"Life on Mars" WOOF style - the current Doggies play in 1973
Some of you will know this fine BBC show currently being repeated on ABC TV but if you don't, the basic premise is that Sam Tyler, a cop from 2006 gets run over and wakes up in the same place (Manchester), doing the same work but in 1973.
The cop station in 1973 reflects the times: sexist, corrupt, everyone smoking at their desk etc ie the values, fashions etc of the times then. My avatar is his mighty boss, DCI Hunt.
But what if this happened to you this year - early in the season, you are walking to a Dogs game at Telstra Dome and like Sam Tyler you are run over, only to wake up in 1973 outside Victoria Park for a Pies v Dogs game, and like Sam Tyler have to confront that 1973 footy world.
It's the VFL, not AFL. There's no interstate teams and you'll be watching the Dogs play other Vic teams at their respective then home grounds.
There's no modern day bench.
There's only one umpire and no video umpire. Anything goes, behind play.
But best of all, you're not watching the '73 Scray team go round, but the 2006 Dogs team playing in the 1973 VFL.
How would they go?
I'd hope that Harris & Hargrave would put a few players in hospital, but what about the other way round? How would say Johnno and Cooney go in that comp?
And how would you enjoy, Sam Tyler style, being a modern day supporter returning to those old suburban VFL grounds in 1973?
The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.