Bryan Pirouet, Craig Demi-Plie, Wayne Pas de Deux…all starred for the Big V with Teddy “The Nutcracker” Whitten, if memory serves. Don Dunstan was so incensed he threatened to put the pink shorts on again.
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Eric Foxtrot
Bit slow of the mark am I atm.
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Haha, we’ve all been there!
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Well, my source on that was Robin Close, so I think it was a pretty good source.
He says was given John Somerville’s number 19 jumper on the Thursday night before his first game.
Having said that, people can forget things.
The first Footy Record available from 1968 is Round 3 and it lists him as 58 in the Reserves.
His first game was R9 v Footscray at Windy Hill.
He was wearing 19 in the R11 game v Geelong : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-vxXLFT82E
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“It happens too often”: Is this Brodie Grundy’s biggest weakness?
By SEN
Collingwood ruckman Brodie Grundy recorded 10 of his side’s 28 clearances during Friday night’s loss to Essendon.
Grundy dominated in the air winning 28 more hit-outs, but the Bombers extracted 10 more clearances and scored 45 of their 63 points from stoppages.
Tim Watson believes Grundy must rectify this connectivity issue with his Magpies midfielders to ensure they capitalise on his ruck dominance.
“If he’s not getting hits to advantage and they’re not winning the stoppages, then there’s two problems: It might be him or the other problem might be the connection that he has, and the midfielders aren’t connecting properly with him,” Watson told SEN Breakfast .
“The other part of his ruck work is his around the ground play which I don’t think he has a peer in the competition in that area.
“Why is it that you’ve got a great ruckman that wins control of the ball in the air but then you can’t take advantage of that?
“That’s their number one thing Collingwood, they like to be the number one clearance ball movement side around congestion and they’re just not doing that at the moment.”
2008 Brownlow Medallist Adam Cooney feels Grundy should be finding a Collingwood teammate more regularly.
“Brodie Grundy should be hitting more often than not to the advantage of his teammates,” Cooney said.
“It happens too often that Brodie Grundy is getting a nice clean hit-out and it doesn’t go to advantage, so that is a real issue.”
Grundy is second in the competition for hit-outs to advantage behind North Melbourne’s Todd Goldstein.
That Round 9 game in 1968 at Windy Hill, against Footscray, is I’m sure the very first game of football I ever went to - taken by my Bombers loving uncle.
I can’t recall Robin Close but I can recall Alan Noonan for some reason.
Yeah…I’m not denying that. We used to turn up to the game, buy the Record and check out the numbers.
My memory isn’t quite that spectacular that I’d say he wore 58 in his first game and 19 in his second game. If I’d kept my brother’s Footy Records after his death, that’d tell me but we gave them to Gregor McCasker at the Hall of Fame 16 or 17 years ago.
American reacting to Essendon vs Collingwood
Thanks to Pat Mcafee the AFL is getting great exposure in the USA a lot more Americans are tuning in now
And, as in many other areas, they have no idea how clueless they are!
Hope the sport becomes really huge over there it’s funny some Americans prefer watching AFL over NFL.
Probably posted already. But just for a laugh…
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Very clever getting Kermit the Frog involved. Will lift the AFL profile immensely in the US.
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He called us “Essingdon.”
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HE STILL HAS HIS CHRISTMAS TREE UP!
Must have watched us before hehe
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Yeah and Essington for the first 10 minutes of the game.
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Was he filming that on a waterbed?
Forgot to record the game but I’ve found an online replay with Russian commentary. Better than the real thing:
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Эссингтон
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