AFL Slurpee Competition- Favourite memories- Fitzroy/Brisbane

[Rosy]

For a chance to win a week of Slurpees discuss your favourite memories about Brisbane or take the opportunity to reminisce about Fitzroy.

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This week, for your chance to win a “Week of Slurpees”, post your favourite memory from a Richmond game against Adelaide. The best post (as decided by PuntRoadEnd’s mods), will win!
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There will be a winner chosen each week for the next 4 weeks as we share memories of games against the opposition we're about to face.

 

[Rosy]

I have very fond memories of a game in Brisbane where I happened to notice a PRE t-shirt a couple of seats along from me. I'm pretty shy so fought with myself whether to say gidday or not but I had my suspicions who it might be so I plucked up the courage and was fortunate to meet Hartbalme and his now wife Denise who are now my good friends. We witnessed a win that game and decided to meet up there again the next year...yep another win. We're really disappointed we aren't playing up there this year because we plan to keep going to the footy together in Brisse seeing we're obviously Richmond's good luck charms. :hearton

 

[skybeau]

I've never actually seen Richmond play Brisbane live...I missed out on last years destroyation because of uni.

But the first game of AFL I ever saw was Richmond vs Fitzroy at Waverley Park in some random year which I have no idea about, but probably early 90's.

We got slaughterised by about 10 goals and Jeff Hogg got stretchered off. How's that for a footy intro?

But I suspect I didn't really care too much at that stage, because all I wanted to do was hop on the ground and kick the footy with Father. Which happened, and I'll never forget trying to pick my Father out (him stupidly wearing a dark jumper) through all the crowds pouring past and milling around. I'd like to think that it aided my vision as a footballer, but that was the closest I've ever come to playing any kind of footy that wasn't backyard, so its dubious.

 

[Bunnerz85]

My best memory was the Roy-Boys last Victorian game.

We came out and walloped them by 151pts, and it was absolutely great!

 

[Tiger74]

Prelim final in Brisbane.

1) booked my flight up with my points on Ansett......Ansett collapses

2) rebooked to go on the bus......I hate bus travel

3) TV camera came on to film us for the Footy Show...... I hid behind my seat, but still got busted signing the song and it was shown very prominantly on the Footy Show. Received about 20-30 SMS's from mates p1ssing themselves laughing

4) We were in a massive bus convoy...........BUT STILL the bus driver got lost around Dubbo, and was nearly lynched by the Richmond mob

5) Went to the game and saw us get our a$@es handed to us on a plate......cry cry cry

6) Immediately after game straight back on the buses......no time for beer and me needed beer

7) Around Dubbo my Chronic Fatigue relapsed......rest of the trip was like torture

Everything would have been forgiven if (5) was a different outcome, but it was nice to be one win away from the flag and have a trip up with my Dad and a whole lotta fellow Richmond supporters

 

[Ready]

Finally, finally, someone on PRE who went on the bus!

http://www.puntroadend.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=19652.0

 

[Tiger74]

I remember we had a family member on our bus, may have been Broders mum.  were you on the bus that got lost on the way up?

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Favourite Fitzroy game was in 1987, R11 at Princes Park. We were 1-9 and trailed by over 40 points early in the second quarter before the fightback began. 'Disco' Roach took a mark at half forward just as the siren went for half time and launched a booming torpedo from the boundary which sailed through the middle and had the crowd in raptures. We were never going to lose from that point, and 8.6 in the final quarter sealed the deal as Roach bagged 7.

Other highlights:
- earliest football memory, listening to the radio with my dad v Fitzroy R1 1975
- 1979, we defeated the Lions at the Sydney Cricket Ground; Roach took an absolute screamer
- Anzac Day 1980 at the MCG, equalled our highest score (which would be bettered later that year) in winning by 118 points; Roach, Cloke and Rowlings kicked 5 each
- first game in 1982 at Waverley; it was actually a Round 2 game which was brought forward and was the only game scheduled for footy's opening weekend! Maurice Rioli was dazzling on debut and Brian Taylor booted 8
- Geoff Raines' Mark of the Year at the MCG in 1982 as Brian Taylor kicked 10
- Friday night game, R22 1988; David Parkin had announced during the week it would be his final game as Fitzroy coach and we gave him a 103-point sendoff; Knighter starred in his 4th game and things looked bright at the end of KB's first year as coach - alas, a wooden spoon followed
- Michael Mitchell's Mark of the Year at the MCG in 1990
- Fitzroy's last game in Victoria; crowd of almost 50,000 was larger than that at the Junction Oval for the Ri v Fi 1944 Grand Final (Fitzroy's last flag)

