Memories of the good ol days

[GWW]

Ahhhh The Hatchet, what a wise old sage.


Anyone remember 5PBH covering Ingle Farm games back in the late 80s?

Yeah the Hatchet was great, did anyone ever know who it actually was?? I think Dick Jones did a column, he used to do a lot of stirring as well.

As for coverage of SAFA footy, i can recall in early 80's when they used to televise one of the games each week on one of the commercial tv stations.

[Hondo]

As for coverage of SAFA footy, i can recall in early 80's when they used to televise one of the games each week on one of the commercial tv stations.

Yeah I remember that

It was before the days of Sunday SANFL footy

I also remember when Sunday footy first started and it was a big deal - there was a classic South v Port game at Adel oval where South got up narrowly IIRC (Darren Harris starring)

[rogernumber10]

SAFA on a Sunday was massive before the SANFL started experimenting with a few sunday games from Adelaide Oval.

All I ever remember from SAFA matches was that Morrie Francou was the man!!!!

Stunning to think these days how it ever got on tv.

[GWW]

As for coverage of SAFA footy, i can recall in early 80's when they used to televise one of the games each week on one of the commercial tv stations.

Yeah I remember that

It was before the days of Sunday SANFL footy

I also remember when Sunday footy first started and it was a big deal - there was a classic South v Port game at Adel oval where South got up narrowly IIRC (Darren Harris starring)

Yeah Harris kicked a huge goal right at the end of the game (not sure if it was after the siren, may well have been), would have been 83 or 84.

[rogernumber10]

That kick basically got Darren Harris a contract at North Melbourne

[brod]

Full page photos of the cheerleaders in the Footy Budget

[JK]

As for coverage of SAFA footy, i can recall in early 80's when they used to televise one of the games each week on one of the commercial tv stations.

Yeah I remember that

It was before the days of Sunday SANFL footy

I also remember when Sunday footy first started and it was a big deal - there was a classic South v Port game at Adel oval where South got up narrowly IIRC (Darren Harris starring)

Yeah Harris kicked a huge goal right at the end of the game (not sure if it was after the siren, may well have been), would have been 83 or 84.

Yep 84 ... First Sunday game I can recall (off the top of my head) was a corker between Port and Sturt in 82, with Evans and Davies kicking about 17 goals between them - high scoring game which seesawed in nearly every quarter before a goalmouth scramble and Ray Huppatz sealer deep into the last.

[hearts on fire]

I remember those junior supporters booths around most entrances of the grounds, where you could pick up a little 'showbag' featuring a couple of football cards. I remember having a George Fiacchi card, and hiding it, as I had a newborn brother at the time.

[Dogwatcher]

I remember having a George Fiacchi card, and hiding it, as I had a newborn brother at the time.

I can understand you hiding it. It would've frightened the poor little fella half to death.

[Leaping Lindner]

SAFA on a Sunday was massive before the SANFL started experimenting with a few sunday games from Adelaide Oval.

All I ever remember from SAFA matches was that Morrie Francou was the man!!!!

Stunning to think these days how it ever got on tv.

Ingle Farm use to feature a few North players from the early seventies - Maurie Francou & Dennis Sasche amongst them. Those games were in 1977 and I reckon the SANFL started sunday games in 1978.

[MagareyLegend]

Maurie Francou was scary
Dennis Sachse was huge

[FattyLumpkin]

Memories - a tad earlier than the 80's though...

Visiting Motley & Greer Sports Store. Real footballers worked there. Stan Wickham always good for a yarn. A highlight of our trips to the "big smoke".

Listening to footy on the wireless. Including the Magarey Medal counts, complete with Advertiser scoring sheet.

Being taken to your first ever GF at Adelaide Oval with your dad. Catching the first bus, standing in the queue at the gate, getting your "spot", then standing in the rain for 10 hours watching 3 games of footy (or was it all 4??). Listening to the "banter" between opposition supporters. Still ranks as my greatest memory ever.

My Golden Breed Peckers windcheater

Loathing the train-trip from Woody Park after yet another Pecker loss and having to endure the verbal flogging from all the Port supporters heading home from Adelaide Oval - particulalry bad that year when Alberton was unavailable and they played home games at Adelaide

Weekends: Televised seconds footy. Go have a kick myself sat arvo. Sundays - VFL replay followed by SAFA. A great way to spend a weekend.

And Peter Plus!!!

[Strawb]

something I found one day at the Port Market

[mal]

Collecting bottle tops with SANFL players in the sixties [still have a few...not for sale]
Norwood cheer squad early seventies
Taking my wife on our first date to a Norwood V Sturt final in the early eighties
Going to nearly every Norwood game between 1968 to mid nineties
Then the Crows and later Power came in and the SANFL became a different comp + I lost my fanatatism
2000 + still attend and watch all the teams as often as possible and still entertained, but not as good as the good ol days

[nickname]

Ahhhh The Hatchet, what a wise old sage.


Anyone remember 5PBH covering Ingle Farm games back in the late 80s?

Yeah the Hatchet was great, did anyone ever know who it actually was?? I think Dick Jones did a column, he used to do a lot of stirring as well.

As for coverage of SAFA footy, i can recall in early 80's when they used to televise one of the games each week on one of the commercial tv stations.

I think The Hatchet was Bernie Whimpress.

[Blacky]

sleeping out at adelaide oval for grand finals in the late 60s and early 70s
no crap in those days everybody just went to have fun
pancake kitchen at 3 in the morning
no sleep at all during the night
sleep though the 19s and b grade
then watch the leaque
great days will never forget the good times

[JK]

Collecting bottle tops with SANFL players in the sixties

Oh yeah, any well known players used to go with you?

[rogernumber10]

Having been re-watching a couple of GF's that are about to be sent northwards to JAS, the huge bags of balloons in your team colours that were released just as you ran onto the ground, along with the massive logos that were painted on Footy Park for the big one each year.

[smac]

I remember as kids, my brother and I would go outside to see if we could see the balloons flying past our house. We never did.

Possibly something to do with living in Salisbury and not West Lakes...

[trev]

I remember being in Norwoods U/12 Special Squad and getting to boot plastic footies into the crowd at Half time on Prelim Final Day. It was in '82 so it was Glenelg and Port I think. As Norwood were already in the GF all of us Norwood boys got Booed by the crowd. We responded by booting the balls as hard as we could into the front rows of Footy park.
Happy days!