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And we won the fight!!
Curly, Swanny & that thug Phil Pinnell got weeks, amongst others.
And we won the fight!!
Curly, Swanny & that thug Phil Pinnell got weeks, amongst others.
Great to see a number of players kicking torps with the wind.
I was feigning allegiance to North Melbourne u19s at Arden Street that day while listening to the radio as Carlton booted 14 in a quarter.
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Carlton kicked its record score of 30.30.210 against the Hawks at PP in 1969. 18.22 at orange time. You do the math.
Essendon were a pack of aresholes in those days, that number 3 Beaumont used to start brawls at any chance.
As for the infamous Rotten Ronnie Andrews, he hit more little guys than Big Carl & Matthews combined.
From memory, Souths Stewie Gull, who could go 3 rounds, put his lights out around that time.
Richmond were also at the peak of their thuggery in those days and when they recruited Mal Brown in '74 the Windy Hill brawl in that season was a big flare up waiting to happen.
Well worth a look. Even a very young SOS takes a ruck contest a few minutes in.
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Came across this the other night.
Not seen any of this preliminary final since the very year it was played.
Funny how this video is originally via ESPN network. Must have been their weekly instalment back then for an hour. Quality of video not high due to looking like from old VHS tapes but still watchable and interesting to go back in memory banks. Funny to see Brereton matched up with Peter McConville and Curly Austin gives Lethal Leigh a towelling as the day went on. Doull and Buckenara on each other. Two stars.
Torrid opening as they used to say back then. Players on both sides look like they both expecting get whacked each time in first five minutes. No beg your pardons as they used to say. No Maclure, Jimmy Buckley or Southby for us.
The Woof is heard very early in the coverage. ha ha
Not seen any of this preliminary final since the very year it was played.
Funny how this video is originally via ESPN network. Must have been their weekly instalment back then for an hour. Quality of video not high due to looking like from old VHS tapes but still watchable and interesting to go back in memory banks. Funny to see Brereton matched up with Peter McConville and Curly Austin gives Lethal Leigh a towelling as the day went on. Doull and Buckenara on each other. Two stars.
Torrid opening as they used to say back then. Players on both sides look like they both expecting get whacked each time in first five minutes. No beg your pardons as they used to say. No Maclure, Jimmy Buckley or Southby for us.
The Woof is heard very early in the coverage. ha ha
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I remember the conditions as being very blustery early on, which was reflected in the half time scores of 2.11 to 3.9. Our forward line functioned much better in the second half, leading to a relatively comfortable win in the end (interesting to note that 3 of our top 5 possession winners were defenders: Austin, English & Doull).
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Just great to hear football commentary. Lou Richards, Peter Landy actually describing what the play is. go figure
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Imagine that, commentators who actually just commentate.
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Enjoyed that , thanks !!
That’s how I remember footy , open play with teams trying to score & not 30 players around the ball forming packs !!
Be nice when they fix up the mess of going from 2 on bench to eventually 4 in later 1990's. That been biggest change in game in terms of way it is played, and not for the better. How many interchanges did each team have on average in 1980's and early 1990's ?
10 to 20 a full game or a little more ?
The reality was it was played more purely of 18 v 18 on field even when there was 2 on bench. Rotating players really only came to the game with the luxury of so many on interchange. It is funny, when it was talked about they said it would extend careers of champions like Greg Williams. No one really thought ahead it would be abused as a rotation system and turn the game into 22 v 22 and flood each sides forward line regularly. But that is what has happened. You simply cannot do that for any length of time with 2 on bench.
Problem is due to workplace safety I doubt it will ever get back to 2 on bench.
Bartlett wants none but that is too extreme.
Given game was good to watch for us with 2 on bench and probably less than 20 interchanges a game a team surely something like 30 to 40 interchanges limit might bring the game back from just using the freshest 18 players to invade opposing teams forward half?
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I bet my idea of no boundaries, no bench, no breaks and no refreshments goes the same way as my idea for steeple harness racing #worldnotready
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Ah yes, I remember when players were "dragged", not "rotated".
The stigma of being benched was that you had p!ssed the coach off. Players hated going off for that reason, and they just hated missing game time. All players worth their salt wanted to be on the ground for the entire match.
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back then coming off meant staying off...............hard to get the head around these days..............
Healy OFF, Ellingworth ON
Thornley off, Hopkins on.
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