Swans rewind - watching games of times past

[chammond]

Was that the game at the MCG in 94? I was there & recall it being an electric finish to win game to break a long losing streak, even though we went on to win 3rd wooden spoon in succession. Dermie played his best game in short career with the club and kicked the sealer. He was very pumped after the game.

We were never going to win that game, until Brereton decided to pull his finger out in the last quarter. I've never been a Dermie fan, but in that last quarter he gave a final flicker of just how good a footballer he really was, and he turned the game around. When he took a screamer over top of Jim Stynes at the start of time-on you could sense the team suddenly believed they could win, and it was one-way traffic after that.

[mcs]

Was watching fox footy when in Melbourne the other weekend and saw the replay of the forgotten 1996 thriller between the Swans and the Bombers - the Draw from Rd 6. Bombers kicked 12.18, we kicked 14.6 and I think it was Hird missed a kick with about 40 seconds to go to get the win. Plugger kicked 8 I think it was for us. Such different footy back then - and the condition of the SCG - oh my!

Good stuff it was, a quality game forgotten due to the more famous clash later in the same season.

[YvonneH]

Just watched a game from 2009 against Tigers. Matt O'Dwyer played a very good game. Shame he didn't quite make it.

[wolftone57]

Those who subscribe to Fox Footy will know that this is the time of the year when they interrupt endless re-runs of "the best of Bounce" (surely a contradiction) with the odd replay of past matches, recent or ancient.

When fox footy first started (many years ago now) they had a show called 'Headliners' in which they covered all the big stories of times past.
Some of the stories that I can remember were the Swans to Sydney, Peter Crimmins (Hawthorn) who battled cancer and missed one of their premierships and how the team took the cup to the hospital, and a story about Collingwood (can't remember exactly what it was) and how they changed their logo from the Magpie looking 'backward' to 'forward'.

One would think they still have all that footage (or at least channel 7 would). Would make a nice change for viewing in the off season.

Crimmo died 3 days after they presented the cup to him. It became known as Crimmo's Cup, the 1976 Premiership Cup.

[Blood Fever]

Just watched a game from 2009 against Tigers. Matt O'Dwyer played a very good game. Shame he didn't quite make it.

Recorded and watched Round 1 1987 where we slaughtered Collingwood by over 90 points at Victoria park. We played brilliantly and had a lot of stars. Capper kicked 9. No home finals at all in those days. if so, would have made at least one GF in that era.

[Doctor J.]

One I watched the other day was that game in 1994 when Plugger was still at St Kilda and destroyed us in the last quarter. I remember being so upset about it at the time as we seemed to have the game in hand at three quarter time. Looking at who was playing in that game it was the start of our rise. A young Kelly, Luff and Creswell were playing for example.

Something I like about watching those old games is seeing players who you had all but forgotten about running around again. For example, remember Wheeler - the African American guy wearing the pony tail? He was quite a talent. Another was McRae. He played some good solid football for us in those down times.

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Watching that game again, and its hard to believe we lost. With less than 9 minutes to go, we were 7 goals up. With 1 min 55 to go we were 11 points in front and the ball was being thrown in next to the point post in our forward line. St Kilda kicked two goals in less than two minutes when they didn't have possession of the ball at the start of that 1min 55 sec time frame. Fair to say defence wasn't our strong suit, and yes Plugger kicked 8 or something like that but at one stage in the last quarter Kickett was his opponent. Derek didn't have a defensive instinct in him, of course Plugger was going to have a blinder. What was Barassi thinking.

[stevoswan]

I tried to look beyond the result and the genesis of a good side that played off in the Grand Final just two years later. If you had told me that day that Plugger would go on to be a Swans all time great I would have thought you were being delusional.

Agree, especially after the Caven incident. I hated Plugger after that game.....but like everyone else, loved him not too long later (after a very brief period of inner conflict).

[Aprilbr]

I'm currently watching a replay game, Fitzroy vs Fremantle from 1996. Now that might not mean much to many but this is the last ever game won by Fitzroy.

For those of us on here who are old South supporters there is probably some empathy there? Fitzroy were forcably sent off to Brisbane at the end of that season. The club was broke and had lost almost all of its stars. Plenty of young guys playing though who went onto be stars elsewhere afterwards.

Hardly anyone was watching the game. Maybe 5000 to 10000 crowd. I think they played this game at the Western Oval. The Lions had no friends by this stage. As someone who now lives in Brunswick, I have a soft spot for this once proud and successful club. They were a powerhouse in the old VFL in its early days. Cheers to the old Fitzroy and South supporters.

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