blueycarlton wrote:
I was there at the Junction Oval.
The game should have been called off.
In the last quarter Fitzroy were kicking to the scoreboard or city end.
Someone from Fitzroy had the nouse to switch the lights on in the scoreboard.
The scoreboard was adjacent to the goals.
So the Roys unlike the Blues had the advantage, through the thick fog, of knowing where their goal was.
From a spectator's view you could only see 25 meters.
Suddenly the ball would be bouncing out of the fog, someone would eventually find it, kick it, and it would disappear again.
Spectators set fire to the 44 gallon rubbish bins to keep warm.
It was an amazing contrast to the first half of the game which was played in brilliant sunshine.
We missed out on the final four in 1971 by just 2 points.
The consolation was the next week against Collingwood, in Serge's last game.
It was a repeat of the 1970 grand Final where this time we came from 42 points down at half time to beat the Woods by 19 points at Princes Park.
If we could have made the finals in 1971 we had the side to win the premiership from fourth spot.
The following year the final five was introduced.
Great memories. Do you mind if these are used in the Blueseum's review of the Fog game?
The Blueseum could really use some more people with excellent memories of these types of games.