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Your Greatest Tiger memory ever…
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Yep. This game. The shackles of 3 decades of doom broke that day. The ghost of the skinned tiger was released from it's miserable earthly bond and allowed to soar into the heavens. A King bound for it's Jungle Kingdom. The raw guttural noise that came from the stands as they bounced with the heaving mass of the Tiger Army. The Geelong supporters scared into trembling submission by the passion and noise generated by generations of success hungry Tigers.
They were destroyed on and off the field. The Juggernaut had launched.
greatest ? thats hard most enduring
my first game standing on steel beer cans City end
I wasn't so aware of the scoreboard or result , it was the action
the packs flying for marks , the small guys swooping on the crumbs
the tackles all up close
and that was 44 yrs ago and the memory has stuck like glue
all the GF's and premierships were great of course
my first game standing on steel beer cans City end
I wasn't so aware of the scoreboard or result , it was the action
the packs flying for marks , the small guys swooping on the crumbs
the tackles all up close
and that was 44 yrs ago and the memory has stuck like glue
all the GF's and premierships were great of course
Pre 2017 my favourite memory was the Mothers Day massacre. Jeff Hogg boots 10 and the Tigers thump the Pies by 60 odd points.
Made my old man buy me a Tigers cap after the game, and I wore it to school for the next week with pride - something that was rare back in those days.
But 2017 has to take the cake.
That crowd at the Prelim was just insane, an atmosphere that will never be topped. Then the euphoria that exploded in the lead up to, and after the final siren was something that only the Tiger army could generate.
Lucky enough to get tickets to the GF. Went along hopeful, optimistic but not really confident. A by-product of being a long time Tiger with so many disappointments along the journey. And for this reason it wasn't until half way through the last qtr I was willing to accept we would be premiers.
I always thought I would cry when the Tigers won the flag. And I very nearly did at the ground. But I think just a huge wave of relief took over - finally, after wondering for so long would this ever happen - it finally did.
But upon watching the replay the next day once I had gotten home the tears did flow. And I still well up when watching the replay to this day.
Stuff the kids being born, this was the greatest time of my life.
Made my old man buy me a Tigers cap after the game, and I wore it to school for the next week with pride - something that was rare back in those days.
But 2017 has to take the cake.
That crowd at the Prelim was just insane, an atmosphere that will never be topped. Then the euphoria that exploded in the lead up to, and after the final siren was something that only the Tiger army could generate.
Lucky enough to get tickets to the GF. Went along hopeful, optimistic but not really confident. A by-product of being a long time Tiger with so many disappointments along the journey. And for this reason it wasn't until half way through the last qtr I was willing to accept we would be premiers.
I always thought I would cry when the Tigers won the flag. And I very nearly did at the ground. But I think just a huge wave of relief took over - finally, after wondering for so long would this ever happen - it finally did.
But upon watching the replay the next day once I had gotten home the tears did flow. And I still well up when watching the replay to this day.
Stuff the kids being born, this was the greatest time of my life.
1967 GF. ............then next best 2017, 50 years later....... I’ve enjoyed every year really, even the ‘bad’ ones, through the 50’s & early 60’s.
We have always had some exciting players and great personalities in the Tiger team, so life at Punt Road (or PRE) has never been dull!
We have always had some exciting players and great personalities in the Tiger team, so life at Punt Road (or PRE) has never been dull!
#1. I was there that day too 5S5. Standing room, half forward flank southern stand.....elated and knackered by the end of the day.#1
Standing on beer cans as a kid in the then open spaces behind the City end goals in 1973 on GF day.
Watched my Tigers win Under 19's, Reserves and Seniors all on the one day.
#2
Marking the ball that Michal Roach kicked his hundredth goal v Melb in 1980 again at the open space City end.
I turned around to run off with the ball down the stairs, only to find 2 huge coppers standing there, so i had to boot the ball back.
yeah that's well put.
when I say sept 30 2017 was the best day of my life,
people, mostly women, raise their eyebrows and say 'better than the births of your children'?
and I say 'Unequivocally. At the premiership, no one I loved bled everywhere and shat themselves and swore at me, until I thought they might die'
If I carry this logic further though, I have to rate the birth of my children as a dead heat for 2nd alongside the month long bender after the 2017 flag.
