This Week Is........

[South of the Yarra]

My 800th game of watching Collingwood play. That is not counting pre season or praccy matches. That is 800 games of Home and Away and Finals.
My parents kept a log from when I was young and I have kept adding to it.
That is a lot of Pies footy and I am still loving it as much as my first game at Victoria Park when I was 2.

 

[South of the Yarra]

I should add that this is live games, not watching on TV.

 

[jonbe54]

I'm closing in on 1200

 

[South of the Yarra]

I'm closing in on 1200

You have me covered. My first game was 1970 when I was 2. Great work on 1200 almost.

 

[jonbe54]

You have me covered. My first game was 1970 when I was 2. Great work on 1200 almost.

Started in the '64 season and have only missed a handful of games

 

[South of the Yarra]

Started in the '64 season and have only missed a handful of games

That is fantastic. God to see another oldie on here.

 

[Wooljay]

Happy 800 SotY, you should get some sort of 'birthday' gift from the club!

 

[vjknight]

theres something fantastic and likewise something quite weird about this.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Happy 800 SotY, you should get some sort of 'birthday' gift from the club!

Cheers. A win against Carlton would be just fine in fact perfect.

 

[mattys123]

Wow, 800, that's stunning, gratz, that really shows your commitment and support for this club.

I'd say I'd be sitting at around 500 or so, so I've got a way to go to get anywhere near you.

 

[Shellz]

ohhh i wish my dad had have kept a log for me!!

I sooooooo am doing that for my kids!

 

[jonbe54]

theres something fantastic and likewise something quite weird about this.

Lol not so weird as you'd think at first glance vj - when I first started going as a boy there were guys there that could vividly remember the '17/19 premierships

Must say I didn't see all complete games, since I started operating my own business my time is much shorter so sometimes I can only make first or last half and occasionally I can only make it for one quarter, but I reckon its important to at least show your support for the boys every week.

 

[South of the Yarra]

The only times I missed games was when i was playing footy myself.

 

[South of the Yarra]

My Nan saw the four flags in a row and my Grandad who was born in 1893 was at the first Collingwood game in 1897. I didnt have much choice.

 

[Markfs]

Fantastic effort. I'm so jealous. I hope you get to see at least another 10 more premierships....

 

[South of the Yarra]

ohhh i wish my dad had have kept a log for me!!

I sooooooo am doing that for my kids!

I am doing it for my little bloke now. He is four and has been to 47 games.

 

[Avatar]

Congrats! Fantastic effort, and great that you have kept the log all those years.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Congrats! Fantastic effort, and great that you have kept the log all those years.

Cheers mate.

 

[beez]

That log would be great to look at, something you should definitely preserve and keep it in the family for generations to come.

 

[DermiesLuvChild]

Well done...true supporters thru thick & thin.
Some of those games no doubt at Waverley (VFL Park) in absolute arctic conditions. Pouring rain at Arden street, trying to see thru the brollies, with a mud wrestling match & not being able to identify players/teams (clash jumpers wud not of helped). Squeezing in near the bowling green at Windy Hill, but the best of all wud be the numerous (great) victories at Victoria Park.
1990 was a dream come true.
Congrats guys

 

[jonbe54]

I remember traveling down on the old Diesel country trains to Sleepy hollow to play the Cats in the '60's - took almost as long to get to Kardinia Park then as it does now to fly to Sydney or Adelaide and once you got there you had to withstand the blizzard like conditions BRRRRRRR!!!!! The old Victoria Park wasn't a picnic either but opposition players feared the crowds there almost as much as they feared the Pies lol

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Fantastic Idea.

Will do for my child in a few years. Due in November, so won't start taking him/her until they're about 5, which is when I started going.

I'd be somewhere in the vicinity of 400 games I think. Not too sure. You'd have to give or take for finals/working/family occasions. But I've egenrally gone to every game I physically could barring interstate games.

 

[Chief Ten Beers]

My Nan saw the four flags in a row and my Grandad who was born in 1893 was at the first Collingwood game in 1897. I didnt have much choice.

Bonus points right there, awesome stuff.

I've been to about 30, only once or twice a year.

 

[handy point]

My Nan saw the four flags in a row and my Grandad who was born in 1893 was at the first Collingwood game in 1897. I didnt have much choice.

That's a tremendous heritage that you have.

Got Footy Records for all of them?

 

[DIDAIC0S]

There's a lot of sad people on the internet isn't there?