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He is saying that we should only have Monday games on public holidays and not at other times.
I have to say I like the 6pm Friday games... Before Covid and WFH had kicked in, a 6 pm Friday kick off was great, you went to the pub from work and there'd be a double header starting as soon as your ass hit the barstool... Even when I WFH, I close the laptop at 5, then put a few steaks on the bbq and listen to the call on the radio (unless Parra are playing in which case I have to actually watch it).... Big fan tbh... And Thursday is better than Mondays imo....
Check out Jamberoo's post.
other Than season ticket holders they were all free tickets . That game and many other Monday nights that season you got free tickets via maccas and if I recall all games were at sfs
They were not all played at the SFS - Played at the Home grounds of the Home team in these matches - seemed to be a lot of people purchasing tickets that I seen by the long lines - we were season ticket holders
Somewhere in Sydney there is bloke who probably watches replays of that game religiously. When Andrew Gee gave away the penalty at the end of the game for an incorrect tap on the 20 and Roosters kicked the goal, the result meant one person collected the FootyTAB margin jackpot that night. From memory it was somewhere between 200K and 300K. In today's terms it's probably equivalent to a million bucks.
I thought it was 1.3 or so million but the link below says over 2 million.
f**k!! Well there you go!!!!I thought it was 1.3 or so million but the link below says over 2 million.
FootyTAB - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
There were 3 live tickets in play in that last game of round 14 in 1996 (Roosters vs Broncos ) with their picks for that game being
Roosters 1 to 12
Brisbane 1 to 12
Draw
The person with the draw was more than likely thinking about how to spend it when Andrew Walker missed the field goal - score 10-10- a minute or so to go
The one with Roosters 1-12 devastated by how close they had came to winning the jackpot
The one with Brisbane 1-12 thinking if Brisbane can get down field maybe they can kick a field goal to win the game.
Then the Andrew Gee tap restart error and the Referee the late Paul McBlane blows the whistle for the incorrect tap restart penalty and Ivan Cleary Kicks the penalty goal for the 12-10 win to the Roosters.
Back then for the tap restart the player had to place the ball on the ground(free of the hands) tap it forward with their foot and then pick it up - Gee tapped the ball on his foot like they do nowadays for tap restarts for 7 tackle sets
best scenario indeed
