hell of a footballer

Matthew Caligari . .

Unfortunately we fell right back down to earth in 2020. However the talent coming through is yet again very promising and we still have the star talent like Tom Mitchell, O Meara, Shiels, Breust, Gunston plus the young guns in Worpel, Day, Lewis, Koschitzke, Jiath, Brockman, Moore.

He's a lovely man, I played footy with his son who is a ripping lad too, worked at the Kangas for many years.

Footscray were idiot for getting rid of him

Greatest team of the modern era just ahead of Brisbane 2001-2004 and Geelong 2007-2011 and Hawthorn 2012-2016. Making 7 consecutive grand finals and 8 in 9 years for 5 flags is almost beyond belief, and I'm an unbiased Tiger.

Honourable mention to West Coast 1991-1994 ..

@@johnarundell7951 So that's five #championteams.

"..... to goal".

Best team of all time. Look at the names, legacy. The hawthorn 82_94 era the best in Aussie rules for me. The names. Tuck,dermie,chief,mew,aryes, Langford,Matthews, Eade, Wallace, Pritchard,dipper,Kennedy,Collins,knights, Bucky,platten

Peter Green Springvale rd is nowhere near Waverley park

@@sliat1981 its about 2km. Hardly a big distance.

TheYoumakemesick nowhere near

@@sliat1981 righto.

TheYoumakemesick that’s right

...that is weird.

Well it’s currently Hawthorns training base, but yeah you’re right it’s more so the grounds built around the houses instead of it being the other way.

Eagles lost first final in Perth to Hawthornthat year.Had two goes and did not get close.

I really admire your words. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Spaced92 He admits it due to his media career. He's still a closet racist.

***** Hawthorn supporter?

***** I'm mostly doing it because it seems to troll Hawthorn supporters because they're pigs. I also don't care for anything PC. Though, Dermott was and is a racist whichever way you look at it.

***** lol. Just shut the fuck up.

Was earmarked for closure way before Eddie became president - so you talking out of your Kybher Pass. Here is an article that explains the reasoning behind dumping it...and it had zero to do with either Hawthorn or St Kilda: www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/it-doesnt-matter-now-waverleys-history/story-e6frf9n6-1225766945322

+Vic Nicholas don't believe that crap for a second

I remember it was slated for closure from the mid 1990s mate. Others claim that the death knell came even earlier, in 1988 when the decision was made to build a new Great Southern Stand at the MCG with state of the art corporate facilities. Has nothing to do with Eddie or Jack Elliott. Moreover, the ground was built in the middle of a rain belt. When the VFL wanted to build its own ground back in the 1950's, the sites offered up were Greensborough (has a train line), Epping (has a train line) and the Show Grounds (train/tram). Instead, against all logic, they chose Waverley. Why? The president of the VFL at that time Sir Kenneth Luke owned the near worthless farmland out at Waverley and in a COI, he signed off on selling his own land to the VFL whom he was president of. On a raining day (which was a lot out at Waverley), there was literally nowhere to hide. I got drenched out there a number of times. And that car park?? What a disaster that was to get out of. I have happy memories of the ground because the Pies used to play there 7-8 times a year and we used to win most of our games there, but, I wasn't surprised when they go rid of the place.

+Vic Nicholas oh boo hoo you got wet at a footy game! It's a winter sport mate, get over it

The playing surface - while big - was pretty good. On the other hand, the stands were an ugly Stalinist concrete dump. I am not sorry that it is gone.

Or #marvelstadium as it is now - having seen the #marvelstadium in #basketball in that international context ... I have enjoyed both #waverley and #docklands as of 1995-2000.

The same thing has now happened to both Football Park and Subiaco Oval that happened to Waverley. Perfectly good football stadiums that could have been world class if they were done up to modern day standards. Someone obviously felt that demolishing them and replacing them with housing estates was a better idea.

Adelaide Dupont yeah let’s see the mcg move football out for soccer if the afl had waverly to threaten their rights to hosting grand final. They do it now because they know Docklands can’t hold Dick

sdb4884 seems unfair that Hawthorn are the only team who have two premiership documentaries (1971-1991)

sdb4884 3 actually (1971-1989-1991)

@@sliat1981 this feels like more of an Eagles documentary anyway

swarbs13 so it should

@@sliat1981 well Peter Dickson is the late Rob Dickson's brother - Rob played for the Hawks.

Racism was prevalent in all clubs to a degree back then.

They were the last team to have an aboriginal player

@MU FC soccer is the worst sport in the world. It’s not number 1 in Australia, Japan, Philippines, New Zealand, Ireland, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, USA, Canada, Cuba. The A-league is almost bankrupt as no one goes or even watches it because of the more popular sports Australian rules and rugby league. Although not number one in wild or nsw, it’s still MASSIVE in those states. Check yourself before you wreck yourself

I think we're now the least racist country.

