Bulldogs v Collingwood - best memories

[Twodogs]

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Personally my favourite won against the pies was back in 2014, where Tutty kicked the winner. Was the week my first was born I was exhausted and it was the cream on the cake of an incredible week. I'll never forget that game.
We haven't lost to the pies in the regular season since my daughter was born, and considering my in-laws are all Collingwood supporters it's awesome. Long may it continue!

Brilliant. My corresponding match was against Brisbane in 1998. From memory the boys celebrated the birth of my son (in a bye weekend thank god!) by slotting a lazy 9 past the Lions in the first quarter.

[Bornadog]

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Personally my favourite won against the pies was back in 2014, where Tutty kicked the winner. Was the week my first was born I was exhausted and it was the cream on the cake of an incredible week. I'll never forget that game.
We haven't lost to the pies in the regular season since my daughter was born, and considering my in-laws are all Collingwood supporters it's awesome. Long may it continue!

Highlights:

[Bornadog]

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1994: Round 18, Footscray v Collingwood Q4 - Whitten Oval, Tony Shaw playing is record breaking game

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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That famous win in '84, for me, as an 8 year old was a defining moment in my consciousness as a Bulldog supporter. Whilst I can recall that I followed the Dogs way back as a 4 year old when KT was tearing it up in 78, this game for me was an awakening moment.
I can recall clearly being in my backward, by myself, footy in hand, following the radio broadcast blaring from our nearby shed as kicked my footy around the yard. I recall becomign more and more interested in the game as we edged closer, coming from quite a few goals down. Then in the last couple of minutes I stopped kicking my footy, sat down near the shed and listened intently to the play, and then roared in delight when the fateful kick from Allen unfolded and Beasley took the intercept mark.
Usually after games on a Saturday afternoon, kids would make their way up to the oval at Harrisfield Primary school to kick the footy around. I lived about 800 metres from the school..and I don't think I've ever ran as fast as I could to get up there that day to kick the footy around.

Normally going to school on a Monday morning was a thankless task being a Bulldog supporter, to be met at the school gate by mates ribbing me about the Dogs latest embarrassing defeat at the hands of a North, or a Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, Hawthorn or Collingwood.
Not that Monday my friend, not that Monday...

That was the first time I recall rolling up to school with my head held high.. going out of my way to make eye contact with the several Pie's supporters in my class and casting a wry smile as I walked past.

[SlimPickens]

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Just quietly, you wouldn't mind Travis Cloke doing that on a weekly basis in the tri-colours. He monstered us that day.

[Greystache]

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Thanks for posting BAD. You only have to watch a small amount of this caca to realise the Baby Boomers longing for a purer game than what we have now are barking up the wrong tree.

Yep, get it and hack it forward was about the extent of strategy in those days. Add in the lack of composure of players in traffic, and that nearly every contest resulted in a free kick if a mark wasn't taken, you can pretty much stick your "glory" days of football.

[Bornadog]

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Thanks for posting BAD. You only have to watch a small amount of this caca to realise the Baby Boomers longing for a purer game than what we have now are barking up the wrong tree.

and those dickheads keep introducing rules to make the game look like 1980. It will never ever ever work. The game has evolved and is far more exciting than the 1980's

[Twodogs]

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Yep, get it and hack it forward was about the extent of strategy in those days. Add in the lack of composure of players in traffic, and that nearly every contest resulted in a free kick if a mark wasn't taken, you can pretty much stick your "glory" days of football.

Oh come on! You're forgetting that coaches shouted sometimes to give the boys a 'rev up'. That counted as good tactics.

[Greystache]

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Oh come on! You're forgetting that coaches shouted sometimes to give the boys a 'rev up'. That counted as good tactics.

Forgot that little nugget. Their coach is telling them to go in harder, so I'll tell my boys to go in even harderer, that will give us an edge!

It's like two neighbouring countries at war claiming they'll win because God is on their side!

[Bornadog]

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Oh come on! You're forgetting that coaches shouted sometimes to give the boys a 'rev up'. That counted as good tactics.

