected, glorious days.

If you young kids want a summation of the last gasp of a mighty giant, this was it.

Really shouldn’t have gotten that far, honestly most of us thought a close first half and go down swinging was honorable....

The 3rd quarter * had 14, count ‘em, scoring shots and I kinda thought ok.......and then Kouta did that thing.

The last quarter was truly insane, can barely watch the last 3 minutes, just wave after wave of * attacks.

.....and we took it all.

 

[thylacine60]

"mercuri, mercuri, mercuri............a behind.........." ........hee hee.........

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

What happened

 

[thylacine60]

just a game of footy on a sunny september arvo.............that's all...........

 

[Stamos]

Was sitting on the fence on the Southern wing with my * supporting mate.

Can remember cheering Kouta as he ran past us on the wing, to take a pack mark in the goal square! Best game of football ever.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

It was one of those games, even as a supporter, where you were just exhausted at the end.

 

[Bring on Vinnie]

Was actually my Wedding Day!
From a family of Carlton and Essendon tragics there were transistors and ear pieces scattered through the congregation and plenty of hand gestures signaling two goals up, three goals up!!

Our driver said he’d seen plenty of things take place in the back of a wedding car but never a couple listening to the footy! Can’t say the bride didn’t know what she was getting into!

The blues scarf features in many of the wedding photos and it was proudly flapping out the wedding car window as we made our way down Punt Rd to the reception venue. Every Blues fan driving the other way was on the horn acknowledging in celebration.
Great memories!!


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