Remember when.......................

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Originally Posted by Gorry
There was a centre Diamond?


Up to and including 1972 there was no restriction to how many players were at the centre bounce. In '73 the VFL introduced a centre diamond which was a square turned 45 degrees so the corners pointed to the goals and wings.

In '74 it was rotated 45 degrees and has stayed as a square since.

Keep an eye out for '73 footage on FF.

It was still a "diamond" in 1974, but was changed to a "square" in 1975.

 

[LightTower4]

Fitzroy won the spoon & the flag in the same year

 

[PowerKat]

Watching reserves games live on telly
7's BIG replay
The clock counted up
The scores were flashed up quickly on screen when a team scored (too bad if you missed it)
Graphics on the telly didn't take up half the screen
There wasn't an ad after every goal
The umpire bounced when he was ready
Most of the spectator area was standing room
Kids walked around collecting cans
Tear-up paper everywhere
Throwing streamers at the opposition players

 

[Coin_Toss]

Mighty Mick McGuane seven bounce goal against Carlton.
Schwarze got pied on The Footy Show.
Atkinson's goal from the centre of VFL Park.

 

[FrangaRoo]

- Footy Records were not $10 a pop

- You could take food into the game if you wanted

- People selling raffle tickets out the front of the ground were from the club, not from promotions companies
- You didnt get hassled into a corner by raffle ticket sellers

- We had a monopoly on Friday Night matches (now we have to beg to get one)


All I can say is thank got for the Royal on Punt Road, still stands for everything that is good about footy, especially heading there after the game and singing the theme songs with fellow supporters while having a beer with the opposition.

 

[Katthawk]

When Hawthorn were up and about in twenty years of horrendous domnation.
When we were in all the finals and people said.... Who's playing Hawthorn this year?
When I turned on the radio and without thinking just assumed Hawthorn were there?
When I didn't care what the colours we wore because we were the best.
When it was a dynasty that had to end.

 

[H Dolphin]

That circus elephant went for an out of control lap around the Arden street boundary with the poor kid riding it hanging on for dear life.

..and as it trundled off the ground, through the crowd in the outer, it was like the parting of the red sea.

The point post broke at the Western Oval and they replaced it with a little league post.

 

[Snuka]

They played at Glanferrie and you had to build a beer can pyramid to see the game.

Nice one SB. Official term is a beeramid I believe.

 

[billybrownless16]

Teams had a captain, vice captain and deputy vice captain, not a "leadership group"

 

[iameviljez]

REMEMBER WHEN...

There was always room for at least one fat bloke on your team.

Police swum through dams, climbed over fences and ran through paddocks to make news whilst the footballers just sat there.

"Peanuts... shillin' a bag."

The word "stoppage" generally inferred to a health issue instead of the Sydney Swans.

Pink Helicopters, Bluebirds and Rolf Harris.

Rovers had a rest in the foward pocket.

Ken Hands chopped off half a finger and played the next Saturday.

Essendon and Geelong players put on an exhibition match to show Brisbane people how to play football... aah the irony of it all now.

 

[satchmopugdog]

There was no quarter time huddle. The teams just changed ends.

 

[billybrownless16]

Players bleeding profusely would play on, no blood rule

 

[Joffaboy]

there was one umpire...

then two umpires....

then three umpires....

now NINE umpires......

Moorabin mud heap in a drought

Jack Hamilitons haircut

Geoff Leake

The Winners (revived on Foxfooty nowdays)

In Sydney Saturday "Match of the Day" on channel 7 live from about 1968 onwards.

Bigfooty wasn't repetitive....

Bigfooty wasn't repetitive.....

Bigfooty wasn't repetitive

 

[Frankston Rover]

Walking thru the factories to go to Moorabbin.

Parking 14km away from Waverley so you were the first ones out

Getting spat on at Victoria Park.

Beating Carlton at Princes Park and enjoying the long ride home.

Beating the Bulldogs at the Western Oval and enjoying an even longer ride home.

Beating Geelong and staying the night.

That suburban feel of Melbourne teams playing each other.

Players missed thru broken bones not "ostitis pubis".

No mouthguards. And the more teeth missing the better you were.

Real fights. No pouncy 'melees', blokes dead set belting the living s*it out of each other. Dermie, Ronnie Andrews, Jacko, Mad Dog Muir....

Hard fought, contested footy.

Real positions. No zoning/flooding/hot spot/defensive 50. You played in a position a bloody stayed there.

Players smoking and drinking after the game.

