Favourite childhood RL memory

[Devon Head]

Listening to Roy and HG commentate the Origin was always a good time. Loved their take on players names.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

Bruce Maguire knocking out John Cartwright at Leichhardt with a good right.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Something unrelated to WT’s, Wests and Balmain, I miss the Bears and North Sydney Oval. I’d love to see the Bears back. Alternating between North Sydney Oval and the Central Coast.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

‘78-‘80s Magpies teams terrorising every other team in the comp at Lidcombe Oval. Been a long time since we had a team that could put the fear of God into the opposition.

 

[hank37w]

Wests v Souths at Lidcombe oval.
The game with the kids sitting on the bike track because the crowd was too big. It was the game where George Piggins scored his pinball try.
Great game and I was there with my cousin Joe, sitting in "Marlboro country" eating "peanuts in a shell, sugar coated peanuts 40 cents".
Those Sunday afternoons at Lidcombe with my cousin are still some of the highlights of my life.

Also got memories of going to Lidcombe oval with a mate around 1968 and 1969 when we were 12 or 13 and sitting on the cycle track.

Remember people sitting on the roof of the dunny or canteen or whatever it was and Lidcombe Oval had the tallest goal posts and I think they used to have a thing about who could place kick the ball higher than the goal posts.

Remember Tony Ford nearly having his head taken off by Neville Hornery. Tony Ford had a running style where he ran with his head tilted back and Hornery couldn't help himself, the temptation was too great.

I think Hornery got about 12 or 13 weeks for that one.

I remember Won Casey and Weg Gasnier doing the TV games sitting up in their canvas covered scaffolding and Frank Hyde doing his radio calls sitting on the side line behind his little desk.

Some pretty good memories particularly of Lidcombe for a young bloke that actually followed the Tigers.

 

[Speed2burn]

I was born in 96 but my favourite memories were of Marshall & Farah tearing up opposition teams for fun in 2005
Also unrelated sorta but the dragons let us train with them the day before our Under 14s grand final (I live in the Illawarra). I was a rascal of a kid and wore my Tigers 2005 premiership jersey there lol

Funny the Tiges played them in the 2010 prelim only a few weeks after that ... I probably jinxed us 😅

 

[Guest]

Wests v Souths at Lidcombe oval.
The game with the kids sitting on the bike track because the crowd was too big. It was the game where George Piggins scored his pinball try.
Great game and I was there with my cousin Joe, sitting in "Marlboro country" eating "peanuts in a shell, sugar coated peanuts 40 cents".
Those Sunday afternoons at Lidcombe with my cousin are still some of the highlights of my life.

Also got memories of going to Lidcombe oval with a mate around 1968 and 1969 when we were 12 or 13 and sitting on the cycle track.

Remember people sitting on the roof of the dunny or canteen or whatever it was and Lidcombe Oval had the tallest goal posts and I think they used to have a thing about who could place kick the ball higher than the goal posts.

Remember Tony Ford nearly having his head taken off by Neville Hornery. Tony Ford had a running style where he ran with his head tilted back and Hornery couldn't help himself, the temptation was too great.

I think Hornery got about 12 or 13 weeks for that one.

I remember Won Casey and Weg Gasnier doing the TV games sitting up in their canvas covered scaffolding and Frank Hyde doing his radio calls sitting on the side line behind his little desk.

Some pretty good memories particularly of Lidcombe for a young bloke that actually followed the Tigers.

Frank Hyde. " Sit down in front! Yes you ! Sit down! I'm trying to call a game!"
Now let me sing you a little song.

 

[tigerballs]

Vossy asked a bunch of players on his show, The Fan.

What is your favourite childhood rugby league memory?

For me, I use to love watching the games and seeing all the jerseys.
Use to the think they were the best.
Especially Tigers and the bears jerseys.

Then I remember the 05 GF also and just how exciting the tigers were across the field.

