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royallucky: yep agree, in addition to all that, from memory, cl also went the knuckle during the game, which was very revealling in itself at the time.

We actually had 4 AFL listed players that day with one of them being the highly touted Jeff White who had his colours lowered by a little known ex amateur player Greg Egan where as in 2000 our unheralded rookie listed colts player by the name of Dean Cox took the game by the scruff of the neck and won a Simpson medal which showed he was a future champion in the making,where as Jeff White finished up at Melbourne playing 280 AFL games but never rose to those levels

ArkRoyal wrote: bazza: thanks for the post on the 1930s. i remember reading about the loss of poor ron doig, a terrible business. Just to back up your point further, the stories my grand dad told, about how to play the game, were indeed full of violence. 'Punch him in the back of the head' in marking contests and so on. I knew a former EP league player whom was cleaned up at Bassendean in the late 1930s and had to quit the game.

My grandfather played in the 30s, including a reserves premiership side, and the teams were full of pretty hard characters, warfies etc, and it was the depression era so times were very tough, the players had to pay their own train fares to the game and match payments were undreamt of.

Bazza wrote:

ArkRoyal wrote: bazza: thanks for the post on the 1930s. i remember reading about the loss of poor ron doig, a terrible business. Just to back up your point further, the stories my grand dad told, about how to play the game, were indeed full of violence. 'Punch him in the back of the head' in marking contests and so on. I knew a former EP league player whom was cleaned up at Bassendean in the late 1930s and had to quit the game.

My grandfather played in the 30s, including a reserves premiership side, and the teams were full of pretty hard characters, warfies etc, and it was the depression era so times were very tough, the players had to pay their own train fares to the game and match payments were undreamt of.

Baz my dear old uncle played in a couple of ressies flags at Subi in the 20's and said even at that level it was brutal, he was a tough as nails little rover and said he always managed to evened things up, then they'd go off and have a beer after the game. Collingwood offered him 2 quid a game and a job to come over and play, but he decided to stay home in the family butchering business, something he always regretted.

Yep it was definatley brutal at all levels, he reckons the derbies were take no prisoners, funny thing was they worked together in many cases at the warf or woolstores.

Thats right, they'd beat the living suitcase out of each other then enjoy a beer afterwards.

Bazza wrote: Yep it was definatley brutal at all levels, he reckons the derbies were take no prisoners, funny thing was they worked together in many cases at the warf or woolstores.

There was a book published recently by author Chris Carmody which looked at footy in Fremantle and it was mentioned that everyone got along quite well in the port city at work on the wharfs and in factories - except when the 2 sides played each other and then it was war.

Remember back to the late 1970's .When Wa footy started playing run on hanpass football. It opened the game up and also sped the game up.Some sides in that era scored cricket scores.The VFL was still big mark+torpedo punt.
Still think the Wafl golden era was the 1960's.With home and away games pulling 20,000+ crowds.With a Perth population around 600,000.Amazing era for East Perth losing in 1960,61,66,67,68,69,71.Jack Sheedy must of hated GF day.1978 must of felt good for the Royals.

gtrxuone wrote: Remember back to the late 1970's .When Wa footy started playing run on hanpass football. It opened the game up and also sped the game up.Some sides in that era scored cricket scores.The VFL was still big mark+torpedo punt.
Still think the Wafl golden era was the 1960's.With home and away games pulling 20,000+ crowds.With a Perth population around 600,000.Amazing era for East Perth losing in 1960,61,66,67,68,69,71.Jack Sheedy must of hated GF day.1978 must of felt good for the Royals.

Incredible to play in 6 GFs in a decade and lose them all - 3 in a row to the same opponent. East and West Perth rivalry is famous - how are things between Perth FC and East Perth ?

GTR I did a quick peruse of www.waflfootyfacts.net to see what each of the traditional WAFL clubs biggest (record) home crowds were and in which year (not including finals & the neutral h&a games played at Subiaco Oval) plus what year their 2nd biggest home crowd was in below-

Club Ground Crowd Year (Next Best Crowd & Year)
SD Bassendean Oval- 22,350 (1980) - 19,237 (1980)
CL Claremont Oval- 18,268 (1983) - 18,106 (1981)
EF East Fremantle Oval- 21,317 (1979) - 20,287 (1985)
SF Fremantle Oval- 22,399 (1979) - 19,279 (1980)
PE Lathlain Park- 19,541 (1967) - 16,948 (1966)
WP Leederville Oval- 24,567 (1978) - 21,446 (1964)
SU Subiaco Oval- 21,088 (1986) - 16,709 (1985)
EP Perth Oval- 26,760 (1969) - 21,005 (1961)


Interesting to note all Record Crowds & Most 2nd Biggest Crowds for each WAFL club at their home venue were in the period 1978-1986 bar Perth & EP (both in the 1960s).