Paul O'Hara dermie definitely crossed the line resorting to those tactics is bullshit. Couldn’t win with honour and fair play so decided play dirty and taunt with racial slurs. Poor form

There’s no such thing as a curse, genuine or otherwise. Tucky May have believed he could go on, but the game’s bigger than any one player.

2014 Grand Final... Hawthorn 21.11 (137) def. Sydney 11.8 (74) The biggest grand final thrashing of a top of the ladder team in VFL & AFL history. Hahaha. Go Hawks! Another September day of honour and prestige for the most successful club of the modern era.

Memor Esto yeh and you could pie a 4 and 20 and a coke.

He was reported for biting Todd Viney in Round 16 - that would be reason enough to not gain that honour.

They’re not great mates, but that was largely tongue in cheek...

It really was the #wetseason and the #dryseason wasn't it? And that does bring a new significance to the beginning of the #nationalcompetition.

​@@adelaidedupont9017It was certainly a contrast - third-wettest winter on record in Melbourne after a very dry autumn. What people forget is that in the first nine rounds West Coast were at least as dominant - possibly more so - as Essendon in 2000, Geelong in 2007 and 2008, St. Kilda in 2009 or Collingwood in 2011. In the dry conditions of autumn the Eagles were simply too hard and too fast - I have come to think of the 1991 Eagles as the football equivalent of the West Indies cricket teams of the 1980s. So solid was the Eagle defence that it averaged only 58 points against in the first nine rounds! At that stage the Eagles were on pace for the best defensive record by points per game since Geelong in 1964, when the average score was 38 points smaller. However, the slower Melbourne grounds of the second wet half of 1991 did not take the Eaglesʼ great pace. In contrast, a drier climate - of course due to the inability of the rest of the world to enforce deep, rapid greenhouse gas emissions cuts upon Australia and the Gulf States (and the global ruling elite would never contemplate trying no matter how urgent it be) - artificial drying of grounds and a closed roof stadium meant Essendon in 2000, and several teams since 2007, did not have to be so ahead of their competitors to be sure of establishing a record for wins.

Eh? They were only formed in 1986. 1981 the league was fully Victorian

Probably why contact was less noticed is something never said: a cooler and wetter climate throughout southern Australia plus the absence of the closed roof at Docklands meant that grounds upon contact with players could take much more punishment and produced less wear on bodies. One notices this a lot from watching old football games at Waverley - which is actually climatically much MORE representative of the southern half of Victoria than is the MCG or Kardinia Park due to being less sheltered from the Westerlies by the Otway and Macedon Ranges.

guodade players and supporters have a lot to learn from the old days. I can’t believe people hated Waverley because you got wet when it rained. HTFU!

Mate Hawthorn are the goats of Grand Finals if we lose Grand finals, we come back the next year reverse the result and then do it for another two years, if we lose a grand final and don’t make it back and win it the next year that’s the worst fail in Hawthorns history.

A salty west coast eagles fan lmfao

@@shinjuku96jackson4 don’t laugh too hard you might shit yourself.

Dude - that made me laugh because I know exactly who you were referring to!

Who??

lee cummings your spelling. Urgh

lee cummings wow that was a pretty good comeback. For a 5 year old

lee cummings oh. Brilliant. Maybe we can graduate to 6 grade insults next?

Watch the 2001 Final Story if you want a non-Victorian Final Story

dawit thebigdog yet he defended the Collingwood supporter calling Goodes an ape

@@sliat1981 He defended a little girl who was taken out of context.

scoldedcat no, she was a teenager and knew what she was doing. And her racist Collingwood supporting father allowed it

@@sliat1981 You don't know what she knew because you're not a mind reader. She was barely a teenager and very much a child, frightened out of her wits by the whole saga. You make criticism of her father for being "racist"and "Collingwood supporting". Perhaps the Swans supporters (or whoever your club is) are superior to the Collingwood supporters, are they ? I support the Hawks, myself. Hope that's not a reason to denigrate me. I'm a 6'5" ex Aussie rules ruckman and I've been called exactly that ("A Big Ape") myself, on numerous occasions by opposition players and fans. Yet I'm caucasian. If she'd called him a "Boong", A"Black C___"or a "Ni____", you would have a point but she didn't, and I venture to say that the whole sorry event damaged the child psychologically.

scoldedcat give me a break, you don’t presume to know what she meant either. Regardless her father didn’t allow it, but like the ones who taunted Nicky Winmar he allowed it. Yeah Collingwood supporters have a history of this. Come on, let’s it pretend for one second it was about being big or anything. You know full what it was about. If my daughter ever said that to a black person, she’d get a clip over the eat. I’d never allow her to be so racist. I bet you didn’t have the same reaction when Rex Hunt made that comment about that Collingwood playet

Jack Eastwood wasn’t selected. He was all but retired and well under form