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anchorman wrote: Southerner, surely you can't mean Dale Reeves!!!!!! Tell me you are not.He couldn't tell the difference between numbers 17 and 7.Hard man I think not.
We live in a haze of how great we were if you believe that most of todays players wouldn't get agme back then.
Funny I watched Sam Newman, Barry Richardson and Peter Hudson.They were glowing in their praise of the skills of the players of today.The skill and fitness of todays players.Sam was indifferent , but the others were glowing.Maybe their memories have dimmed after all they are all over 70.But hey doesn't that envelop almost all here!!!!

I`m 42 mate and I fully believe the footy of the 80`s was king and todays players don't hold a candle to them, as athletes they surpass them but as footballers no way! That's a general assessment across the board because players like Hodge, Mitchell, Judd, Fyfe etc would be grat in any era. But a guy like Farren Ray for example would not have got a league game in the WAFL back in the 80`s yet he has somehow has played over 200 in the AFL!! He is ordinary at best geez

anchorman wrote: Southerner, surely you can't mean Dale Reeves!!!!!! Tell me you are not.He couldn't tell the difference between numbers 17 and 7.Hard man I think not.
We live in a haze of how great we were if you believe that most of todays players wouldn't get agme back then.
Funny I watched Sam Newman, Barry Richardson and Peter Hudson.They were glowing in their praise of the skills of the players of today.The skill and fitness of todays players.Sam was indifferent , but the others were glowing.Maybe their memories have dimmed after all they are all over 70.But hey doesn't that envelop almost all here!!!!

Yeah I mean ex-Melbourne FC player Reeves - his only mistake was taking out that weak Phys-Ed teacher Wayne Cormack who fainted in fear

I saw lots of big hits by players from every club in the WANFL in those days - it was part & parcel of it all

Less than 5% of these modern day poofters would have made the grade

swandog -- agreed -- suprised it was not in the register; mind you, I only remember it because channel 7 when on about the next day; also, some people regarded it as a clean shepherd; today, he would be suspended for most of the season.

ArkRoyal wrote: swandog -- agreed -- suprised it was not in the register; mind you, I only remember it because channel 7 when on about the next day; also, some people regarded it as a clean shepherd; today, he would be suspended for most of the season.

It was a clean shepherd , the poor bastard was in the wrong place at a shit awful time

Anchorman: I think you are right about the match being Morgan's first league game. In regards to the interview of the old-timers you mentioned, it might just be that they were trying to avoid being rude to the interviewer. The older generation simply will not talk about themselves the way a lot of the younger cohorts do today.

Bill Lawry tried to explain the importance of never big noting oneself to his other commentators, naturally it went straight over their heads and they continued talking about their perpetual greatness, borring the country to death.

Michael Holding won't watch or commentate KFC cricket.

great to read all these comments....though I do laugh about that fella Dale reeves from SF....how in the fark can you mix up Cormack and Peake....one slightly built with a mo the other built like a brick shithouse with a big bush beard....mixed 17 for 7...yeah right!!... more like took the easy option and then blamed it on his glaucoma...anyway bit rough calling Cormack soft when big tough Dale took the easier target

Thought tough meant you put your body on the line regardless?....Basil was built like a brick shit house yet wore a motorbike helmet to protect his noggin?.... ...his body alone would of caused enough damage without the extra aid of a helmet .....can understand why Phil Narkle wore one being relatively small and slight...but big bad Basil?....plus Head Injuries never existed back in the 70's and 80's like they do now with concussion tests etc...interesting folk think Boucher was tough too......pretty sure he always side stepped TI when they met.....and TI was no body building monster.....when talking tough I reckon TI was tough as was Peake and Leon Baker....all three were the toughest I saw during those years....hard at it, head over the ball stuff....no huff n puff like Boucher or helmets like Basil.....just tough....isn't that what the term tough means?.....

Campbell didn't always wear the helmet, he started wearing it after he had fractured his skull from memory.

who fractured his skull?....a bus?......Basil was certainly built.....hopefully Reeves wasn't the offender

anchorman wrote: Southerner, surely you can't mean Dale Reeves!!!!!! Tell me you are not.He couldn't tell the difference between numbers 17 and 7.Hard man I think not.
We live in a haze of how great we were if you believe that most of todays players wouldn't get agme back then.
Funny I watched Sam Newman, Barry Richardson and Peter Hudson.They were glowing in their praise of the skills of the players of today.The skill and fitness of todays players.Sam was indifferent , but the others were glowing.Maybe their memories have dimmed after all they are all over 70.But hey doesn't that envelop almost all here!!!!

I also watched that Open Mike episode last night and you couldn't be further from the truth on their thoughts on the modern game. Hudson liked the modern game but lamented the lack of positional play especially for key forwards/backs nowadays the other 2 despise it to the extent Newman does not even watch football today and I know of many others from the 70/80s era in the same boat. As Newman said it is contrived by coaches circular rubbish!

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anchorman wrote: I may be wrong, but wasn't thatthe game after TI broke the Souths record for the most consecutive games .That game was play at the Cow paddock at Bassendean.Was also the day.Was the day Big Ron got out of the way and let TI steam roll poor old Kiethy Narkle/He was booed for the rest of the day.
I think the kid he ran through was playing his first game at EP.
I believe that that was the end of his brilliant career.It broke him to be booed.

I have that game on DVD mate and we ruined Michaels day by smashing South as I hope we can do this week! Yes you are correct he cowardly took out Keith Narkle who was a 100% ball player if there ever was one!

I wonder if it was Anchor on the Stephen Michael Choo Choo Train who when going over the bridge jumped out of the caboose into the Swan River on the long journey back to Fremantle Station after that massacre mate!!