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RussellEbertHandball said:
1987 State of Origin Game when SA beat the Vics by 4pt, but SA were about 23 pts up at 3/4 time. He gave the score straight after the siren and said - what a ball tearer.

SA TV had the local 7 commentators Ian Day, Peter Marker and Graham Campbell and Victorian TV had the ABC commentators, think it was Drew Morphett, Doug Hayward and Kevin Bartlett.

1987 was the year Ross Oakley got pissed off with Ron Casey and 7 Melbourne for refusing top commit to a $$$ figure for the TV rights by his deadline date, so he sold them to Broadcom and they produced 2 games a week I think, and showed them on Channel 10 and the ABC got 1 game a week - might have been 2 a week if WCE played in Perth on Sunday. 1987 was the last time ABC Melbourne had TV rights for VFL games.
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1987 , In Sydney SBS use to televise live Saturday afternoon , the AFL match of the day , and SBS even thoug they were based in North Syd , they were a very hard station to pick up a clear picture , i use to dangle a portable aerial over the balcony railing to try to get a clear picture

And that was your only coverage of AFL on commercial TV for the week , and there was no radio coverage at that time at all in Syd of AFL games , the best you got , ABC Radio Peter Wilkins etc calling the Sunday NRL game - every 15-20 minutes they would go back to the studio , and they would give some AFL progress scores and that was it

Afl - late 80s early 90s was totally irrelevant in Sydney
 

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VALE Barrie Robran -

At 6’3”

He had the leap of Phil Carman , Malcolm Blight or Graham Cornes

He was two-sided and as clean inside with the footy as Greg Williams

He could move around opponents like Pendles or Mark Bayes

He was as accurate as John Coleman

He was as graceful as Keith Greig

And he could ‘third man up’ like Peter Moore

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Former MLA Brian Dixon has passed away

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Brian Dixon
252 games Melbourne 1954-68, 41 goals
Best and Fairest 1960
Premierships 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964
All Australian 1961
Tassie Medal 1961
Melbourne Team of the Century (Wing)
North Melbourne coach 1971-72
 
The Blue Max said:
VALE Barrie Robran -

At 6’3”

He had the leap of Phil Carman , Malcolm Blight or Graham Cornes

He was two-sided and as clean inside with the footy as Greg Williams

He could move around opponents like Pendles or Mark Bayes

He was as accurate as John Coleman

He was as graceful as Keith Greig

And he could ‘third man up’ like Peter Moore

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Greatest footballer in SA ever.

Arguably anywhere. Only those who saw understand.

RIP
 
The Blue Max said:
I get annoyed when they compare Ebert to him - Ebert to Robran was like Petracca to Koutifedes (Except Robran was better)
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Barrie Robran was my boyhood hero. I probably saw 185-190 of his 201 games but my greatest memories are of his duels with Russell Ebert.
 

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The Blue Max said:
I may be harsh on Ebert, but he struggled beating Bagshaw - Robran was a cut above everyone, just a freak.
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Paul Bagshaw might be the unluckiest footballer in SA history. In just about any other generation he’d have been seen as an all time great with multiple Magarey Medals
 
Brenton Davy said:
Paul Bagshaw might be the unluckiest footballer in SA history. In just about any other generation he’d have been seen as an all time great with multiple Magarey Medals
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He is my all time great
 
The Blue Max said:
I may be harsh on Ebert, but he struggled beating Bagshaw - Robran was a cut above everyone, just a freak.
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I say these words with no disrespect to Russell Ebert, and Ebert won 4 Magarey Medals to Robran's 3, but 3 of Ebert's medals came after Robran got his knee injury.

If Robran had been allowed to have a 15-year SANFL career, he was good enough to win at least 6 Magarey Medals.

Ebert, Blight, Platten, Davies and Bagshaw were all outstanding SANFL players, but Robran wins in the eyes of this Sturt supporter.
 
rdrdrdrd said:
I say these words with no disrespect to Russell Ebert, and Ebert won 4 Magarey Medals to Robran's 3, but 3 of Ebert's medals came after Robran got his knee injury.

If Robran had been allowed to have a 15-year SANFL career, he was good enough to win at least 6 Magarey Medals.

Ebert, Blight, Platten, Davies and Bagshaw were all outstanding SANFL players, but Robran wins in the eyes of this Sturt supporter.
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x 2 Go the Doubles!
 

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Richmond's Charlie Flannagan died August 2nd 2025.
Obit here
www.richmondfc.com.au

Vale Charlie Flannagan

In the mid-1950s he won the Reserves Best and Fairest, a premiership, and played on Ron Barassi in a famous Richmond victory.
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If someone could update the wiki etc that would be great.
 
John Parkinson, who played with Collingwood in 1971, and had a very successful career with Claremont in the WAFL (Sandover Medal in 1967 - tying with Bill Walker), has died recently: https://claremontfc.com.au/blog/vale-john-buzz-parkinson/
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John PARKINSON

Footballing pedigrees don’t come much better than that with which John Parkinson arrived at Victoria Park in 1971. This was a man who had jointly won the Sandover Medal for best player in the WAFL, had also won Claremont’s best-and-fairest and had topped that club’s goalkicking three times.
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