I’ve been around a lot longer than you Demps and that Tigers side of 2005 is the best I’ve witnessed. A team of nobodies that played footy like it was supposed to be played. As soon as someone, anyone wakes up and says “let’s play like the 20005 Tigers” that’s when they’ll win a comp. Tim Sheens was a genius!

 

[TCL]

Lots of great on field memories, but more than anything it was opening a fresh pack of footy cards. Can still smell the bubble gum.

 

[hank37w]

Wests v Souths at Lidcombe oval.
The game with the kids sitting on the bike track because the crowd was too big. It was the game where George Piggins scored his pinball try.
Great game and I was there with my cousin Joe, sitting in "Marlboro country" eating "peanuts in a shell, sugar coated peanuts 40 cents".
Those Sunday afternoons at Lidcombe with my cousin are still some of the highlights of my life.

Also got memories of going to Lidcombe oval with a mate around 1968 and 1969 when we were 12 or 13 and sitting on the cycle track.

Remember people sitting on the roof of the dunny or canteen or whatever it was and Lidcombe Oval had the tallest goal posts and I think they used to have a thing about who could place kick the ball higher than the goal posts.

Remember Tony Ford nearly having his head taken off by Neville Hornery. Tony Ford had a running style where he ran with his head tilted back and Hornery couldn't help himself, the temptation was too great.

I think Hornery got about 12 or 13 weeks for that one.

I remember Won Casey and Weg Gasnier doing the TV games sitting up in their canvas covered scaffolding and Frank Hyde doing his radio calls sitting on the side line behind his little desk.

Some pretty good memories particularly of Lidcombe for a young bloke that actually followed the Tigers.

Frank Hyde. " Sit down in front! Yes you ! Sit down! I'm trying to call a game!"
Now let me sing you a little song.

Didn't take much to get old Frank to break into a rendition of "Danny Boy."

 

[Guest]

Wests v Souths at Lidcombe oval.
The game with the kids sitting on the bike track because the crowd was too big. It was the game where George Piggins scored his pinball try.
Great game and I was there with my cousin Joe, sitting in "Marlboro country" eating "peanuts in a shell, sugar coated peanuts 40 cents".
Those Sunday afternoons at Lidcombe with my cousin are still some of the highlights of my life.

Also got memories of going to Lidcombe oval with a mate around 1968 and 1969 when we were 12 or 13 and sitting on the cycle track.

Remember people sitting on the roof of the dunny or canteen or whatever it was and Lidcombe Oval had the tallest goal posts and I think they used to have a thing about who could place kick the ball higher than the goal posts.

Remember Tony Ford nearly having his head taken off by Neville Hornery. Tony Ford had a running style where he ran with his head tilted back and Hornery couldn't help himself, the temptation was too great.

I think Hornery got about 12 or 13 weeks for that one.

I remember Won Casey and Weg Gasnier doing the TV games sitting up in their canvas covered scaffolding and Frank Hyde doing his radio calls sitting on the side line behind his little desk.

Some pretty good memories particularly of Lidcombe for a young bloke that actually followed the Tigers.

Frank Hyde. " Sit down in front! Yes you ! Sit down! I'm trying to call a game!"
Now let me sing you a little song.

Didn't take much to get old Frank to break into a rendition of "Danny Boy."

People not of our vintage wouldn't believe that the footy caller would call a game, say "thanks for joining us" as soon as the game ended........and then sing a song, which was usually Danny Boy.

 

[hank37w]

Wests v Souths at Lidcombe oval.
The game with the kids sitting on the bike track because the crowd was too big. It was the game where George Piggins scored his pinball try.
Great game and I was there with my cousin Joe, sitting in "Marlboro country" eating "peanuts in a shell, sugar coated peanuts 40 cents".
Those Sunday afternoons at Lidcombe with my cousin are still some of the highlights of my life.

Also got memories of going to Lidcombe oval with a mate around 1968 and 1969 when we were 12 or 13 and sitting on the cycle track.

