The game has moved on from me and a lot of people from my generation

[mickqld]

The San Francisco Grill , well **** me with a feather I haven’t heard that mentioned in 40 plus years but yes was a great spot & how about the Bourbon & Beefsteak bar at the Cross jeez I’ve spent some nights there in my misspent youth !!

When the Cross was the place to be. Then Oxford street took over for a while with the alternate set till the lockout laws and organised crime/drug biker gangs finished it all.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Thanks @ Real Deal I do frequent this site and I enjoy sharing my video collection on YouTube. And that disallowed Branighan try still haunts me. Up in the Sheridan Stand, in line with the touch line, it was a TRY. The touch judge was from the Manly area, no favours there.

From the Rugby League Project website:

The corresponding game the following year was a tight one too:

Branighan looked like scoring on full time after a long break, only to be injured in the tackle from Mark Harris. I think it was ruled he had hit the corner post before grounding the ball.

It was a long time before Branighan got up. He might even have left the field on a stretcher. Ray Branighan was a great player.

 

[47MVEagle]

Yeah I can relate - the last game I attended was Manly vs Sharks in the last round & we had hill tickets.

Got there at 1pm so we could find a spot n the hill but was already so packed we made do with sitting on the wall at the bottom of the hill/edge of the concourse.

Our view was partially obscured by one of those flame thrower things & you could feel the heat from it every time it went off. The PA system was turned up to 11, so for the hour we waited for kick off, every time the ground announcer came on to rev the crowd up, we had to pause our conversation until he'd finished. Then the music volume was increased as kick off approached, so you couldn't have any sort of conversation after that.

I loved the days when you could get there early & easily grab a patch on the hill & watch some (if not all) of the 2 lower grade games before the first grade match & it was a chilled atmosphere building up to first grade kick off. Now you're shoved in like cattle & struggle to find a seat anywhere & it's just blaring noise & music with some muppet on the microphone going "When I say "GOOOO MANLY" you say "GOOOO MANLY!!!".

It's all very manufactured & put on. Like @LeonardCohen said, it's designed specifically for the ADHD generation - people who can't sit still for 5 minutes without looking at their phones or taking selfies or posting updates on their social media...sadly so very true.

 

[Real Deal]

I’m sick of that ****ing song.

It’s long since joined ‘American Pie’ in my ‘Never to be tolerated again’ list of music.

Agreed. Kudos to the first ground person who plays JPY's "I hate the music"!

 

[Real Deal]

Actually if there going to play a Neil Diamond song, it has to be 1974's "Longfellow Serenade". It always reminds me of that Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School".

Dangerfield to attractive young female student:-

"What's your favourite sudject?"

Student:- "Poetry!"

Dangerfield:- "Really? Maybe you could help me straighten out my Longfellow!"

 

[jbb/james]

Look it doesnt matter in its a little cake with your coffee or the simple sandwich its all overblown, overdone and over priced. A ham/ cheese sandwich is a midnight elvis with 4 types of provolone, in a river of sunburnt pickled aioli

Rant over as I sit down to a coffee and $16 dollar cupcake the size of my head

Dont judge me man !!!!
Friday is my cheat day

 

[Real Deal]

From the Rugby League Project website:
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The corresponding game the following year was a tight one too:

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Branighan looked like scoring on full time after a long break, only to be injured in the tackle from Mark Harris. I think it was ruled he had hit the corner post before grounding the ball.

It was a long time before Branighan got up. He might even have left the field on a stretcher. Ray Branighan was a great player.

Thanks Terry and Eagle for your info and stats. Nice for once that my game recollections were accurate.

Ray Branighan was one of the greats. Check out the 1976 match on YouTube vs the Bulldogs. He does this tiny step that splits two Bulldog defenders and sprints into the clear and times a perfect pass to Rod Jackson who scores the try. Superb.

 

[Real Deal]

Yes I remember that day. We were up in the Sheridan stand just about in line with that touch line. We all thought he scored and were going crazy till that idiot put his flag up. Was a great comeback that day soured by a ref as usual. Nothing has changed.

I was in the old Brewongle Stand with my sister. She went for Easts then and now supports the Bulldogs.

 

[globaleagle]

that reminds me of the classic SNL skit with Will Ferrel as Neil Diamond

Yes, I'll never give a thumbs up for any SNL skit ever. Longest running most loved most unfunniest show in the universe.

