GNR4LIFE
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Is that the Magpie heritage game? I'm sure they'd be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the '63 GF wouldn't they?
SCG vs Dragons
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foreveratiger
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S.C.G worst ground to be watching a game of footy
foreveratiger
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2 years ago , i went to watch Tigers vs Souths the game we got flogged , had Premium seats on the Half way line and was still at least 150 metres from the action , you need bloody binoculous.
innsaneink
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Correct…
'63 the year I was born, 2 months after this:
I'll be there
'63 the year I was born, 2 months after this:
I'll be there
S
system
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I will be there.
If we get touched up by the Eagles and/or Storm and the Dragons continue their form line we will be relying solely on history to draw a crowd
If we get touched up by the Eagles and/or Storm and the Dragons continue their form line we will be relying solely on history to draw a crowd
I must be the only one who enjoys watching footy at the SCG.
Despite being far away the view is pretty good, it has a fantastic aura, the stadium and outer ground are amazing and I find SCG match day is so exciting! Watching a game there you can't help but get wrapped up in all the history of the ground.
Despite being far away the view is pretty good, it has a fantastic aura, the stadium and outer ground are amazing and I find SCG match day is so exciting! Watching a game there you can't help but get wrapped up in all the history of the ground.
AmericanHistoryX
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walking away from the SCG with the 2 competition points is one of the better feelings in the world. It's SACRED turf.
Yeh maybe the view is not crash hot. And it hits you more when we're losing. It's amazing how terrible the view is. But when your winning the view becomes insignificant.
Isnt life funny like that.
Yeh maybe the view is not crash hot. And it hits you more when we're losing. It's amazing how terrible the view is. But when your winning the view becomes insignificant.
Isnt life funny like that.
Eye_Of_Da_Tiger
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Wonder how seating works I got CSS/ Allianz membership silver???
MacDougall
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Might fly down from Brisbane for this one. I'll even be a good sport and find some Magpies merch to wave around.
greatodensraven
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Any word on when the heritage jerseys are on sale?
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fibrodreaming
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@GNR4LIFE said:
Gosh - 50 years - how time flies. I was at that the 1963 grand final with my father. I was 14 and I never missed a match in those days.
I had high hopes of a grand final win. We had played Saints three times that year, in the home and away rounds and in the major semi final, and we beat them each time.
History records that we lost a close match. Nothing much was said in the press at the time about the Magpie try Lawler disallowed (scored by Macdougall), on the grounds that Meaney our front rower was offside at the play the ball. It was a dubious decision and it turned the game.
The magpie players were filthy; they reckon Lawler had dudded them. It emerged many years later that Lawler was suspected of placing a bet on Saints to win. Apparently Jack Gibson, who played front row for the Magpies, and an SP bookie, claimed it was true. Potentially a major scandal, but no-one cared.
My abiding memory of the game (apart from feeling gutted for many months later) was the sea of mud that made up the playing field. Play was halted on a regular basis so that the St Johns Ambulance men could run onto the field with a bucket of water; the players would plunge their head into the bucket to clear their eyes. You don't see that nowadays! Thank heavens.
Cheers
Fibro
