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With a bit of luck, Collingwood's achievements during the 1930s might even have outstripped those of the preceding decade, which had yielded three flags from seven grand final appearances (see footnote 26); the 1930s brought a further six grand finals for three premierships, ensuring that McHale's Magpies remained firmly entrenched in most opposition supporters' eyes as public enemy number one.
As ever, Collingwood and its hordes of worshippers gloried in this role; it somehow made winning all that much more satisfying. After securing its record-breaking fourth premiership in a row in 1930, however, the club had to endure an almost unprecedented sequence of failure, finishing 4th, 3rd, 6th and 4th over the next four seasons. In 1935, the Woods qualified for the finals in 2nd place behind South Melbourne's famous 'foreign legion' combination, which had scored a thumping 18.16 (124) to 10.11 (71) victory in the teams' only minor round encounter. The 2nd semi final between the sides was somewhat harder fought, but with 6 goal Bob Pratt a decisive influence, South broke clear in the second half to win by 21 points.
The preliminary final pitted Collingwood against a warmly favoured Richmond, which had played some scintillating football in beating Carlton in the 1st semi final. Against McHale's fanatical, never-say-die Magpies, however, scintillating football was out of the question. Playing with a resolve and a vigour that recalled the halcyon four-in-a-row era, Collingwood blasted the Tigers off the MCG to the tune of 28 points, and players and supporters alike began to lick their lips at the prospect of a resumption of hostilities with South Melbourne.
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Harry Collier |
They licked their lips even more assiduously when they learnt that South's 2nd semi final match-winner Pratt had been knocked down by a truck on the eve of the grand final, sustaining injuries that would prevent him from fronting up. During the early stages of the big game, however, the Magpies were forcefully reminded that South also boasted numerous other fine players as they had to contend with an incessant tidal wave of white and red, with only some wayward kicking for goal preventing what might have been a match-winning break. Towards the end of the opening quarter, however, the Woods on-ballers and centre line players began to gain the ascendancy, and by the first change they had been instrumental in reducing the margin to just 15 points. Collingwood opened the 2nd term brightly, but initially at least found South's full back Ron Hillis an impenetrable barrier on the last line. Almost inevitably, it was Gordon Coventry who broke the deadlock with a spectacular snapshot over his head, but South went straight into attack from the ensuing centre bounce and restored the 15 point advantage. The longer the quarter went on, however, the more the Magpies seemed to be gaining control, with Jack Regan's increasingly majestic form at centre half back on South danger man Laurie Nash a decisive factor. Gradually, the Woods clawed their way back to within 4 points before adding 2.2 during time-on to take a 10 point advantage into the long break. |
The 3rd term was fiercely contested with tempers fraying, fists flying, and South skipper Jack Bissett suffering severe concussion which resulted in loss of memory, and forced him to leave the ground at three quarter time. On the scoreboard, however, neither team was able to achieve a decisive break, with Collingwood leading 8.10 (58) to 6.10 (46) at the final change.
South lifted the tempo at the start of the last quarter, but "Collingwood's defenders - Rumney, Regan and Froude - absorbed the shock of South's high-powered thrust without flinching" (see footnote 27). Despite attacking relentlessly, the Blood Stained Angels could manage only a single goal and a flurry of behinds, with the Magpies managing a breakaway goal themselves to stay out of danger. Almost inevitably, as the final siren loomed, and the South players realised that the game was beyond them, they relaxed, allowing Collingwood to add 2 further goals at the death to run out winners by 20 points. Unlike all the club's previous VFL premierships, this one had been achieved against the odds and, in some respects, against the balance of play, but it is doubtful if this did anything whatsoever to sour the victory champagne.
