Dogumentary Trivia Question v

[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

When the Dogs played the Dons at the WO in 1984 it was, as they say, a bastard of a day. The weather was monsoonal and the scraggers kicked all three of their goals in the final quarter. Who kicked two of them???

Non Doggy supporters - give up now!

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[Captain Sensible]

It was a fella called Jon Bennett, cant remember who kicked the other goal though. Me and my mates used to really rate Bennett. He came from St. Kilda. We used to get to the games early to see him play in the twos. He was a great example of Malthouses complete failure to understand the value of a good forward(Beasley,Rocca,Cummings,Sumich Etc.)A couple of years later we had a guy called Mark Eaves who had all the makings of a gun forward but unfortunatly Malthouse was still the coach.
BTW, I can still see the ball bouncing down to Peter Bradbury who was the only player on his half of the ground and him kicking the winning goal. Heres a question for you Waltzer. Who was his kick chasing opponent that day?(At the time in question he was standing almost the entire length of the ground away from Bradbury.)

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[Westy Boy]

I'm too young to have seen many of these, but I love to hear about all the moments, and stories surrounding them, and hope one day that I'll be doing the same about great memories that I've had.

Keep them comin WWB and Localyokel!!

 

[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

Cheers Westy - be sure that the baton will be passed. Your destiny is secure!

LY: Once again, an astounding get. I can see that my questions must sink to new depths of obscurity.

I think that Choco may have booted the other goal. As for Bradbury's opponent - I must 'fess' up to not being at the game. In fact, I had the mumps and listened to the game in bed. However, it can't have been the ultimate loose checker - it was a year too soon for Brad Hardie. An educated stab would be Super Mac BUT... I tape recorded the second half of the radio commentary and will be able to do some research on this tonight (as matters of global importance are swept aside!).

Meanwhile, check out the latest question - especially recent for you Westy!

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[Captain Sensible]

It was Neil Cordy. I dont know whether to blame Cordy or not, as he was being played out of position by Mr Malthouse(Cordy could have been a great wingmen, Malthouse seemed to think his best footy was played in defence-I dunno)
I'd be interested to know whether it was Watson who got the ball to Bradbury as I recall it being. Could you let me know after You've heard your tape?

 

[Chicago1]

Good question. I was there, but I've got no memory of the match.(That's what happens when you get old!)

WWB : Were you there when we won our first match of the season at the Junction Oval after the first round of H&A matches had been completed back about '81 or '82? I'll never forget the feeling. It was almost as if we had won the GF! I remember jumping up and down on a bench in the outer and almost breaking it! I think I almost broke a bench in the Whitten Stand back when Templeton kicked his 15 and we had the highest score in the VFL! What a day that was!

One of my most prized possessions is an autographed footy used in our match versus South Melbourne on August 13, 1977.(I'm fairly sure of the date.) My Form 4 students got it for me for my 25th birthday through Geoff Jennings.
Question : What Brownlow medalists played in that match?

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[Chicago1]

Hey WWB, Westy and local,

I just realised y'all are just students! Jeesh.... you make me feel old! WWB, you probably weren't even born in 1977 in reference to my question!

Better go..... nap time!

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[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

Dammit LY - Neil Cordy was my next punt (sure, sure!). Will be happy to carry out your request.

LOL Chicago1 - had repressed the entire 1980 season, I think it was, when we lost the first 11 and finally beat Fitzroy. Thanks for the reminder

In fact, I was discussing this very match with a Fitzroy friend of mine just yesterday (forget the US election, or DNA research - what happened in Round 5, 1974 Coll v St K is still a more topical issue in Melbourne!). I didn't go to the game - but listened to it with fervent glee at my Nanna's house. Boy oh boy, did I wear my Footscray jumper with extra pride on the following Monday at school. After nearly three months of footy torture, I finally had 'bagging' rights - ie. What happened to (insert team)??????? I let out a lot of pent up bagging that week.

