The Final Story - North 75

[Roo-Boy]

How about Brad Scott just keep playing this video during the pre season to try to motivate the players for next year along with the recent Footy Flashbacks with Wayne Carey about North Melbourne in the 90s. This loss last Sunday hurts me more than 2008.

 

[Mr Reliable]

For those who haven't seen it:

I used to sit in front of the coaches box when we played at the MCG - right in front of that cream wall. I was in heaven. The things I heard and saw from personalities like Barassi, Jordon, Kennedy and Eade when we played at home.

1975 was great but 1977 was superhuman.

 

[shinboner magic]

Just watched the doco.
Its inspiring stuff from both coaches.They were both master coaches.

The players should have this on loop in the gym all pre season.

Was there in the 90s watching Carey and our great team take all before them but to be there for the first flag would of been something on a different level.

 

[giantroo]

The thing that sticks in my mind ad-nauseam is the statement about getting football immortality. Now that was a powerful statement. Do we still have that board some where so we can stick it in our rooms?

 

[Ashley B]

Great video watched 3 times now. Doug Wade ahead of his time wearing the Clash strip , whats with the small Blue stripes lol

 

[Mr Reliable]

One of Ron Barassi's biggest blunders back then was to allow something negative to be written in a book about not being threatened by Alan Martello. He WAS a doofus but the Hawks used Barassi's words to motivate him and he generally played pretty well against us. In one game (a grand final that we lost - either 76 or 78) they snuck him into the side as a late inclusion. In the end we became paranoid about the bloke.

 

[LT Smash]

There's some absolutely sublime incidental vision of Keithy Greig running down the boundary and taking a couple of bounces in the last Quarter. Touches the ball on the ground - normally an awkward kind of action - but he looked like he was gliding over the turf, and his kicking action is so fluid, you actually have to focus to see the ball hit his boot. Amazing.

And kicked it on his non-preferred. The most graceful footballer EVER.

 

[Twinkletoes]

And kicked it on his non-preferred. The most graceful footballer EVER.

Amen to that! Good to see Blighty in the laceup jumper also. They were a very highly prized possession for anyone who could get their hands on one.

 

[Zondor]

Amen to that! Good to see Blighty in the laceup jumper also. They were a very highly prized possession for anyone who could get their hands on one.

Yeah and Doug Wade's very wide white vertical stripe jumper. :stern look

 

[Mr Reliable]

Barassi was a genius. He picks Wade on the condition that he doesn't fly for any marks and Wade's first three goals are from staying down and picking up easy crumbs!

Even Barassi was surprised at how beautifully it played out.

 

[Mr Reliable]

Interesting to see Gladys Moncreiff taking a dive in the hope of getting a 15 metre penalty and being reprimanded by Kevin Smith for bad acting.

And Martello going for goal with a flat punt from 20 metres out.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Yeah and Doug Wade's very wide white vertical stripe jumper. :stern look

They were pin stripes before he put it on.

 

[The Chiefton]

Unbelievable doco, gee a lot of those blokes still look like they haven't missed a beat.

Martello looks about 40!

At least we've finally been able to experience September action again, this year. Now we can keep ourselves occupied for the reamining few weeks, with this doco and possibly the 96 and 99 GF yet again !!

 

[The Other Dean]

Barassi was a genius. He picks Wade on the condition that he doesn't fly for any marks and Wade's first three goals are from staying down and picking up easy crumbs!

Even Barassi was surprised at how beautifully it played out.

That was hilarious. You can clearly see Wadey staying down for marks that he's in prime position to contest. Only to have 3 goals miraculously fall in his lap. And that's after he'd "talked his way back into" a Grand Final side. Awesome stuff.

 

[keeno 111]

This was so worth only getting 5 hours sleep before work. Fantastic!

 

[roogirl96]

That doco brought back so many memories. I feel so lucky to have been there for all 4 premierships but 1975 was just remarkable.

I remember going to the footy 1970 or 1971 and we only won 1 game for the whole season. We would walk back home to Kensington and say "gee we played well today, we got beat by less than 10 goals." The turnaround from early 1970's to grand final in 74 and then premiers in 75 was unbelievable.

