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30-06-2019, 03:25 PM
#241
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
What a game. One of our best wins for a long time. Loved to see our small group of fans, drenched through and smiling, fists raised in the rain. Rourke Smith, two knees, fantastic reward and a moment in his career.
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30-06-2019, 04:04 PM
#242
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Port beat Geelong, we beat Port, we beat Geelong.
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30-06-2019, 04:06 PM
#243
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
BornInDroopSt'54
Port beat Geelong, we beat Port, we beat Geelong.
Perfect
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30-06-2019, 04:49 PM
#244
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Ghost Dog
What a game. One of our best wins for a long time. Loved to see our small group of fans, drenched through and smiling, fists raised in the rain. Rourke Smith, two knees, fantastic reward and a moment in his career.
There was also a bay in the Eastern stand that was probably 2/3’rdsish full. Not sure how it translated to tv, but it was loud up there!
Also, despite being undercover we still got rain whipped into our faces by the fierce winds. The last few minutes of the game the wind picked up to a mini cyclone and all the Port supporters in the bay next to us ran for the exits.
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30-06-2019, 07:18 PM
#245
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Ghost Dog
What a game. One of our best wins for a long time. Loved to see our small group of fans, drenched through and smiling, fists raised in the rain. Rourke Smith, two knees, fantastic reward and a moment in his career.
That rain hid the tears in his proud Dad’s eyes
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30-06-2019, 11:09 PM
#246
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
The Adelaide Connection
There was also a bay in the Eastern stand that was probably 2/3’rdsish full. Not sure how it translated to tv, but it was loud up there!
Also, despite being undercover we still got rain whipped into our faces by the fierce winds. The last few minutes of the game the wind picked up to a mini cyclone and all the Port supporters in the bay next to us ran for the exits.
Sooks. They wouldn't reached half time at the Whitten Oval.
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30-06-2019, 11:46 PM
#247
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Bulldog4life
Sooks. They wouldn't reached half time at the Whitten Oval.
The weather we used to stand through at the footy ground was incredible wasn't it? Then you'd spend all of Saturday night standing in front of the Vulcan gas heater warming up again and watching the replays on the ABC and C7. And trying to read the footy record if it had dried off.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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30-06-2019, 11:52 PM
#248
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Bulldog4life
Sooks. They wouldn't reached half time at the Whitten Oval.
How do reckon Chris or Brad Scott would've gone with having to climb up into the coaches box?
My guess is a monster tantrum. I know we romance the past, but even with modest success towards the end of the WO, going to the footy was genuinely fun. Rain, hail or rain and hail.
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01-07-2019, 12:26 AM
#249
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
The weather we used to stand through at the footy ground was incredible wasn't it? Then you'd spend all of Saturday night standing in front of the Vulcan gas heater warming up again and watching the replays on the ABC and C7. And trying to read the footy record if it had dried off.
You just described my childhood.
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01-07-2019, 12:31 AM
#250
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
You just described my childhood.
I would be very surprised if we didn't know each other IRL. We must have spent time together trudging fro one end of Whitten oval to the other following Simon Beasley back in the mid '80s
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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01-07-2019, 12:34 AM
#251
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
What was the wettest match at the Western/Whitten Oval that you went to?
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01-07-2019, 12:36 AM
#252
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
How do reckon Chris or Brad Scott would've gone with having to climb up into the coaches box?
My guess is a monster tantrum. I know we romance the past, but even with modest success towards the end of the WO, going to the footy was genuinely fun. Rain, hail or rain and hail.
The old Can Bar walk of shame to the coaches' boxes in the Gent stand. There was a reason we would offer the visiting coach first dibs on the box over on the Gordon st wing and one was you didn't have to walk through the ferals in the Can Bar!
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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01-07-2019, 12:52 AM
#253
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
The weather we used to stand through at the footy ground was incredible wasn't it? Then you'd spend all of Saturday night standing in front of the Vulcan gas heater warming up again and watching the replays on the ABC and C7. And trying to read the footy record if it had dried off.
One game that sticks in my mind is the day we held Carlton goalless until the 27 minute mark of the last quarter. It was bitterly cold, with a biting wind and it rained incessantly.
And it wasn’t a free kick either against Super! Umpires felt sorry for Carlton. Mark Arceri kicked the goal. Winners are grinners. Losers can ...
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01-07-2019, 02:28 AM
#254
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Originally Posted by
Eastdog
What was the wettest match at the Western/Whitten Oval that you went to?
V Essendon in the mid '80s, it rained so hard that even though we hadn't kicked a goal by 3/4 time we kicked with the tide in the last quarter and hit the front halfway through. Bloody Neil Cordy was miles away from his direct opponent and his opponent kicked the winner with a couple of minutes to go. I still think to myself in conditions like last night that everybody must have a man because of that game
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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01-07-2019, 02:52 AM
#255
Re: WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019
Growing up within a KM of Arctic Park, coupled with junior sport both Saturday and Sunday on weekends my WO experiences were limited. Most weekends I'd be able to get to listen to the Bulldogs on the radio after quarter time if I wasn't heading to Waverley to watch a game.
But Jesus did it get cold at Waverley. It was a sparse concrete mess of a ground, where you couldn't even rely on the warmth of your fellow supporters to keep you up and about because everyone was five metres away from each other on average!
On the good days it was great, kick to kick after the ground used to result in me and my brother being the last to leave, barely able to see with only service lighting left on. The Blue Coats were good in those days, they'd let you have a bit of fun. I remember the 1994 Qualifying Final, Carlton vs Geelong, and it was absolutely freezing until the game started, and then the crowd had piled in and the place just warmed up.
After a long absence my return to the WO was the game we played against the Cats that same year in round 17. The place was pretty crowded, just shy of 24K, and I took up a place with my old man and his childhood mates in the Geelong road members side pocket - where they always stood. I felt like I was at home, and returned in round 23 that same year to see us do the Dees. I feel like I missed out, but got a dose of the true WO experience in our last game in 1997 after attending more games than I had previously which I am grateful for.
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