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Besides the resolute form of the aforementioned defenders, Collingwood owed its win in large measure to the tireless efforts of the Collier brothers, both of whom were going at the same pace in the closing minutes as in early stages of the opening term. Centre half forward Alphonsus 'Phonse' Kyne, centreman Marcus Whelan, wingman Jack Carmody and half forward Vincent Doherty were other key contributors to the Collingwood win. The Magpies entered the 1936 season anxious to prove a point after sceptics suggested that they owed their 1935 triumph to the absence of Bob Pratt from the South Melbourne line-up. When South triumphed at Victoria Park in round 10 of the 1936 season those same sceptics smirked knowingly, confident that they had proved their point. The longer the 1936 season went on, the more it looked likely that South Melbourne and Collingwood would again be contesting the grand final. At the end of the minor round South (16 wins and 2 losses) led the Magpies by a single win, with Carlton and Melbourne, on 12 wins apiece, making up the 'four'. In the 2nd semi final, Collingwood gave its detractors ample food for thought after a hard fought 13 point win, with Jack Regan keeping potential match-winner Pratt tightly under wraps. South duly eased past Melbourne in the following week's preliminary final, and with Bob Pratt fit, in form - he booted 5 goals against the Redlegs - and raring to go, the Magpies had the perfect opportunity to respond to those sceptics. Collingwood's first half performance against the Bloods had observers once again clutching for machine-related metaphors: |
One of the greatest aerialists of all time and, unfortunately for Collingwood, one of 'the ones who got away'..... |
The Magpies were cool and deliberate. They co-operated perfectly in quick thinking, systematic football. And their speed against an admittedly fast side surprised everyone. Every Collingwood player blended into a football machine that hummed along with rare precision. Only in kicking for goal was there a breakdown, and because of this the Magpies went close to losing the game. (See footnote 28)
The half time scoreboard showed Collingwood, despite having had nearly twice as many scoring shots as the opposition, ahead by just 21 points, 7.16 (58) to 5.7 (37). Almost inevitably, South took advantage of this waywardness by playing their best football of the game in the 3rd term, and "only the sterling defence of Regan, Fraser and Ross saved the Magpies from having their lead cut to even less than the seven points by which they led at three quarter time" (see footnote 29).
Moments after the resumption, South reduced the margin to a solitary point after Johnson goaled from point blank range. The momentum appeared to be all the southerners' way, but the Magpies, showing enormous character and resolve, seized back the initiative with three quick scores from Todd (a behind) and Pannam (two majors). Then it was South Melbourne's turn to exhibit waywardness in front of goal, with the great man Pratt the worst offender. With minutes to go, however, South finally managed a goal to move within 5 points, and the crowd of 74,091 was at fever pitch. Once again, however, Collingwood proved to have the answer, sweeping the ball forward after play resumed and goaling to put the match beyond South's reach.
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Jock McHale anxiously watches the on field action during a match in 1947, towards the end of his coaching career with the Magpies. Syd Coventry (left) and Bob Rush are behind McHale. (Click to enlarge.) |
Rover Alby Pannam - once trenchantly described by Alf Brown as "fast, clever, durable, tough, nasty and selfish" (see footnote 30) - was Collingwood's best with an all action, 32 kick, 5 goal performance, while Ron Todd, who had taken Gordon Coventry's place at the goal front, made his vast potential obvious by marking virtually everything that came his way, and booting 4 goals 10. Jack Carmody, Marcus Whelan, 'Phonse' Kyne, Jack Regan and Vince Doherty also played well. Full forward supreme Gordon 'Nuts' Coventry who, after incurring a controversial 8 match suspension in 1936 for striking Richmond's Joe Murdoch, had been replaced in the Collingwood side by Ron Todd, finally hung up his boots a year later, but not before returning to the team and topping the VFL goal kicking list one last time. In tandem with Todd, he gave the Magpies one of the most potent forward lines in football history, but it was quite not enough to secure a premiership. After finding themselves in the unusual position of having to play in the 1st semi final, the Magpies performed brilliantly in ousting first Richmond, and then Melbourne from premiership contention, with Coventry, determined to go out on a 'high', booting 6 goals against the Tigers, and 7 against the Redlegs. He added another 3 in the grand final meeting with Geelong, while centre half forward Todd contributed 4, but this was not enough to prevent the Cats winning comfortably in the end by 32 points, after scores had been tied at the final change. Many observers regarded this grand final as one of the greatest of them all. |
Gordon Coventry's career tally of 1,299 goals in 306 games over eighteen seasons represented an all time VFL record. Fifty-two seasons later, Tony Lockett would ostensibly supersede it, but the competition in which he would do so would bear only the most tenuous comparison with the suburban VFL of Coventry's day, making it well nigh impossible to reconcile the two achievements. In a sense, Gordon Coventry's record is one which will stand for all time.