Remember people sitting on the roof of the dunny or canteen or whatever it was and Lidcombe Oval had the tallest goal posts and I think they used to have a thing about who could place kick the ball higher than the goal posts.

Remember Tony Ford nearly having his head taken off by Neville Hornery. Tony Ford had a running style where he ran with his head tilted back and Hornery couldn't help himself, the temptation was too great.

I think Hornery got about 12 or 13 weeks for that one.

I remember Won Casey and Weg Gasnier doing the TV games sitting up in their canvas covered scaffolding and Frank Hyde doing his radio calls sitting on the side line behind his little desk.

Some pretty good memories particularly of Lidcombe for a young bloke that actually followed the Tigers.

Frank Hyde. " Sit down in front! Yes you ! Sit down! I'm trying to call a game!"
Now let me sing you a little song.

Didn't take much to get old Frank to break into a rendition of "Danny Boy."

People not of our vintage wouldn't believe that the footy caller would call a game, say "thanks for joining us" as soon as the game ended........and then sing a song, which was usually Danny Boy.

Loved old Frank.

 

[Vince Farrar]

Lots of great on field memories, but more than anything it was opening a fresh pack of footy cards. Can still smell the bubble gum.

Man that’s a memory ide forgotten about thanks for bringing it up . As a young kid going to school jumping off the bus running to the shop to buy the footy cards and wow that smell of those two strips of pink bubble gum I can smell it now thanks mate .

 

[coivtny]

Running on to Pratten Park as a young bloke, patting Noel Kelly, Peter Dimond, Dennis Meaney etc on the back and saying “great game”. Good thing about Pratten Park in those times was that it was usually a win.

 

[coivtny]

All the rugby league media going ape when Peter Dimond hung one on Fr. John Cootes. I think it was in a City/Country match.

Yeh, my old man was a staunch Catholic and thought Dimond should have been banned for life after that. He and I had the most massive argument about it,

 

[coivtny]

All the rugby league media going ape when Peter Dimond hung one on Fr. John Cootes. I think it was in a City/Country match.

It was a possibles v probables match to pick the Kangaroo touring team.

 

[BAGNF05]

Used to love when the Tigers would get the Saturday ABC game of the day. Loved Warren Boland’s commentary.

https://youtu.be/y_KdwYrxmfM

 

[supercoach]

Went to a Sydney private boarding school where rugby league was a dirty word and one Sunday when I was 13 I told them I was visiting my grandmother, jumped on a train to Penrith to watch Balmain play Penrith. It was Penriths first year, Tigers needed to win to make the finals,Len Killeen kicked a monster goal a few minutes from full time to put them in front, but nothing changes, a x Tigers player..I think one of the Mara boys kicked a match winning FG

Got back to school feeling very sad, to find out that someone had dobbed me in and I got six of the best and gated for a term

 

[cochise]

My memories are more around playing and watching country football than the Winfield Cup. I remember playing with my mates and watching the Aberdeen Tigers winning premierships in 1985, 87, 89, 91, 92 and 93. Dad making a dummy of a Muswellbrook Rams player and hanging it from the light pole outside of McKinnon Field for the 1985 GF. I have faint memories of my dad playing, that was the reason I started following Balmain at age 4 because I thought the team playing on TV was my dad's team as they played in the same jerseys.

I remember going to the City v Country game in Newcastle around 1985 and my 1st Winfield Cup game in 1988, Balmain v Newcastle at Newcastle. Watching Aberdeen win used to be as big as watching Balmain win for me, still love to get to Mckinnon field for an Aberdeen game, though I no longer know the players.

 

[Telltails]

I remember regularly going to the old Sydney Sports Ground when I was a kid to watch the match of the day. In those days the players from the FG would stand in the crowd with the punters watching the lower grades with their families - and dad always took us to the area where we knew they stood so my brother and I could get their autographs in our books. Every time I saw Artie Beetson he signed another page in my book. I can still visualise the signature.