The Things We Miss

[redVgirl]

- the winfield cup..having a sports game sponsored by a tobacco company seems incomprehensible today doesnt it??

- tina turner and barnsey...oh what i wouldnt give to see a theme song anywhere close to the awesomness that simply the best was!

- blocker on the footy show

- jerseys with COLLARS!! god i hate those stupid lycra t-shirt ones now. they are the devil.

- watching menzies in his first few seasons as a try scoring machine

- the chief and spud clashing

- BIFF!! especially in origin. its so sanitised now.

- the bears. poor buggers!!

- the 7's as someone else mentioned. they were fun..kinda like 20/20 cricket.

- ryan girdler playing and on tv...where did he dissappear to anyway?? get him back on the footy show!

- sterlo in the 80s with his flowing blonde locks

- players with mullets

 

[B-dos]

Monday Night Footy, Wednesday Night Footy...

 

[Special K]

- Coloured balls for origin
- North Sydney Bears
- World 7s
- Western Reds

 

[Phillips]

Cliff Lyons

 

[dannyboy]

1) Proper scrums
2) Toe to toe fights between forwards (usually from a collapsed number 1)
3) Halfbacks trying to get away with a second row feed
4) Contested play the balls
5) Toe poker goal kickers
6) Refs who mad a decision 'cause there was no video ref
7) Refs who weren't afraid to send a player to the sheds
8) Origin 1980's style
9) Frank Hyde's call of the day (& song afterwards)
10) The Jets/Bluebags, The Bears, The Magpies, The Berries
11) REAL hatred of Manly
12) Footy at the SCG, Redfern & Belmore
13) City V REAL Country

I could go on all day

Great post for a trip down memory lane there Preacher

 

[legend]

Monday night footy will be back next year.

I miss loyatly from players. *sigh*

I also missed the Jack Gibson patented tap moves from the Eels. They were unreal to watch.

 

[The Preacher]

I'm waiting for Quigs to get on line and take up a page or two. Thanks for the comment Dannyboy, the times I look back on in footy were probably the days I enjoyed most in our great sport.

 

[The Colonel]

I also missed the Jack Gibson patented tap moves from the Eels. They were unreal to watch.

I miss Big Jack doing commentary......

 

[BrisVegas]

Teams getting 1 point each if they were drawn after 80 minutes.

 

[dannyboy]

14) Wed night footy with Amco Cup & Commonwealth Bank Cup
15) Meapro hampers
16) Nine's Saturday sport show with Gibbo
17) Laurie Nichols
18) Rainy winters that filled the dam
19) "Its long enough. Its straight enough. Its straight between the posts"
20) Cheeky half-backs like Smith, Bishop, Raudonikis (sp)
21) South Sydney being a decent team
22) Stripping was something that only referred to the change rooms after the game (otherwise it is ball control :x )
23) UK players coming to Australia to play rather than Australian players going to UK to play
24) Playing footy in the park with my mates without any adult supervision in sight....getting home at dusk

 

[yobbo84]

Beards.

 

[The Preacher]

Beards.

Who'd he play for Yobbo ??:?

 

[forward pass]

1) Late night league with Wayne Pearce !
2) Saturday afternoon ABC match .
3) Being allowed to sit on the running track at Lidcombe oval (Had to be packed first)
4) Walking into a ground and being able to sit just about anywhere !!
5) Jerseys being the same design every year !!

 

[yobbo84]

Who'd he play for Yobbo ??:?

Haha you know, beards, the things that grow on males faces?

 

[B-dos]

Monday night footy will be back next year.

Really?? I can hear it now:

Monday Nights,
Under Lights
Monday Night Football!!!

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Teams getting 1 point each if they were drawn after 80 minutes.

Ahh yes the draws, bring them back I say. Stuff the golden point sh*tt.

 

[The Preacher]

Haha you know, beards, the things that grow on males faces?

What about the "mutton chops" of the late sixties-early seventies. The big red-head from West's, Barry Bryant, and the Roosters Ronny Saddler had these enormous chops that all but met at their respective chins.
As far as beards, you must be still wondering where Gary Hambly got to ???

 

[mulvihill]

Alan Jones giving churchill (winston not clive) speeches before games

They were so effective as well

 

[Sticks]

* Goalkicking....from digging the dirt, to the bucket of sand, to the plastic tee.

* Padding on the posts.....from basically nothing to the advertized, high density foam of the modern day.

* Bugger all cauliflowered ears these days.




Sticks

 

[Hutty1986]

I guess most of these aren't really that old, but I was only born in 86:

* The classic Ch 9 song " Friday niiights a great night for Fooootball!"
* Nathan Blacklock weaving his wonderful magic at Kogarah and at WIN, then doing his post match backflip... gold
* Objective commentators on Channel 9 O
* Back in the 1600's when Fri Night games were actually LIVE!
* The Footy Show actually analysing/previewing football games and being a much. much, much better show