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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    and the can bar

    What a great place. The number one footy viewing spot of all time.
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    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    What a great place. The number one footy viewing spot of all time.
    I'm not old enough to know the can bar, where was it?
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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by Greystache View Post
    I'm not old enough to know the can bar, where was it?


    Top Deck John Gent Stand. You can see a great big section between the media boxes.
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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Top Deck John Gent Stand. You can see a great big section between the media boxes.
    Thanks. Was it just an open standing area?
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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by Greystache View Post
    Thanks. Was it just an open standing area?
    Yes and it was pretty much rubbish up there but who cared.
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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by Greystache View Post
    Thanks. Was it just an open standing area?
    Two rows of seats and standing room behind that. I used to get there early and rush up the stairs and grab a seat near a former U19's coach who had a seat reserved for him. The best time was when Harry and Tommy would call the football on 3WRB. I could see them calling the game while I was listening to them.

    Sausage sizzle, pie warmer, beer and soft drink was all you could buy up there.
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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by Greystache View Post
    Thanks. Was it just an open standing area?

    Yep. It was a large concrete bunker with a concrete floor, some shoddy rooms for corporate guests, media and the coaching staff on one side and accommodation for the timekeepers on the other. Access was via an internal, enclosed stairway. It was kind of cool, this tunnel through the standvthen you came to a corridor that led behind the Corporate and coaching suites and through a door into this large space that seemed to hover over the ground.

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    Yes and it was pretty much rubbish up there but who cared.
    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Two rows of seats and standing room behind that. I used to get there early and rush up the stairs and grab a seat near a former U19's coach who had a seat reserved for him. The best time was when Harry and Tommy would call the football on 3WRB. I could see them calling the game while I was listening to them.

    Sausage sizzle, pie warmer, beer and soft drink was all you could buy up there.

    With a bar at the back that sold proper beer in cans. My favourite feature was the proximity of the home team's coaching box. Poor Alan Joyce almost had to walk through the drunks at the breaks to get out of there.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Great stuff. The Can bar from the sound of it would of been a great place to be being a Bulldog supporter. I'm sure also many of you would of gone into the ground back there and mingle with the players post match something which unfortunately doesn't happen today. After our VFL GF win going onto the ground at Etihad was a great experience for me going to the footy.
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    Bump.
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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Walked across Barkly St - always went home at half time for a cuppa or stiff drink depending on the score. Stood behind Barkly St goals downwind of a can bar or sat in Whitten Stand with my Dad if it was raining.

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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    How lucky were you!!
    Quote Originally Posted by Im Not Bitter View Post
    Walked across Barkly St - always went home at half time for a cuppa or stiff drink depending on the score. Stood behind Barkly St goals downwind of a can bar or sat in Whitten Stand with my Dad if it was raining.
    Drove from either Flemington, /Geelong or Northern Victoria - depending on where we were residing at the time.

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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    We have a good range of Doggies fans who just went down the road to get to WO and others who drove or took the train there from further away back in the day. Great stories.
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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    As a kid I walked up Willy Road with my dad from our home just off Francis Street. It was a great walk back when we won.

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    Re: Getting to the Whitten Oval on matchdays in the VFL days and Early AFL days

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog4life View Post
    As a kid I walked up Willy Road with my dad from our home just off Francis Street. It was a great walk back when we won.

    Which street B4L?
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Which street B4L?
    Bena street Td

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