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zoia 
didak's number 1 fan
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Location: melbourne/templestowe
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| sorry donny |
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Northern Pie
We are watching!
Joined: 27 May 2001
Location: Queensland
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Thurrold is an absolute champion of the game and a top bloke to boot, I just wish he would be in brisbane around august 16th, it would make my mothers 60th the best ever...
Without ruffling a feather.....lmao
cheers
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peter_pies4ever
Joined: 21 Feb 2003
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| Since i never saw him play, What modern day footballer remins people of Thorold Merrett? |
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Donny 
Formerly known as MAGFAN8.
Joined: 04 Aug 2002
Location: Toonumbar NSW Australia
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Good question but too hard to pinpoint someone similar in today's game as no players drop kick or stab pass.
And for those too young to know. A stab pass was a drop kick but usually of a shorter distance and was kept low for chest marks. Other great exponents of this kick were Jack Clarke (Ess) and Billy Goggin (Gee).
As a youngster, Merrett used to practice this kick by aiming for a car tyre in the low fork of a tree. He wouldn't stop till he got 8 out of 10 on target.
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pants42
Joined: 05 Jun 2001
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| Yep Magfan , Barry Price used to drill them onto McKennas chest with precision the last two blokes i can recall to use the stab pass were Rioli and Cable with great accuracy. Was great to enjoy a wonderful moment of time with Collingwood champion. |
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Northern Pie
We are watching!
Joined: 27 May 2001
Location: Queensland
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Apparently, Tony Francis was much like Thurrold inthe way he went about his footy and his hardness at the ball....
Cheers
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2 PIES IN CAIRNS 
Joined: 07 Apr 1999
Location: Cairns, QLD.
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Yeah, I remember Thorold Merrett well. He used to own a sports store where our school used to make us order our school footy jumper, socks, shorts, etc. What a buzz for a young Pie supporter like me to be fitted out personally by a living legend. Then one year when our school played an Adelaide school in the annual game they got Thorold Merrett to umpire it. Boy, was I looking forward to this. About half way through the second quarter, I came out with "Oh, shit". Merrett blows the whistle. Free kick against me for swearing!!! When I queried him politely, he said that good catholic schoolboys shouldn't use such language on or off the footy field. When I told him not so politely to show me which bloody rule book he was using, I got 15 yards. Soon after, I got dragged! Our so-called coach told me that it didn't matter whether we won or not, it was how we represented our school that mattered. He got a burst from me as well.
I never played another game for the school
Yeah, I remember Thorold Merrett well.
Bloody good footballer he was, too.
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afisher 
Collingwood on the Great Wall near Simatai
Joined: 31 Oct 1999
Location: Berwick , Victoria
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| Great story 2Pies , there seems to be a second level to everything you say, But do you still revere Merret ?? |
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Pied Piper
Joined: 20 May 2003
Location: Pig City
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| MAGFAN8 wrote: | Whoever had introduced him to Hickey said, "Oh but he's a champion in the making" Hickey says, "Oh yeah. I suppose he can kick a bag of wheat 70 yards with either foot!"
"No. But he can kick a bag of wheat straight up a chook's arse from 40 yards without even ruffling the feathers !!" |
Great anecdote Donny, but it's not quite the way I remember it, or not how I read the story anyway. Not to be pedantic, but the alternative's also pretty good:
"Can he kick a bag of spuds over the Murray River?"
"No, but he can stab pass a tennis ball through a knot hole from 40 yards." 
Actually, since this is the polite version, I suspect the chook's arse variant is the real one!
Weed
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MagpieMad 
One in, All in!!
Joined: 15 Jan 2001
Location: -37.798563,144.996641
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it was a funny as joke, and bobby davis tells it bloody well, I'll see if I can ripp it to a mp3 and post it for you guys.
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MagpieMad
One in, All in!!
Joined: 15 Jan 2001
Location: -37.798563,144.996641
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Here it is, its a zipped .wav file to save on space. just right click and save as..
I'll only leave this up for a couple of days, so grab it while you can.
enjoy 
http://magpiemad.magpies.net/temp/thorold_merrett.zip
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2 PIES IN CAIRNS
Joined: 07 Apr 1999
Location: Cairns, QLD.
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afisher, to answer your question: As a footballer Thorold Merrett is still held in very high regard by me.
GO PIES |
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