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Flashman
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What are you talking about?
There's a bronze statue of our 1990 premiership coach outside the "G" right now. |
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Cam 
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| PyreneesPie wrote: | | Cam wrote: | | The end is coming, they are erecting an image of the 1980 Antichrist. |
Ah, you still obviously feel the pain of that GF Cam, as do I.  |
Seeing that little smeagol running around doing his damage.. some scars don't heal PP  We were Richmond zone so half my class barracked for them and did they give it too us little clutch of magpies, as the damn Bluescum supporters did the year before and year after.
Thankfully there were no kangaroo supporters in existence in 77, and I was too young to get stirred at school then, we were too busy playing armies and cowboys and indigenous north americans to worry about footy results too much.
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Jezza 
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I made a post on this very topic in November 2014 in another thread similar to this one which was also started by PNC. Here's the post:
| Jezza wrote: | Jock McHale and Gordon Coventry are worthy of statues outside the MCG let alone Victoria Park.
McHale is the greatest coach of all time and coached a record number of 37 years with one club and achieved seven premierships wins in the process. Sure Malthouse will break the record of the number of games coached, but McHale will always have more Premierships to his tally than Malthouse will.
Coventry was the leading all-time goal kicker until it was broken by Tony Lockett in 1999. The record lasted 62 years and should be recognised as an outstanding achievement especially in the 1930s where football wasn't as high scoring as it was during the 1980s and 1990s.
Both McHale and Coventry deserve massive recognition from the AFL and broader football community and not just within the confines of our club and that's why building a statue of the two men outside the MCG would only be appropriate and fitting, but knowing the AFL it won't happened especially as both men were excluded from the joke that we call the VFL/AFL Team of the Century. |
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Presti35 
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| Jezza wrote: | I made a post on this very topic in November 2014 in another thread similar to this one which was also started by PNC. Here's the post:
| Jezza wrote: | Jock McHale and Gordon Coventry are worthy of statues outside the MCG let alone Victoria Park.
McHale is the greatest coach of all time and coached a record number of 37 years with one club and achieved seven premierships wins in the process. Sure Malthouse will break the record of the number of games coached, but McHale will always have more Premierships to his tally than Malthouse will.
Coventry was the leading all-time goal kicker until it was broken by Tony Lockett in 1999. The record lasted 62 years and should be recognised as an outstanding achievement especially in the 1930s where football wasn't as high scoring as it was during the 1980s and 1990s.
Both McHale and Coventry deserve massive recognition from the AFL and broader football community and not just within the confines of our club and that's why building a statue of the two men outside the MCG would only be appropriate and fitting, but knowing the AFL it won't happened especially as both men were excluded from the joke that we call the VFL/AFL Team of the Century. |
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TRUTH.
Coventry the first to kick a ton. The first to play 300. 5 Premierships. An out and out star. You could almost make a case for some other Pies, Dick Lee? Syd Coventry?, but McHale and G.Coventry should 100% be outside the 'G.
Honestly, Ive always felt like Coventry does not get the respect he deserves. He should have been in the AFL Team of The Century. And he should have been one of the inaugural Legends.
Yes, they named one of the goal ends at Etihad after him, but now all the other clubs cover his name up, which is nothing short of an absolute disgrace.
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Big T
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I think Luke Goddens statue will be done first, then jock. It's an order of greatness thing.
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| Damien wrote: | | Fair question. Probably should ask why we don't have one ourselves anywhere too. |
Good Point I would have thought he would be the first one before Bob Rose and Tarkyn Lockyer.
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| PyreneesPie wrote: | | Culprit wrote: | | Love it Stu |
Agree!  Absolutely hilarious Stu. |
Indeed great work Stu
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piedys
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| Cam wrote: | | The end is coming, they are erecting an image of the 1980 Antichrist. |
Could be worse - if they made one of Damir Cloke, we'd never hear the end of it....
Grrrr... the 1980 school of pain....
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duke750
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These are the people I would immortalised at the MCG:
Dick Reynolds - 3 Brownlows, 320 games, 442 goals, coached 4 premierships
Bob Skilton - 3 Brownlows
Hayden Bunton - 3 Brownlows
Ian Stewart - 3 Brownlows at 2 clubs, premierships at 2 clubs
Jock McHale - nearly 1,000 games at Collingwood as player and coach. Premiership player, 8 times premiership coach
Norm Smith - 4 premierships as a player and 6 as a coach
Tony Locket - the most goals of any player
Gordon Coventry - 1,299 goals, 5 times leading goal kicker, 6 premierships
Michael Tuck - 426 games and 7 premierships
Kevin Bartlett - 403 games, 5 premiership and Norm Smith medal
Brent Harvey - over 400 games, nearly 500 goals and 1 premiership
Leigh Matthews - over 300 games, over 900 goals, Coleman Medal, 4 premierships as a player and 4 as a coach
Ron Barrassi - 6 premierships as a player and 4 as a coach
Apologies to Ted Whitten, Alan Jeans, David Park in and others
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Bob Sugar
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| Piesnchess wrote: | | Bob Sugar wrote: | | When things are looking good, he goes looking for anger!! |
WTF ?? Ever heard of justice and fairness and what is right  |
Shut your viagra popping pie hole old man 
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Apologies to Ted Whitten, Alan Jeans, David Park in and others[/quote]
No one should ever apologise to Alan Jeans. Ever. period. least of all a Collingwood supporter.
Unless of course you leave the statue with with mouth open in the urinals behind M10 in the Great Southern stand.
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Bob Sugar
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I've said this about Bradman, the talent pool in Australia between both world wars was super thin, able bodied men had more on their mind than sport, IMO it's no coincidence our 2 greatest sporting heroes (Bradman-Pharlap) came from this period, just happens our greatest period came from that time as well, I don't give a **** what y'all think, but I don't rate that era.
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Presti35
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I think dukes list is about on the money.
We might have to settle for some statues around the holden centre. Just as long as they don't go too far with it.
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John Wren
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| duke750 wrote: | These are the people I would immortalised at the MCG:
Dick Reynolds - 3 Brownlows, 320 games, 442 goals, coached 4 premierships
Bob Skilton - 3 Brownlows
Hayden Bunton - 3 Brownlows
Ian Stewart - 3 Brownlows at 2 clubs, premierships at 2 clubs
Jock McHale - nearly 1,000 games at Collingwood as player and coach. Premiership player, 8 times premiership coach
Norm Smith - 4 premierships as a player and 6 as a coach
Tony Locket - the most goals of any player
Gordon Coventry - 1,299 goals, 5 times leading goal kicker, 6 premierships
Michael Tuck - 426 games and 7 premierships
Kevin Bartlett - 403 games, 5 premiership and Norm Smith medal
Brent Harvey - over 400 games, nearly 500 goals and 1 premiership
Leigh Matthews - over 300 games, over 900 goals, Coleman Medal, 4 premierships as a player and 4 as a coach
Ron Barrassi - 6 premierships as a player and 4 as a coach
Apologies to Ted Whitten, Alan Jeans, David Park in and others |
here's who have been immortalised to date:
http://www.mcg.org.au/things-to-do/sporting-statues
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dalyc 
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| Bob Sugar wrote: | | I've said this about Bradman, the talent pool in Australia between both world wars was super thin, able bodied men had more on their mind than sport, IMO it's no coincidence our 2 greatest sporting heroes (Bradman-Pharlap) came from this period, just happens our greatest period came from that time as well, I don't give a **** what y'all think, but I don't rate that era. |
Pharlap? So the other horses had other things on their minds too allowing Pharlap to win?
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