PIES V ESS 1990 fosters cup international london match

ash v1.0 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

One of the best reads is a book by Daicos: "Collingwood and Me" with Jake Niall. He only writes about a page and a half on this game but its a ripper read if you ever get the chance.

Some of the key points on the game.

Landed in London at 7.00 am on the Wednesday after the GF. Then sight seeing till the first pub opened at 11.30am.

Drank at the pub across the road from the Hippodrome with Chrisso, Millane, Monkey, Wright, Crosisca and Turner till 8pm.

Back to the hotel room for a shower and out drinking again until early again the next morning - again no sleep. Some of the guys ended up back at my room as they would not leave. I did not fall asleep till 7am.

First training session was at 8am. Jamie Turner does half a lap and calls it quits.

Daics in his newspaper column before the game tells people back home to back Essendon with everything they had.

Daics then goes on to write "You can imagine, then, my horror when Ronny Rickhards and Lee Adamson decide to play me in the centre".

He goes on "But everyone put their heads down, with the younger players such as Brendan Tranter, Athos Hrysoulakis and Colin Alexander putting in. Chrisso and Starc dominating up forward, and we pulled through. That win, not our first flag in 32 years, must have been the greatest miracle of 1990"

Cracking read. Pitty I can't ever remember the game myself.

Cheers

Robbo.D.yobbo · The Toovinator Joined: 31 Oct 2005

stoliboy · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Sydney, NSW

Is the London game on a torrent site? And if so can someone PM me please? Smile

luvdids · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: work

piedys · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:13 pm

regan is true fullback · Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: Granville. nsw

Ah yes good old betamax.

In pre Name A Game days, in 1988, i arranged for a a friend to record the Collingwood v Carlton game while i was working at a holiday camp.

Unfortunately his son chose that very day to come into the world so of course footy tapes were forgotten in the rush.

so when i got to my relatives place it was:
"You should have seen it. Best game ever. Magpies just got over the line at the last!"

So I had a couple of days in Canberra so I rang the president of the ACT collingwood supporters to try and borrow a tape to watch it. yes he says, I have a tape, but it's Beta.

In desperation, I borrowed the tape, took it to a video shop, paid heaps to get it converted, took the original back to it's owner and went back to Sydney with my treasure. Put it on - no sound! The best game ever and no commentary and no atmosphere. So I put some music on and watched the game. Wasn't half bad.

So folks, if you have a game pre 1991, lend a copy to Dave and his friends so such treasures will not be lost. That tape is long gone, but the memory of all that stuffing around remains.

Didaksgoal · Joined: 12 Mar 2004

A mate of mine threatened to stick a pencil in his Dad's Beta VCR when he was younger, He hated it. He could never swap video tapes with his mates cos we all had VHS machines. Laughing

I'm sure he got over it. Weren't Beta machines slightly better quality in picture?

I'd love to see this game again, I remember watching it back in 1990 just hoping that we'd win............and we did.

3rd degree · Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Location: John Wren's tote

The old days of Beta vs VHS . Video shops used to be like East and West Berlin. Beta was better quality, the tape was more expensive.

piedys · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 8:41 pm

piedys · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 8:45 pm

stoliboy · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Sydney, NSW

Someone has put up a 1:57 video of the London match on youtube

VFL Aussie rules flashbacks : 1990 Essendon v Collingwood in London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhHn_CNiRM4

Techno12 · Joined: 31 Oct 2012

malteaser · Stanley Kubrick Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Location: Torquay

I remember it very well, I was there. On the wing about 5 rows back mayb more fwd flank. Ran on the field after the match caught up with Richo and Daics and spent a good few hours with the boys. went with friends of mine still to this day not sure where they went, either do they. the match made up for me missing the GF. didn't get to see the actual replay until the week after, so I had no idea of how the match went and the fight. Was the greatest day of my life, really that was my GF cause I had to wait another bloody 20 years to see a flag. I am sure I have photos somewhere, might look for them and upload them. Considering I went to the 79, 80, and 81 GF and then we lost 02 and 03, I really started to believe that I would have to wait until I was in a wheel chair and on oxygen. But at least 1990 at the Oval was fantastic, oh yeah when I did get to see the replay, the video tape ran out and I never got to see Tony lift the cup until I returned home 5 years later. Thank god for 2010