that Wallsy taught the Blues to play



Fired-up Blues too hot to handle


Hard to believe that it was so long ago

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Ecclesiastes 1:4, "One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but The Blues abide forever."

It was a bloody hot day and a really warm week as well. Even during the parade one of the Carlton cars broke down it was so hot. My mate had just broken his arm a week before and his arm was itching like crazy all game. First time I can remember being at the footy and refusing a pie from Dad - it was that hot. Everyone was in shorts and t-shirts.

I remember it like it was yesterday funnily enough...after the year before you could just sense that this year would be different and there were strong rumours that Dunstall wouldn't play and that Rhys-Jones would get the job on Brereton...and of course the boys were playing for Mots and Des.

great day to be a Carlton supporter that one.

my first grand final, bloody hot that day.

Time stands still for no man.

Good pick up dn.

I was on school holidays and was stuck in the car listening to the game on the radio, which, back then especially, was a hard thing to do when approaching Sydney.

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Very hot at the ground -hoping for a scorcher given Hawks had gone the long way to the finals-mysoginist Pat Cash was pre match guest barracking for Hawthorn -they went down like he did at the US Open a few weeks before -didnt like him them -dont like him now -ditto the bad culture hawks
Blues decided that day that they wouldn't put up with dirty hawks dishing it out -Got in first -Dominator burning -Madden got tuck -Hawks run off their legs gone before end of third -last quarter magnificent -the Gentleman Rhys-Jones superb
When Gleeson goaled goodbye hawks see you next year
Strains of Da da da da da ringing out of the G -a win for the good guys
Some soldier and blue collar workers in that side -Micky Kennedy Aitken (never the same after present coach of bad culture hawks sniped him)Robertson (one of the first taggers)
Some cream Kernahan Madden Johnston(one of the best if not the best finals players I have ever seen)
Naley /Gleeson a fair pair of rovers -naley express pace -could hit turbos -Bear Gleeson a real scrapper but with skills
Loved it

I was on drugs...bloody eighties!

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Hawthorn had Gary Ayres playing for them back then.

They learnt from that.

Next year in the finals, Wayne Johnston was taken out via a shirtfront very early on against Hawthorn.

I was 9 & I remember watching the game in the loungeroom at home with all of the curtains down so it was almost dark inside because it was so hot!! Don't remember much of the game but remember my parents (both navy blues) cheering for Rhys-Jones every time he got the ball, both rapt that he towelled up Dermie. I remember the presentation of the Norm Smith medal & the presentation of the cup though!

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i was 6 months old...cant say i remember it...

BUT...i watch it on dvd all the time...i wish footy was still like that...its hardly footy anymore is it...players interviewing clubs rather than clubs interviewing players...

Walls = genius (back then, at least).

Watch the game again and check out the set play goals from Braddles and Molly.

He was the first coach to do that kind of stuff in such a structured way - kick off zones, set plays from stoppages, etc, etc.