Dallas remembered

[happy_tiger]

Dallas ..Tommy and Boydie would be on my list of 10 people i'd like to have a party with

I'm guessing the other 7 would run and hide after meeting them lol

I'd like to invite Gandhi as well ......I'm wondering how they'd go over with each other

 

[Tucker]

I'd like to invite Gandhi as well ......I'm wondering how they'd go over with each other

Id say they’d bully him a bit.

 

[Tiger Tail]

I remember the game where Bob Cooper got sent off and suspended for 18 months. Killed his career. Another tough nut.

 

[Curaeus]

Remember seeing Dallas as a young kid playing for Country against City just before he joined Wests. Utterly fearless for someone who wasn't all that big in those days. Great player for the Maggies. Loved the bloke!

 

[innsaneink]

The violence was an accepted part of the game, the opening 10 or 20 minutes was the "softening up period", refs usually cut some slack as players got stuck into each other, upper cuts in tackles, the odd head butt etc...it was intimidation and if you "won" the softening up period it often went some way to winning the game.
Sometimes it got a little out of hand and all in brawls would eventuate...naughty.
If you smashed you opposing number good and proper he would be less likely to run at you the rest of the game, it forced players to play they didnt want to play sometimes.
Thankfully as a Wests junior it wasnt as bad as first grade, playing around enfield granville berala concord etc, it did get wild sometimes, Granville Diggers could be relied upon always/ full time hooter equalled
round one bell...it was always on 🤜🤛

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

A few shit bags in the modern game could do with a "softening up."

 

[jadtiger]

Id say they’d bully him a bit.

Gandhi would be able to get square if he supplied the "drinks".If you can't work it out read about him

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

One of the greatest. Clouds of Dust, Buckets of Blood.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

Remembering Dallas.

 

[Todd Packer]

Remembering Dallas. View attachment 5319

Dallas is an immortal in my house. He's honoured via my Dallas coffee mug.

 

[426Tlgerland]

16 years old on the hill at lidcombe in '78 was awesome

Shows our age mate , I was 15 and lived in good old Guildford , Those were the days mate

 

[Todd Packer]

The thing about Dallas and Tommy is that because they were both such tough bastards their skill as players is rarely talked about. They were both great players.
Dallas had phenomenal ball skills and Tommy's still the best half I've seen.

 

[Tiger Woods]

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Looks so much like Nathan Hindmarsh

 

[426Tlgerland]

I worked as a cleaner at Lidcombe dancers club , I worked the Sunday clean shift 6 am till 12 , clean up the bar area , take the mats out and hose them off , pick up the broken glass , refill the fridges , I was 15 years old and seen first hand what the placed looked like after the boys played at Lidcombe and came to party , it was a mess hahah loved it $ 6 per hour , big bucks back then

 

[coivtny]

I worked as a cleaner at Lidcombe dancers club , I worked the Sunday clean shift 6 am till 12 , clean up the bar area , take the mats out and hose them off , pick up the broken glass , refill the fridges , I was 15 years old and seen first hand what the placed looked like after the boys played at Lidcombe and came to party , it was a mess hahah loved it $ 6 per hour , big bucks back then

The Dancers was the place to go after a Lidcombe game, particularly a win.