That game v South Melbourne - I'd say there could have been a maximum of six Brownlow Medalists playing - both past and prospective. For the doggies, you'd have had Dempsey, Templeton and Quinlan. The Swannies would have rolled out Teasdale, Round and - this is a longer shot - Peter Bedford. Am I close?? That signed footy has my mouth drooling, by the way!!

Remember Templeton kicking 7 of his 15 goals in the final quarter - and taking a couple of marks that were paid for 'attempted speckiness' - I think he touched them for a millisecond!

And we're talking student of the mature-age variety with respect to myself. I went to my first game of footy in '75 as a nipper. Hope that makes you feel a little younger C1

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[Captain Sensible]

I can remember that match in 1980 vividly. We won by 44(?) points and Loveless kicked 8 I think. It was Harts first win as coach.

I think that the game in 1977(if it was at the Lake Oval) was the first time I went to the footy without a responsible adult. For some stupid reason we got there at 9am-And the gates were already open!

And you can pencil me in as a mature age student too. My first match was Whittens last, so Ive been going for over thirty years.

 

[Bulldogsroar]

Bennett 2 royal 1

The dons won when bradbury running off his man kicked a goal in the last qtr at geelog rd end , the only goal at that end. His man Mcpherson didnt cahse him into the forward line

 

[Chicago1]

WWB and local,

Nice hearing from you. I just spent the last hour trying to find the Footy Record from the match footy game versus South. I still have things in boxes here. You got it right WWB. The main signature on the footy is of my hero, Gary Dempsey. The first match I went to was in Round 1 of '76 at the Western Oval. I went with another American teacher to 'check out this strange sport'. She lived in Moonee Ponds so decided to 'root' for Essendon and since I lived in Maribyrnong I 'rooted' for Footscray. What a match! We lost by one point and I had my team forever! I've always supported the underdogs - my Chicago Cubs are a prime example. Dempsey took umpteen marks that match - I thought he was amazing! The next match I went to was against Collingwood at VFL Park. Aussie friends(Magpie fanatics) drove me there and I was lucky to get a ride back to the Western Suburbs after we won! My education about Collingwood supporters began there and then. I became a Bulldogs member the next year and, as I've posted in the Bulldogs Forum, did not miss a home match from then until my last match on Sunday, March 19, 2000 at Colonial against Brisbane (except for 1989, when I lived in Perth - now THAT'S another story!)
Back to my footy - Dempsey, Templeton, Quinlan and I'm pretty sure Round played in that match along with Teasdale - his Brownlow year. Bedford didn't. I carried the footy in my carry on when I left Australia last year along with something else you might find interesting - a bottle of our Centenary Vintage Port(Number 175) from 1983. I said I'd open it when we won our next premiership! IT might be getting better with age, but I'M not!

Better go. I'll be listening in tonight to the Doggies pounding of the Lions, the team I hate the most. I just hope my connection doesn't keep breaking down like last week.

Y'all take care, hear!

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"Oh say, can you see..."
"California dreamin'..."
THE TRINITY OF SONGS

 

[Captain Sensible]

If it was Steve Macpherson then that means that Ive been blaming the wrong bloke for almost twenty years. Oh well.

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[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

Just for you LY:

"...Umpire Morrow will put it in the air once more, the Bulldogs lead by 3 points...there's mud in your eye, the ball knocked down by Purser, picked up by Harvey, ducked his head...was LEGGED said the umpire (he was)will take a free kick wide of the centre circle, Harvey now...as Terry Daniher being held by Foster behind play..Foster goes forward...punches the ball back from whence it came...picked up by Watson...Watson down towards Bradbury..made good position...as elusive as ever...Van Der Haar in the goalsquare by himself but he's only 20 metres out and he should pop it through..."

Well, history records that he did. But here's my version:

"...comes in and SLIPS OVER...my goodness, it's really wet in that part of the ground...pack forming...umpire lets it go...kicked away now by Kennedy...here's a go now...goes out to Cordy all by himself [

] has a run..touches it on the ground...better kick it now..he does...sails over the head of Baker...Bennett and Duckworth in a contest...CLEVERLY FLICKED OUT BY BENNETT TO THE RUNNING ROYAL...AS HE RUNS TOWARDS AN UNGUARDED GOAL AND SLAMS IT HOME - GOODNIGHT ESSENDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aahh, one can dream, can't one? There you have it. The legit. commentary makes no mention of either Cordy or MacPherson - although further 'research' may confirm Jboyar's view. What the heck - you might as well just continue to pay out on Cordy!