Don't know what you are talking about -

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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All those grounds had an individual character that unique to that place. Arden st had the betting ring out the back, Princes Park had those Carlton supporters banging on the tin advertising hoardings early in the third quarter, junction oval was in the middle (almost) of StKilda and you got that weird train there with people you'd never see in Footscray, the lake oval was a place you never looked at anyone because it was full of wharfies-you stood and watched the football and you went home, at Windy Hill you could pick up chicks! Moorabbin you had to walk to from the station and the trail would go through suburban streets and blocks of land between houses. You felt like you might need a cut lunch and a canteen.

Then everybody at Flinders st on the way home yelling to other supporters trying to find out who won the other games

And because you played games at so many different grounds in different weather conditions, i found it easier to remember particular games. These days i struggle to remember games at Docklands from a couple of years ago.

When anyone used to ask me at Flinders street for the result, sometimes i would make it up just to see their reaction..

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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Kardinia Park was a barren landscape for us for a long, long time. I do remember a game perhaps 20 years ago (perhaps longer) where we came from behind to win. I think we were 45 points down at half time. Living in Geelong at the time I carried that one around for a while.

Just on Kardinia Park. When we won there in '72 it was our first win there since 1945... that's right 27 years. Ted Whitten went down there for 20 years and never played in a winning team!

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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That famous win in '84, for me, as an 8 year old was a defining moment in my consciousness as a Bulldog supporter. Whilst I can recall that I followed the Dogs way back as a 4 year old when KT was tearing it up in 78, this game for me was an awakening moment.
I can recall clearly being in my backward, by myself, footy in hand, following the radio broadcast blaring from our nearby shed as kicked my footy around the yard. I recall becomign more and more interested in the game as we edged closer, coming from quite a few goals down. Then in the last couple of minutes I stopped kicking my footy, sat down near the shed and listened intently to the play, and then roared in delight when the fateful kick from Allen unfolded and Beasley took the intercept mark.
Usually after games on a Saturday afternoon, kids would make their way up to the oval at Harrisfield Primary school to kick the footy around. I lived about 800 metres from the school..and I don't think I've ever ran as fast as I could to get up there that day to kick the footy around.

Normally going to school on a Monday morning was a thankless task being a Bulldog supporter, to be met at the school gate by mates ribbing me about the Dogs latest embarrassing defeat at the hands of a North, or a Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, Hawthorn or Collingwood.
Not that Monday my friend, not that Monday...



That was the first time I recall rolling up to school with my head held high.. going out of my way to make eye contact with the several Pie's supporters in my class and casting a wry smile as I walked past.

Wait a minute... 4 years old in 1978 and then 8 years old in 1984. Yankee, somewhere you've lost a few years.

Yeah listening to footy on the radio was a big part of my childhood. With the right commentators a vivid picture would play out in your mind. I followed the dogs on the radio every weekend for 8 years before i saw them live. Magical.

It was never enjoyable fronting up at school or work on the Monday after another loss. There was always at least one idiot who would give it to you. I sure wish i could have tracked some of them down on Grand Final night last year.

[Twodogs]

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And because you played games at so many different grounds in different weather conditions, i found it easier to remember particular games. These days i struggle to remember games at Docklands from a couple of years ago.

When anyone used to ask me at Flinders street for the result, sometimes i would make it up just to see their reaction..

Exactly! And teams develeloped little idiosyncrasies from the way they developed to play on their ground the best.

[Webby]

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Just on Kardinia Park. When we won there in '72 it was our first win there since 1945... that's right 27 years. Ted Whitten went down there for 20 years and never played in a winning team!

That's a big stat. I love those kinds of stats. Geelong were very, very strong in the 50's and 60's. Probably the biggest underachievers in the comp during that period. Extremely talented list. Then they were poor in the 1970's - falling right away. In fact, Geelong West in the VFA pulled bigger crowds than the Cats on some weekends during the 70's.