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[ScottH]

See Puffing paddling Plugger

IIRC this was the start of a very special season.

AFL Frantic Finishes

1996 Round 4: Richmond v Sydney
3.30am ? 6am 7TWO
Wednesday 25 November 2009

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The Richmond Tigers take on the Sydney Swans at Waverley Park. Hosted by Sandy Roberts.

[Triple B]

See Puffing paddling Plugger

IIRC this was the start of a very special season.

Yep.

Couple of other highlights were Hayden Kennedy giving us a gift when he awarded Dunks a softish free with minutes left after Richo took him out/illegally shepherded him on the goal-line. Aaron Sandilands wouldn't have been tall enough to touch the ball. Pretty dumb by Richo, but that sort of mirrored his career I guess. I'm still waiting for Kennedy to give us another soft free......14 seasons and counting

This was also the game that Scott Direen's AFL career effectively finished after Troy Gray delivered a hospital crossfield pass and Direen caught a very heavy hip and shoulder and missed the next 2-3 months. Never really came back the same player imo. I would love to clone his kick-in skills.....best in the comp at the time and undoubtedly the best the Swans have had in the past 20 odd years.

[ScottH]

Yep.

Couple of other highlights were Hayden Kennedy giving us a gift when he awarded Dunks a softish free with minutes left after Richo took him out/illegally shepherded him on the goal-line. Aaron Sandilands wouldn't have been tall enough to touch the ball. Pretty dumb by Richo, but that sort of mirrored his career I guess. I'm still waiting for Kennedy to give us another soft free......14 seasons and counting

This was also the game that Scott Direen's AFL career effectively finished after Troy Gray delivered a hospital crossfield pass and Direen caught a very heavy hip and shoulder and missed the next 2-3 months. Never really came back the same player imo. I would love to clone his kick-in skills.....best in the comp at the time and undoubtedly the best the Swans have had in the past 20 odd years.

Yep remember that, was considered controversial at the time. That was moments b4 pluggers run.

Ahh, that explains the loss of Direen in the Bombers game. I started watching this last night. They made mention that Grant had replaced Direen as the designated kicker.

D Kicket was making plenty of space in that game against his old side, A very young MOL, Plugger picking up a short kick on the bounce and handballing off to a flyin Maxfield who snapped whilst being tackled, the ball bounced through for the 1st goal of the game. Creswell hnadballs straight to a bomber who snap and misses. Grant kicks to Maxfield on the wing who takes off, kicks to Kickett, who misses the ball, regathers and fires off a quick HB to a fliying Maxfield, blonde mullet streaming behind who launches another attack.
Kelly playing on Hird. An almost 300 gamer Roos, complete with matressed thigh, playing all over the ground. The Luffster, a debuting Carey.

And I only saw 20 mins or so.

[mcs]

All I can say is hurry up and pull your finger out Prime and get 7two going here in Canberra. Sounds like lots of good footy matches from the past on there.

[SwansFan1972]

Yep remember that, was considered controversial at the time. That was moments b4 pluggers run.

Ahh, that explains the loss of Direen in the Bombers game. I started watching this last night. They made mention that Grant had replaced Direen as the designated kicker.

D Kicket was making plenty of space in that game against his old side, A very young MOL, Plugger picking up a short kick on the bounce and handballing off to a flyin Maxfield who snapped whilst being tackled, the ball bounced through for the 1st goal of the game. Creswell hnadballs straight to a bomber who snap and misses. Grant kicks to Maxfield on the wing who takes off, kicks to Kickett, who misses the ball, regathers and fires off a quick HB to a fliying Maxfield, blonde mullet streaming behind who launches another attack.
Kelly playing on Hird. An almost 300 gamer Roos, complete with matressed thigh, playing all over the ground. The Luffster, a debuting Carey.

And I only saw 20 mins or so.

Was the first ever AFL game I saw live (or at all really, never watched it on TV either).

A mate from work dragged a very reluctant and clueless spectator to a somewhat empty SCG. And we went on a $15 swans link ticket that included everything except an usher to your seat - they were that desperate to get people in.

We sat in the O'Reilly with a couple of old salts in front of us who gave up and left early into the last quarter ("we" were far enough behind to warrant getting an early bus apparently - to beat the 20 or so others who would be there) - not that we had any clue. We stayed.

