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Agree, I loved 2020. Then again, I loved them all for different reasons.
Scotty Turners elbow job in the 3rd qtr on Gary O'Donnell is now part of footy folklore. We had all the momentum after that. Rex Hunts call on Naishys running goal. Still get tingles.Agree, I loved 2020. Then again, I loved them all for different reasons.
Premierships aside, the 1995 semi against Essendon is my favourite, my Bomber mate was mouthing off in the first half and did a “phantom” halfway through the last.
2017 QF a close second, to finally get a win against those flogs and to humiliate them in the final quarter… beautiful
Was there too.
approaching 30 years of saltiness from O'Donnell
Love this and love your stories Bill, keep ‘‘em comingOutside of various finals, especially the recent campaigns, one of the most memorable games for me was the last game of ’99. We were strangely out of contention and were playing the delusional blues who just needed a win to secure a home final for the following week (and avoid the Fitzroy Bears in Brisbane). We were in the standing room section at the back of the Punt Road goals when someone in front casually said ‘the scoreboard is on fire....’. Sure enough, there was a little flame on the bottom left corner of the city end scoreboard, allegedly started when a Tigers fan put a cigarette to their mouth and the bourbon on their breath flamed up the steel on the side of the board.
The flames got higher and higher, frighteningly quickly actually, fuelled by the brown paper bags that the blues players had dumped in the stand. People were evacuated from that end of the ground onto the arena. Naturally the players came out for a warmup in the smoke and went WTF? Scotty Turner, in his last game, mistook the 20m high flames for Lance Whitnall’s hair and subsequently tried to punch the blaze out... but to no avail.
As rumours spread of the game potentially being cancelled, we turned to see the AFL CEO, Wayne Jackson, running along the concourse behind us and my mate yelled out ‘HOW’S YOUR NIGHT BEEN SO FAR WAYNE?’ to which Wayne turned and grinned like a cheshire cat at us....and enthusiastically waved. Strange reaction, unless of course he was loving seeing MCC infrastructure burning to the ground.
One campaigner who had been evacuated onto the ground decided to live a lifelong dream and run the full length of the MCG bouncing his footy to have a shot at the PRE goals. No-one really noticed him running around just inside the member’s side boundary line until he got to about 50 out...then we ALL noticed and started egging him on...along with about 25,000 other idiots. He was so knackered that when he got to about 20 out he had a shot, stumbled, toed the ball along the ground about 6 metres and fell on his face. Thousands of people in unison went ‘OOOORRRR!!!’ then pissed themselves.
We went on to win the game, we unleashed the Giesch in style, we gave it to the neurotic blues fans on the way out and they were saying ‘So what? Where are you guys gonna be next week?’ to which we replied ....’Watching the blues lose on TV, same as you guys.’
Despite my lungs being filled with burning plastic fumes and the Tiges hitting the 21st century coming off another ordinary year and with another new coach in waiting, I was content.
Wayne eventually went back to his farm, nearly dying in a tractor accident where he broke most of his ribs, collapsed a lung and had internal bleeding but grinned and enthusiastically waved to the nurses when he was wheeled into ICU. When asked why he was so happy he said ‘this is quite pleasant when compared to working with Demetriou’.
We have since gone on to witness 3 Tiger premierships, 5 blues spoons and the guy who stumbled at the last step of running the ‘G to kick a goal went on to his other dream of running from Mallacoota to Broome and got within 20ks..only to be arrested by McGowan for incorrectly using a semicolon on his G2G pass.
Blues would do anything to try to secure a home final...including arson
Although being only 10 years old at the time and watching it in our family study (parents hated footy) on a shitty old TV set this is my 2nd favorite tiger victory in my life time
Plus 3 for his hit on Grenvold
I’ll be honest I was gutted at half time. Knights had done everything he could but we were still getting a touch up. Being a salty 24 year old who took footy way too seriously! I was there with mostly full of themselves Essendon mates and 2 tiger matesAlthough being only 10 years old at the time and watching it in our family study (parents hated footy) on a shitty old TV set this is my 2nd favorite tiger victory in my life time
Knighters epic run down the wing for a I think 5 bounce goal, turners elbow then going forward and kicking 2 goals, naish having a ripper all so vivid in my memory
I was unlucky or lucky enough to be in the car driving to a holiday caravan park the following week when we got pumped by Geelong in the prelim
Dad let me listen to the first quarter on the radio, it was enough
Times have changed.
Well its 32 and rain here in Melb. Maybe we can swap back
Omg imagine if you did leave for the royal
That’s where this s**t just goes way too far.Trans swimmer flops it out.
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Trans swimmer flops it out.
View attachment 1317763Lia Thomas' UPenn teammate says they're uncomfortable in locker room
One of Lia Thomas' teammates tells DailyMail.com they feel uncomfortable sharing a locker room with the transgender UPenn swimmer.
