WB Game Day V Port Adelaide R15 2019

[Eastdog]

What was the wettest match at the Western/Whitten Oval that you went to?

[Twodogs]

How do reckon Chris or Brad Scott would've gone with having to climb up into the coaches box?

My guess is a monster tantrum. I know we romance the past, but even with modest success towards the end of the WO, going to the footy was genuinely fun. Rain, hail or rain and hail.

The old Can Bar walk of shame to the coaches' boxes in the Gent stand. There was a reason we would offer the visiting coach first dibs on the box over on the Gordon st wing and one was you didn't have to walk through the ferals in the Can Bar!

[merantau]

The weather we used to stand through at the footy ground was incredible wasn't it? Then you'd spend all of Saturday night standing in front of the Vulcan gas heater warming up again and watching the replays on the ABC and C7. And trying to read the footy record if it had dried off.

One game that sticks in my mind is the day we held Carlton goalless until the 27 minute mark of the last quarter. It was bitterly cold, with a biting wind and it rained incessantly.

And it wasn’t a free kick either against Super! Umpires felt sorry for Carlton. Mark Arceri kicked the goal. Winners are grinners. Losers can ...

[Twodogs]

What was the wettest match at the Western/Whitten Oval that you went to?

V Essendon in the mid '80s, it rained so hard that even though we hadn't kicked a goal by 3/4 time we kicked with the tide in the last quarter and hit the front halfway through. Bloody Neil Cordy was miles away from his direct opponent and his opponent kicked the winner with a couple of minutes to go. I still think to myself in conditions like last night that everybody must have a man because of that game

[jeemak]

Growing up within a KM of Arctic Park, coupled with junior sport both Saturday and Sunday on weekends my WO experiences were limited. Most weekends I'd be able to get to listen to the Bulldogs on the radio after quarter time if I wasn't heading to Waverley to watch a game.

But Jesus did it get cold at Waverley. It was a sparse concrete mess of a ground, where you couldn't even rely on the warmth of your fellow supporters to keep you up and about because everyone was five metres away from each other on average!

On the good days it was great, kick to kick after the ground used to result in me and my brother being the last to leave, barely able to see with only service lighting left on. The Blue Coats were good in those days, they'd let you have a bit of fun. I remember the 1994 Qualifying Final, Carlton vs Geelong, and it was absolutely freezing until the game started, and then the crowd had piled in and the place just warmed up.

After a long absence my return to the WO was the game we played against the Cats that same year in round 17. The place was pretty crowded, just shy of 24K, and I took up a place with my old man and his childhood mates in the Geelong road members side pocket - where they always stood. I felt like I was at home, and returned in round 23 that same year to see us do the Dees. I feel like I missed out, but got a dose of the true WO experience in our last game in 1997 after attending more games than I had previously which I am grateful for.

[ratsmac]

What was the wettest match at the Western/Whitten Oval that you went to?


One game that sticks in my mind is the day we held Carlton goalless until the 27 minute mark of the last quarter. It was bitterly cold, with a biting wind and it rained incessantly.

And it wasn’t a free kick either against Super! Umpires felt sorry for Carlton. Mark Arceri kicked the goal. Winners are grinners. Losers can ...

This one ^^

Another I remember when I was a kid was against the Swans and we ended up with plenty of injuries so much that Jim Sewell had to play full forward on one leg just staying pretty much in the goal square just to field 18 players. Can't remember who won though, I just remember it was proper wet.

[Twodogs]

This one ^^

Another I remember when I was a kid was against the Swans and we ended up with plenty of injuries so much that Jim Sewell had to play full forward on one leg just staying pretty much in the goal square just to field 18 players. Can't remember who won though, I just remember it was proper wet.

I reckon it was Steve Wallis with the injured leg. The mad bastard kicked the sealer.

[merantau]

The last game at Whitten Oval was on a very cold day. I drove down from Bendigo via Daylesford and it was snowing as I went through Leonard's Hill. I used to love going to the football back then. The experience these days is too homogenized, Pasteurized and plastic wrapped for mine.

"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."

[ratsmac]

I reckon it was Steve Wallis with the injured leg. The mad bastard kicked the sealer.