Consecutive losing grand finals in 1938 and 1939 saw Collingwood maintaining its position among football's elite, but the loss of key players to war duty and other clubs precipitated the most ignominious spell in league football thus far, with five consecutive failures to contest the finals between 1940 and 1944. It was the defections to other clubs that undoubtedly hurt the most: brilliant centre half back Marcus Boyall went to Glenelg and won the 1941 Magarey Medal; champion full forward Ron Todd, having kicked 120 goals in 1938 and 121 in 1939, crossed to VFA side Williamstown without a clearance in 1940; and a year later supremely talented half forward Des Fothergill, winner of the 1940 Brownlow Medal, followed in Todd's footsteps.
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It was probably no coincidence that Fothergill and Boyall were back in harness at Collingwood when the club re-emerged as a force in 1945. However, after qualifying for the 2nd semi final with a 15-5 record the side showed its lack of experience in major round football by bowing out of premiership contention in straight sets against South Melbourne and Carlton. The 1945 VFL finals series is well remembered for the so called 'Bloodbath grand final' between Carlton and South, but in the view of many observers the preliminary final meeting of Carlton and Collingwood was an even more vicious affair. |
The Magpies' 'class of '48' - click to enlarge. |
Jock McHale oversaw another four seasons at Victoria Park before retiring. His achievements as a VFL coach remain unsurpassed, and although he failed to steer the Magpies to a premiership after 1936, he went close several times, and, when he departed, his principal bequest to the club in the shape of players like Lou and Ron Richards, Des Healey, Bob Rose, Bill and Patrick Twomey (with third brother Michael joining in 1951), and Neil Mann was the nucleus of its 1953 flag-winning combination. Former premiership player 'Phonse' Kyne took over the coaching reins from McHale.
That 1953 flag was as memorable as any in the club's illustrious history. Reigning premier Geelong was thought by many to be unstoppable, but the Magpies not only beat them, they did so twice, coming back from 4 points down in the 2nd semi final to win by 5 goals, and then overrunning the hapless Cats in the grand final a fortnight later to have the game effectively over by three quarter time. During the final term, Geelong managed to outscore Collingwood and got to within a couple of kicks at the end, but it was all "sound and fury, signifying nothing". The Magpies' 11.11 (77) to 8.17 (65) triumph precipitated scenes of irrepressible joy among the club's faithful followers, for many of whom the seventeen year gap between premierships undoubtedly seemed like an eternity. The untimely death of Jock McHale a few days later dampened the celebrations somewhat, but this would be as nothing compared to the anguish to come.
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Collingwood and Carlton clash at Victoria Park during the early 1970s, in the days before such 'blockbuster' fixtures were habitually switched to the MCG or Waverley. (Click to enlarge.) |
The mid-1950s saw the emergence of arguably the most formidable force in Victorian football since the Magpies' mighty four--in-a-row' team of three decades earlier. Norm Smith was the instigator of this threat to the Collingwood legend, and Melbourne, which conclusively won the premierships of 1955-56-57, was the team. On 20 September 1958, in a scenario that no Hollywood script writer could have wished to surpass, the only team standing between the Demons and the immortality of four successive VFL flags was - Collingwood. Regarded by most as an ordinary team fuelled more by old-fashioned 'G and D' than by any innate football talent, embarrassingly thrashed by Melbourne in the 2nd semi final, missing both their skipper Frank Tuck and arguably their most talented player in Bill Twomey, the Magpies entered the 1958 grand final as the longest odds outsiders for years. The Demons, thought the experts, would be too quick, too skilled and much too cohesive for Collingwood, whose only potential trump card lay in the almost fanatical determination of its players, who 'Phonse' Kyne had ensured were imbued to the brim with awareness of and heartfelt devotion to the club's unique tradition, as well as an understanding of the damage to that tradition which would result from Melbourne emulating - and hence, inevitably, de-valuing - one of its chief cornerstones, the winning of an unprecedented four VFL flags in succession. |
Grand final day was cool and very wet, but this did not prevent a large crowd of 97,956 (see footnote 31) turning up to see Melbourne explode out of the blocks in typical, vibrant, assured fashion. With 'big guns' Barassi, Mithen, Beckwith and Johnson firing, the Demons totally dominated the opening term, and when they entered the first change with a 5.1 to 2.2 lead the only question on most observers' minds - Collingwood supporters excepted - was 'how much Melbourne?'
