The SANFL's most infamous incident?

[Dogwatcher]

Nah, I just wanted to have a shot at you. Fed up with your holier-than-thou, sensible attitude.

[Booney]

Nah, I just wanted to have a shot at you. Fed up with your holier-than-thou, sensible attitude.

*BANG*

[Booney]

Magellan sitting, shaking his head thinking :

"Really thought that it was a topic worth discussing"

[gadj1976]

Grave Danger and Twiggy Caldwell

[JK]

Nah, I just wanted to have a shot at you. Fed up with your holier-than-thou, sensible attitude.

Always wondered if I'd bought you the wrong beer at the cricket a few years back.

[Dogwatcher]

Nah, I just wanted to have a shot at you. Fed up with your holier-than-thou, sensible attitude.

Always wondered if I'd bought you the wrong beer at the cricket a few years back.

Mate, you must've been drunk. I don't remember a beer at the cricket. Definitely one at the Parade. We're due again, too.

[Dogwatcher]

Nah, I just wanted to have a shot at you. Fed up with your holier-than-thou, sensible attitude.

*BANG*

A new infamous incident?

[PatowalongaPirate]

Come on mate, you know the youngest child always gets the lightest treatment.

The Eagles?

#freekickcount

[Magellan]

Magellan sitting, shaking his head thinking :

"Really thought that it was a topic worth discussing"

I'm happy for there to be any discussion on my topic of choice.

Every year someone misses out on playing in a flag, for whatever reason - injury, form, match-ups, suspension. That's footy. I agree that you don't play, you don't get a medal. Don't take my word for it, though, my club barely knows when grand final day is. I know the above 'cos I read it on the back of a matchbox.

Speaking of people who missed out on playing in grand finals, or those who 'missed in' (so to speak - see what I did there?), how about Royce Hart's cameo for the Bays in the 1969 grand final? Before my time, but surely that must've caused a stir at least among the Sturt crowd?

I remember reading accounts that he'd been knocked out in the second quarter or something, but apparently that's wrong, and Hart actually played the game out and quite well.

[Magellan]

Come on mate, you know the youngest child always gets the lightest treatment.

The Eagles?

Crows' reserves.

[RB]

Crows and Power reserves

[beef]

Magellan sitting, shaking his head thinking :

"Really thought that it was a topic worth discussing"

I'm happy for there to be any discussion on my topic of choice.

Every year someone misses out on playing in a flag, for whatever reason - injury, form, match-ups, suspension. That's footy. I agree that you don't play, you don't get a medal. Don't take my word for it, though, my club barely knows when grand final day is. I know the above 'cos I read it on the back of a matchbox.

Speaking of people who missed out on playing in grand finals, or those who 'missed in' (so to speak - see what I did there?), how about Royce Hart's cameo for the Bays in the 1969 grand final? Before my time, but surely that must've caused a stir at least among the Sturt crowd?

I remember reading accounts that he'd been knocked out in the second quarter or something, but apparently that's wrong, and Hart actually played the game out and quite well.

The medal itself it just a token. You can give one to everyone who played a game that year but only the blokes who take the field are truely premireship players. Im sure macca only considers himself a 2 time premireship winner (82 & 84). Sonny Bill Willaims gave a disabled kid in the crowd his rugby world cup medal. Pretty sure that kid isnt a medal winner. They could hand out lollipops its the actually playing that matters, the medal itself is irrelevant

[JK]

Another infamous incident (although I think most consider it humorous folklore) would be the cutting down of the goalpost after a narrow GF victory by Port over Westies.

[Magellan]

The medal itself it just a token.

Pity Downtown's now closed, Centrals and Port Magpies could've hogged the dodgem cars for a week!

[Magellan]

JK, you might know this - wasn't Craig Blame the first player to be sent off int he 1990s following the implementation of the send-off rule? If I'm right, can you recall the incident? Was it something to do with being reported twice?

[JK]

JK, you might know this - wasn't Craig Blame the first player to be sent off int he 1990s following the implementation of the send-off rule? If I'm right, can you recall the incident? Was it something to do with being reported twice?

Don't hold me to it mate, but I think he was the first send off, and I think his offence was bad enough (apparently a king hit on Romani Negri - I wasn't at the game) that it was a straight send off, or was reported by multiple umpires so got his marching orders.

There was a bit going on behind the scenes at Norwood late in the 80's and early 90's and I always wondered if that played a part in him losing the plot. He was a hard bugger (wouldn't expect anything else from a Balme I suppose), and he could give a clip here and there, but I never saw him properly belt someone from memory.

[Magellan]

JK, you might know this - wasn't Craig Blame the first player to be sent off int he 1990s following the implementation of the send-off rule? If I'm right, can you recall the incident? Was it something to do with being reported twice?

Don't hold me to it mate, but I think he was the first send off, and I think his offence was bad enough (apparently a king hit on Romani Negri - I wasn't at the game) that it was a straight send off, or was reported by multiple umpires so got his marching orders.

There was a bit going on behind the scenes at Norwood late in the 80's and early 90's and I always wondered if that played a part in him losing the plot. He was a hard bugger (wouldn't expect anything else from a Balme I suppose), and he could give a clip here and there, but I never saw him properly belt someone from memory.

Cheers.

Are you at liberty to elaborate on the 'behind the scenes' stuff?

[JK]

JK, you might know this - wasn't Craig Blame the first player to be sent off int he 1990s following the implementation of the send-off rule? If I'm right, can you recall the incident? Was it something to do with being reported twice?

Don't hold me to it mate, but I think he was the first send off, and I think his offence was bad enough (apparently a king hit on Romani Negri - I wasn't at the game) that it was a straight send off, or was reported by multiple umpires so got his marching orders.

There was a bit going on behind the scenes at Norwood late in the 80's and early 90's and I always wondered if that played a part in him losing the plot. He was a hard bugger (wouldn't expect anything else from a Balme I suppose), and he could give a clip here and there, but I never saw him properly belt someone from memory.

Cheers.

Are you at liberty to elaborate on the 'behind the scenes' stuff?

Probably not mate as Ive only heard some stories 3rd hand. Allegedly it was the type of stuff you'd expect at the Bay lol

[Magellan]

JK, you might know this - wasn't Craig Blame the first player to be sent off int he 1990s following the implementation of the send-off rule? If I'm right, can you recall the incident? Was it something to do with being reported twice?

Don't hold me to it mate, but I think he was the first send off, and I think his offence was bad enough (apparently a king hit on Romani Negri - I wasn't at the game) that it was a straight send off, or was reported by multiple umpires so got his marching orders.

There was a bit going on behind the scenes at Norwood late in the 80's and early 90's and I always wondered if that played a part in him losing the plot. He was a hard bugger (wouldn't expect anything else from a Balme I suppose), and he could give a clip here and there, but I never saw him properly belt someone from memory.

Cheers.

Are you at liberty to elaborate on the 'behind the scenes' stuff?

Probably not mate as Ive only heard some stories 3rd hand. Allegedly it was the type of stuff you'd expect at the Bay lol

Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!

[Psyber]

One of the nastiest I saw occurred in the late 1950s when West Adelaide full forward Peter(?) Phipps picked up a small dog that had strayed on to Adelaide Oval and threw it, forcefully from some distance away, at the picket fence that the oval had then. It was likely to have been skewered on a pointed picket had not a fan on the fence-line leaned over the pickets and caught it in time.