Your favourite school footy memories

[quin_stick]

In year 8, we'd only won 2-3 games going into the final home and away round. The opposition coach walks up to our coach before the match and says "Lucky we have you blokes this week, we need a win to make sure we play finals." We beat them by under a goal and they missed finals. How sweet it was

 

[Nostradumbass]

St Mary's primary school Williamstown 1986 we were undefeated.

 

[Jeremy Jordan]

From my experience, every Fat Kid was named Fat C*nt.

Shit thats harsh. Kids can be so mean.

 

[Bacon Warrior]

Shit thats harsh. Kids can be so mean.

You'd be surprised at what you hear at schools these days. I've almost accepted the C-word as normal.

 

[stmookeyj]

Being in Central Queensland, heartland of Rugby League, organised AFL competitions in High School was virtually non-existent until I graduated (there is a full competition now running over a few weeks). But in 1999 we did manage to win the "Brisbane Bears Shield" after winning the 9-a-side school competition, finishing undefeated (4 from 4)!

 

[Bryce_Jersey17]

Being in the middle of the NSW NRL territory, it was rare to see any AFL presence except for the strong Saturday local league. This year was my final year at school so some mates and I decided to form a team. We had everything; Guernseys, teams to play against, headmaster's approval and coaches but the sportsmaster decided to be a b**** and cancel the whole thing because it "wasnt fair on students who want to play other sports". Ah well...we were almost there!

 

[eaglespremiers]

The difference between school footy and competitive footy is immense.
I would regularly kick 4-5 goals in a school game.
In my local league, however, I would only average say 1 goal a game (at best).

 

[longyroos]

I played for my high school here in Geelong and to this day my mate and I talk about the day we sat in the pockets with Gary Ablett Jnr at full forward. He was kicking bags of 5 or 6 each game in the 20 minutes he spent on the ground, the mind is a bit hazey of the details but he sure didn't look like he was going to go on and be the player he is now.

We went on to play in the state final against Essendon Keilor I think who had a young Jason Cloke. We beat some good sides along the way from the Melbourne schools which for a state school was a great effort but the two things I'll always remember is getting crunched in the gut from Cloke and hitting the ground like a sack and missing the team photo a few weeks later after riding my bike home for lunch.

 

[Crow_Magnon]

Two fond memories...one...getting gravel rash playing against St. Paul's College in Adelaide many years ago. The oval was covered in loose gravel at the time...bizarre! The second one was playing Scotch College at home that same year (Yr 12). Thanks to my inaccurate kicking we drew with them 16.15 to 17.9 (my contribution 3.6 with a point from the boundary to draw the game). Mind you we were usually given a shellacking by them, so a draw was a great result.

 

[Chief]

A bump for the school holidays.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Playing at Waverley, winning some sort of schoolboy cup. The ground was amazing, and when standing in the goal square at one end, the curvature of the ground was that extreme that you could only see from the chest up of players at the other end of the ground.

Coming back from 40pts down in the last to snatch victory in a game against Echuca tech in the wet.
Bunch of 16-17 yr olds who played for numerous sides in various leagues on the weekend, clicking together in the last quarter and absolutely blitzing the opposition. It was pretty electric.

 

[wingardfreak]

At a footy carnival in high school, went to the canteen in between games a bought a mars bar, they were running one of those free bars promotions, I won a free mars bar and then proceeded to win another with the free bar and then completed the three peat on the next. This far exceeds anything I accomplished on the field, especially that day after gleefully pounding 4 mars bars.

 

[Hatchy1992]

At a friendly interschool comp, I was the only one that played weekend footy, made a bet with a few mates that I would kick a goal.

Played like c*** all day. First game nothing, second game nothing, 3rd game nothing, they were like whens the goal coming mate?...

4th game 1st quarter played, did nothing of note, 2nd and 3rd quarter benched, 4th quarter played from the goal square as a roving forward and right on the siren marked the ball in the square. Did a whole pointing at my mates celebration when I kicked it straight through the middle. Free lunch, Thank you very much. We went down by quite a bit but was a good day.

 

[DHepp21]

Last year I kicked 36 goals from 8 games for my local team.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Last year I kicked 36 goals from 8 games for my local team.

My favourite memory in school footy was keeping a big-headed star FF goalless.
Before running into me he had kicked 36 goals in 8 games.

 

[DangerSloane]

At a footy carnival in high school, went to the canteen in between games a bought a mars bar, they were running one of those free bars promotions, I won a free mars bar and then proceeded to win another with the free bar and then completed the three peat on the next. This far exceeds anything I accomplished on the field, especially that day after gleefully pounding 4 mars bars.

Did that too, but after footy one day.
By the end the guy at the shop was looking at me like I was pulling a scam or a genuine wizard.

 

[DHepp21]

My favourite memory in school footy was keeping a big-headed star FF goalless.
Before running into me he had kicked 36 goals in 8 games.

Don't think I went goalless in that season. My worst game was when I kicked 1 goal, 10 disposals and 4 marks.

 

[schnoods]

Always been the fat kid at full forward.

In primary school i was a big boy for my age, year 7 for sport we were doing footy. Played a mock game among a class of 30 odd, i was playing forward and no one could man up on me fairly other than the teacher as he was the closest person to my size (i was 5 ft 10 and 85kg at 12). Needless to say it was close, i still managed to kick a goal on him.

Also in high school leading up to a footy carnival, we were training after school and had a sports teacher coaching us as well as a few dads of a few classmates. During that time i was 15, we had a bit of a scratch match and a few of the dads were joining in to help simulate a taller ruckman and they put another dad on me at full back. Now by this time i was alot bigger at 6'2" and 125kg, we had a few wrestles trying to mark the ball and he slung me out in one instance to get at the ball. I recovered to tackle the poor bloke from behind without him knowing driving him into the ground. Grazed his forehead, dislocated a finger and winded the poor bugger. Probably the only time i ever ran someone down lol.

 

[greg62]

I remember our training nights at Belair National Park because the school oval was too small. No drainage and a foot of mud. My dad would sometimes come with his trailer and we would all hop in covered in slosh and he'd drop everyone at home. I remember Mick Nunan and Paul Bagshaw turning up for skills training.

 

[Bulbasaur]

snagged 5 in my last ever school footy match. It was against a shit team but I didnt kick many goals and it was my one chance at full forward.

I absolutely made the most of it. I ignored every lead, took ridiculous snaps from the boundary and celebrated in the most arrogant fashion when I scored a goal.

 

[JAlexG]

Just straight up marks up for me.

Half the kids in the school in a single pack. Taking hangers off each other, wagering that pack of smiths or fun size mars bar and keeping the ball away from the kid you didn't like.

Then you'd kick it close a gaggle of girls to get their attention until someone got onto an inside out scrubber of a torp and you could almost see it corkscrewing into her nasal passage in slow motion. Good times.

Great memories.