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Thanks for the laugh all, keep them coming.
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Don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a Richmond team ever win at that dump. (That includes VFL and AFLW)I've got another one that haunts me to this day
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Went to the Western oval with my old man and not only watched us get our butts kicked but Simon Beazley kicked 11. I was only 8 but i was so mad that day. Dogs supporters pissed me off.
I’ve seen a couple out there but not many, the other campaigner of a ground was the velodrome, but used to have lunch before in this Italian restraunt in scat land and they did a wicked spaghetti marinaraDon’t think I’ve ever witnessed a Richmond team ever win at that dump. (That includes VFL and AFLW)
I think I have been to that ground more times than the 'G'...the old man use to follow the Bulldoggies and loved to have a beer at the Rising Sun Hotel just across the road from the Scray Ground...win, lose or draw! I tagged along...remember seeing Teddy Whitten play his last game there in the fecking wet again!Don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a Richmond team ever win at that dump. (That includes VFL and AFLW)
Jeeze how’d you get back to Byron Bay after that?Worst game I attended was at Waverly...Tigers V Hawks...
Bloody cold and bloody wet even a touch of hail...an absolute slugfest of mud, rain, darkness and points!
Enormous amount of points kicked something like 4 goals 26 points...raining points by both sides!
Could not tell the difference in Footy guernseys...it was so muddy and wet...even the Umpires were brown..so were the fecking seagulls! And come to think orff it, so were the bloody cold chips! Beer was the same!
So much rain fell down that game...I could not fully concentrate on the game played...all I could think orff was...feck I need a whiz...gee a whizzer would be nice! And looking backwards to see where the toilets were!
From hazy memory I think we won the game finally by 4 points...late in the last Quarter!
Had to have the ground lights on cos it was dark as...grey as...black as...wet as...the rain battered down on your head and shoulders!
Had to stop breathing when watching the slugfest otherwise the white condensation coming out from your mouth obscured your vision of the game played!
Then to top it all orff...the cherry on the top! or rather the the ice-cream on the cone!
I forgot where I parked the fecking Kombi...
Ended up walking around the ground twice in rain and mud searching for a bright yellow Kombi...
It was like a giant fecking yellow Banana when I got to the ground and first parked it! Stood out like dogs balls!
How hard can that be searching for a giant fecking yellow banana! Black as, dark as, heavy rain as...and MUD!!!
And all the time I was wearing and walking around in pristine woollen Ugg boots...
By the time I found the now brown Kombi...only cause most of the car park had emptied, and I was worried about being locked in for the night!
I had to pour the water out orff both Ugg Boots...roughly 5 and 1/2 pints of muddy water in each Ugg!
And drove the now brown Kombi home in cold freezing wet bare feet, cos the heater was not working!
Those Ugg Boots cost me heaps and they were a comfortable size 12...spesh made in NSW.
Took me roughly a week to dry the UGGs out, spinning them dry in the washing machine...rained all that week!
By the time I had dried out my Whizz Bang Ugg Boots...they must have been the size of sleeping bags from all the stretching my feet did to them walking in the rain...I never ended up fixing the Kombi heater boxes...cos my dear old brother sold the Kombi on me!
Bellingen!Jeeze how’d you get back to Byron Bay after that?
Yep I stayed the whole game. (Mainly because I was with a mate who barracks for the cats).Round 6, 2007. Enough said
Was there...a very sad exit...got smashed by around 60 points in the end! At least it wasn't pouring down rain!Special mention re the prelim in 1995 when we got caned by the Cats at VFL Park. Expectations about putting to rest 15 years of pain were high after destroying Essendon but it wasn't to be.
Sadly I think there will be some more rough losses coming up. Just a matter of time.
Was that the Geelong game?Round 6, 2007. Enough said
Here you go ... 1987, round 4.
Mind you, we led West Coast in round one by 33 at 3/4 time and lost by 14, conceding nine goals to one in the final quarter.
Round three amazing win over Essendon in Wallace's first game in black and yellow.
Round four, 39 points up on the Pies at 3/4 time, lost by 10.
Round five, led Sydney by 26 points at 3/4 time, lost by 20. Infamous footage of Tony Jewell tearing his hair out in the coaches box.
We folded at 3/4 time three times in five weeks.
That was the last game I'd been too before moving to Queensland. Next game was the Brisbane one this year. So not too good.Recently, GC game at Marvel last year, had just recovered from a bout of covid and this game was the first time I had been out of the house for two weeks. Was not worth it.
Then the 2021 game vs Saints. Could see in the warm up we were off, missed so many simple targets under no pressure. Awful game to watch.
And 2018 prelim lol