Heritage Round

[shane]

Just to keep you lot up to speed. Freo will be wearing the 1979 East Fremantle Premiership jumper this weekend to celebrate the Derby Grand Final which took place that year and saw the biggest crowd, before or since, fill Subiaco Oval to watch the two great Fremantle sides beat each other senseless.

Unfortunately for your mob, you'll be playing the role of South Fremantle in out little re-enactment. They were right in the match until the last quarter at which point they were rolled by the blue and whites. 21.19.145 to 16.16.112. The plus for you is that Paul Roos will get to play Mal Brown who wore a snazzy red blazer on the day.

Thanks for participating.

Here's a little bit of the action to get you in the mood.

http://www.dockerland.com/video/1979.html

[Mr_Juicy]

Just to keep you lot up to speed. Freo will be wearing the 1979 East Fremantle Premiership jumper this weekend to celebrate the Derby Grand Final which took place that year and saw the biggest crowd, before or since, fill Subiaco Oval to watch the two great Fremantle sides beat each other senseless.

Unfortunately for your mob, you'll be playing the role of South Fremantle in out little re-enactment. They were right in the match until the last quarter at which point they were rolled by the blue and whites. 21.19.145 to 16.16.112. The plus for you is that Paul Roos will get to play Mal Brown who wore a snazzy red blazer on the day.

Thanks for participating.

Here's a little bit of the action to get you in the mood.

http://www.dockerland.com/video/1979.html

Yes but the red and whites won the fights

[Mr_Juicy]

well..... not we didn't

[shane]

I reckon by the end of the day, fighting was the winner.

[Mr_Juicy]

I reckon by the end of the day, fighting was the winner.

hooray!!

[reigning premier]

Bah....

Heritage round.... Rivalry round.... Women's round....

What's next???? Boards shorts round????

[Triple B]

I wonder who #25 and #49 were for South? They looked good.

[shane]

25 was Stephen Michael and 49 was Maurice Rioli

[goswannie14]

Mean while...In Sydney, the question was asked "What will we do for heritage round?" the answer, "Just get the old South Melbourne jumper out again."

I love the old South Melbourne Jumper, but there are some others that the club has worn, come on guys, in the future get a bit more creative, you never know, they might actually sell really well and raise more money for the club.

[Triple B]

25 was Stephen Michael and 49 was Maurice Rioli

Thx Shane.

That explains why in 2 minutes of footage they looked super classy and stood out like beacons.

[hammo]

I didn't even realise it was heritage round. Where's the promotion by the AFL / Swans??

[floppinab]

25 was Stephen Michael and 49 was Maurice Rioli

Any others that non-Wa..ians might recognise in that game?? Paticularly those that might've made State Teams of the era??

[shane]

Off the top of my head for East Fremantle -
Brian Peake is number 7 with the beard.
Ken Judge is in there with the long sleeves at full forward.
Tony Buhagiar is the little bloke jumping up and down at the start.
Doug Green played for South Melbourne I think. He was 19.
Kevin Taylor kicked 7 goals (or there abouts) in number 5 and won the Simpson medal.

[573v30]

So I guess our orange jumper is out of the question then.

[ScottH]

I didn't even realise it was heritage round. Where's the promotion by the AFL / Swans??

Don't worry, I haven't seen any advertising in Melb about it either.