The weird, the wacky and the wonderful!

[Jezza]

[69 years a MAGPIE]

My Dad's house was in Lulie St behind the goals. He used to wait outside the players entrance and carry their bag = free entry. That was for players like Dickie Lee.
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[5 from the wing on debut]

Most memorable Vic Park memories:-
1. Daicos first game in 1979- a 178 point thumping of ST Kilda;
2. Robert Muir belting Ray Shaw;
3. Melbourne having to beat us in the last game of 76 to play finals. They did then had to wait for another game to go the right way a minute later. It was close but went the wrong way. The Dee's supporter next to us had a very big radio & in a fit of rage smashed it on the ground then threw it over the wall into the street.
4. A Fatui Ataata torp in the twos that went a bloody long way
5. PHIL Carman's first game back from a knee injury, kicked a goal, jogging back to the centre, then being punched in the knee by the Dogs Squirrel. Guess what followed.
6. Craig Kelly knocking Tony Hall into the next week.

My dad also told me a story about a game in the 1950,s at Vic Park which I always thought was BS. We were playing the Tigers & their crazy ruckman Mopsy Fraser decked a couple of Twomeys. A beer bottle then hit him so he jumped the fence and attacked the crowd, fixing up a few of them as well then back over the fence to continue the game. Alf Brown was the football writer for the Herald and in his last column before retiring he wrote about his most memorable moments at the footy over a very long career. He counted down from 10 to 1 and at number 1 there was my dad's story from all those years ago. My dad's story wasn't BS after all.

[thompsoc]

[5 from the wing on debut]

I remember Jack Dyer saying that in his time in football the only person he was ever scared of was Moppsy Fraser who would turn red in the face then just lose it.

[piedys]

[piedys]

[5 from the wing on debut]

[think positive]

[Jezza]

An interesting fact about the peanut man is his great-nephew is Matthew Boyd who plays for the Bulldogs.