FIERY OPENING - 3 SEND OFFS IN 17MINS! Western Suburbs Magpies v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs(1979)
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Published 2023-12-16
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I don't follow rugby league any more mainly because it's not played like this any more. The 10 metre rule wasn't necessary, scrum changes weren't needed and the rules have constantly been watered and dumbed down to the point that rugby league these days is just an aggressive form of touch football. Love watching these old replays though. Except the 89 Grand Final, hate that one.
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That Wests Victa Jersey is the greatest club jersey of all time.
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Born at Ashfield in '46. The Maggies was my team until it wasn't.
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I met Clive Churchill and had a Magpies jersey...Yes im old...
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AHHH the days when they played football. š
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You forget. This is what footy was like for 80 years... Then just a decade after this, a Massive change, then a decade after that, a Massive change... Great upload, makes you remember where footy came from, and just how much, and how Quickly it changed...
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Did I just see the ref give a try without the bunker, 50/50 and phone a friend??? Goal kickers using .... SAND!? Kickin straight instead of round the corner... Boy brings back memories!!!!!!!! What ever happened to this great game... and as someone else said, WTF is the point of a modern scrum? The ball doesnt even get inside! IF they played like this game today - the half dozen refs would have a conference, and then it would abandoned
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What a great Canterbury Bankstown team
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Darn, I donāt know how the algorithm put this in my feed, but I was glued to watching this match, every name of every player brought back such great times and memoriesā¦.I played that field (Belmore Oval) so many times as a junior and watched so many games thereā¦thanks for posting, that was awesome
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Surprised boyd didnt go for using an elbow on hughes in the opening minutes. Even more surprising to see Dorahy do something dirty. Nowadays those sendoffs would just go on report.
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Bring back the suburban grounds and the hard men of footy. I miss those days.
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Good old Geoff Robinson. He played for Halifax in the Championship winning side of 1985. Heād get pissed at the Plumbet Line on Monday night, train Tuesday nights and get pissed at Crossleys bar, train on Thursdays and get pissed again at the Upper George, get pissed on Saturday night at The Plumbet line again. Then on Sundays heād knock seven bells out of the Wigan, Warrington or Hull KR packs and then get pissed again at Crossleys bar after the game. What a legend.
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My elder brother was in same year of medicine at Uni with George Peponis. I asked my bro how he managed to get through medicine while playing first grade, bro said he was very very bright.
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Thank Channel 9 for all the changes
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The great John O'Reilly commentating with Reg Gasnier...
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Even the socks look better in the 70s.
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Classic game, in the true sense of the word, one of those matches that bordered on near-anarchy. Wests had a lot of trouble with Canterbury that year, they lost to them all three times they met, including most importantly in a sudden-death semi-final. There must have been a rep game on the Saturday for the ABC to do a Sunday game.
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I was at this game. The standard of refereeing was atrocious. Braybrook should never have been allowed to control any future games.
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i was at that game i was only 18 showed my kids how footy should be played they just looked at me and said dad that was back in your day yes the best years lolololololol real men playing real footy
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Hi @tomytiger thanks for the upload. I love the nostalgia. This is proof of where the game was born. Tough men playing a hard game that's been watered down. Can you imagine a woman team in those days? Great to see in the footage some things we may have forgoten. Barely any advertising, cardboard b&w corner posts, 5 yard rule, a 3 man scrum, knock ons without the video ref scrutiny, and the police paddy wagon parked on the hill.. No doubt they were very different times.
