Toast 150 Years of Essendon

[Shane Heard]

We pulled down the 1910 members stand in 1968 at Victoria Park. A shame, it was a beautiful building.
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Replaced it with the Sherrin Stand.
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Both Essendon & Collingwood “moved with the times”. A pity that 2 beautiful buildings are gone.

Collingwood were the first and only club (if I recall correctly) to build a stand for ladies only admittance. Built in 1900…demolished in 1929.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Sad reacts only

 

[Shane Heard]

For Essendon fans reading this..if you want a copy of “ Flying Higher”..there’s a few on eBay to buy. It’s a fantastic historical read.

 

[Shane Heard]

This is some of what I reading or origins.
It was formed by a band of followers who had rich land, horse racing and agricultural interests. All founders were associated with the Royal Agricultural Society, the Victoria and Moonee Valley Clubs, the Melbourne Hunt Club and Victorian Woodbrokers.
The Club was formed at a meeting in Kent Street, Ascot Vale at home of Mr Robert McCracken.

... The Senior club was formed in 1873 and was known as "The Same Old" for many years although junior Essendon clubs were in existence in 1871.

W.S Cox ( founder of the Moonee Valley Racecourse) was at that meeting I just learnt

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

Lmao we weren't handed the McGrath pick. You know who was handed multiple draft picks? Carlton for breaching the salary cap.
We still remain one of the only Victorian clubs to never receive a priority pick.
We finished last in 2016, which was only a little lower than our 15th-placed finish in 2015.
We were already banned from draft picks so we did our time.

The club and its supporters have well and truly moved on, unlike Juddernaut08 and some obsessed Carlton/North/Hawthorn fans. Seems to be a you problem.

Nope.

2006 Draft - Pick #18 (Leroy Jetta) was a priority draft pick.

 

[Mr north man]

The only club in the AFL to lose draft picks for both 1) salary cap cheating AND 2) performance enhancing drugs... and yet can't win a final for 6500 days

Yet they could have the qaudrella if they even lowered themselves even further by winning the draft cheats cup opps the Matthew Kruszer cup against another bunch of draft cheats.

 

[Occidental]

Collingwood were the first and only club (if I recall correctly) to build a stand for ladies only admittance. Built in 1900…demolished in 1929.

100% Correct. The Ladies Stand was along the wing. Pulled down 1929 when the Ryder Stand was built. Named for Jack Ryder: Collingwood, Victoria and Australian cricket captain.

Ladies Stand. Gone in 1929.


Ryder Stand. Built 1929 and still there.

 

[RearNaked]

Should be playing this week if the umpires didn’t gift the dogs the win

 

[lumpinee]

Nice bit of history, last telecast game from Windy Hill.

Decent midfield the Swans, Paul Kelly and Diesel at his fiery best

stood in the outer 3-4 x's a year early 80's,the outer wing was always standing room then they bought in the s****y seats with pole separators
when was it ? 1990? ground lost its identity for me when they did that

 

[lumpinee]

Sydney Liars club Hotel

 

[Leeda]

Windy hill…get ****ed….

 

[Milanista28]

My post was in reference to your clubs racist past, and what current day indigenous players on your list (he was the only one who came to mind) would think about it.


It's not me who should be ashamed.

We all know what you were trying to say and you should be embarrassed for even thinking it.

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

This thread was created to acknowledge and applaud Essendon’s 150 years in the elite competition.

Take your potting bullshit to the bay where it belongs


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If the rooster takes credit for the sunrise, surely it takes responsibility for the sunset.

This is a main board thread on the 150 years of the EFC. Not only wherever spin you wish to put on it.
By far and away the most significant event in living memory of the EFC is the club sanctioned PED cheating regime. A deliberate PED program euphemistically addressed as a ‘supplement’ scandal. A program the AFL has never punished - the only package penalty delivered by the AFL was for governance - not for systematic cheating putting the welfare of impressionable young at risk. The club was then rewarded with a number 1 draft pick resulting for the consequences of their cheating.

This is far more relevant than the 1897 premiership won on the back of a final round robin result of ….

1.8.14 to 0.8.8.

Far more relevant.

 

[windyhill]

1.8.14

Far more relevant.

Is that ports score from last week ?

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

Is that ports score from last week ?

It is the final round robin score of the 1897 premiership - surely you remember it well?

