Remember the Sensational Seventies ?

Question

That decade brought us many great players and fights.

Who was your favourite player and favourite hit man.

Mine would be Ross Glenndining

Hit man would have to be Mal Brown.

And do you think the footballers today would last the distance against those boys?

Answer 1

You can't go past the first Nth Melb. premiership team that were all bought to give Ron Barassi such a fighting outfit. Loved Blighty, Greigg and Glendenning for the Roos.

Answer 2

Ah, Marco. Did mummy let you on the computer again?

I loved Kevin Bartlett when I was a kid. Ah the Tiger glory days. Agree with Mal Brown too.

Answer 3

yes what a era and best of all NO west coast eagles ANYWHERE

Answer 4

Lethal Leigh Matthews for mine

Answer 5

Unfortunately, I was too young and didn't know anything about football. But in the 80's, I learned a lot, I discovered the 70's was quite an era. Great players came out from that time, I would have like to see the high speckies, courages bumps and tackles from then. These days, its all about whistle blowing umps.

Answer 6

Fav player would have to be Kieth Grieg, poetry in motion.

Hit man what about Slammin Sam Kechovich, you surely couldn't look past him.

I remember much about those years as this was when Nth Melb won their first Grand Final and I was lucky enough to be there to see it. Players of today are more technical and so they should be as that is the way the game has gone. There are more game plans  and the requirements of players means they must be fitter and more athletic than they were 30 years ago.

Answer 7

Um no i dont remember coz I wasnt alive til th 90s. I like Peter matera...but he wasnt there in th 70s...the shorts looked funny thats all I know

....The eagles are cool!!

Answer 8

Hey Molly ..

despite living in a town that lived and breathed football , It wasn't until the 1980's that I started taking an interest.. ( when I met my husband and started going to games with his family) ..

and How's this name for a memory ROD GRINTER,.

EDIT ... nah age has nothing to do with it .. I just didn't get into it before the '80's SO stop feeling old  :)

Answer 9

Under the rules of today the old guys would never make it but under the old rules todays players would spend most of their time in hospital.

Answer 10

I didn't discover footy here in the USA until 1982. I have AFL video "The Sensational Seventies" and the video is a great history lesson. My favorite players of the decade had to be 1. Kevin Bartlett; 2. Jezza; 3. Kevin Murray, 4. Teddy Hopkins (one game does in Collingwood, 70 GF).

Hit man is Mal Brown (he probably started the "Battle of Windy Hill") with Leigh Matthews a close second with his hit of Neville Bruns, then John Bourke and his umpire assault in the reserves for Collingwood.

Players were footballers, not the athletes of today. Justin Madden once said he thought he was the last of the non-athletic footballers.