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Welcome back folks to the threads that are fast becoming the most popular on BigFooty... for threads without boobs anyway.
We've had a brief hiatus over the last three weeks. Showdown history has been done to death, the GWS rivalry is a little thin on material thus far and we'd already played Geelong (fondly reminiscing on the Leigh Colbert mark, Ayres giving the crowd the finger and Ablett kicking 10).
But this week we've got a fresh opponent... Essendon or the Bombres as their cheer squad calls them. For the uninitiated, these threads are a chance for posters of both clubs to post their favourite memories of clashes from previous season. No shortage of material here. Let's get started.
Windy Hill 1991... sly fox Sheedy ties the wind sock down. Graham Studley Cornes has a staff member in the box whose main job is to cut the top off his meat pie, pour tomato sauce inside and then seamlessly replace the top. No joke. No sauce nozzle stabbed through the pastry for Cornesy... that would destroy the structural integrity of the pie and render it inedible. Then he sends the same staff member to find some Windex to clean the coaches box window. With lunch sorted, Cornesy and the boys had a beautiful, clear, sparkling view of us getting absolutely smashed and only kicking 6 goals for the game.
Edit - Just looking through the stats and Craig O'Brien had 36 touches for Essendon that day. Who the heck is that? I seriously have never heard of this ball magnet. It's either a typo or we have a new addition to the Callum Chambers Club.
1993...
I guess we'd better go there. First half of the prelim-final was blistering stuff. Modra popping through goals from everywhere and the big Pussy taking an absolute hanger. 42 points up, 60 minutes away from a grand final. Sigh. We know the rest. Everyone else blames the umpires or Cornes for keeping Hodges on the bench and going away from the structure that had been working. Cornes blames either Jarman's miss from 20 metres or Bickley's huge fart during his rousing 3/4 time address.
1997 Rnd 22... strange game. We were about to embark on a finals series and our 4 point loss didn't bother us too much but there was a strange vibe to this game with Princess Diana getting killed earlier in the day. Matty Lloyd popped through 5 goals to announce himself as a player. I remember Vardy getting KO'd and Barry Young giving it to him as he lay on the turf - what a spanner. Young was a shit footballer who achieved nothing ever, while Vardy went on to win us a final with a cracked collar bone and later played in a premiership while Young played out a long mediocre career of no note.
To happier times... 1998 we win a thriller by 2 points at Footy Park. Scores were level late in the last quarter when Mark Ricciuto kicked an absolute bomb from 60 metres on the run that just missed to give us the lead. The crowd during that kick was the loudest I can remember at Footy Park - was an amazing moment.
In recent times the game at Etihad in 2009 is a fave among Crows fans. We kicked a ridiculous 21.4 with Tippett 7 (plus a hanger) and Knights 5 running amok. Walker and Douglas popped through ridiculous goals too in a high scoring win.
We've had a brief hiatus over the last three weeks. Showdown history has been done to death, the GWS rivalry is a little thin on material thus far and we'd already played Geelong (fondly reminiscing on the Leigh Colbert mark, Ayres giving the crowd the finger and Ablett kicking 10).
But this week we've got a fresh opponent... Essendon or the Bombres as their cheer squad calls them. For the uninitiated, these threads are a chance for posters of both clubs to post their favourite memories of clashes from previous season. No shortage of material here. Let's get started.
Windy Hill 1991... sly fox Sheedy ties the wind sock down. Graham Studley Cornes has a staff member in the box whose main job is to cut the top off his meat pie, pour tomato sauce inside and then seamlessly replace the top. No joke. No sauce nozzle stabbed through the pastry for Cornesy... that would destroy the structural integrity of the pie and render it inedible. Then he sends the same staff member to find some Windex to clean the coaches box window. With lunch sorted, Cornesy and the boys had a beautiful, clear, sparkling view of us getting absolutely smashed and only kicking 6 goals for the game.
Edit - Just looking through the stats and Craig O'Brien had 36 touches for Essendon that day. Who the heck is that? I seriously have never heard of this ball magnet. It's either a typo or we have a new addition to the Callum Chambers Club.
1993...
I guess we'd better go there. First half of the prelim-final was blistering stuff. Modra popping through goals from everywhere and the big Pussy taking an absolute hanger. 42 points up, 60 minutes away from a grand final. Sigh. We know the rest. Everyone else blames the umpires or Cornes for keeping Hodges on the bench and going away from the structure that had been working. Cornes blames either Jarman's miss from 20 metres or Bickley's huge fart during his rousing 3/4 time address.1997 Rnd 22... strange game. We were about to embark on a finals series and our 4 point loss didn't bother us too much but there was a strange vibe to this game with Princess Diana getting killed earlier in the day. Matty Lloyd popped through 5 goals to announce himself as a player. I remember Vardy getting KO'd and Barry Young giving it to him as he lay on the turf - what a spanner. Young was a shit footballer who achieved nothing ever, while Vardy went on to win us a final with a cracked collar bone and later played in a premiership while Young played out a long mediocre career of no note.
To happier times... 1998 we win a thriller by 2 points at Footy Park. Scores were level late in the last quarter when Mark Ricciuto kicked an absolute bomb from 60 metres on the run that just missed to give us the lead. The crowd during that kick was the loudest I can remember at Footy Park - was an amazing moment.
In recent times the game at Etihad in 2009 is a fave among Crows fans. We kicked a ridiculous 21.4 with Tippett 7 (plus a hanger) and Knights 5 running amok. Walker and Douglas popped through ridiculous goals too in a high scoring win.
