Manly on FOX

[simon64]

Manly v Balmain on FOX - 501 from 1990 at Brookie.

Tooves looks about 12. Blocker's about 50 kegs lighter.

The Moose is roaring.

 

[RiverEagle]

Yeah watching it now too.

RIP the old Moose.

Time-warp TV.

 

[simon64]

Yeah watching it now too.

RIP the old Moose.

Time-warp TV.

And we even got treated to the famous "Blocker tap on the head" incident.

Does anyone remember how many weeks he got for that ?

 

[Jock]

Playing surface doesn't look any better than it was on Friday night

 

[MadMarcus]

Thanks for that mate. Caught the end of it.

 

[Pablo]

Still remember that game very well. It was the first game I ever went to.
Massive crowd, was probably as good as it gets for a first timer a brookie.

 

[dowdz]

How big was that crowd! Where have our supporters gone?

 

[PONTIAN SEA EAGLE]

Wow forgot what it looked like tooves & des playing alongside together.

 

[RiverEagle]

Yeah Tooves with hair, the heathen-Hasler in the centres, and Cliffy...God as always.

No don't remember what Blocker got for the love-tap on Eddie Ward @simon64 but it was still amusing nearly a quarter of a century on.

Can you believe how long ago that was?

I loved footy in a different way back then.

Good win for us that day too.

 

[globaleagle]

Yeah watching it now too.

RIP the old Moose.

Time-warp TV.

And we even got treated to the famous "Blocker tap on the head" incident.

Does anyone remember how many weeks he got for that ?

4 matches and fined $5,000 !

 

[Brookie Brawler]

Hate to admit but

3 Hasler - Big hand in 2 early tries and everywhere in defence but the hair got him over the line
2 Toovey - Typical Tooves in everything and scored 2 tries which both required more than just backing up
1 Liddiard - Magic step and speed for one assist and miracle ball for another

Brookie looked amazing. 23k and no empty patches to be seen. I forgot about how the hill used to wrap around to the FM Stand with a tunnel underneath for access. Not sure why that was changed.

 

[simon64]

Yeah it took me a while to recognise it. Brookie with the "extra" hill.

I almost fell over when they gave the crowd figure. There's no way know you'd get that many in there now.

 

[Shoe1]

It's on the nrl app, a small weekly fee to get it.

 

[tookey]

How big was that crowd! Where have our supporters gone?

Watching the game on Fox which wasn't around in 1990

 

[HappilyManly]

Exactly, if we didn't attend, we would not have seen a televised version.

I think we only used to get one game a week when Moose was calling them on TV.

Some Saturday games were on the ABC.

Remember dashing for the bus to make it home to watch the end - in B&W back in the 70's.

Video killed the RL Attendances

 

[dowdz]

How big was that crowd! Where have our supporters gone?

Watching the game on Fox which wasn't around in 1990

Ahh that's right. Thanks Tookey. Kind of forget those things.

 

[Jock]

Crowd was 23,000. Can't get near that these days

 

[Jethro]

Exactly, if we didn't attend, we would not have seen a televised version.

I think we only used to get one game a week when Moose was calling them on TV.

Some Saturday games were on the ABC.

Remember dashing for the bus to make it home to watch the end - in B&W back in the 70's.

Video killed the RL Attendances

You could probably add to that the fact that back then (the 60s, 70s, and possibly some of the 80s) shopping centres closed on Saturdays at noon and didn't open up again on Monday morning so more people would then be able to go to the footy to fill some time over the weekend (especially during the colder months).

As for footy coverage back then, 7 used to show the match of the round on Sunday night after the news and during the news, Rex would tell you to leave the room if you didn't want to know the score. 7 then lost the TV rights to 10 who also used to show the match of the round on Sunday night after the news. The ABC used to have a game on every Saturday afternoon at 3pm.

 

[simon64]

I remember the ABC coverage with Warren Boland. They used to replay it on Sunday morning. I remember watching a game against Wests when Peter Jackson chimed in with "Wests think tackle is something you take fishing". We were giving them a fair touch up.

The two of them were waxing lyrical about a replacement that come on that day. His name was Steve Menzies.

 

[Ramrod]

Yeah watching it now too.

RIP the old Moose.

Time-warp TV.

And we even got treated to the famous "Blocker tap on the head" incident.

Does anyone remember how many weeks he got for that ?

4 matches and fined $5,000 !

Blocker may have been tough on the field but the post match radio commentary reported that he got smacked by his Mrs for the on-field incident (not sure how much truth there is to that). Still remember it like it was yesterday.