Yeah I noticed that. Without knowing much about the 65 win , I thought it was amazing that our scores in 65 and 84 were identical
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Itās right now that I wish the old man had hung on a bit longer. He would love this.
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no good, hopefully that is just a short term thing and they fix it. Does much get cut off?
That was brilliant.
Canāt wait till next week.
Got a bit teary on occasions
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Theyāve done a marvelous job with how much respect theyāve paid to our past legends of the club. The first two episodes alone, serve as a real opportunity to educate the youth of today about this clubs great heritage. Kudos to them.
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Loved that Bluey Shelton quote:
āWith Coleman wanting us to play more aggressively, it meant a bit more physical stuff from the likes of ā¦ meā
just a classic understated deadpan delivery
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Clearly this is something that all new Draftees & new players must watch, on their first day at the club.
They are the custodians of wearing the jumper and that there is a rich 150 history to the number they are wearing.
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If only we could get this to happen. No more stupid tattoos, haircuts, or stupid facial hair.
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Loved Sarah Jones tribute to her grandad as well. Iām not crying, youāre crying
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Essendon beat Carlton in the 1962 GF with that scoreline, it seems
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Would love to hear any first or second hand stories from anyone on here to tell us more about these players and matches. Noonan, anyone
I didnāt see much of these guys in action but Iāve been lucky enough to have met quite a few of them socially and professionally.
Shelton, Birt, Leek, Charlie Payne, McKenzie etc.
As touched on a few times, they are, were, true gentlemen.
And D. Reynolds was the most modest footballer I have ever talked to.
We have been blessed to have had so many great men walk through the club doors.
Canāt wait for the next episodes - loving it!
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Eugh, really annoying with the first one seeming to be cut off on kayo. Might just wait for subsequent episodes to pop up in estonia instead.
Iām sure theyāll have the box set of DVDās at the bomber shop
Great recap with Harvās, Ken Fraser, Ted Fordham, & Dan Eddie.
A lot more stories being told about Reynolds & Coleman
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loved it & canāt wait until next Tuesday.
Sent an email to the club (Xavier) this morning saying how much we enjoyed the first two episodes.
Xavier replied, thanking us & saying how wonderfully connected & generous those players from the 50ās & 60ās have been and what absolute gentlemen they are.
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Except where she plugged FuxFooty in her tribute. Tasteless, & shameless.
I thought it was a pretty well put together couple of episodes, great use of archival material in particular. Lachy Hulmeās narration felt a bit over the top in trying to place great meaning on every single thing but I donāt like him in general so maybe Iām just biased there.
Looking at the list of episodes itās a shame that it looks like the entirety of the clubs history up until the late 60s was reduced to two episodes focusing largely on just Reynolds and Coleman. I guess it plays into the hero-worship nature of sports and the figures that clubs are built around. Obviously itās a shortcoming of the talking heads format of the documentary that you canāt go find people around from the 19th century to tell us stories about the club then!
I found some of the stories a bit like Abe Simpsonās onion-on-the-belt story telling but no doubt Iāll eat them up when itās players from my childhood talking! In the end, itās made for its audience and does a good job at giving the fans the sort of stuff they want.
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A lack of people and a lack of archival film footage. You can only show still photos for so long on a TV show. Even last night, a few photos were recycled a couple of times.
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