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Sad to hear. When I first went to the club in the 1980s, David and Graham Arthur were the first 2 people I met. David seemed like a very nice man.

The team name is Kybybolite. The team he played that day was most likely Border Districts. In the three matches they played against that team, Kybybolite amassed scores of 26-23 (28 April), 35-25 23 June) and 29-15 (11 August). Other games where Kybybolite kicked more than 21 goals were 24...

Unless you know the rules of the time, it's best not to worry too much about them. They were designed because League Footballers could be stationed anywhere at any time due to national service, and allowed them keep playing. Many players playing footy in difference states during WW2 and the...

Special rules for National Service duties.

You want to hear Buckenara talk on this subject. He said in the time he was at the club, they gave him nothing. He would have do a lot of things coaches should never have to do because he had nobody to help him. Things like mixing drinks, sweeping floors, etc. The moment they appointed...

It was after.

My memory of the VFL jumper (The Big V) in the late 60s- early 70s were that they didn't taper down to a pointed "V" but had a flat bottom.

The 1985 Annual Report? Yes I have a copy, what would you like to know?

Mate, you have raised a topic that is dear to my heart. I began playing footy in the mid 1960s and was taught the proper art of ruckwork. I used to go to Norwood Oval to watch Norwood play, and they had a ruckman by the name of Bill Wedding, All Australian ruckman in the 1961 AFC carnival. He...

Great. So all you need is a programme with player lists so you can work out who the player is. That's if they wrote the number right. Everything's "boring" with people these days. Signatures used to be legible, that's the point, not an illiterate scrawl like you see these days. You watch...

Good luck identifying signatures of current players. All they do is leave a mark, some illiterate scrawl that nobody will be able to determine who signed it in years to come.

The 50 metre arc came in to remind umpires not to pay free kicks to any forward inside that arc.

So, if they changed the name of the competition tomorrow to the National Football League, you'd be happy for Adelaide's flag to pale to insignificance?

Yes it was, but I played there when I was 15 and 16 because I opted to play senior football instead of dominating in the underage school comps. I was very physically developed at that age. It was a wonderful competition. Our team had a number of Salvation Army people who were good enough to...

Makes sense that West Adelaide played at Railways Oval, it is located in the western side of Adelaide. Newmarket Hotel to the east, Adelaide High School to the south. I played 2 years of football with Adelaide Congress Hall in the defunct United Church league. This was in the early 1970s and...

I think I have this one covered. Norwood's John McInnes played his first game in the 1956 1st Semi Final. He went to study in a religious college in NSW and didn't play any football until he returned to Norwood and played his second league game in 1970, 14 years later.

This is SANFL, but the knee injury that intrigued me as a lad was that of South Adelaide's Peter Darley. Peter was a brilliant player who, if he were around today would be worth millions. He could do anything. He played in their 1964 premiership team and finished 2 votes behind in the Magarey...

All I know is I kept hearing the scores coming through and Dunstall had 11 to half time. I thought, "This is one game I must have on DVD", but when I contact the club the following Monday, they told me the match was never recorded. Maybe what you saw was a film crew doing a take for the news.

I've been trying to achieve the quintessential records for my club Norwood since our inception in 1878, but I've found it nigh impossible. I am only able to go back to 1899 with accuracy on games played and goal kickers, before that the information is sketchy at best. Way too many games that...

Wooden spoon in 1965, the most recent the club has suffered. Bringing John Kennedy back as coach in 1967, as well as the advent of Peter Hudson turned things around. Recruiting players such as Knights and Matthews in 1969 helped a bit as well :)

I guess the game for me would be Jason Dunstall's 17 goals. So far as I know, the game was never televised and I would have loved to see it. Also, the 1963 state match between Vic and SA at the MCG. So many greats of SA football played in that team, and SA won by 7 points :)

If you want a copy of the 2014 GF, you can purchase one at the Norwood FC.

The 1970 SANFL Grand Final was a wretched day. A mate and I were at school and decided to camp overnight outside the ground. Friday was a beautiful day, warm and sun was shining, we were expecting Saturday to be similar. My mate's dad dropped off a couple of mattresses and something to eat...

Ebert played well that day, but I would argue that he didn't reach his peak until the mid-70s, even though he won the Magarey in 1971. Barrie Robran was BOG by so far that day you thought he'd brought his own ball. Remarkable performance. I can't recall if it was the 1971 or 1972 GF where...

That's why John Kennedy Sr didn't pick him.

The 1974 SANFL GF was an interesting one. It was the first at Football Park and the arena was far from completed, meaning it was open to the weather. A very strong southerly wind blew straight down the ground, and right up my nose as it happens (spent the next few days in bed with a monster...

The number 5 was retired and not worn from 1976 to 1992. The plan was that it would be brought out of retirement only if one of his two sons represented Hawthorn at senior level. I believe it was his family who requested the number be allocated to Andy Collins in 1993 as a tribute to Peter...

Ah yes, the 1973 SANFL Grand Final, one of the best games of football I've ever witnessed. I only saw Austin in a couple of state games for WA at Adelaide Oval (he kicked 5 and 4), and one pre-season game against Norwood in 1969 where he booted 9 goals, but he looked a very good player, and his...

Crimmo was a great player, imagine being good enough to have Leigh Matthews as your second rover :) I knew Crimmo was crook because of the events of missing the '75 GF, but because I wasn't living in Melbourne at the time I hadn't grasped exactly how ill he was, and was shocked to see the...

And you know, to this day, there are people who still believe in unloseable grand finals. :)