Brisbane is a bit of a 'meh' team for me (as are most of the interstaters). Can remember holding them to 3 goals in the mud at the MCG, and leading by 80 points at half time last year was pretty good. All our six wins in Queensland have been hard-fought (biggest margin 18 points).

Worst memories:
- beaten at the Junction Oval, R15 in 1980 when we were on top and Fitzroy on the bottom; Geoff Raines got a couple of weeks for whacking someone
- losing by a point at the MCG in 1981, KB had 6 frees paid against him and claimed he was being "crucified" by the umpires; after a review, umpires' director Harry Beitzel admitted that 5 of the 6 decisions had been errors
- Friday night at the MCG, R22 1987 - battle for the wooden spoon; we kicked the first 2 in 2 minutes but ended up getting flogged; 'Flea' Weightman out 4 weeks for hitting Raines, Lee also suspended 4 weeks; one of my bleakest memories
- 1991 v Fitzroy at the MCG, after a diabolical display, an angry mob gathered outside the Richmond rooms after the game; though we 'only' lost by around 10 goals, this was the game that sealed KB's fate as coach; without doubt the least enjoyable match I've ever attended - Richmond supporters were abusing each other in exasperation
- Tony Free wrecking his knee against Brisbane in 1995; we'd come off a 5-day break and won to go to 5-0 but I can remember feeling very down on the way home
- Prelim Final loss in 2001; started OK and Richo kicked a great running goal but Brisbane were about to commence their hat-trick of flags and crushed us

 

[Qooty]

Hi folks,

A Roy here to add my own thoughts if that's ok

#3. My most vivid memory of a Richmond Fitzroy match is actually in 2001, Round 1 of the VAFA D3 grade. Fitzroy Reds wallopped Richmond Centrals at Richmond, in torrential rain and lightning. there's only one small pavilion there with a slight verandah and everyone was crammed under it. Mush Jackson very good in the wet. We went on to be premiers and champions and commence our run towards C Section where we now fight on.

#2. But Richmond & Fitzroy, V/AFL? The first time I made any mates at the footy was 1989 at the MCG when we gave the Tiges a beat of a beating, this was about the match where the Roys began to hit their straps and look good for a finals place, Osborne, Roos, Lynch, McCormack, etc. The couple of blokes I ran into there, and myself, were the first ever incarnation of what became for many years "the Lynch Mob", which became "The MOB" in 1994 and reverted to "The Lynch Mob" in 1997 (of which I was not a part).

#1. Obviously, 1996, 2nd last round. Fitzroy fans had never been fond of Richmond! But on that day, I saw things that brought forth tears. We sang and shouted and danced and sang. Eventually, there was a lull, we'd excited ourselves hoarse. At that point, Richmond fans began to abuse us ... for ceasing the noise! We were blind drunk, physically whithered and emotionally obliterated, and a number of Tige fans around us, seeing this, weren't going to let us drop. When their calls for resumption of support brought us back to our feet, a bunch of Tiger fans then marched down the aisle, joined in the singing, and wished us farewell. They weren't some docile supporter group from up the bush either. They were the same loudmouth give-no-inch yobbos that I'd probably traded punches with in earlier times.

Beauty in the stands.

Thanks,

Kev

 

[Ready]

I remember we had a family member on our bus, may have been Broders mum. were you on the bus that got lost on the way up?

Nah, was living in Brisbane so was fortunate. Got a ticket through some convoluted means via the Wantirna Club somehow. Had been down for the qualifying final debacle two weeks before.

Brodders' mum was deffo on the buses.