Remember when...

[MSB ROYS]

I found myself just the other day thinking i haven't heard much about Bernie Quinlan. I always hope i will cross paths with him one day at the shops and get to shake his hand and thank him for everything he did for Fitzroy. I hope he is healthy and still following the Lions closely.

Is this him in this link?

 

[Last of the Roys]

Funnily enough I just got a letter yesterday from the Fitzroy Brisbane Lions Historical Society with an invitation to a dinner they are having in late August. The special guests are Gary Wilson and Superboot Bernie Quinlan. Good to see.

For those interested - contact the Club - it's $75 and the 350 places are likely to sell out fast.

 

[Davemonkey]

Titus O'Reilly did his own little version of this thread.
http://titusoreily.com/retro-round-forgotten-footy-facts/

Retro Round: Forgotten Footy Facts


To celebrate this weekend’s ‘Retro Round’ here are some fact from footy’s glorious past that most people have forgotten.

• A pie at the footy in the 80s cost 60 cents. Asking for sushi would get you a blank stare. Asking for a salad would end in a fight
• Footy commentators would sometimes say racist or sexist things. This of course could never happen today and would be instantly career ending
• Watching footy at a suburban ground would often result in fans contracting trench foot and/or lock jaw. It was all in good fun though
• A ‘concussion test’ meant an opponent would whack you in the head again to see if you’d get back up
• Fans would often abuse indigenous players, often with racist slurs or booing. Unthinkable in our more enlightened age
• Once the entire 1936 Carlton team sunk in the mud in the centre, never to be seen again
• Serving ‘mid-strength’ beer would have resulted in the grandstand being burnt to the ground
• Smoking was limited to the quarter and three quarter time huddles in 1927 after numerous eye injuries when attempting to tackle a player with a lit cigarette
• A ‘pressure act’ was standing on an opponent’s head while he was lying in the mud
• Footy boots once weighed 30 kilos and resulted in most players staying in their positions for most of the games
• Drug testing was once used to ensure players had actually taken their drugs
• A ‘salary cap’ was where the players’ salaries were kept during the game. It was usually worn by a local gangster to ensure no one stole it
• A ‘hard ball get’ was when a player kicked the ball onto the road and someone had to go get it with their stops on

Titus O’Reily is doing a live show 2nd September at Yarraville Laughs. Tickets on sale now at http://www.yarravillelaughs.com/gig/titus-oreily

 

[winged1]

I remember Quinlan kicking 80metre (wind assisted) drop kicks. Nobody had a more accurate nickname than "superboot".

 

[Mr Ripper]

Less congestion and stoppages in general, but watching some of the games from the '80's on Fox Footy - umpires were unbelievably quick to call a ball up in those days (virtually as soon as the ball was half held up in dispute on the ground). These days they sometimes leave a rolling maul for 10 seconds+.

Umps in those days were also much more likely to pay a mark for virtually any half decent attempt (almost little league style); they also used to pay holding the ball much more often (not sure the concept of prior opportunity even existed back then).

Yeah, PO was introduced in 1996, which coincided with football's mid 90s transition from a free-flowing game to the stoppage game pretty much everyone accepts as the norm these days.

 

[Haso]

When leigh famously said... 'if it drops its defenses, we can kill it'...

I'm pretty sure it was 'if it bleeds, it can almost certainly die'.

 

[lioninthesand]

I'm pretty sure it was 'if it bleeds, it can almost certainly die'.

Hahaha narr I did some research and it was infact.. 'Luke, you can destroy the emporer. He has forseen this. This is your destiny. Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as Father and Son'... funny how time can muddle your memory.

 

[Davemonkey]

Hahaha narr I did some research and it was infact.. 'Luke, you can destroy the emporer. He has forseen this. This is your destiny. Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as Father and Son'... funny how time can muddle your memory.

Star Trek is my favourite.

 

[M Malice]

we used to really look forward to the excitement of September footy. now we look forward to the ND and Trade/FA period.

oh how the mighty have fallen.

 

[Happy_Neale]

Hahaha narr I did some research and it was infact.. 'Luke, you can destroy the emporer. He has forseen this. This is your destiny. Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as Father and Son'... funny how time can muddle your memory.

If it bleeds, we can sting it like a bee.

 

[dmac_55]

On Bernie Quinlan, my work college played 2 years for Fitzroy (mainly reserves) in the early 80s. He said Bernie was a wonderful bloke and one of the best people you could meet! Very fond of him as he would take the time with younger players to help them.. Sounds like a ripper

 

[Gadzorks]

You went home and Googled game reports. And wanted to watch a replay of the game. And felt great.

 

[blynd_freddie]

Funnily enough I just got a letter yesterday from the Fitzroy Brisbane Lions Historical Society with an invitation to a dinner they are having in late August. The special guests are Gary Wilson and Superboot Bernie Quinlan. Good to see.

For those interested - contact the Club - it's $75 and the 350 places are likely to sell out fast.

Was about to reply to your earlier quote with this... will be attending and have even booked seats for my octogenarian parents - gunna party like it was 1983!

 

[M Malice]

.... we got the ticker tape parade and not the firebirds.

well done firebirds, great stuff and congratulations on the back to back.

 

[josephs_79]

Teams, Coaches, Boards, etc were not scrutinized to the enth degree so that the media could sell papers or cause stories out of non issues or that just weren't there to have click bait links or headings.

 

[Gadzorks]

There weren't Internet discussion boards that enable us to spend/waste hundreds of hours in discussions of the minute details and rumours about our club/player/coaches with other equally obsessed semi-sane people.

Not sure if it is better now or then.

 

[josephs_79]

Coaches and teams could grow together and challenge instead of the quick solution and quick click to win and impatience that is around now a days...