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ArkRoyal wrote:

DG: did you go to the  game where Subi beat the Tigers in 1981? Our friend, Munro kicked 6.3, I think.

Yes Ark I attended every game that year including practice matches and also the finals series. Great year, the highlight for me was watching brilliant Bucky for the last year in Subi colours

Beasley Hutton wrote:

AR & DG you blokes had a number of big burly forwards in that era from my memory the likes of Munro, McFaull, Vic Melville, Fathers, Rod Brown occasionally, whilst Ken Marshall not overly big was definitely powerfully built for his size.
When Haydn Bunton came on board he was probably the instigator for a more mobile forward line utilising the likes of Breman, Dean, Sells, Georgiades and even Laurie Keene who was a handful for defenders with not only his height but his mobility for a tall man in the key forward positions.

Beas we did have a lot of big burly forwards, Castles and Ironmonger were others but Munza and Fathers were short for ff, both only around 180cm but very strong in the air, particularly Munza. All the blokes you mentioned Bunts brought in were prodigious kicks, apart from Sells but he was mercurial