Anecdotal. Name 10 others from the same era that dived every week then.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

I think you are living in a fantasy land if you think it was as endemic as it is now.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

In my fantasy we are happy to disagree.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Well we could start with this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCYsDmXaoc

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

but its not endemic, just spasmodic, a lot of spasmodic incidents of course (mathematically, E=SC2, when does spasmodic become endemic - perhaps when there are enough cameras to case the spasms?) but there you have it.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Lol. If you can remember 10 people from that era, you didn't live through that era.

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Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience!!!

After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F .........
Visit http://fromthemoshpit.com/

Difficult since KB did have his heyday in the Cretaceous Era.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

I can name 10 teams

Essendon* - @#$%&! staging cheats!
Collingwood - @#$%&! staging flower!
Richmond - @#$%&! violent stagers!
Fitzroy - even @#$%&! complained about the light!!!!
Melbourne - @#$%&! diamond (remember that player , could kick a mile but mostly, when he did get a kick, out on the full) crusted stagers!
South Melbourne/Sydney - @#$%&! helicopter whingers!
Footscray - even @#$%&! complained when the wind didn't turn up at their shit hole of a ground!
Hawthorn - @#$%&! complained about not being allowed to whack you behind play (or falling on Kenny Hunter's head, @#$%&! Matthews!)!
St Kilda - @#$%&! whinging about the cost of heroin.
Geelong - @#$%&! complaining about losing their handbags!

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

I can remember Kernahan flopping forward in plenty of marking contests to accentuate contact.

Peter Hudson was the same

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No Guts, No Glory

all players strive for an edge - on except for that British chap who played in the spirit of the game - Tarzan was it?

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

It appears the AFL Have read this and have now introduce a 50 meter penalty

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl ... 50kqp.html

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If you allow the Government to change the Laws in an emergency
They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

I blame SB

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"I'll tell you what I didn't do;
I never injected anyone."
AD 3/3/14

Currently watching 1970 GF on Fox.

No theatrics, no grandstanding, just two teams going hammer and tongs.


And a little blonde fellow who shall remain nameless has kicked 3 goals in the 3rd quarter.

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"Get ready, Teddy - you're on": Ron Barassi half time 1970 Grand Final

But Teddy I've been assured everything is the same and there has always been rampant staging, surely this cannot be? Like me you must have been imagining things.
It couldn't be because our culture has changed to the extent that cheating has become largely acceptable, please report to your commissar immediately.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

You have to love the commentary
'A stitch in time saves nine"
"Oh no, Carlton are handballing in the backline AGAIN!"

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

so 1 game decides everything?

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Tongue was planted firmly in cheek Danny, relax.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Peter Hudson flopped forward a fair bit when Wes Lofts and Vin Waite caught him in a sandwich as well.
Only three Full backs ever kept him goal less in a VFL match, Ruchmond's barry Richardson, who was at St Pats Ballarat when I started there, Ian Cooper from Collingwood and Curly Austin.
Also he was held goal less once in Tassie by one Bruce Greenhill from the now defunct Sandy Bay footy club

Not bad for a man who played senior footy between 1963-1981 in Tassie and Melbourne.

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