stumbled across this today, if anyone wants to know what footy used to be like this is a good bit of footage

[youtube]gnmllG5kauY[/youtube]

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Wow... Barass really was psycho lol

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I would have been there that day - went to every game 78, 79 and 1980.

Can't remember much of them though!

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Round 18, 1979. Carlton 21.15 - 141 def North Melbourne 18.11 - 119

Goalkickers : P.Brown 4, W.Johnston 4, W.Harmes 4, P.Jones 2, M.Fitzpatrick 2, B.Armstrong 2, R.Ashman 2, P.Francis 1.
Best: R.Ashman, P.McConville, B.Doull, W.Harmes, G.Southby, W.Johnston

Was definitely there that day. Actually remember the match. Hot day, really hot. Stood behind the goals necking Crest cans. Disgusting beer. From memory Ashman was the star. What a great team we were. Scored big every week. Over hundred points all the time. Not one player from another club. Those were the days.

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What was ACE Lager like choo?

I didnt see Jezza - injured?

Bloody Barrassi

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Don't remember ACE. North sold Crest cans. They were still steel so you could stand on the empties until they or you collapsed. North's slogan in those days was " North have courage" fro the brewery that made Crest. I was an Abbots lager drinker. You know the old trick; take Abbots to the patty and put them in the bath. Catch anyone stealing your cans!!

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I was there with Choo too. Thought nothing of driving home as Crest really wasn't beer and wouldn't show up in your BAC. Dr Sherrin, Ace Lager, which I sadly remember, was one of life's little mistakes......Jezza not there, was injured but still coaching....yes, I think there is that famous photo from that day when Barass and Jezza gaze at each other as they are walking to the 3 quarter time huddle...happy memories....players actually played in a position...might catch on.

Nice piece of editing there where Harmsey gets a free, kicks the massive drop punt, gets the spills at the fall of the ball and kicks the goal.

Footy was uncomplicated back then. Being a supporter was easy. You paid your membership and you went. Or you bought your ticket at the gate and went on to the terraces. The floggers were allowed because nobody cared about sponsors' signs.

Before all that, clubs used to write massive signs at the MCG and drape them around the entire southern stand for 100 metres

COLLINGWOOD MIGHTY TEAM OF BLACK AND WHITE WARRIORS STRIVING FOR GLORY ABOVE ALL ELSE

and stuff like that in letters three feet high. Then the VFL worked out that space was worth money and it stopped.

And we used to win. That helped.

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I saw you'd posted this earlier in the week, but I didn't have a chance to watch until now King Kerna.

Anyway, it was great viewing. I couldn't help but think how much we've lost in our move to this professional, national competition. But that talk is probably better for the love of football is waning thread.

Thanks heaps for posting the video.

Great video

Rowan Sawers was the field umpire - I used to work with him - "Good bloke"

I also remember going to Arden St as a kid & used to sit on the greyhound track

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I always thought they served courage at Ardon street.
You needed courage to drink it
I would have been there that day

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Wasn't there, but do remember it being a warm day (probably hotter crammed into the ground) and Ashman was BOG after threatening to walk out (to Norf) over a pay dispute during the week, and Percy finally being allowed to play after not getting down to the exact required weight the week before, as dictated by Jezza (so it's your fault you didn't get to 250, Perc ).

I was wandering around at a school fete, getting updates from various people with radios.

We were 22 points down in the 3rd (or last?) and looking at losing to Norf twice in the season, but then we got it together. The flag felt a cert after that.

Great day, great year.

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North Melbourne 6.1 8.6 15.8 18.11 119 Sat 04-Aug-1979 2:10 PM Att:28,902 Venue: Arden St
Carlton 6.3 13.8 14.10 21.15 141 Carlton won by 22 pts [Match stats]

Yes was at that game. What a wonderful team. What a fantastic team of young champions mixed with the older champs. How good did those days feel?

No Stephen Easton/Ross Glendinning heroics in this one.

North come back hard in the 3rd but we ran away with it in the last.

We had North's measure and beat them comfortably in the second semi at VFL Park weeks later.

Thank-you for the upload.

Does any-one have any videos with the Blue Birds?

Sure have!

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The Doormat in Stick's/Buzza's number (1970)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECU4NLL4Xr0

Footnotes
In his first three seasons, he wore number 4, but was never comfortable in the locker room with the attention lavished upon some of the club's biggest stars, like Sergio Silvagni (number 1), John Nicholls (2), Kevin Hall (3), Syd Jackson (5) and Garry Crane (6). Before the '72 season, he asked for and was given guernsey number 11, which had become available with the retirement of another great Carlton defender in John "Ragsy" Goold.

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Earliest surviving Australian Rules footage: 1909 VFL Grand Final, South Melbourne vs Carlton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILE0_pqmHVo

Did we "FIX" that Grand Final? Or was it the following year?

Either way, there was still too much flooding to my liking - even way back in 1909

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With sound effects by...?

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Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Looks like the maggots didn't know much about illegal disposal back then either.

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Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.