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Went to the Junction Oval a few times in the 70s (had a Fitzroy mate). Beautiful ground. Lovely atmosphere - all those artists and TV wannabees in the crowd from St Kilda town. I always thought Princes Park was a bit tame. Ditto Geelong - they treated you like an overseas visitor down at...

If you want a serious answer for Richmond - it's tricky. Sure we had our good 4-years just recently, but we didn't make finals in either year past that - and we weren't close in either. (It's our best-ever 4-year period without doubt). In 1931-35, we played in 5 straight finals series, 4 GFs...

Perth is a very fast track - and when the wind is right, it can be spectacular for the jumps. I remember Fabrice LaPierre hitting an 8.78 one year - just over legal wind assistance. Found it! (I love Youtube).

Dont forget the Melbourne only won that game due to a miracle goal (by 1964 standards) kicked by Hassa Mann in a Glenferrie Gluepot in the last 5 minutes. (edit: Video queued to Mann goal, but the whole thing is a good watch).

Sorry - from 1942 to 2017: Why do you not include the 3 years prior when Melbourne 3-in-a-row? Why do you not include 2017+ when Richmond won 3-in-4? And even if you do just take 1942-2016 = Over those 64 years Melbourne won 7 flags Richmond won 6 flags. Thats better than the average. In...

TRue. Since 97 & 98 Adelaide have been ..... underwhelming. Sure, they made finals 12 of the next 19 seasons, finished top a couple of times, but only made 1 grand final. and since 2017, they've been downright awful. As the biggest team in a 2-team town you'd expect them to be one of the...

Well it's 2 years since the previous 'undisputed' retired - (Jason Castagna, of course) - so I guess it's time to to start the debate again.

A slightly left-of-centre choice here, but in 1993, North lost a pre-season practice match to Adelaide by 140 points - on 24 Feb 1993. North immediately sack senior coach and club legend Wayne Schimmelbusch, and current Essendon Reserves coach Dennis Pagan was installed. (I can't remember...

If we wear those KFC shorts during the season, that will be yet another reason to turn off the TV early.

Someone managed to find some old, grainy, shadowy, poorly filmed video (ABC) of the famous Winmar mark at Moorabbin - it's pretty good.

You spelt Jack Brabham wrong.

If you read the (quite detailed) article, the key phrase comes at the end - that the test they have performed can only 'exclude' people - it can't reliably point to someone unless we have their exact DNA to compare it with. So all that happened is the Kosminsky hasn't been ruled out. But the...

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I thought that test https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-sri-lanka-1982-83-61412/sri-lanka-vs-australia-only-test-63342/full-scorecard might be the Australian side with the most players with double letters in their surname - 8 of the 11 have doubles! And for the 3 who don't...

2015 - Richmond v Sydney. 5 goals down at half time - in Sydney - came back to win. Cotchin and Riewoldt great, all topped off by the legendary Maric Soccer goal as the sealer.

Poor Ty. If only he was 5-9 unstead of 6-6. He was a good small forward - reading the play, picking up easy crumbs, avoiding contact, getting handballs over the top. Unfortunately he was 6-6 - so he was supposed to take big marks, be a target and crash packs (no, just swatting Dean Cox...

Is Siddle the first player to have his age as his shirt number?

My wife was stung by a wasp, and now she's in the ED with her face all swollen and bruised. Luckily I was close enough to hit the wasp with my shovel before it could sting her again.

One that's forgotten these days. 1935. South Melbourne beat Collingwood in the 2nd Semi-Final to go into the GF. Star Full-Forward Bob Pratt kicks 6 (against Jack Regan 'The Prince of Full Backs'), reaching the 100-goal mark for the season in the process. (He had also kicked 10 against...

Good wicket for Stars.

I think the aussie girls have a good chance in the High jump - no doubt that Mahuchikh has the best 'peak' jump, but it is a lot harder to do that every single time. In a competition, you might take anywhere from 6-12 jumps. When she set the worl record she missed 2 jumps under 2.00 metres...

Darth Vader: "Luke, I know what you're getting for Christmas". Luke: "How"? Darth: "I felt your presents". Luke: "That is a really terrible Dad joke"! Darth: "Funny you should mention that............................................"

I agree that the 50m arc has influenced tactics in the game. A 50-metre arc is right on most player's limit for a shot for goal. As a result, the defending team will do all they can to keep the attacking team from possessing the ball inside the 50. You see the situation of the attacking team...

Hmmm - being unbiased, I think the Eng-NZ WC final has that covered as the best ever. 1. It's the World Cup Final. 2. It ended in a tie (2 ties, actually including the Super Over). 3. Heaps of controversy - overthrows etc. 4. Incredibly close calls in the last overs - Boult stepping on the rope...

Did anyone else think that Indian fielder put in a pretty poor effort on the boundary trying to stop that four from Head?

As a Richmond fan - I have a morbid fascination with finishing juuust out of the finals - ie 'Ninthmond'. My question is - what is the best record a team has had and still missed out on the finals? I suspect in the days of the Final 4, it may have been Richmond in 1966 - when they won 13...

Sorry, I'm a bit late to this thread. I was going to post something on the first day it was posted, and I discussed it with my wife, put forward a few names for consideration (with good, detailed reasons), and I've only just come out of hospital.

Has this rubbish finally stopped? They are planes. People look up in the sky and see lights. Unfortunately, they don't look up in the sky often, so when they see something they haven't seen before (like planes with landing lights etc), they don't know what they are - and eventually some idiot...

Australia have never picked all rounders - they are usually Batsmen or bowlers who are OK at the other skill - ie pick up a useful wicket while bowling 10-ish overs to give the main bowlers a rest or make a handy 30-40 in the lower order. The worst thing you can do is pick a guy who averages...