Hope you don't jump off the bandwagon when we cease to be underdogs C1!!! I can sense big things a'comin. Your story embodies everything that is good about the game - the 1977 footy in the handluggage - for cryin' out loud - I reckon Terry Wallace should mention that in his pre-match address.

Have the corkscrew poised C1 - It is not the fear of death itself, but the fear that it may come before a Doggies flag.

By the way, if you lived in Perth in 1989, was that the year that Sumich kicked 13 against us at the WACCA? Don't reply if it is too painful to do so

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[Chicago1]

WWB,

Can't remember if Sumich kicked that many at the WACA that night, but I do remember taking a lot of crap during the match from my WC friends. I joined WC so as to get in cheap to the home matches(I barracked for ALL the Victorian teams - even Collingwood!) and even had a season seat at the WACA and Subiaco. I sat with Adrian Barich's family whom I had met at the school I had taught at. Really nice people. So is he. Had lunch at his parents' place and he came over to meet me. Back to the match... as always, I was dressed in my red, white and blue but THIS time we were playing the Eagles! That was the one match I really wanted the Doggies to win. The Western Australians were so smug! For the first time in Australia I was called names not because of my country of birth, but because I was a Victorian. Everyone called me 'Footscray'. I have to admit that the people were used to me and most of the remarks weren't vicious, just annoying! I stayed until the siren as always and had people come up to commiserate with me. The next home match I was barracking just as loudly for the Victorian team that the Eagles were playing against! I have to admit that the Eagles supporters I met that year at the WACA and Subiaco were, on the whole, pretty nice to me. I guess they liked the fact that SOMEONE was there to support the opposing teams! At the match against Hawthorn at Subi, I was the ONLY person on the top deck of the three tiered stand supporting the Hawks! Them were the days! I still have a soft spot for the Eagles and supported them in the '94 Grand Final - the last I attended after 20 in a row. What a day that was. I barracked for all three winners that day, the Northern Knights(some of my students played for them), the Doggies Reserve team and the Eagles.

So that's my Eagles '89 story! I got a Grand Final ticket from the club and saw the best GF I have ever seen that year. Now getting to Melbourne for it while the pilot's strike was on is another story, far too long to tell in this post!

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"Sons of the West, red, white and blue..."
"Oh say, can you see..."
"California dreamin'..."
THE TRINITY OF SONGS

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[Captain Sensible]

I have a question Chicago1. Does Adrian Barich have a sister called Felicity? Did his dad work in the diplomatic field? (Thats two questions I know)

 

[Chicago1]

Originally posted by localyokel:
I have a question Chicago1. Does Adrian Barich have a sister called Felicity? Did his dad work in the diplomatic field? (Thats two questions I know)

Not sure about Adrian's sister. I did meet his grandmother who went to all of the matches. If I remember correctly, his father did work in the diplomatic field or at least for the government I think. Adrian, I believe, played in Canberra, though he might have been born in Victoria or maybe NSW. It was 12 years ago that I knew his family and didn't keep in contact with them when I returned to Melbourne in 1990.

My Aussie flag will be flying outside of my home here for ANZAC day tomorrow. I went to the ANZAC parade in 1999 for the only time in my 25 years in Australia. I regret that I had neglected the previous 24. Lest we forget.

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"Sons of the West, red, white and blue..."
"Oh say, can you see..."
"California dreamin'..."
THE TRINITY OF SONGS

 

[Captain Sensible]

Thought it was the same Adrian Barich I met on a cruise on the 'Fairstar' in 1980.We used to play cricket in the passageways. He definately lived in Canberra at the time.

Have just come back from the dawn service myself(for the first time in my life I'll admit) what an experience.