John Goodman in there as well, I see.

 

[globaleagle]

If there is one consistent in life, it is that every generation will referr to their younger years as the GOLDEN YEARS.

For every member referring to the 70s as the best time there will be and equal portion claiming the 80s, and another claiming the 90s, 00s and so on and so forth.....there will be some saying 60s or 50s were the best time.

There are members in their late teens/early 20s now who in 20/30/40 years will talk about how the 2020s were the halcyon days.

I'm just hitting my 40s and seeing it in myself. It's just how nostalgia works.

Our brains focus in on the good memories, the mundane are forgotten and all in all our physical prime years become THE PRIME YEARS.

This is life.

Fair 'nuff...but not me. Anyone who liked the pre-internet years more has found a long forgotten stash somewhere and is on it.

 

[globaleagle]

Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble
And children respected their elders

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Yes, I'll never give a thumbs up for any SNL skit ever. Longest running most loved most unfunniest show in the universe.

John Goodman in there as well, I see.

I've never watched the actual show but someone sent me that clip a few years ago and it cracked me up. (Probably just my warped sense of humour though)

and this

I have read that Christopher Walken would agree with you

may be a reference to another one I've come across

 

[maxta]

I recall as a kid going to the SCG for a game between Manly vs Easts.
There was just a way different atmosphere.
As the teams came out to the 'old" team song as in "Up the Mighty Seagles" and the confetti was flying around everywhere.....it didn't seem so much a "product", but a game for tough men going to war and it was more the working mans game - sorry if that sounds sexist.
Personally do and always will love my footy, but there's no doubt it's more an entertainment than a sport these days and has lost much of that "old school" atmosphere which was an integral part of the game....part of the great games soul has been Sold to the highest bidder and will never be the same again.

 

[globaleagle]

I've never watched the actual show but someone sent me that clip a few years ago and it cracked me up. (Probably just my warped sense of humour though)

and this

may be a reference to another one I've come across

MORE COWBELL

 

[jbb/james]

I've never watched the actual show but someone sent me that clip a few years ago and it cracked me up. (Probably just my warped sense of humour though)

and this

may be a reference to another one I've come across

Yeah he a will farrell do the cowbell skit also Walken reckons it ****s him because after all these years everyone just wants cowbell from him

 

[Real Deal]

I do remember the streamers that they sold outside the grounds. Maroon and white and whatever else colour your team was. Also small bits of streamers in the Sheridan stand like confetti. I used to take a pair of 10 x 50 binoculars to the game and a couple of small bits of streamers stuck inside the hard binocular case. They are still there, the case now has its third pair of binoculars in 45 years. Back in the day we still had the team song. Eagle Rock was just an old Daddy Cool song and Ross Wilson fronted Mondo Rock.

 

[bob dylan]

We're not the only ones living in the past. Ray Price says his old team is better than the present day Panthers....only one way to prove it....

Poor Ray has had way too many hits to the head.

They won the GFs, but Manly were by far the best team in 1983 finishing minor premiers by 8 points.

In 82 we beat them 20-0 in the GF qualifier before they got us in the GF.

As good as they were they weren't any better than any other premier.

 

[BOZO]

I recall as a kid going to the SCG for a game between Manly vs Easts.
There was just a way different atmosphere.

Thank you for your perspective on the game feathered friend
I used to have hair on my bald head many years ago
The hair on the back of my neck which I still have raises at the sight of maroon and white
For me the atmosphere when I see the Manly legendary Jersey make its way on to the field is still as Great as Ever

The only thing is not the same is that we are not the same dominant club any more
WE NEED TO RAISE OUR STANDARDS !!!

 

[maxta]

Thank you for your perspective on the game feathered friend
I used to have hair on my bald head many years ago
The hair on the back of my neck which I still have raises at the sight of maroon and white
For me the atmosphere when I see the Manly legendary Jersey make its way on to the field is still as Great as Ever

The only thing is not the same is that we are not the same dominant club any more
WE NEED TO RAISE OUR STANDARDS !!!
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I still get pretty pumped, don't get me wrong....its just the game had a more "Natural" vibe to it back then.....but of course Manly Winning is always going to be exciting....

 

[Real Deal]

For all our appreciation of the old days, I have to say at the Bulldogs semi final, i loved the atmosphere and jumped for joy at full time. Just like when I was a kid.