This is a thread of things you would like to see return to the VFA/VFL footy.
Please try not to comment on peoples posts in this thread. I just want one-liners.
(inspired by the Coodabeens)
Bcarbonaro...promotion and relegation meant there was still something to play for at the end of the year for teams near the bottom..Sandy and Oakleigh played out a thriller in 1976..the loser got relegated....added real excitement at the end of the season..
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What about those great "huts " they seemed to have behind the grandstands at Sandy and Oakleigh where you could get a beer at 1/2 time with atmosphere, but possibly the best one was at Brunswick with a very dark passage way lead to an even darker room with all those wonderful past ''Wickers" champions pictures on the walls that were miraculously saved just before the fire allowing a new social club to be built. And the first electronic scoreboard in the VFA what a beauty, especially the day JACKO played his first game against Sandy and they never had a larger crowd before or after that day ,even when only half paid as they couldn't man all the gates. Top memories never forgotten.
go zebs
zebra
The Grand Final at the Junction Oval again!
16 men on the ground no wingman!
Thanks for the info, Zebraman.
Just a reminder...
[b]Please do not comment on peoples posts in this thread. I just want one-liners.[/b]
Umpires Maurie Stabb and Frank Virgona...Frank in his tight shorts....
The electric scoreboard at Brunswick
Sam Kekovich's speeches to Camberwell players...no-one understood a word he was saying!
Daryl Nisbets's speeches...did he ever do one without dropping the "F" word!!
The smell of the soap factory at Port Melbourne...
Trainers who used to throw the occasional punch at players!..Sandy had one ..Ray patmore...got suspended for 10 years!
Don't bring back officials of clubs who hit umpires..Frankston should remember that..
The old women at Port who used to give you a prod with the umbrella if you said something against a Port player...sometimes they'd whack a player if he got close enough to the fence..
Huge crowds...like the day Ron Barassi and Bob Skilton played their 1st game for Port at Sandy...
Geelong West..and their ground with a bike track around it...
The Junction Oval for finals.
Phil Cleary being hated by all but Coburg supporters, and relishing every minute of it.
Fred Cook being larger than life.
Decent crowds
Posters understanding the whole point of a thread and paying attention!!
Ray Brain's knee bandages and half his teeth missing. A wild looking character who played for Northcote.
Charlie Daniels a tall skinhead who was an absolute psycho who played for Port Melbourne and Mordialloc.
Bring back finals at Toorak Park.
Bring back the lightning premiership.
Bring back the Caulfield Bear Cave.
Bring back the Camberwell Disco with Sam Kekovich on the dance floor.
Bring back the shed at Shepley Oval.
Bring back the hill at Port where the girls had a day out on the sauce.
Bring back the bugle man at Oakleigh.
Bring back Sol Alexander who stood behind the goals at every Northcote game rain hail or shine. Sol and his brother Ben ran Alexander Mens stores.
Bring back the Springvale one eyed supporter Brian 'Mr Cricket' Ellis who wore a red/white and blue one eyed patch and yelled out VALES.
Bring back Stan 'go cobra go and away we go.
Bring back all red rattlers and the St Kilda and Port Melbourne train lines so we can go to these grounds by TRAIN.
Those were the days.
Keep bringing them on as there is so much we can bring back.
Finally it was sweet VFA.
Friday teams listed in the paper with "ins" and "outs" (and only 2 listed on the interchange, not 16)
Playing each team twice in a season
The "Herald"s preview on Saturday evenings.
Final four
Full Forwards consistently kicking bags of goals (Cook, Radojevic, Kim Smith, Serafini, Miller, Fothers, Neville, Hammond, J Shaw)
Running half backs (McTaggart, Sheldon, McKeon)
Real big men - Round, Sarau, Kershaw, Aanensen, Wenn, Manson, Halas, Pepe
Junction Oval finals