Anyways, after that pair left everything went up a gear, it ended in a pretty exciting draw (only years later and much wiser did I appreciate whoever made the "like kissing your sister" analogy) - I found a new passion for a game I knew diddly about and we happily joined the ride for the rest of that amazing season and a pretty successful 13 years thereafter.

Ahhh, memories! love em.

[Damien]

7TWO and GO! have both been added to the Foxtel standard service. OneHD had already been added.

[AnnieH]

7TWO and GO! have both been added to the Foxtel standard service. OneHD had already been added.

FINALLY!!!

I'm happy as.

I taped a game earlier this week ... Rich V Syd at Waverly I think from R4 1996. It was a "fantastic finish", and I still have the last quarter to watch (SO DO NOT SPOIL IT FOR ME PLEASE).

Great game.

Richo ... a young 2 year player with long flowing locks.
Ben Holland ... 4th game and being touted as "the future of Richmond".
Luffy & Maxi ... had hair (and lots of it) - they looked like babies.
Nicksy ... 2nd gamer.
Plugger had kicked 5 up to 3/4 time.
Skinny little MickyO hardly touched the ball.
Kickett having a screamer.
Dunks probably the best marker on the day. If he played today's game, he'd be blacklisted!!
Direen taken off to hospital with suspected neck injuries.
Kels on the bottom of every pack.

I'm in footy heaven!!

[desredandwhite]

I'm pretty sure it's not the scoreboard wrong game however. I was at that game and I clearly remember Matty Nicks riskily clearing the ball from the goal line when he could have rushed it over for a behind. The details are sketchy in my mind and I can't remember the significance of that particular piece of play, but I remember it as confirmation at the time that the players themselves were aware the scoreboard was wrong.

It was Mark Orchard, down the Randwick end. This was my second game, I think R15, 97 sounds about right.

[Matt79]

7TWO and GO! have both been added to the Foxtel standard service. OneHD had already been added.

I cannot find ONEHD on fox?

[AnnieH]

I cannot find ONEHD on fox?

It's in the sports section.

[Mike_B]

I cannot find ONEHD on fox?

The HD version is Ch 210, the SD version is Ch 531.

[Matt79]

The HD version is Ch 210, the SD version is Ch 531.

Very bizarre...I have fox HD and cannot locate either!

[AnnieH]

I taped a game earlier this week ... Rich V Syd at Waverly I think from R4 1996. It was a "Frantic finish" (I'll say)Great game.

Just watched the end.

Last quarter, 13 minutes to go. Swans down. Ball comes out of the centre towards the swans goal (well, towards Plugger). Plugger drops the mark, does his own roving, kicks to Roosey (20m out right pocket), and Roosey kicks on and scores. First time we'd hit the front all game. For the next 13 minutes we go goal for goal with the ball mainly at the wrong end. Four minutes to go, Tiggers are behind by 4 are very nervous and have ample opportunity to kick a winner, but only manage 2 behinds and two out on the fulls. (Remember that although Richo was a gun, he was still a kid.)

1 minute to go, the ball is bounced up in front of the tiggers goal, someone rushes it through for a behind.

36 seconds to go, the ball is bounced up in front of the tiggers goal (AGAIN), MickyO gets under and slaps it back towards our goal, Nicksy (who had "saved" the game a few times already, soccers the ball in Pluggers' direction, Plugger's got two on him, so he soccers it on a little further, a Tigger picks up the ball, kicks it back to their end, and then someone blew the hooter.

We win by a point. This was our grand final year.

Q1: Richmond 4.4.28 Sydney 5.2.17
Q2: Richmond 6.7.43 Sydney 3.8.26
Q3: Richmond 8.13.61 Sydney 5.10.40
Q4: Richmond 9.16.70 Sydney 10.11.71

Plugger kicked 6.5. Crowd 33,847 (although the ground looked empty).
Totally @@@@ful Melbourne day ... wind one minute, rain the next, then the sun, then back to rain.

