Fulton Memories

[BOZO]

I met him in Junee in 2012 and had about 10 minutes to chat with him with no one around. We talked about kids footy, Hawaii (we had both returned recently from holidays there). He told me about the process of getting approval of use of his image on the modern version of footy cards ( i had one he hadnt seen before, he liked it but didnt remember approving it).

He signed a few things including my jersey and some footy cards. He had driven down from Sydney by himself for the unveiling of Ray Warrens statue.

A childhood hero, who along withe Terry Randall left me with no option other than to cheer for the Sea Eagles.

Great story bob , Thanks for sharing
I met the Incomparable Immortal at our home ground in 1989
I was walking into the Ground and there he was right in front of me
It was like meeting Elvis the King as Bozo was a King himself
I said something like Good luck today Bob (he was our coach )
and he said
Thank you , Thank you very much son
I got the biggest thrill ever .I was face to face with my Hero

 

[Frogz]

I thought NRL 360 did a good job tonight honouring the great man.

 

[BOZO]

Thanks @eagle66 for being our league historian, and I hope the club and NRL afford you and your records the appropriate recognition.
For those youngsters (relatively speaking, lol) who didn't get to see Bozo play, I was lucky to attend a number of games at Brookie in the early '70s, and his 2 tries in the '73 grand final give a pretty good idea of his qualities. Anticipation, stepping, toughness, and blinding acceleration.
Several times I saw him at Brookie take a regulation backline pass and simply burn the opposition to score in the north-east corner, much as he did in that 2nd try in '73. That was not a one-off. That was what he did!

Thanks for sharing those Great memories @SeaEagleRock8

Bozo could do anything at any time

So unpredictable and so destructible

Bozo was simply devastating

Best of all he was a Manly Sea eagle !

 

[BOZO]

I thought NRL 360 did a good job tonight honouring the great man.

I saw the 360 and the tributes were not all about the Great football player but also about the Great hearted family man and loyal friend off the field

 

[BOZO]

I have always recalled the match at Redfern in 1976. Bozo's 200th. I was on my own, 15 years old to the south side of the old grandstand. The crowd were rabid. Fulton was knocked down about 10 metres out and crawled to the tryline to score. The rabbit supporters were falling out of the trees. I had to zip up my jacket as was suggested by a few oldies around me.
Exhilarating to say the least and a hard fought game.
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Thanks for sharing those great memories feathered friend . Always Great to beat the rabbitts at their hostile home ground and The Incomparable Immortal demoralized them that day with another clinical display

 

[BOZO]

My fondest memory of Bobby Fulton was a radio interview he did in the week leading to the 1976 Parra vs Manly Grand final. Parra had beaten Manly in every encounter that year. The first round, the mid week competition in the Amco cup, and the second round. So the Parra supporters were celebrating the Grand final victory that whole week thinking that the victory was an fait accompli. The interviewer asked Bob Fulton how could Manly defeat a team that had the wood on them, Manly had failed to defeat them all year, yadda yadda, yadda. Out of the whole interview I fondly remember Bob saying "the Grand final is a whole new ball game" as they say the rest is history. All I can tell you is that that particular Grand Final was the sweetest Grand final that I have had experienced. What made it even more sweeter was in the final stages of the game Parra pulled out a NFL tactic called the flying "wedge" which consisted of a phalanx of Parra players trying to push Ron Hilditch at the apex of the phalanx over the try line the move was of dubious legality. somehow Graham Eadie stopped them 1 foot from the try line. that my feathered friends is why as a young boy there would be no other team for me to support. That is why all the Manly haters can go and Fcuk themselves. when their team can accomplish a fraction of what Manly has accomplished than they can try to do a comparison and still not come close to us. Never were truer words spoken by Bozo and even after he joined the rooters to me he was and would always be a Manly player. RIP Bobby I am sure you will be a captain and a winner in the team you play in heaven.

Bozo is in heaven all right @Suchislife
Any Manly player that wins a Grand final for Manly deserves to go to heaven
Rise in Glory Bob Fulton !

 

[BOZO]

1975

Thanks for the Great clip @eagle66

You see him and you cannot comprehend that he is gone

It just does not register

Rex Mossop ... That try came from no where !

That is because Bob Fulton came from nowhere

He was like a bolt of lightning on the field

He would just strike out of no where and he was under the post

Unbelievable !!!

 

[Shoe1]

I was at the SCG the day he did that lateral run, in the video. It was sort of towards me - would have been about 13. I think it was a semi final against the Roosters. No one could work out what he was doing or why. There may have been some "Run Straight !" type jeers from the MWSE fans nearby. Then low and behold, he embarrasses everyone and scores as if he'd planned it. I didn't think on the day that he planned it, that it was 'ad lib' football.
But now, i am not so sure.

He does it in one of the other vids eagle66 put up too, so I guess he had a plan!

 

[BOZO]

He does it in one of the other vids eagle66 put up too, so I guess he had a plan!

What made him the Incomparable Immortal was that

Every one else had a plan A & B

Bozo had a Plan A to Z

Bozo was the Alfa and the Omega . He was Incomparable

 

[BOZO]

I posted about crying is a weakness a while ago on this forum

All these memories of my hero have brought a tear to my eyes

I will allow my self to be weak for a day

 

[BOZO]

Did you ever know that you're my hero
And everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle
For you are the wind beneath my wings

Rise in Glory Bob Fulton

 

[eagle66]

1968

 

[eagle66]

 

[eagle66]

1969

 

[eagle66]

1970

 

[eagle66]

1970

 

[eagle66]

How many times would we have seen Fulton in the team of the week?

 

[eagle66]

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Thanks for those Great memories Tezz
I would have loved to have seen that by the Great Man . He was a step above the rest indeed !

Sadly Bozo I never saw it either. A family friend told my father and I about it several years later. I did some checking after originally posting and I think it was in July 1973. We ran up a cricket score that day.

 

[Cioran]

Bozo is in heaven all right @Suchislife
Any Manly player that wins a Grand final for Manly deserves to go to heaven
Rise in Glory Bob Fulton !

Not in heaven. Screaming his lungs out in the maternity ward of Northern Beaches Hospital. He'll be back in maroon and white in about 12 years.