All of us Coppin St / Burnley St street mafia used to stand there as kids.You ever watch the video of the 1973 GF? The commentators go apes*** as I think 3 balls go into that huge standing room area behind the city goals and never come back, have you finally solved the question of who nicked the footies? Where are they now? Always loved the way someone would stuff a footy in their bag, the cops would arrive asking questions, and everyone would shrug their shoulders and talk about seeing nothing
Wow, breaking the drought from 1943 and that was a hell of a Grand Final, well worth watching over and over. Close and hard fought all day. Must have been a great game to be at.
More recently I was rapt to get great tickets for the 2019 PF, 5 rows from the front. At half time the Geelong supporters were up and about, the Richmond supporters were angry after the dive and 50m penalty. The second half was so much fun as we overhauled Geelong. Never had such a good seat at a final, all the Grand Finals I went to in the late 70s and 1980 were standing room.
Even in the bad years we all have some good memories, now is certainly a time to remember and savour.
DS
Nah. Should have, but spent the after game just soaking it in and when I finally left there was pretty much no one around.
A shame, just didn’t think of it at the time. I was at the game with my 15 year old son, and we both were pretty much in a state of disbelief at the end of the game.
For me nothing beats the cheer joy of Trent's goal celebration in the 2019 GF. Every Tiger supporters was with him at that moment
Not a good time, but being there through the quagmire was a 'memory' as this thread is for. Even the 'picnic' feel of a crowd in some early 90s games at the G was a bit of 'fun?' until we started to step up as a more serious contender from 1994 onwards.
I grew up in Nz but had family connections in Melbourne, saw bits and pieces of the success in the 70s when I was here visiting family , adopted Richmond as my team , watched the 80 gf but wasn’t a proper supporter until I moved here officially in 82 ,
2017 GF was best experience by far , with my son now in his 30s ,
We had been going to the footy since he was 3 or 4 , I remember him crying when he was really little when we were being pumped , and I used to think what have I done to this poor kid ,
And to see the tears of joy all those years later was amazing , to be honest , never thought We would experience it , it all seemed very surreal and dreamlike when it finally happened
2017 GF was best experience by far , with my son now in his 30s ,
We had been going to the footy since he was 3 or 4 , I remember him crying when he was really little when we were being pumped , and I used to think what have I done to this poor kid ,
And to see the tears of joy all those years later was amazing , to be honest , never thought We would experience it , it all seemed very surreal and dreamlike when it finally happened
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Too many memories to narrow it down to one.
1967 - Royce's mark, Bartlett backing out of a pack, anything Billy Barrott did, Fred Swift's mark on the goal line - but John Ronaldson's 2 goals were very special.
2017 Prelim - never heard a crowd like that. Screamed myself horse. Couldn't talk for nearly a week. And when we won the Granny, Mrs Quickdraw didn't talk to me for a week (she's a Crow supporter)
2019 - We were somewhere in Arizona doing Route 66 and listening to the radio, lying in bed in the middle of the night, sharing earbuds with Mrs Quickdraw, and listening to the easy, stress free win. Bliss.
1967 - Royce's mark, Bartlett backing out of a pack, anything Billy Barrott did, Fred Swift's mark on the goal line - but John Ronaldson's 2 goals were very special.
2017 Prelim - never heard a crowd like that. Screamed myself horse. Couldn't talk for nearly a week. And when we won the Granny, Mrs Quickdraw didn't talk to me for a week (she's a Crow supporter)
2019 - We were somewhere in Arizona doing Route 66 and listening to the radio, lying in bed in the middle of the night, sharing earbuds with Mrs Quickdraw, and listening to the easy, stress free win. Bliss.
Another one was the 20 prelim win. Super nervous until I saw Lynchy Dylan George and Kamdyn joking around at a cafe near my motel morning of the game. It was a great day, Wore my jumper all day, said to anyone who asked, a lot did, it will be close, and probably come down to a bit of luck and poise. Lambos goals, right in front of me! I was amazed by the good sportmanship of the port supporters, not during the game but after, thought I was gunna get punched up at one stage during the game when I remonstrated with someone who called Bakes a pussy. Went on a pub crawl after the game with my mate, port fan. Some of those pubs I was the only tiger, and I was obviously very happy, they mostly wished me all the best, shook my hand, amazing. Very different experience to all the other finals being grossly outnumbered.
