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thompsoc 



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:34 pm
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Well I have had enough of all this heavy crap on Nicks of late.
Lets go back in time and remember the good the bad and the ugly
or more precisely the wonderful, the wacky and the just plain weird
that you have witnessed in football.
I will start off by my visit years ago to that hostile place Arden street North Melbourne.
To promote a circus in town a large elephant was paraded on the ground I think at half time
dressed in the colours of North.
When the great Pie team run back onto the ground a large BOOOO went up. This spooked the elephant
and off he went right towards where I was standing next to an open gate.
It occurred to me very quickly that I might get trampled at the footy by a rogue elephant.
It was one of the few times in my life that I actually feared for my life.
How friggin unlucky could you be! But lucky the elephant stopped and was quietly and quickly taken away.
No elephant has ever been to an AFL game since.
Now did I mention the BOOOOO and Adam wasn’t even born then!


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:52 pm
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Lol great story Thompsoc!

Surely Angry Anderson riding around in the bat mobile and singing "bound for glory" should get a mention.



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:55 pm
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Yes, yes what a classic in that bat car!
Was that Robert De Costello in the background???

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thompsoc wrote:
Yes, yes what a classic in that bat car!
Was that Robert De Costello in the background???


I was wondering that.....sure looks like him.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 4:00 pm
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Yes, it was.
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I was at Arden street the day of the great elephant charge. I was there with my late Pop, who was born in Collingwood in 1906, and was a true working class hero. He, like many of his generation from Collingwood, hated the police, and when a cop intervened to tell the animal handler what to do with the elephant, I remember my Pop saying "if that f*ckin copper doesn't get away from the elephant, he'll run amok". No sooner had he said it, than the elephant reared up on its back legs, turned around, and bolted towards the exit. Fortunately, a gate attendant just managed to open the gate in time, allowing the elephant to stampede straight through the crowd and out of the ground. How people weren't trampled to death was nothing short of a miracle.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:30 pm
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Great back up story Rudeboy.
I can't remember what happened to the elephant after he
stampeded, my memory has become a blur.
I have seen it on TV since then on one of the footy shows, but I can't
find it on Youtube.

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Was anyone at Vic Park the first time we played ADL there, round 15, 1991?
Everyone surrounded their CS after the second siren & they had to be escorted to their bus by the cops, all the COLL supporters started to shake the bus with them in it...



We smashed them by 123pts too from memory, it was Manson's 100th game for the Club too.

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ANNODAM wrote:
Was anyone at Vic Park the first time we played ADL there, round 15, 1991?
Everyone surrounded their CS after the second siren & they had to be escorted to their bus by the cops, all the COLL supporters started to shake the bus with them in it...



We smashed them by 123pts too from memory, it was Manson's 100th game for the Club too.

I do remember that but I can't remember why the fans got a bit hyped up.

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ANNODAM wrote:
Was anyone at Vic Park the first time we played ADL there, round 15, 1991?
Everyone surrounded their CS after the second siren & they had to be escorted to their bus by the cops, all the COLL supporters started to shake the bus with them in it...



We smashed them by 123pts too from memory, it was Manson's 100th game for the Club too.



I remember that day, they held signs up from inside the bus which said things like kick a Vic and they were hurling abuse out of the windows giving the collingwood fans the bird which then led to the rocking of the bus......boy I thought it was going to tip over lol.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:18 pm
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ANNODAM wrote:
Was anyone at Vic Park the first time we played ADL there, round 15, 1991?
Everyone surrounded their CS after the second siren & they had to be escorted to their bus by the cops, all the COLL supporters started to shake the bus with them in it...



We smashed them by 123pts too from memory, it was Manson's 100th game for the Club too.


from Nicks collingwood page

But a new element has emerged. The visiting supporter buses have arrived. The very new scarves, t-shirts, beanies, caps and other supporter gear are visible in unusual colours. Navy, gold and red. Nervous faces peer down from the buses. The milling Black & White throng notices the new arrivals and point and jeer. Not surprisingly police are present to ensure that no transgressions occur. This does not dissuade the protected ones who upon seeing their guardians have a newfound courage to taunt and deride the Magpie faithful. What could have turned ugly became a non-event as these supporters are quickly ushered into our hallowed arena.

