Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board

Vale indeed. Another legend who goes on having kick to kick with Bob Rose. Condolescenes to family

First Grand Final I attended was 1953 and saw you play a great game Mick.
You and all those Magpie,s that day started a love of Collingwood.

R.I.P

A dual Premiership player. We haven't had one of those for over 50 years. The Twomey family were great warriors for Collingwood. Vale Mick Twomey.

i saw him play and he was good and his brother Bill was even better .

i think Bill was also a captain at Collingwood .

Two greats of the club who really played for the jumper .

That is a term not used today but it means they bled black and white

Amazing WOODS

SO how did you manage to get the articles from that great newspaper

" THE SPORTING GLOBE"

i like reading articles like that and brings back memories of the great players of the past .

i remember going to VIC PARK one Thursday night to watch the players train and i was sitting next to Harry Collier . He must have then been in his 80's and the way he talked you could see that he would have given anything he had to go out there and play and put the JUMPER on again .

sem,

The National Library of Australia has scanned and digitised old Australian newspapers and made them searchable on the internet, and for free.

Most Vic newspapers are there : Age, Argus, Herald, Sporting Globe and lots of country papers too.

Here's the search page: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/search?adv=y

Enjoy filling the pre-season void with some great Collingwood stories from the past.

"6 foot 1 (and a 1/2) and equal to any of the good ruckman going around todae (then)".
The Twomeys are legends of the club.
I doubt we will ever see 4 brothers play at the club again.
As long as there is a Collingwood these boys will be remembered with pride.

Woods wrote:sem,

The National Library of Australia has scanned and digitised old Australian newspapers and made them searchable on the internet, and for free.

Most Vic newspapers are there : Age, Argus, Herald, Sporting Globe and lots of country papers too.

Here's the search page: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/search?adv=y

Enjoy filling the pre-season void with some great Collingwood stories from the past.

I love reading the old papers on the nla website (discovered my mums squeaky clean family was not so)

My parents always spoke about the Twomeys with great reverence

I love reading the old papers on the nla website (discovered my mums squeaky clean family was not so)

On reading the war record of my great uncle we were surprised to find he was admitted to a VD clinic in Britain in 1918. He was on leave from France.
My Dad said he was that straight laced his only son (killed in WW11)and his nephews had to call him Mr Gibbs and wore a tie and jacket to the dinner table.

Amazing article .

i might give up watching the magpies after doing so since 1956 and just read the old newspaper articles .

Doing that will be less stressful .

Thanks again WOODS

The story about Lou Richards is gold. Hint - click on the PDFs button at the top left of the page, it is much easier to read

barrybc41 wrote:First Grand Final I attended was 1953 and saw you play a great game Mick.
You and all those Magpie,s that day started a love of Collingwood.

R.I.P

Wow, you were at the 1953 Grand Final Barry? You're one of the lucky living magpie supporters who saw two flags in 5 years. I had to wait until 1990 to see success......wasn't allowed to go in 1966.

The Twomey family is one of the great Collingwood dynasties. RIP.