kingkerna wrote: I really struggle to remember my first game - I was probably about 5 years old (1977) and most likely sat in the press box as my dad used to do the 'around the grounds' for 3UZ. All I remember was that I had to be very quiet because people were broadcasting. Another clear memory was watching us lose to North in around 78/79 - Percy Jones screwed up a shot for goal in the last minute for us to just get beaten - I cried.
Not sure of the timing here KK, but when they did build the Pratt Stand (then the Hawthorn Stand), the around the ground commentators used to sit in the back row of Bay 2, right up the top between half forward and the pocket, in the wind and the cold. We had seats about 5 rows in front.
But that might have been after you first went.
My first game is also unclear. I was actually chatting to my dad about it the other day, saying I thought it was the last game of 1974, a game at PP against Footscray. No idea if that is right though. I certainly remember going to finals in 1975.
Interestingly, dad has always said that his first game was in 1943, the last game of the year, also against Footscray. We needed to win to make the four, and a Footscray player kicked a point right at the death to force a draw, and we missed the finals.
Great story, except we made the finals in '43, and didn't play in a draw! Might have been 1942, where we missed the finals to Footscray by precentage, but again, we didn't play a draw that year.
False childhood memories are very common.
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It would have been Rd 1 2003 ( 
a tomato box, 
Heatley Stand, John Nicholls, 
Collingwood "the bastards" 
for the day).