During the 2nd term, however, a change came over the game. As the ground got heavier, so the pace slowed, and the normally elusive Melbourne players were at the wrong end of some fierce body clashes. Moreover, they reacted in such a way that Collingwood's 'enforcers', Murray Weideman and Barry 'Hooker' Harrison, sensing a weakness, "systematically roughed up the potential Melbourne match-winners, notably Barassi and Mithen, who seemed to be involved in almost every flare-up" (see footnote 32). Slowly but surely, as Melbourne players concentrated on avoiding danger, or on 'evening up' with Harrison and Weideman, the Magpies began to make inroads into the deficit, adding 5.4 to 2.3 for the quarter to end up 2 points to the good at the long break.
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The 3rd quarter brought more fiery incidents, but in between it was the Magpies who were playing nearly all the football, rattling on 5.3 to the Demons' 2 solitary behinds to more or less seal the game. Although Melbourne attacked relentlessly for most of the final term, the Collingwood backline, notably full back Harry Sullivan and back pocket Ron Reeves, reigned supreme, and when the final siren sounded the scoreboard confirmed what was arguably the biggest grand final boil-over in the VFL since Melbourne's triumph over Essendon precisely a decade earlier: Collingwood 12.10 (82); Melbourne 9.10 (64). The Magpies' victory had been achieved by means of a quintessential team performance in which every player carried his weight. Even so, some individuals inevitably stood out, notably diminutive rover Thorold Merrett, who was credited with 25 kicks, ruckmen Graeme Fellowes and Ray Gabelich, half forward Bill Serong, wingman Ken Turner (21 kicks and 11 marks) - plus, of course, the aforementioned 'strong man' duo of Weideman and Harrison and, particularly in the final term, the last line defenders Reeves and Sullivan. Despite the intensely physical nature of the contest, the umpires made only two reports: Melbourne's Ron Barassi was charged with striking Murray Weideman, and Barry Harrison was alleged to have charged Barassi. Both players were exonerated at the tribunal. |
Terry Waters |
After what was arguably the Collingwood Football Club's finest hour, few could have imagined that it would be thirty-two long years before the club again achieved premiership success. During that time, the Magpies contested no fewer than eight grand finals, with all bar two - the 1960 and 1980 thrashings at the hands of Melbourne and Richmond respectively - being lost from potentially winning positions. Almost inevitably, given the jealous loathing that the club had engendered over the years, this gave rise to talk of curses, jinxes and mental weakness ('collywobbles'), but more rational analyses suggest that the side was either simply unlucky (1964, 1966 and 1979), or not quite good enough (1970, 1977 and 1981).
The thirty-two year premiership drought at Collingwood coincided with a period of enormous change for football, most of it stemming from economic causes. Whereas Jock McHale would almost certainly have played for and coached the club he loved for nothing, in 1970 two of Collingwood's most talented players, Des Tuddenham and Len Thompson, effectively went on strike seeking better contracts. The catalyst for this veritable assault on the club's tradition was, ironically, a departure from that tradition by the club hierarchy: at the end of the 1969 season they had signed one of that year's joint Tassie Medallists, Peter Eakins of Subiaco, on what was reputed to be the most lucrative contract ever offered by the club. Prior to this Collingwood, alone of all the VFL's clubs, had fought shy of the practice of paying big money for 'boom' interstate recruits, many of whom ultimately failed to do justice to their reputations (as indeed, arguably, did Eakins).
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Sav Rocca takes a classic grab against Fremantle at Victoria Park. (Click to enlarge.) |
Although Thompson and Tuddenham eventually
returned to the fold, they were replaced as vice-captain and captain
respectively by Wayne Richardson and Terry Waters. Perhaps even more
significantly, the whole affair left a distinctly sour taste in the mouth, and
altered many people's perceptions of exactly what Collingwood was, and stood
for.
