The Romeo Zoanetti Thread

[Squawk]

Jerry D'Antochia is a name I recall playing forever in the reserves before he got a call up eventually, and then notching up a tidy number of league games after selectors gave him a go and realised he was great value.

AH - do you have a record of reserves/league games for him, and years played?

[Adelaide Hawk]

Jerry D'Antochia is a name I recall playing forever in the reserves before he got a call up eventually, and then notching up a tidy number of league games after selectors gave him a go and realised he was great value.

AH - do you have a record of reserves/league games for him, and years played?

I'll need to check the annual reports for reserves games, but I can tell you he played 204 league games from 1986 to 1999.

[Leaping Lindner]

Falting would have had a substantial career with us in any other period. Very talented player who, to his credit, didn't seek a move away from us even with Morris, Luders, Lindner, Meuret, and Mike Smith ahead of him.

Trevor Ellis is one I remember playing a lot of Reserves footy for Westies in the 70s, and captaining us. May have got one League game but I'm not 100% on that.

Peter Hamilton (70s/80s) was another - 9 seasons for 44 League games...must mean about 130-odd Reserves games.

Another I have a vague memory of is John Baruzzi who I think played for Port and maybe North in the late 60s/early 70s? Reserves Magarey medallist I think who never seemed to crack it at League level IIRC.

"Barutts" could quite crack the Port league team regularly. He joined North in 1975 and was a league regular until he retired at the end of 1979 (96 games - 103 goals). A good solid contributor when he was with us and (if fit) always in the first picked.

[nickname]

Thanks LL, I didn't realise he played so much senior footy with North.

[gadj1976]

I used to watch the ressies each week. My memory is definitely failing me, but I remember Daryl Rady from Glenelg, Glen Kelsh from Port and Andrew Zilm from Sturt.

[dedja]

I used to watch the ressies each week. My memory is definitely failing me, but I remember Daryl Rady from Glenelg, Glen Kelsh from Port and Andrew Zilm from Sturt.

Remember the days they used to televise the ressies live?

[gadj1976]

I used to watch the ressies each week. My memory is definitely failing me, but I remember Daryl Rady from Glenelg, Glen Kelsh from Port and Andrew Zilm from Sturt.

Remember the days they used to televise the ressies live?

I used to watch it religiously. Loved those days in the late 70's early 80's and was devastated when they dropped the coverage. I used to watch the SAFA telecasts on Sunday religiously too.

Another one I tried to add to the post above was Alby Menzel from Norwood.

[Adelaide Hawk]

I used to watch the ressies each week. My memory is definitely failing me, but I remember Daryl Rady from Glenelg, Glen Kelsh from Port and Andrew Zilm from Sturt.

Remember the days they used to televise the ressies live?

The classic match at Glenelg Oval, I think it was Glenelg v Sturt.

Glenelg ran onto the ground. Then Sturt took the field. The camera was showing Glenelg doing their warm up lap when suddenly they starting doing all sorts of strange exercises ... cartwheels, somersaults, etc.

The commentators hadn't picked up on it and were talking about the game when suddenly one commentator said, "What the ... another Glenelg team has come onto the field!!".

With that, the first bunch took off, jumped the fence and ran off. It was hilarious, and a few years later I found out I worked with one of the guys who did it