Pretty sure it was Catogio's 4th game - but probably his first full game, as the others were off the bench.

This is the only Carlton Grand Final I have missed attending (72 was my first as a 10 year old). Dad had gotten tickets for 72 but couldnt get them the following year (luckily). I remember listening to this game on the radio and was crying I can tell you - and copped a caning at school the following Monday at our very Richmond dominated primary school.

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Nah, just a little bit of facetiousness...... I've been hanging around with an old mate who spent 20 years living in Philadelphia (to my 8 years in Dallas). His wife, a native Philadelphian, always has a go at me saying "y'all this and y'all that". So I go back with "youse guys....".

More to the point SB, did you like the glossary of terms?

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I remember watching this at my primary school in Carlton in the mid 70's, the PE teacher was a Richmond supporter and set it up in the hall and all the boys watched it - the b*stard of a teacher played the Big Nick and Southby hits a few times. He just stopped the projector and rewound the film and was laughing/gloating, I remember that my older brother and his Carlton mates starting fighting with some Richmond supporters who were cheering the hits. From that time on I hated Richmond - i rate Collingwood as No.1 arch enemy, but its neck and neck between the Bombers and the Tigers for my second most hated team

I was there. Bit of a downer after having jumped the fence and joined the boys for the lap of honour in 72.
Richmond realised they could not beat us on class alone (see 72)
So they went the knuckle.
The AFL records should have an * next to that Premiership
I despise them ( and I haven't gotten over it. I have a 50 year rule)

Agree Eric I was there and it was pure thuggery and I hate them too

Agro KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN gutted about that one and only worse feeling was 2.00 am 10 years ago with salary cap decision where AFL tried to wipe us off the Map

Never forgive on both accounts

That's a bit soft!!!

I take that sh!t to the grave

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Balme swinging at Southby will always remain with me. Never forgive and it is forever to despise Balme, Sheedy, Bartlett and Richmond. But still hate Essendon* more!

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No that makes me the old man as I turn 60 on 12th Jan 2013. Lotta good people born in back 1953.

But back to the game . it still hurts to think about this GF, this along with the 1993 loss will haunt me forever.( Well at least until I am reclined in a wooden box)

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1993 was my 1973 I suppose, other than Dean Wallis there was no outright thuggery, we went into the game equal favourites and the game was over at qtr time

F... Essendon* and F... Sheedy

I was living in London at the time after witnessing the '72 GF thrashing.
I couldn't believe the result (no TV or internet in those days) and did not believe the score published in UK's Daily Mail! Double checked the newspapers in Australia House. There is no way that they could beat us with skill, so they went the knuckle.
It took me a long time to get over it and only saw a replay of the match a couple of years ago.

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Sorry, Agro, it was Vinnie's first game at senior level. He'd just won the Gardiner Medal after winning the Morrish the year before. He was young and green and barely got a kick.
I would have played a young kid called Rod Ashman: not as quick or as skilled, but much more of an inside player.
We missed Keogh and Armstrong: 60+ disposals we didn't get.
I remember this game very well: it was my first live GF. We could only get standing room in the firward pocket. It was a nightmare come alive.
In many ways I have forgiven the Toothless Tigs, but I have never forgiven some of the thugs who played that day. Especially Niel Balme, who shattered Southby's jaw and never even got reported. The Umpire must have been the only person on the whole ground to miss that.
We finished the game with 13 fit players, including Vinnie the Cat. How Kevin Hall lasted out the game with his facial injuries I will never understand.

According to Blueseum we are both wrong it was his third game.


http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php? ... n+Catoggio

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http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2013-06-19/carlton-bids-fond-farewell-to-the-blue-nun

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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.

Was overseas that year and the news took some 24 hours to filter through. I already despised Balme and the events of 73 certainly entrenched him at the bottom of my list of football thugs. What pisses me off is that he has a cushy job at Geelong.

I have fond memories of '72 when we tore them one and enjoyed every minute from the wing of the old Southern Stand.

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but the song..the song....

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We had moved to Perth the year before and it didn't get the sort of blanket coverage it gets now.

Plus my junior footy club had ONE game on film, the 1970 GF which they dutifully showed at every pie night and trophy night for about 5 years.

It was almost like it never happened.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

First game of football (as a 9 year old), first time to the 'G. Sat with the old man in the top deck of the Northern Stand wearing my jumper with 25 of the back.

I hate the tigers - have since then and always will.

Its one of the reasons I'm taking time to adjust to MM.....

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Balme broke Swan Mckay's jaw in the '72 GF then backed up with the Southby assassination in '73, also king hit Waite and Hall that day.

What really got me was that Balme had been thrashed by Southby in the second semi, the foul mongrel knew he couldn't beat him fairly. A premeditated act on one of the fairest players in the game.

Too young to remember it but watched it later on - filthy scum dogs they were

Balme......

Nothing further needs to be said.

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