Because of the duration of the premiership drought, many fine Collingwood footballers never had the opportunity to play in a flag-winning side. Among the best were the club's two Brownlow Medallists of the period, the late Len Thompson (1972) and Peter Moore (1979), the Richardson brothers, Wayne and Max, arguably the Magpies best post-war full forward, Peter McKenna, Des Tuddenham, Terry Waters, Phil Carman, Bill Picken, Mark Williams and Ray Shaw. Among the coaches to fail at Collingwood were Bob Rose (1964-71 and 1985 plus part of 1986), Neil Mann (1972-74), Tom Hafey 1977-81) and John Cahill (1983-84). |
Leigh Matthews retired at the end of the 1985 season after an illustrious 340 game VFL career with Hawthorn. The 1986 season saw him at Collingwood as assistant to the club's veteran coach Bob Rose, with the intention being that Rose should groom Matthews to be his eventual replacement. That plan eventually had to be implemented much earlier than anticipated: the 'Pies suffered a horror start to the 1986 season, losing heavily to Essendon, Sydney and North Melbourne, whereupon Rose resigned, leaving an inexperienced Matthews in the unenviable position of having to learn the art of coaching more or less from scratch at the same time as restoring morale and purpose to a crestfallen, disgruntled and potentially volatile band of players. Moreover, the club was in severe financial strife, with rumours of bankruptcy and liquidation hovering in the air, making it hard at times for players and coach to concentrate on football matters.
That, though, is what Matthews had to do, and initially, at least, he performed an exemplary job: Collingwood won 12 of its remaining 19 fixtures in 1986 to miss the finals only on percentage. The following year, however, constituted a major reality check, with the 'Pies managing just 7 wins from 22 matches to finish above just Richmond and the fledgling Brisbane Bears. In 1988, Matthews' remedy to this decline was "a departure from modern football trends: an emphasis on defence rather than attack" (see footnote 33). Over the course of a 22 match minor round, Collingwood conceded only 1,728 points, the second lowest total in twelve years; it also managed 15 wins and a draw to qualify for the finals in 2nd place.
Those finals were an unmitigated disaster, however, as the players' inexperience in such matches was cruelly exposed by Carlton and Melbourne, precipitating a straight sets exit. It was a similar story in 1989 as Melbourne ended Collingwood's season at the elimination final stage. On the plus side of the ledger, however, the club's financial woes were a thing of the past, and all concerned could concentrate on the one thing that, in the minds of the overwhelming majority at any rate, constitutes the fundamental raison d'être of a footy club - winning flags. in 1990, after more than three decades of trying, that is what the Collingwood Football Club would finally do.
| The consensus of opinion concerning the Magpies' 1990 premiership combination appears to be that it was merely the best of an ordinary bunch of contenders. On objective examination, however, such an appraisal seems both facile and unfair. In the first place, the side was blessed with players of the highest calibre, including the mercurial Peter Daicos, the ostensibly pedestrian but supremely effective Tony Shaw, lion-hearted Gavin Brown, formidable ruckman Damian Monkhorst, fleet-footed runners like Scott Russell, Graham Wright and Tony Francis, an authoritative key position defender in Craig Kelly, versatile all-rounders such as Mick McGuane and Shane Morwood, and the player who, but for his untimely death at the age of just twenty-six in October 1991, might conceivably have developed into the greatest wingman in the history of the game, Darren Millane. Just as importantly, these players, who were expertly drilled and meshed together by their psychologically astute, immensely disciplined, and increasingly insightful coach, played the game with a passion, verve and intensity that seemed like the products of religious zeal. To further the analogy, they thoroughly eschewed the doctrine of free will in favour of firm belief in pre-destination, which paradoxically afforded them the freedom to play with almost maniacal fervour, and an apparent abandon that was nevertheless precisely controlled. In short, the Magpies of 1990 had all the characteristics traditionally associated with teams of premiership calibre, and a team of such calibre they undoubtedly were. |
Gavin Brown |
Collingwood's grand final opponents, Essendon, having narrowly beaten the 'Pies in both minor round encounters, had finished a game and a place clear at the top of the ladder after the home and away rounds. However, when the sides met in the 2nd semi final, Collingwood made the Dons look tawdry and inept, especially in the second half, and won with ease by 63 points. Needless to say, this afforded the 'Pies weighty popular favouritism going into the re-match a fortnight later.
The early exchanges of the grand final were typical of a game of such importance - fierce, frequently unlawful, no prisoners taken. Essendon drew first and second blood with goals from Salmon, but overall it was the Magpies who seemed "more committed, desperate and keener to help each other" (see footnote 34), and although they only led by 3 points at the first change you got the impression that the Bombers had been stretched almost to breaking point. the 2nd quarter confirmed this impression as Collingwood, with midfielders Millane, Russell, McGuane, Francis and Shaw seemingly gathering possessions at will, opened up a match-winning lead of 34 points.
