Princes park memories

[bluepride]

Myself personally i would love to start playing there but i remember as a 8 year old during the 90's parking near the cemetery and making the famous walk to the gate discussing how much wed beat the opposition.

I remember as we approached the gates and caught up with the usual crew that always watched the games there, dad would always turn to me and say "Remember your 5 years old" so we could get in for free and dad could get an extra beer. When i reflect on it, its sounds pretty cheap but it is one of the fond memories of Princess Park. I loved our regular seats which we went to every match without fail in front of the old members stand and right near the social club which dad always ducked off to when he could palm me off to a close mate . I used to love the wooden seats and the underground pub which me and my dads mates son would go out and have a kick at half time where there was a pool which looked like it had never been used. I used to love at 3 quarter time and we'd be down by several goals and i would be taking stats and be shaking my head when dad would turn around and say to his mate "We should win by at least 3" even though we down. But the best was shouting "WOOF" and hearing it echoe around Princess Park every time the sherrin touched his foot.

I know this may be boring to some people but if anyone has any similar experience would love to hear them because talking to mates has just got me going on the subject

 

[thylacine60]

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Brace yourself, Princess...

 

[bluepride]

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I was wondering if and when Princess Park might return

 

[The Cranium]

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She was blond, buxom, a yoga instructor,had legs to die for and had very good handball skills...

 

[Blue Dawn]

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Brace yourself, Princess...

If you look at the spelling in the OP's location i think we can clearly see that we're dealing with a rather innocent case of dyslexia.

 

[serenityNow]

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ThomasTTown

PrinceSS

 

[bluepride]

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ThomasTTown

PrinceSS

for the record i dont live there

 

[Juddbemetron]

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best memory is playing collingwood over there in i think 1999
smashed em by 111

 

[mediumsizered]

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I'm wondering if the misspelling of our great club's home ground is worthy of sanction. Thoughts?

 

[thylacine60]

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You're thinking of excluding bluepride from this years draft? That could set him back 10 years on this board!

 

[Kreuzerlenko]

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I'm wondering if the misspelling of our great club's home ground is worthy of sanction. Thoughts?

perma-ban?

 

[Salaryman]

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Op obviously likes his ddoubble lletters

 

[bluepride]

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best memory is playing collingwood over there in i think 1999
smashed em by 111

during the 3rd or 4th quarter I'm on tv for at least 8 seconds iv got curly hair and putting the thumbs up

 

[mickelboy182]

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Never been to Princess Park actually, whereabouts is it BP?

 

[HBF]

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Too many to list, but loved getting their nice and early to get my seat in The Geroge Harris Stand, then heading downstairs for a coffee, before I went back upstairs to watch the reserves.

Just a great atmosphere at Princes Park, particularly when Carlton were up and running. I miss those days.

 

[mightymightyblues]

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A game I remember very vividly was the one against the lions in 01'. Smashed them by over 12 goals in round 8 and they then went on to lose just 1 game for the remainder of the season. We were exceptionally good that day.
The lions didn't do too badly the years after that loss either.

 

[OldBlueFan]

This is probably not the sort of memory you want here, but ...

The funniest thing that happened to me at Princes Park was when I worked in the car park taking a dollar off everyone that drove in. I was doing that when we switched from notes to dollar coins. On a particularly cold day I was wearing an old "derro" type pure wool overcoat that I got from an op-shop for $20 and the wind was so strong that I was building up a huuuuuge static charge. A woman drove up with a car full of kids and held out her dollar coin ... well, I reckon the charge jumped through mid-air it was so strong, but I grabbed the coin and felt the jolt (I'm not kidding, it was like sticking my hand in a socket!) and then pulled back screaming "faaaaaaaarrrrrrKKKK!" at the top of my lungs.

The woman was mortified and her kids looked like they were gonna sh*t. I let go of the coin as I pulled back wringing my hand and watched as the woman sped off into the car park.