Watching my Dad drink 6 bottles (the proper ones not stubbies) of beer and getting into arguements. He also used to take a bottle opener with him on a string around his neck.

Pelting the opposition supporters with coins when they walked around the ground with the blankets.

Proper hot jam doughnuts

Players had personalities.

The swear words/sayings from supporters.

The smell. There was a good smell - a mixture of mud, grass, linament, sweat, smoke, beer, urine, pies, chips, doughnuts, blood and leather - all mixed into one smell that just typified footy. A mans game that men watched and the only reason half the blokes there weren't playing was they had a 'dicky' back or knee.

Ahhhhh the good ol' days.

 

[Blues_Man]

Remember when Jack Dyer called the footy ..."if you don't mind Mr umpire !"
when you couldn't tell the players apart because of the black mud when they played in a quagmire (Whitten oval esp )
When The saints resorted to watering their ground in mid winter to try and bring other teams down to their level .
When Phil Carmen headbutted the umpire
When Mal Brown bashed anyone who came near him
When Jim Jess tossed Bruce Doulls head band away
When Kevin Bartlet handballed in the goal square ....wait ! ..that never happened
When Plugga tried to kick the ball into the old Swan ladies behind the goals
When the buzz smothered the ball in the forward pocket and kicked a freak goal
When Leigh Mathews king hit Neville Bruns
When Peter Knights and Paul Vanderhar had a aerial shootout for mark of the year
when Teddy Whitten wiped mud into the face of his opponent ..when appearing to be trying to help him up
When Brad hardie tore off his jumper and held it up to Mick Malthouse in the coaches box ..before tossing it on the ground
When Danny Southern put the choker hold on the Eagles player

 

[FrangaRoo]

Walking thru the factories to go to Moorabbin.

Parking 14km away from Waverley so you were the first ones out

Getting spat on at Victoria Park.

Beating Carlton at Princes Park and enjoying the long ride home.

Beating the Bulldogs at the Western Oval and enjoying an even longer ride home.

Beating Geelong and staying the night.

That suburban feel of Melbourne teams playing each other.

.

Yes, the memories are vivid....especially Western Oval & Vic Park.

 

[Marstermind]

The replays on the Waverley Park scoreboard which were impossible to understand.
The Footy Record cost 50c and was an interesting read and able to fit in your pocket.
The schoolboy matches played at Waverley before Night series games were shown on Ch7 on Saturday mornings.
The Junior Supporters Club.
Coaches Corner on World of Sport. (Coaches in the 70s & 80s must have had an entire room for the Bertocchi Hams they were given every week)
The Record had the Little League ladder in it and you watch the game and hoped your team won.
You had to look up which of the other 5 games on that day was "J" and "K" on the scoreboard.
Hawthorn wore that bizarre 'diamond' jumper in 1995.
Peter Landy-isms like "That's gone 50m - 25 up and 25 down" or referring to VFL Park as "Headquarters" or "Here's mud in your eye."
You knew exactly what jumper each team would wear each week.
Sunscore votes in the Melbourne Sun. (Still the best voting system)

 

[passthebottle]

Angry Anderson in the Batmobile in the 91 Grand Final..

 

[nico]

Gary Sidebottom got hit with a full can of beer.

And he missed the bus to a game.

3DB with Lou Richards and Ron Casey broadcast the night footy from the Lake Oval and you just couldn't wait to go to bed to listen to it.

 

[nico]

Diamond Jim Tillbrook was universally voted as the greatest "boom recruit" dud of all time to be recruited from interstate.

 

[nico]

When you could take your own beer to the footy and have a smoke as well to go with it.

When you signed in your mates into your social club and they did the honours at their's.

Getting over the game and after game festivities on Sundays by hogging into hangover munchies with your friends who'd crashed at your place and watching World of Sport on 7 then the VFA on 10.

And you could buy a box of cans at 3Q time.

 

[Armageddon]

Remember When

Wayne Jackson Was Ceo Instead Of This Fat Bastard!

 

[nico]

Stewie Gull decked Rotten Ronnie Andrews just before half time and Andrews ran away from him for the rest of the game.

 

[nico]

The footy panel previews on TV on Friday nights.

How good were they.

I believe the ABC had a footy panel wrap on Saturday nights hosted by Ian Cleland.

They really knew what the public wanted in those days. You just couldn't get enough.

 

[nico]

South beat Collingwood at the Lake Oval by a point in 1970 and Peter McKenna took a mark dead in front a fraction of a second after the siren.