Best banner you've seen ....

[mud n blood]

I thought this might appeal more to the "older" generation on here, as the youngies can't appreciate what those days were like.

So, what is the best you've seen at the footy or the cricket ????

I remember in 1981 (yes - I know!) I went to a one-dayer (Oz v Paki's) at the Gabba with some mates of Dad's, and one of them hung a banner over the fence near where the social club is now that read "ME AND DAD GET A KICK OUT OF LILLEE" ..... in honour of Lillee kicking Miandad in the test earlier that season. What a classic!

Its not a banner, and its the cricket as well (I know this is the footy forum) but I happened to be on the gabba hill the day the vet students released the pig with "Hemmings" on one side and "Botham" (I think) on the other .... what a laugh .... smuggled it in in the bottom of a huge esky!

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Anyway, that's what I reckon ........

mud n blood

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

I think it is the Blues Round 1 2002 banner which reads something like:

"Back to back Blue in 2002.
Welcome home premiers"

Oh sorry, I swore never to reveal my gift of ESP to anyone.

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mens sana in corpore sano - a sound mind in a sound body

 

[CJH]

ODN?!?!?
ODN?!?!
Wake up...
Wake up...

WAKE UP?!?!

You must have fallen asleep

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This is a hallucination and these faces are in a dream. A computer generated environment; a fantasy island you can do anything and not have to face the consequences.

 

[Dan26]

I like the banner :

"No Fat Chicks"

Here, here.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Got a larf out of a banner at the SCG in 1993, not long after Bucky got the boot as coach: 'SAYONARA BUCKENARA'.

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

Well I think my little Spider banners the best and soon to be made ---> my Ricky banner, is gonna be even better!

sPiDeR eVeRiTt and RiCkY oLaReNsHaW
~kewlest players round!!!

 

[John Ibrahim]

North had this banner Rd 22 1990

Colling would if Colling could
But Colling cant cos Colling wobbles.

 

[Shinboners]

Richmond banner for qualifying final vs North in 1995. The banner was in two parts. The front banner slipped off (everyone in the crowd started to worry and gasp for the RFC cheer squad), but when it fell down, it revealed just two words, "We're Back".

Also from Richmond, another banner that read "Men In Yellow And Black. Ridding the G of the Scum of the Universe".

Carlton in the '96 Night Grand Final vs Geelong, "1995 by Day, 1996 by Night".

Credit to the Melbourne cheer squad for banners in 2000 that wished Anthony Stevens well after his accident, and in the return game, another banner this time paying tribute to the late Ron Casey. It's still remembered and appreciated by North fans.

 

[Eagle_Fan]

Still loved the "Bombres" banner by the Essendon cheersquad, and the Pies cheersquads "Colingwood" banner.Not clever, but a good laugh anyway

Don't see many of ours. Not shown on TV, and face the other way at Subi. All I see is "The Novotel WCE Cheersquad" or something similar...

Not particularly inspiring.

 

[Mobbs]

Only ever saw it on TV ads, but the Melbourne banner someone had, made out of a drive-in poster from the movie 'Demons', I thought was a nice touch.

 

[Aussie_Roo]

Shinboners,

I remember that final in 95 as well, and Richmond banner was simply sensational that night. All cheer squads do a great job coming up with slogans each week, and it is one aspect of the game I look forward to each week.

 

[AlfAndrews]

I used to love those old banners that used to hang on the fence back in the days before they polluted the fences of League footy grounds with corporate advertising.

The best one of them all used to stretch about half-way around the ground, and it said:

THE GREAT HIGH-FLYING MAGPIES, THE MIGHTIEST CLUB OF THEM ALL, COLLINGWOOD, OUR TEAM OF BLACK AND WHITE CHAMPIONS



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**floreat pica**

 

[GoEagles]

Eagle_Fan - It's an unfortunate situation with the Eagles running out onto the ground from their main training club rooms, but the run out on the General Public side so the paying members dont get to see them run out and see their banner. It would be nice if they maybe changed sides just once a season.

 

[teddy3]

ok I made a banner with some friends this year, took it to 2 matches and lost them both, so I guess we've learnt our lesson!!!!

Anyways the banner said:

C'mon Doggies
Grant Our Wish
Millenium Cup
On a Dish...

Well, some say that the Millenium isn't till next year, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens....

 

[coxon]

though, not footy related, but i remember my cousin telling me about one that was hurled about during that Team USA basketball match against Australia in pre-olympic warm ups in melbourne...

it was something like this...:

NBA CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS
Dream Team = 0
Australia = 4

heheheh.. thought that was funny.. as, team usa had no championship ring winners.. and aust had 4.. (longley=3, Gaze=1).. hehe...

 

[Grendel]

I liked your esp line ODN,

I can levitate birds. No one cares.

the above is a rip off of Steven Wright, but hey i need a laugh

 

[JUBJUB]

This one was at the MCG about 10 years ago when Australia played Pakistan in the cricket


"Imran Khan is a tram driver "

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"He is a loathsome offensive brute,yet I can't look away".

 

[meg]

LOL

good one jubjub

megs

 

[Calamity]

I remember yers ago a cricket banner, just after Richard Hadlee had asked "You have to wonder about the education of Australians" [regarding the "Hadlee's a w***er" chant]

The banner read..

Mista Haddley, Wot's rong wif our edication?
[or something really similar]

 

[Dan26]

I like the big white banner at the cricket, which read :

"Bill Lawry's Hanky"

 

[Mobbs]

Dan24, I hadn't heard of that one, wish I had! What a beauty.

I presume no-one had yet mentioned the 'seduced by north etc etc' banner at Victoria Park. I was very proud to be there that day, to see the Pies fans give it such a rousing round of applause.

 

[GoEagles]

After the Pakistan trip to the West Indies in 93 I think, I saw a banner "Pakistan's 3 W's - Wasim, Waquar and Weed"

 

[AlfAndrews]

It looks like multiculturalism has done nothing to raise the consciousness of the Australian cricket fan. Or maybe it's just the complete idiocy of the very concept of one-day cricket, and the 3-minute attention span that it has nurtured, that enables xenophobic racist morons like JubJub to find that tram driver remark funny.



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**floreat pica**

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

I thought tram driver was a fairly honourable profession. Certainly the passengers would get nowhere without them

 

[JUBJUB]

ALF - It was a sign at the cricket.I was sitting near the people holding it who had Pakistanis near them.Even they laughed.

Don't take life so serious.

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"He is a loathsome offensive brute,yet I can't look away".