Great upload, awesome footage. I was 9 years old in 79, but I still remember these old days, going to watch the Hawks at Arden st, Western Oval, Vic Park & Pincess Park, great memories, cheers :)
Wow! Fantastic. How fast and tough was footy? None of this standing around for 20 seconds wondering where to kick the ball that we see today. Just get on with it, and players making position further afield. Dunno about barass denigrating the players though. They look stunned that they're giving it heaps and being blasted for it. What great footage. Life so unsanitised and fun. Beats the daylights out of today's game. Brilliant stuff.
Loved all those suburban grounds, windy Hill, Arden st, Victoria Park,the junction oval, Moorabbin,princess park, the western oval,and the lakeside oval, the VFL was a totally different experience, fairly cheap too,
Not to get pedantic or anything, but Carlton, Collingwood, Richmond, Fitzroy, Melbourne, North Melbourne, South Melbourne all played at home grounds within or neighbouring the City of Melbourne.
Home ground advantage resembled a dog protecting its back yard. Baras was fierce, loved how they used to pack em in suburban footy grounds. It was so primal.. the 70's were special..
Thanks for the upload, Gezza. I was a 9 year-old Fitzroy supporter in 1979; I liked the Kangas, however. As you'll no doubt recall, the '77 GF/GF replay were the first GFs to be telecast, live; and they were the first GFs I watched. Ironically, less than 20 years later, I became a Nth Melbourne supporter. I was never going to support an AFL-created, QLD team, with a tokenistic lion mascot. Fuck Ross Oakley and the AFL! Carn the Kangas!
Bn Fitzroy supporter since 1969 .took me a while to accept Brisbane but i figure if Muzzas on board then ill support them .i live in Adelaide and Brisbane have just beaten both our teams .the whole state goes miserable when they lose lol.
@Barracuda 1964 Im a Vic who moved to SA .Im totally non bias as my team Fitzroy is long gone, so i really get a laugh at how angry and so full of Vic H8 people r over here .Bizarre ...
1979 was the year Fitzroy finally made finals after a long absence. I' wasn't a Fitzroy supporter but went to the big elimination final win over Essendon at Waverley and the loss to Collingwood at the MCG a week later. Great atmosphere at both games.
more success coming under alistar clarkson in the next couple of years hopefully do what barassi did by taking us from bottom to top and premiership in 3 years
I thought Barassi's address to the players was a rant more than anything else. I would have thought there was a game plan , with the coach ,at the Qtr time break,assessing how well the team was executing that plan. Instead RDB just rips shreds off the players,including his favourite whipping boy - Keith Grieg
I know I've probably watched my Swannies play at Arden Street but it's the only one of the suburban grounds I seriously can't remember going to. Great footage!
The AFL would set up a Special Panel to investigate the matter. The coaches would be stood down pending the findings of the Panel. If the club had any Indigenous players they'd add a racism charge for good measure.
G'day JimShadyUK, its was great to a watched the old style footy at the suburban grounds before they all went. Even Kardinia park Geelong is a mimi Telstra dome now. Glad you enjoyed the footage, cheers Gezza
Was probably there that day. How talented the Kangas .... Dempsey, Greig, Blight, Glendenning ..... 5 Brownlows between them & Cable, runnerer up and 4 Sandovers.