Not that the Collingwood faithful, many of whom remembered previous occasions such as 1970 and 1977 when their heroes had let slip leads of similar magnitude, were even thinking of relaxing. Indeed, "Collingwood diehards were still biting their nails half way through the final quarter......even with their beloved team leading by six goals" (see footnote 35). This Magpie team was made of sterner material than some of its predecessors, however, and in the end a margin of 48 points probably flattered Essendon.
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Chris Tarrant |
Best afield was the quintessential 'captain courageous', Tony Shaw, whose match stats of 22 kicks, 10 handballs, 8 marks and 4 tackles do little but scratch the surface of the quality and impact of his performance. Other noteworthy displays came from Scott Russell, Darren Millane (who played despite a broken hand), Damien Monkhorst, Craig Starcevich, and Craig Kelly. Magpie president Alan McAllister summed up the feelings of many of the club's long suffering supporters when he declared, "It was like an impossible dream" (see footnote 36) - words which, from the vantage point of more than a decade after the event, perhaps carry more painful connotations - to the Collingwood fraternity, at any rate. The celebrations after the 1990 premiership win have entered club folk lore. According to Peter Daicos, "They say it's great to win a flag, but it nearly killed me. I know what they mean when people talk about premiership hangovers (see footnote 37). Unfortunately for Collingwood, there is a sense in which that hangover persists to this day, for despite consecutive grand final appearances in 2002-3 the club has still to add to its tally of fifteen senior premierships (fourteen in the V/AFL). Indeed, in 2004 the Magpies only rarely approached the form of the preceding two seasons, and ultimately finished well out of contention in 12th place, before plummeting even further the following season and only narrowly missing the wooden spoon. There was significant improvement in 2006 as the side qualified for the finals in 5th place, but the season ended disappointingly with a 41 point elimination final loss to the Western Bulldogs. The 2007 season proved rather more promising as the Magpies fought their way as far as the preliminary final in which they came within a single straight kick (and arguably a slice or two of luck) of overcoming a much vaunted Geelong combination. A less consistent 2008 campaign saw the side ultimately placed sixth after qualifying for the finals in eighth spot, comfortably accounting for the Crows in Adelaide in an elimination final, but then suffering defeat by 34 points against St Kilda at the semi final stage, despite amassing 27 scoring shots to the Saints' 21. |
As for the fabric of the Collingwood Football Club, this has changed considerably since its formative days, and will inevitably continue to do so. Victoria Park (now known as McHale Stadium) was last used as a league venue in 1999, and in 2004 Olympic Park became the club's administration and training base. In a sense, the club has transcended its roots, but in another sense its growth merely reflects and endorses its tradition, for Collingwood has always been a club of big ambitions and, in the broader historical sense, remains a club of big achievement. It would be very surprising indeed - not to mention extremely disappointing - if those same words, or similar, could not be written with equal validity in a hundred years time. Love them or loathe them, football without Victoria's Magpies would be an infinitely less engaging, exciting and impassioned affair.
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26. The term 'grand final' is used for convenience, to denote a premiership deciding match, but is not strictly accurate. Prior to the inception of the Page-McIntyre finals system in 1931, premierships were mainly decided on the basis of the result of either the final or, if the minor premier had lost at any stage during the major round, a challenge final. Return to Main Text
27. VFL Premiers by Hugh Buggy, page 17. Return to Main Text
28. Ibid., page 18. Return to Main Text
29. The Complete Book of VFL Finals by Graeme Atkinson, page 114. Return to Main Text
30. Quoted in The Encyclopedia of League Footballers by Jim Main and Russell Holmesby, page 341. Return to Main Text
31. Large as the crowd was, it was not the biggest for the season. In round 10 an all time record home and away crowd of 99,346 had attended the Queen's Birthday clash between the same two clubs, with Melbourne edging home by 11 points. Return to Main Text
32. Atkinson, op cit., page 190. Return to Main Text
33. Every Game Ever Played by Stephen Rodgers, page 714. Return to Main Text
34. 'Inside Football', 10/10/90, page 10 - from a match report by Greg Healy. Return to Main Text
35. Ibid., page 10. Return to Main Text
36. Ibid., page 3. Return to Main Text
37. Collingwood And Me by Peter Daicos with Jake Niall, page 76. Return to Main Text
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