I think your right. That makes more sense because I remember he doesn't normally play that position and Jim Sewell was a forward wasn't he. Wally was one tough unit. I remember half the Barkley St end where we were standing being under water that day.

[Daughter of the West]

Dogs by 22 - I just have a feeling about this one.
First goal - Bailey Smith
BOG - The Bont to get back into Brownlow conversation!

I'd just like to highlight this - not too far off the mark good sir!

You're Bont prediction was particularly pertinent :D

[Bulldog4life]

V Essendon in the mid '80s, it rained so hard that even though we hadn't kicked a goal by 3/4 time we kicked with the tide in the last quarter and hit the front halfway through. Bloody Neil Cordy was miles away from his direct opponent and his opponent kicked the winner with a couple of minutes to go. I still think to myself in conditions like last night that everybody must have a man because of that game

Yep that is the one Td. Was it Bradbury who kicked the goal for Essendon? I was standing in the forward pocket at Geelong road end with my dad and we were super drenched. And then to lose it. AArrghh.

[Bulldog4life]

The weather we used to stand through at the footy ground was incredible wasn't it? Then you'd spend all of Saturday night standing in front of the Vulcan gas heater warming up again and watching the replays on the ABC and C7. And trying to read the footy record if it had dried off.

Then get up the next day and rush to the newsagent to buy the pink paper. The sporting globe.

[Grantysghost]

I would be very surprised if we didn't know each other IRL. We must have spent time together trudging fro one end of Whitten oval to the other following Simon Beasley back in the mid '80s

Ha its possible. We used to camp under the EJ stand every week with the family. Great memories. My most vivid a wet day, must've been 10 ish somehow got in the midst of a Steve Macpherson, Doug Hawkins winning celebration I can still visualise it. They seemed like super heroes. (his son goes alright for ironically the Sun's)

[Grantysghost]

This one ^^

Another I remember when I was a kid was against the Swans and we ended up with plenty of injuries so much that Jim Sewell had to play full forward on one leg just staying pretty much in the goal square just to field 18 players. Can't remember who won though, I just remember it was proper wet.

Was there a game v Geelong mid 80s where choco kicked a few? Vague memory. Very wet.

[merantau]

Another one I remember is the game that Libber cemented himself in the team. It was crazy wet and he was at the bottom of every pack. I have a feeling it was against North.

[Twodogs]

Growing up within a KM of Arctic Park, coupled with junior sport both Saturday and Sunday on weekends my WO experiences were limited. Most weekends I'd be able to get to listen to the Bulldogs on the radio after quarter time if I wasn't heading to Waverley to watch a game.

But Jesus did it get cold at Waverley. It was a sparse concrete mess of a ground, where you couldn't even rely on the warmth of your fellow supporters to keep you up and about because everyone was five metres away from each other on average!

On the good days it was great, kick to kick after the ground used to result in me and my brother being the last to leave, barely able to see with only service lighting left on. The Blue Coats were good in those days, they'd let you have a bit of fun. I remember the 1994 Qualifying Final, Carlton vs Geelong, and it was absolutely freezing until the game started, and then the crowd had piled in and the place just warmed up.

After a long absence my return to the WO was the game we played against the Cats that same year in round 17. The place was pretty crowded, just shy of 24K, and I took up a place with my old man and his childhood mates in the Geelong road members side pocket - where they always stood. I felt like I was at home, and returned in round 23 that same year to see us do the Dees. I feel like I missed out, but got a dose of the true WO experience in our last game in 1997 after attending more games than I had previously which I am grateful for.

I managed to get locked in the back of a food van with two of my cousins toward the end of the reserves match and missed part of the first quarter that day against West Coast.

[Twodogs]

Yep that is the one Td. Was it Bradbury who kicked the goal for Essendon? I was standing in the forward pocket at Geelong road end with my dad and we were super drenched. And then to lose it. AArrghh.

Yep. Peter Bradbury from a Tim Watson pass. The ball had been locked in our forward line for ages then it went up the other end and there were only two players in their forward line Neil Cordy, who for some unkown reason was standing 30 metres away from the goalsqaure which was where his direct opponent was when Watson broke lose with the ball.

