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Re: EJ Whitten Special - Foxtel 9.30 Monday Night
70,000 People in Melbourne tomorrow night say otherwise at SOO. 92% of AFL players want representative footy back too. The best players in the comp playing the best players in the comp is awesome stuff. You can get injured at training, it's a timing issue. I think a week or two before opening round 1 would work all round.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: EJ Whitten Special - Foxtel 9.30 Monday Night
Just finished watching it.
I'm in my late 20s and Dougie was my first true Bulldogs love. You could feel his pain of missing EJs lap of the MCG and the regret of not seeing him towards the end of the illness. Heartwrenching stuff.
Super impressed with Ted Jr. Really inspirational man who has helped build upon his father's legacy.Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.Comment
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Re: EJ Whitten Special - Foxtel 9.30 Monday Night
I thought it was the lane off Hocking StComment
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Re: EJ Whitten Special - Foxtel 9.30 Monday Night
They got 92000 to the G in '89 partially because we hadn't played State of Origin at the G for years. Vic played all of their SOO games in Adelaide or Perth in the years between 80 and 89.
3 years later there were 32,000 for a game against WA at the G, with no game having been played in Victoria in the intervening years.
This was followed by 32000 again the following year vs SA.
They got 65000 in 95 for EJ's lap. , the following year was 35000 vs "The Allies".
In 99 they got 26000 for a game vs SA and by then it was dead in the water.
Aside from 89, the demand for it in Victoria was seriously over rated. I have great memories of it in the 80's as a kid but I don't see it being something with staying power if they bring it back.Park that car
Drop that phone
Sleep on the floor
Dream about meComment
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Re: EJ Whitten Special - Foxtel 9.30 Monday Night
So it was the thought of my mother and my father, moving across from the west to the east with a chip on their shoulders that could only be justified by the things Ted stood up against that got me crying having watched that.
His death was horrible, his legacy as a footballer was great. His ability to make folk like my mother and father walk proud is what he really stood for.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Re: EJ Whitten Special - Foxtel 9.30 Monday Night
The '83-'87 era of SOO was the pinnacle. Ablett's performance at Subiaco in '84 was outstanding. Kernahan was brilliant in one of them, too. There were a couple of games between Vic and WA that were sensational.
At home, WA and SA were hard to beat, yet in Vic, we were generally far too good. The VFL becoming the AFL killed state footy - nothing else.
I remember disliking the Swans and Eagles far more than Essendon, Carlton and Collingwood 25 years ago. However, as the AFL has progressed, I'm becoming more like the European football fan who dislikes his local rivals far more than the interstaters.
That just means that the state lines are blurred. There's no longer the Shelbieville-Springfield thing happening. Vic versus the rest is the closest thing to an All Star game that we could get, but no one from outside Vic will care.
Unfortunately, State of Origin Footy has gone the way of Fitzroy!Last edited by Webby; 18-06-2015, 12:44 PM.Comment
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FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.Comment
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[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]Comment
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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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