Ticketing for 2023

[Bornadog]

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I was going to go but struck down with a nice head cold today. Going to Ballarat won't help with that at all.

Wear a mask

[I'm Not Bitter Anymore!]

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Colder than Waverley Park rug up everyone

[Grantysghost]

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Colder than Waverley Park rug up everyone

Without the cool scoreboard.

Remember that sepia marvel?

I always remember the umpire walking out animation. He used to cop it with fruit and veg!

Also the unique sounds of Waverley. The hum of the score board and the clink of the flag pole ropes.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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Without the cool scoreboard.

Remember that sepia marvel?

I always remember the umpire walking out animation. He used to cop it with fruit and veg!

Also the unique sounds of Waverley. The hum of the score board and the clink of the flag pole ropes.

Ah yes, classic Waverley. Could do a thread on VFL park alone.

[I'm Not Bitter Anymore!]

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Sitting in hail while the rest of the ground was in sunshine, the huge distance between the boundary line and the fence, getting splinters from the seats, trying to watch a replay on the scoreboard, trying to find the car after the lights were turned off. In its later years it had a charm missing from its early concrete mausoleum days. Going out there had a road trip feel

[Bornadog]

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Sitting in hail while the rest of the ground was in sunshine, the huge distance between the boundary line and the fence, getting splinters from the seats, trying to watch a replay on the scoreboard, trying to find the car after the lights were turned off. In its later years it had a charm missing from its early concrete mausoleum days. Going out there had a road trip feel

I remember going there for the 1974 Elim. Final v Collingwood. I took a train from Sunshine to Glen Waverly then a bus to the ground. It was a very long trip. The Black and white scoreboard was just crap.

[Grantysghost]

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I remember going there for the 1974 Elim. Final v Collingwood. I took a train from Sunshine to Glen Waverly then a bus to the ground. It was a very long trip. The Black and white scoreboard was just crap.

Wow that's prior to my birth. I don't say that much anymore. Not by much
Did we win?

[Bornadog]

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Wow that's prior to my birth. I don't say that much anymore. Not by much
Did we win?

Nope

Two years later a friend drove us there to watch another EF against Geelong. He wrapped the whole car in RWB. Lost that one too

[Bulldog4life]

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Losing your car in a sea of cars after not paying attention where you parked it was memorable too.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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Losing your car in a sea of cars after not paying attention where you parked it was memorable too.

Yep especially in mid winter with fading light.

And the race to the exit where traffic from all directions would attempt to merge.

My cousin lived in Belgrave and he still complains about Waverley being scrapped.

[The bulldog tragician]

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What about the extremely over-officious guys in blue coats (no women to be seen) who would wave you into a parking spot. You would have to be directed by a dozen of them, all waving arms militantly, all the way from the entry to where they’d decided you had to park. The very last one would also have you reversing back and forth ten times before satisfied with your position. Despite all the pomposity, someone always got bogged on the way out.

[Bornadog]

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What about the extremely over-officious guys in blue coats (no women to be seen) who would wave you into a parking spot. You would have to be directed by a dozen of them, all waving arms militantly, all the way from the entry to where they’d decided you had to park. The very last one would also have you reversing back and forth ten times before satisfied with your position. Despite all the pomposity, someone always got bogged on the way out.

That was the easy bit. Trying to get out was a nightmare.

[Flamethrower]

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I have a heap of memories from VFL Park, both good and not so.

- My last game of Aussie rules football was at VFL Park for Footscray little league against South Melbourne in 1978. I had also played at the MCG 2 weeks earlier against Melbourne.
- Went to a Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket match to watch Australia play the Rest of the World in the late 70s.
- Went to many baseball games - games between the Waverley Reds and Melbourne Monarchs were fiercely contested and often resulted in massive all in brawls.
- First final I went to was the 1985 Preliminary Final - I remember it took so long to get home the local fish n chip shop was shut and we missed Seven's Big League. I think we ended up having spaghetti on toast for dinner - appropriate for how the day turned out.
- Remember Chris Grant stamping himself on the competition in a final against St Kilda in 1992.
- Became an AFL member in 1996 and went to many neutral games out at Waverley - parking became a breeze as I learnt where the best parks were for making a quick getaway. Sitting in the Sir Kenneth Luke stand as opposed to the outer helped the experience too.
- Saw Bung Dunstall kick 14 against us (bad), and Simon Beasley kick 12 against Richmond (good).

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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I have a heap of memories from VFL Park, both good and not so.

- My last game of Aussie rules football was at VFL Park for Footscray little league against South Melbourne in 1978. I had also played at the MCG 2 weeks earlier against Melbourne.
- Went to a Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket match to watch Australia play the Rest of the World in the late 70s.
- Went to many baseball games - games between the Waverley Reds and Melbourne Monarchs were fiercely contested and often resulted in massive all in brawls.
- First final I went to was the 1985 Preliminary Final - I remember it took so long to get home the local fish n chip shop was shut and we missed Seven's Big League. I think we ended up having spaghetti on toast for dinner - appropriate for how the day turned out.
- Remember Chris Grant stamping himself on the competition in a final against St Kilda in 1992.
- Became an AFL member in 1996 and went to many neutral games out at Waverley - parking became a breeze as I learnt where the best parks were for making a quick getaway. Sitting in the Sir Kenneth Luke stand as opposed to the outer helped the experience too.
- Saw Bung Dunstall kick 14 against us (bad), and Simon Beasley kick 12 against Richmond (good).

Am i right in saying that the little league in those days featured one game played over the whole ground? Waverley was massive.

I followed the Melbourne Monarchs for a season (still have my membership ticket) and yes they had a willing rivalry.

That 85 final was so disappointing. In contrast the 92 semi was massive after Geelong did us the previous week.

[Danny the snakeman]

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Am i right in saying that the little league in those days featured one game played over the whole ground? Waverley was massive.

Yep and most grounds full of mud. Most games ended without scoring which was also put up on the scoreboard.