Not that I'm bitter about it at all.

[bornadog]

Ha its possible. We used to camp under the EJ stand every week with the family. Great memories. My most vivid a wet day, must've been 10 ish somehow got in the midst of a Steve Macpherson, Doug Hawkins winning celebration I can still visualise it. They seemed like super heroes. (his son goes alright for ironically the Sun's)

I stood with my mates between the players race and the umpires race in front of the EJ Whitten stand for most of the 70s and all of the 1980s. However, I was missing for seasons 1992 to 1997 - working in Asia.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

One game that sticks in my mind is the day we held Carlton goalless until the 27 minute mark of the last quarter. It was bitterly cold, with a biting wind and it rained incessantly.

And it wasn’t a free kick either against Super! Umpires felt sorry for Carlton. Mark Arceri kicked the goal. Winners are grinners. Losers can ...
I was there to see a great victory against the perennial finalists and ti see them struggle against us was stirring.

[merantau]

Yep. Peter Bradbury from a Tim Watson pass. The ball had been locked in our forward line for ages then it went up the other end and there were only two players in their forward line Neil Cordy, who for some unkown reason was standing 30 metres away from the goalsqaure which was where his direct opponent was when Watson broke lose with the ball.

Not that I'm bitter about it at all.

Not much! It's still playing on a loop in your mind's eye! Neil was a good bloke. I worked with him for a while at Essendon Tech when he was teaching Phys Ed.

[ratsmac]

I'd just like to highlight this - not too far off the mark good sir!

You're Bont prediction was particularly pertinent :D

Haha yeah I finally got one close. I did have a gut feeling about our chances though.

[ratsmac]

Can the media please take notice of The Bont's performance tonight, and please adjust their love for Cripps?
Cripps is a top tier talent, no doubt, but the press fawn over him, to the discounting of Marcus' output.


Agree w this, so much is now being put into comparing players from draft years, and asking them about it in media sessions.

Cripps is a more consistent player, Bont is a more skilful and classy player.

Both elite. Both on par.


Agree w this, so much is now being put into comparing players from draft years, and asking them about it in media sessions.

Cripps is a more consistent player, Bont is a more skilful and classy player.

Both elite. Both on par.


Although they both play in the midfield they are different styles , Cripps is the hard nut ,Bont is like Pendlebury ,the world goes into slow motion and they just wander out weaving and pinpoint players with class.

Both are tremendous players and both are elite but what sets them apart for me is Bontempelli is a proven match winner. The same can't really be said about Cripps. And The Bont also hits the scoreboard more often.

[Testekill]

The thing that bugs me about Cripps vs Bont is how the media keeps on acting like Bontempelli is an outside silk while Cripps is the inside bull. While yes Cripps is better on the inside, Bont is still silky enough to burst out of packs or get the ball free while also being deadly on the outside and able to hit the scoreboards albeit not as often as we'd like.

[Bulldog4life]

Coaches votes

PORT ADELAIDE v WESTERN BULLDOGS
9 Marcus Bontempelli (WB)
8 Jack Macrae (WB)
5 Josh Dunkley (WB)
3 Josh Schache (WB)
2 Scott Lycett (PORT)
2 Hayden Crozier (WB)
1 Hamish Hartlett (PORT)

[Grantysghost]

Coaches votes

PORT ADELAIDE v WESTERN BULLDOGS
9 Marcus Bontempelli (WB)
8 Jack Macrae (WB)
5 Josh Dunkley (WB)
3 Josh Schache (WB)
2 Scott Lycett (PORT)
2 Hayden Crozier (WB)
1 Hamish Hartlett (PORT)

Was it Bevo or Ken that robbed Marcus of a vote.

[Axe Man]

Was it Bevo or Ken that robbed Marcus of a vote.

The 2 coaches saw things a little differently:
Bont 5 + 4
Macrae 3 + 5
Dunkley 4 + 1
Schache 0 + 3
Lycett 2 + 0
Crozier 0 + 2
Hartlett 1 + 0

*Can't tell which way around Lycett/Crozier votes were done.