I can remember the final quarter of the 75 GF and I knew we had won it, but my mum told me to wait till the final siren before celebrating. I am sure that she thought that hawthorn were going to sneak a win. She just wanted that siren to go and then she would finally believe. I have never seen so many adults cry.

My Mum had her 1st glass of champagne that night at Arden St and she was one of many that said "that they could now die happy because Nth had their 1st premiership."

There was something so special about that night. I will remember it for the rest of my life!!

 

[jacko57]

I remember going to the footy 1970 or 1971 and we only won 1 game for the whole season.

Do you think that game might be the reason so many Swans fans on BF have a chip on the shoulder about North?

 

[astrovic]

That was a fantastic watch.

Thanks so much for putting it up, Giantroo

 

[Roo-Boy]

I remember going to the footy 1970 or 1971 and we only won 1 game for the whole season.

Do you think that game might be the reason so many Swans fans on BF have a chip on the shoulder about North?

It was in round 17 1972. I found it here
http://www.users.on.net/~ilan/games70s.htm

 

[Kimbo]

This was so freaking awesome. Huge thank you, gr, for posting it. I really appreciate it. A million thumbs up.

Ditto giantroo; many, many thanks.

Favourite bit - when Barass literally screams the words "North Melbourne" in the 3-Quarter time huddle. Sent chills straight to the spine.

Mine too. "... in the history of North Melbourne!"

 

[Old Shinboner]

Cracking documentary. Enjoyed every minute of it. Great times the 1970s.

 

[astrovic]

Barassi was a genius. He picks Wade on the condition that he doesn't fly for any marks and Wade's first three goals are from staying down and picking up easy crumbs!

Even Barassi was surprised at how beautifully it played out.

One thing I was hoping for in the doco was for Barass to explain why he told Wade he couldn't fly for marks. Kind of an odd thing to require, albeit an inspired one. Would love to love what the thinking was - had Wade been giving away too many free kicks in the marking contest?

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

One thing I was hoping for in the doco was for Barass to explain why he told Wade he couldn't fly for marks. Kind of an odd thing to require, albeit an inspired one. Would love to love what the thinking was - had Wade been giving away too many free kicks in the marking contest?

I doubt RDB would even remember now.

The lights are only flickering in there these days. He'll be gone soon.

 

[jacko57]

One thing I was hoping for in the doco was for Barass to explain why he told Wade he couldn't fly for marks. Kind of an odd thing to require, albeit an inspired one. Would love to love what the thinking was - had Wade been giving away too many free kicks in the marking contest?

Can't remember.......but logic would suggest either he wasn't taking the marks, or was actually conceding frees.

I do recall Jack Dyer on tv before the GF (probably on League Teams) saying 'If Wade gets 4, he's did his job'.

 

[Mr Reliable]

Barassi was a great thinker about the game and about ways to improve players' skills. He loved Alan Jarrott (#47). Not a lot of natural ability but he'd worked really hard on all aspects of his game. Barassi wanted the players with loads of natural ability to sharpen their skills. Jarrott was an example of what you could do with limited natural ability.

I used to go down to training on Tuesday and Thursday nights and the players would warm up with some casual kick to kick. They all had to kick with their non-preferred foot so they would improve their kicking. The smaller players weren't allowed to fly (no good for LT). Their job was to rove the packs.

Then they'd run a few laps but it wasn't mindless jogging. They each had a footy and each would kick the ball to himself as he ran along, sometimes with the preferred foot, sometimes non-preferred. It forced the player to concentrate and watch the ball onto the boot and into their hands.

When they did circle work he would blow a whistle and they'd work in the opposite direction and kick with the other foot. Once a player had kicked or handballed the ball he had to chase and tag the player who received the ball. This forced all players to do extra running.

He used to line up the whole squad, each with a footy, and one player at a time would go from first to last trying to smother the kick. The players had great fun but they were learning on the job. At the end of the exercise he would always do the smothering exercise himself. The players took delight in trying to get their kicks away before he could effect a smother.

As I said earlier, he was a football genius. Probably one of the most successful players and coaches of all time, at least until he'd run his race at North.