I never did find that coin, I reckon I threw it a couple of hundred metres! But me and the guy working the gate that day didn't stop laughing about it 'til we went into the ground.

Was probably the best job I ever had. Take money from folks for a couple of hours, hand the cash in, get paid and wander into the ground for free. Wouldn't even miss the start of the game if the car park filled quickly enough (which was most weeks)

 

[Monkey King]

Played little league for the Blues at Princes Park and after all these years still have the grass/dirt I pulled from my boots after the game. We beat our Geelong opponents and after cleaning ourselves up, got to sit and watch the Carlton seniors follow suit while admiring my teams winning scoreline on the old scoreboard.

One of many great memories.

 

[Vin Catoggio]

Loved standing in the shed (where the legends stand now is), payng $5 to get in with my Uni Student card, standing on the terraces somehow balancing a beer, a pie and a smoke in two hands, whilst yelling generall observations about anyone and everyone....

Do I remenber correctly the pie warmer catching on fire one day at the rear of this shed - or was it a drunken dream - wishing for a pie that wasnt boiling hot on the outside and still frozen in the middle?

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

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Too many to list, but loved getting their nice and early to get my seat in The Geroge Harris Stand, then heading downstairs for a coffee, before I went back upstairs to watch the reserves.

SOFT!

Real men drink beer ... or Frappe's.

 

[thylacine60]

Loved standing in the shed (where the legends stand now is), payng $5 to get in with my Uni Student card, standing on the terraces somehow balancing a beer, a pie and a smoke in two hands, whilst yelling generall observations about anyone and everyone....

Do I remenber correctly the pie warmer catching on fire one day at the rear of this shed - or was it a drunken dream - wishing for a pie that wasnt boiling hot on the outside and still frozen in the middle?

You bet. I thought it was the hot-dog stand - may have been a different event. There was always something catching fire in those days - usually us.

 

[blueboy25]

Living in Perth I didn't get to many games at princes park but one of my favourite memories of the ground was not actually a game. It was going to thrusday night training before the 95 GF.

Me and the old man were over for the granny and headed down to training with about 15,000 others. The buzz around the ground that afternoon was amazing.

The biggest roar came when fraser brown ran out of the race onto the ground being the 1st indication he would play on saturday.

2 days later we were back at the ground celebrating spanking geelong.

 

[BlueTouchPaper]

...usually us.

Woot!

 

[Magpie03]

Getting excited walking though the old turnstyles in the mornings.
Standing in the pocket at opposite the Heatley as a kid on a folding chair so I could see the game at every game for years with my dad and a large group of his friends.
Eating Licorice all sorts at half time.
Watching the press box catch on fire.
The smell of the hot jam donuts from the van on the hill.
The peanut man and his grey blanket.
Unfortunately the smell of the old green toilets.
Collecting cans at half time and between the ressies so I could get a pie and donuts.
Walking back on the majority of games through the turnstyles with everyone singing "we are the Navy Blues" at the tops of our voices with broad smiles on our faces.

Makes me miss Melbourne and hate Sydney again.

 

[thylacine60]

Getting excited walking though the old turnstyles in the mornings.
Standing in the pocket at opposite the Heatley as a kid on a folding chair so I could see the game at every game for years with my dad and a large group of his friends.
Eating Licorice all sorts at half time.
Watching the press box catch on fire.
The smell of the hot jam donuts from the van on the hill.
The peanut man and his grey blanket.
Unfortunately the smell of the old green toilets.
Collecting cans at half time and between the ressies so I could get a pie and donuts.
Walking back on the majority of games through the turnstyles with everyone singing "we are the Navy Blues" at the tops of our voices with broad smiles on our faces.

Makes me miss Melbourne and hate Sydney again.

You might have asked first. The VB can you grabbed that cold day we were playing Essendon in '81 was still half full. Sober was no place to be when the siren went that day.