This little cameo over with, we quickly pop into the Club for a few “frothies” and pies before the game. The Social Club is abuzz with anticipation. A new team means a new foe to despise and for Victorians even better that they are from S.A. We make our way to our usual possie in the Rush Stand about three quarters up to get the best view and stake our claim of concrete standing room.

Visiting teams to Victoria Park were always subject to a particular welcome due the fact that the visitors’ rooms were located under the Sherrin Stand. The Sherrin Stand at the railway end holds a majority of seasons ticket seat/box supporters who have had these same seats reserved for a millennia. The race leading from the rooms comes out onto the ground in front of these supporters and similarly the umpires use the same race. Naturally this led to many”controversial” incidents and today the “Camry Crows” received a particularly focused welcome. Additionally just to the left of the Sherrin is the Members or Bob Rose Stand where our Social Club devotees could move on mass between the island bar on the second floor and the mostly standing room viewing area in front of the stand. Woe betide umpiring or player stuff ups in that pocket. The assembled mass would move as one, pouring abuse and jeers or cheers, which from our side would bring comments such as “Members don’t like that one”, “Report the so-and-so” and “Drag ‘im.”

One notices on such a day as this, where the crowd is literally jammed into the terraces and over at “One-eyed Hill” the Trennery Crescent (or scoreboard) end, that the game becomes almost secondary. Sure oohs and ahhs, applause, cheers and chants accompany the game’s highlights. Self-preservation however comes to the fore as the swaying crowd forces you to concentrate on not falling over and squashing someone’s kid or someone’s mother.

So here we all are on this thankfully sunny’ish day, all 29,125 of us. But today we also see the bussed in supporters hidden in the left pocket of the railway or Lulie Street end. Waving flags and floggers and attempting A-D-E-L-A-I-D-E chants only to be drowned out by the arrival of the teams and the roar of the Magpie Army.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:25 pm
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Tony Francis had over 40 touches that day, IIRC.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:25 am
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ANNODAM wrote:
Was anyone at Vic Park the first time we played ADL there, round 15, 1991?
Everyone surrounded their CS after the second siren & they had to be escorted to their bus by the cops, all the COLL supporters started to shake the bus with them in it...



We smashed them by 123pts too from memory, it was Manson's 100th game for the Club too.


I can remember seeing the Freo's cheer squad under siege at Vic Park in their purple overalls completely surrounded by police. If I remember correctly they got flogged by about 100 points. It would have been the late nineties.

I wonder what was going through their minds at the time. It would have certainly been a very hostile environment from their perspective.

The joys of Vic Park where an opposition supporter was greeted with a full can of VB to the back of the head from 20 meters.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:52 am
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I bloody miss Vic Park!!!!

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:27 pm
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Member 7167 wrote:
I can remember seeing the Freo's cheer squad under siege at Vic Park in their purple overalls completely surrounded by police. If I remember correctly they got flogged by about 100 points. It would have been the late nineties.

I wonder what was going through their minds at the time. It would have certainly been a very hostile environment from their perspective...


round 15 1997. 100 point win vs Freo, 10 goal final term, Bucks 40+ touches in his 100th, Sav with 9 goals!

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1997/040819970712.html

Loved Neesham's comments after the match: "We didn't put a tag on Buckley because we felt his possessions wouldn't hurt us." [words to that effect]

the 1997 score line of 160-60 obliterated their previous worst beltings since their debut in 1995:
Fremantle's highest score conceded 151 v West Coast - R7,1995
Fremantle's biggest loss 96 v Adelaide - R7,1996

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The joys of Vic Park where an opposition supporter was greeted with a full can of VB to the back of the head from 20 meters.

Yes, our disposal was much better at Vic Park too!

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