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Welcome Adelaide and St Kilda fans to a regular feature on the Adelaide Board - the Memory Lane threads. This is an opportunity for fans of both sides to recall the momentous matches, moments and memories from our past. We didn't have a thread for Fremantle. Partly because I forgot, also because they're such a boring club who wear purple. But this week we're back!
We were completely over-whelmed early at the Melbourne suburban venues and copped a pounding at Moorabbin in 1991. The fans were packed in like sardines and they had some sort of 'animal enclosure' in those days, where the most feral fans packed into an area with wire fences. Talk about intimidating!
We only kicked 4 goals and lost by 131 points. I remember wondering how we were ever going to possibly compete in this league. Locket was unstoppable - 15 marks, kicked 12.6 and reamed Hughes, Bartlett and Smart along the way. He didn't lay a tackle though so I assume played VFL the follow- sorry... will try to keep the Craig bashing out of the thread.
We lost again to them at home later that year - Lockett kicked 10 and teenager Ben Hart spent a bit of time on him from memory. Talk about David and Goliath! Lockett backed that up with another 10 against us in 1992 (Sando played in this game). That's 32 goals in his first three games against us
We finally beat them in 1992 at home. Lockett 'only' kicked 3 goals but I seem to remember he got them early then limped off injured. Huzzah! Or maybe I'm mixing that up with 1993? He kicked 2 and we smashed them at AAMI (Modra 7, Hodges 6, Randall Bone 4(!)). By this stage Nigel Smart was playing on him.
In 1994 we had our only ever draw. At Waverley, we came from 29 points behind at three quarter time. I remember my football mad family crammed into the lounge room getting increasingly frustrated during the first three quarters. Then the comeback started. Early in the last quarter though with our excitement at its zenith the doorbell rang. Some of our cousins had made an unscheduled 'drop in' and weren't interested in football in the slightest. Infuriating! Small talk, tea and coffee, biscuits... all the while with all of us trying to keep one eye on the tv.
Non-football people simply don't realise that the two hours when your team is playing is a no-go zone. Any of the other 166 hours during the week - fine. These cousins had an uncanny knack for turning up out of the blue precisely when the Crows were playing. So I didn't really see much of the last quarter, except to see Greg Anderson (my most hated Crow of all time) blaze out on the full with scores level and seconds left
Other games that stick in the memory bank:
- 2001, Rnd 15 we belted the Saints by 97 points at Docklands and Blighty got the sack!
- 2009, an 11-30 free kick count against us with the supposed benefit of our home crowd
- Oh, and a couple of finals - one good, one bad.
One bit of play from the 1997 Grand Final that I've never seen mentioned is at right of screen end. Fourth quarter I think. Nigel Smart and Max Hudghton slide together on the ground. The ball and camera start to move away but you can catch Smart give Hudghton a cheeky elbow in the face! Not really hard, just for fun.
We were completely over-whelmed early at the Melbourne suburban venues and copped a pounding at Moorabbin in 1991. The fans were packed in like sardines and they had some sort of 'animal enclosure' in those days, where the most feral fans packed into an area with wire fences. Talk about intimidating!
We only kicked 4 goals and lost by 131 points. I remember wondering how we were ever going to possibly compete in this league. Locket was unstoppable - 15 marks, kicked 12.6 and reamed Hughes, Bartlett and Smart along the way. He didn't lay a tackle though so I assume played VFL the follow- sorry... will try to keep the Craig bashing out of the thread.
We lost again to them at home later that year - Lockett kicked 10 and teenager Ben Hart spent a bit of time on him from memory. Talk about David and Goliath! Lockett backed that up with another 10 against us in 1992 (Sando played in this game). That's 32 goals in his first three games against us
We finally beat them in 1992 at home. Lockett 'only' kicked 3 goals but I seem to remember he got them early then limped off injured. Huzzah! Or maybe I'm mixing that up with 1993? He kicked 2 and we smashed them at AAMI (Modra 7, Hodges 6, Randall Bone 4(!)). By this stage Nigel Smart was playing on him.
In 1994 we had our only ever draw. At Waverley, we came from 29 points behind at three quarter time. I remember my football mad family crammed into the lounge room getting increasingly frustrated during the first three quarters. Then the comeback started. Early in the last quarter though with our excitement at its zenith the doorbell rang. Some of our cousins had made an unscheduled 'drop in' and weren't interested in football in the slightest. Infuriating! Small talk, tea and coffee, biscuits... all the while with all of us trying to keep one eye on the tv.
Non-football people simply don't realise that the two hours when your team is playing is a no-go zone. Any of the other 166 hours during the week - fine. These cousins had an uncanny knack for turning up out of the blue precisely when the Crows were playing. So I didn't really see much of the last quarter, except to see Greg Anderson (my most hated Crow of all time) blaze out on the full with scores level and seconds left
Other games that stick in the memory bank:
- 2001, Rnd 15 we belted the Saints by 97 points at Docklands and Blighty got the sack!
- 2009, an 11-30 free kick count against us with the supposed benefit of our home crowd
- Oh, and a couple of finals - one good, one bad.
One bit of play from the 1997 Grand Final that I've never seen mentioned is at right of screen end. Fourth quarter I think. Nigel Smart and Max Hudghton slide together on the ground. The ball and camera start to move away but you can catch Smart give Hudghton a cheeky elbow in the face! Not really hard, just for fun.
