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1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:54 pm
by bays2011
Seems trial matches were taken very seriously back in 1975! At least i think it is 1975 and the teams appear to be West Torrens and West Adelaide. Can anyone remember/shed further light on this incident?


Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:19 pm
by bayman
i miss those days at the footy 8) :D ;)

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:20 pm
by Adelaide Hawk
Yes, the trainer was Dick Michalczyk who was standing out of football awaiting a clearance from East Perth to West Adelaide. He ended up playing a bit of footy for North Melbourne in the VFL.

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:17 pm
by redandblack
Correct, reported without playing a game for us :D

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:27 am
by FOURTH ESTATE
What is unusual is that West Adelaide changed their jumper to the stripes version in 1974 under Fos Williams. West Torrens also changed their jumper in 1975 to a blue jumper with two yellow braces. The one in the video is the one they changed to in the early 70's blue with a yellow eagle on the left breast. But John Cassin did play for the Eagles from 1975-76 unless he played for them in a pre season game earlier than 1975. Just my observations.

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:54 pm
by rd
bays2011 wrote:Seems trial matches were taken very seriously back in 1975! At least i think it is 1975 and the teams appear to be West Torrens and West Adelaide. Can anyone remember/shed further light on this incident?



This was actually a 1973 trial match between West Adel and Essendon at Richmond Oval - John Cassin was playing for Essendon prior to his move to Torrens. Essendon won the game by a big margin but people only remember the "on-field efforts" of Michalczyk who was waiting for his clearance from East Perth to Westies.

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:15 pm
by JK
Footy looked so much better back in those days

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:16 pm
by Adelaide Hawk
JK wrote:Footy looked so much better back in those days


That's because it was. Here's part of Bass' blog on the North game ....

In perfect conditions it was great to get off to a high scoring start on Saturday at Prospect Oval. I don’t think I have ever experienced seven goals in the first quarter while coaching Norwood and it was an experience I hope to enjoy again. In the second quarter though the coaching box felt a little like sitting in the crowd with the sewing ladies at an Adelaide Crows game; “kick it, just kick it, oh please, kick it!”

Even coaches don't like the way the game is played :)

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:14 pm
by bays2011
rd wrote:
bays2011 wrote:Seems trial matches were taken very seriously back in 1975! At least i think it is 1975 and the teams appear to be West Torrens and West Adelaide. Can anyone remember/shed further light on this incident?



This was actually a 1973 trial match between West Adel and Essendon at Richmond Oval - John Cassin was playing for Essendon prior to his move to Torrens. Essendon won the game by a big margin but people only remember the "on-field efforts" of Michalczyk who was waiting for his clearance from East Perth to Westies.


Thanks for clarifying this RD. I had originally thought it must be from '73 or '74 as the footage is black and white, but as an another poster mentioned, I knew Cassin started with Torrens in 1975. Had no idea Essendon were invloved!

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:23 pm
by rd
Glad to help out. The relationship between the 2 clubs soured so much due to this match that I'm fairly sure that Essendon & West Adelaide never played each other ever again - perhaps there's a Westies fan who could confirm this.

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:45 am
by MagareyLegend
Dick by name dick by nature!

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:35 pm
by nickname
Michalcyk greatly disappointed the club by signing with North Melbourne while awaiting his clearance to West. I believe he then wrecked his knee in either the first or second game of the year playing for North Melb.

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:48 pm
by am Bays
redandblack wrote:Correct, reported without playing a game for us :D


1975, you got your 20 year service certificate that year at Westies didn't you R&B??

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:57 pm
by Booney
am Bays wrote:
redandblack wrote:Correct, reported without playing a game for us :D


1975, you got your 20 year service certificate that year at Westies didn't you R&B??


Retrospectively. ;)

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:03 pm
by Jimmy
So essendon had their sash and the bloods had the stripes, both in black and red, talk about a clash haha

Re: 1975 Trial match fight involving trainer

PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:54 pm
by nickname
Jimmy wrote:So essendon had their sash and the bloods had the stripes, both in black and red, talk about a clash haha


No, West are wearing the sash.