Game #16 for mummy-boy rocca.
Roosey played all over the place -even rucking in the last qtr - he was very fit that day, only one thigh taped to kingdom come.
Bradley Seymour had a "no sleeve" guernsey. The long-sleeve one must have been in the wash.
Chapman - 24 gamer. Cometti: "Chapmans looking to cement a place in this team".
Darren Gaspar 24 gamer. Had Plugger almost on a string, but Plugger took a screaming one hander on him that made poor Gaspar almost cry.
Matty Nicks - 2 gamer and kicked a goal.
Robert Walls coach of Richmond. Not happy Jan.
Rocket had hair.
Cometti: "Heuskes and Luff - Sydney's blonde bombshells!"
Mullets, mullets, mullets and more mullets. Except Richo - his hair by the 2nd qtr was in a ponytail. Mmmmm. Didn't he end up bald?
Richmond supporters booed Maxi every time he touched the ball - which was quite often. Cometti: "Maxfield is a prodigious kick of the ball." You reckon?


Very interesting take ... the flood was being "toyed" with, and I don't think that stoppages were Roosey's idea. I think Filandia had instructions to get the ball out of the boundary in Richmond's forward 50 every time it went in there. Cometti made special comments about it. Swans were almost playing ugly footy.

[johnno]

Just watched the end.

Last quarter, 13 minutes to go. Swans down. Ball comes out of the centre towards the swans goal (well, towards Plugger). Plugger drops the mark, does his own roving, kicks to Roosey (20m out right pocket), and Roosey kicks on and scores. First time we'd hit the front all game. For the next 13 minutes we go goal for goal with the ball mainly at the wrong end. Four minutes to go, Tiggers are behind by 4 are very nervous and have ample opportunity to kick a winner, but only manage 2 behinds and two out on the fulls. (Remember that although Richo was a gun, he was still a kid.)

1 minute to go, the ball is bounced up in front of the tiggers goal, someone rushes it through for a behind.

36 seconds to go, the ball is bounced up in front of the tiggers goal (AGAIN), MickyO gets under and slaps it back towards our goal, Nicksy (who had "saved" the game a few times already, soccers the ball in Pluggers' direction, Plugger's got two on him, so he soccers it on a little further, a Tigger picks up the ball, kicks it back to their end, and then someone blew the hooter.

We win by a point. This was our grand final year.

Q1: Richmond 4.4.28 Sydney 5.2.17
Q2: Richmond 6.7.43 Sydney 3.8.26
Q3: Richmond 8.13.61 Sydney 5.10.40
Q4: Richmond 9.16.70 Sydney 10.11.71

Plugger kicked 6.5. Crowd 33,847 (although the ground looked empty).
Totally @@@@ful Melbourne day ... wind one minute, rain the next, then the sun, then back to rain.

Game #16 for mummy-boy rocca.
Roosey played all over the place -even rucking in the last qtr - he was very fit that day, only one thigh taped to kingdom come.
Bradley Seymour had a "no sleeve" guernsey. The long-sleeve one must have been in the wash.
Chapman - 24 gamer. Cometti: "Chapmans looking to cement a place in this team".
Darren Gaspar 24 gamer. Had Plugger almost on a string, but Plugger took a screaming one hander on him that made poor Gaspar almost cry.
Matty Nicks - 2 gamer and kicked a goal.
Robert Walls coach of Richmond. Not happy Jan.
Rocket had hair.
Cometti: "Heuskes and Luff - Sydney's blonde bombshells!"
Mullets, mullets, mullets and more mullets. Except Richo - his hair by the 2nd qtr was in a ponytail. Mmmmm. Didn't he end up bald?
Richmond supporters booed Maxi every time he touched the ball - which was quite often. Cometti: "Maxfield is a prodigious kick of the ball." You reckon?


Very interesting take ... the flood was being "toyed" with, and I don't think that stoppages were Roosey's idea. I think Filandia had instructions to get the ball out of the boundary in Richmond's forward 50 every time it went in there. Cometti made special comments about it. Swans were almost playing ugly footy.

I was at that game, remember it well, it was wet, windy and very effing miserable. I remember the last 5-8 minutes, Richmond just peppering their goals and just couldn't slot one through, we were employing a flood that would have made Noah proud in those last few minutes.

The thing that stands out for me the most was the dying seconds and plugger running from the centre square to the wing to soccer the ball forward against 2 tigers players, I swear you will never see plugger run faster than that in his whole entire football career. For those that haven't seen it, just check out the last minute of the game. God was the big boy moving.

[Wardy]

my "7two" is in the foxtel "entertainment" section - I am enjoying a my saturday morning footy flashback!!!