 

[Milanista28]

It is the final round robin score of the 1897 premiership - surely you remember it well?

Umpires were bad that day

 

[windyhill]

It is the final round robin score of the 1897 premiership - surely you remember it well?

One of many T.E.B !

 

[CarnTheScray]

Should be playing this week if the umpires didn’t gift the dogs the win

You wouldn't get past the first minute vs Brisbane

 

[footyfan1978]

History nerd stuff.
This is one of the Grandstands at the EMCG. Essendon FC shared it with East Melbourne Cricket Club.
View attachment 1239668EMCG is demolished after 1921. The East Melbourne Cricket Club move to Glenferrie Oval and merge with Hawthorn to form Hawthorn-East Melbourne Cricket Club.
But they loved their grandstand so much they moved it & rebuilt behind the goals at Glenferrie Oval.
There it is right behind the goals at Glenferrie.
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So Hawthorn used a grandstand for 40 years that once had Essendon fans in it!

Dropped into that ground today. First time I been there and I found weightlifting building where that stand must have been but I think that old wooden stand itself is gone now. So wonder when it was demolished. Geez, it a small football ground.

 

[footyfan1978]

If my memory serves me correctly and I'm in the right place, there should be 1 or 2 really old horse water troughs outside where these show us the ground once stood, that have been kept there. I also believe their is still a bit of the old cobblestone around that particular area.



Very interesting. Hawthorn also used that stand as their social rooms at Glenferrie for years is my understanding. It's now home to the Brass band of that area of Melbourne and actually the Victorian Weightlifting Association. A lot of sporting history in that grandstand.

The weightlifting thing I saw where the old EMFC stand must have been moved to. It not look like some old stand though so I assume the old wooden stand was demolished some decades ago and the building there now been there for many decades since.

As for that actual location of old East Melbourne Football Ground, I went and walked around location today and did not find any old horse water troughs so I assume you were not in right place. I did find the old terrace house in the picture across Jolimont Street so could figure out roughly where ground was. I thought I might find some monuments or something of old ground somewhere in location of where it used to be , but nothing really. Guess it really was demolished totally 100 years ago and nothing kept.

 

[Kings of Lygon]

The weightlifting thing I saw where the old EMFC stand must have been moved to. It not look like some old stand though so I assume the old wooden stand was demolished some decades ago and the building there now been there for many decades since.

As for that actual location of old East Melbourne Football Ground, I went and walked around location today and did not find any old horse water troughs so I assume you were not in right place. I did find the old terrace house in the picture across Jolimont Street so could figure out roughly where ground was. I thought I might find some monuments or something of old ground somewhere in location of where it used to be , but nothing really. Guess it really was demolished totally 100 years ago and nothing kept.

You went to both spots today? Explorer alert.



Hmmmm. It would be just like bloody local councils to unnecessarily remove pieces of the heritage of the area like this, probably in favour of something cheap and dispensible. This is from Dec 2020 on Google Maps.

 

[Dave]

The whole country has a racist past and, as far as the VFL (AFL) is concerned, a past history of racism wouldn't be limited to the one club.

I don't see the point of your post to be honest.

To troll.It’s obsessed by us.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

John Coleman has always been a fascinating figure for me. Would he have broken Coventry's goal scoring record (at the time) if he didn't do his knee at the time (which of course is now operable as a reconstruction)

Also been fascinated by the careers of Albert Thurgood and Dick Reynolda over time, even if alas no footage exists of them playing.

It's the past history and champions of Essendon that intrigue me most of all, and hope to find out more in their 150th anniversary year (like all other original Vic clubs too I should add)

 

[footyfan1978]

You went to both spots today? Explorer alert.

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Hmmmm. It would be just like bloody local councils to unnecessarily remove pieces of the heritage of the area like this, probably in favour of something cheap and dispensible. This is from Dec 2020 on Google Maps.

That is the wrong location imo. That is Jolimont Terrace sign which much closer to MCG. It further west at corner of Jolimont Road where the location should be in what I found.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

We pulled down the 1910 members stand in 1968 at Victoria Park. A shame, it was a beautiful building.
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Replaced it with the Sherrin Stand.
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Both Essendon & Collingwood “moved with the times”. A pity that 2 beautiful buildings are gone.

please please please post on the Richmond board, we are about to commit the same mistake with the Jack Dyer Stand