Manly knew they were in for a tough game when they came to Lidcombe Oval to take on the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1978. I am not sure they expected it to be this tough however.
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@308V8HZ3 жыл бұрын
Funny to see a bloke take one last drag of a cigarette before running on to the field . Priceless .
@charleyhansen4866 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't a cigarette 💚
@bpmuppet723 жыл бұрын
Tommy..what an absolute legend!
@ryan13855 жыл бұрын
Ahhhhhhh the good old days. Gotta love it
@matcole98963 жыл бұрын
RIP TOMMY. LEGEND.
@joek7242 жыл бұрын
one tough hombre
@causticwit30210 жыл бұрын
Great clip. Thank you for uploading this.
@beaucrocker3 жыл бұрын
RIP Tommy
@Connellyboii9 жыл бұрын
Always good to see manly get belted
@croweater754 жыл бұрын
It's a victimless crime
@joecorr18533 жыл бұрын
Proud to say I was at that game. League isn't the same anymore.
@bigfogman13 жыл бұрын
me too joe what a great time to be alive watching footy at Lidcombe then straight down the canals to get home
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
AFL is better for me than the NRL post 1997
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
I'd hate rugby league from 1999 due to mergers + salary cap sagas
@kenwatson55622 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about. It's better than ever. Go ask the commercial ask the sponsors trying to get on the
@Fuzcapp Жыл бұрын
What would've happened if management had suggested this West team wear the rainbow jersey ...?
@jovanhjuson92322 жыл бұрын
Listen to John Gray (0.30) “we weren’t the style of people who went around doing that type of thing”. Exactly why people from the west hate Manly! Go the Magpies!!
@chuckselvage3157 Жыл бұрын
Dallas not taking his Gary's and having a bellyful of beer lol
@Ccssww11 ай бұрын
John Gray spent more time in front of the judiciary than any West's player. His elbows were legendary.
@fantomghost6213Ай бұрын
This was the wests team I went for as a kid. Loved 'em. RIP Tommy and crew!
@gregorywall24793 жыл бұрын
Wests had Les Boyd, John 'Dallas' Donelly and Tommy Raudonikis all on the same team. Three of the toughest players ever to lace a boot.
@bigfogman13 жыл бұрын
well said
@Fuzcapp Жыл бұрын
Les Boyd was a cheat, a thug and an idiot. I was embarrassed that Manly bought him from Wests. I would take Randall over Donnelly for toughness any day. Tommy was great as a 7th forward. A true legend. Would have him in my team any day.
@stevenguegens9516 Жыл бұрын
Don't forget big bad Bob Cooper for western suburbs He was mad as a cut snake
@Ccssww Жыл бұрын
And they still couldn't win a comp.
@Ccssww Жыл бұрын
3 of the dirtiest too. Still remember Boyd playing for Manly when Dallas ripped his knee into Boyd's head and got sent off. Turns out Boyd bit him first.
@poitor59152 жыл бұрын
face slapping warm up was all the prep west needed☝🏻
@jaytee1985 жыл бұрын
Aaah the good old days Lidcombe Oval a bit of biffo perfect Sunday afternoon
@jaytee1983 жыл бұрын
@Barry Beeth Hahaha you're absolutely right mate, the good old days
@jaytee1983 жыл бұрын
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C You're absolutely right about that but still love league
@jaytee1983 жыл бұрын
@Barry Beeth Efharisto
@sneakyam3 жыл бұрын
@M If you understood how the RL and the ARL have stuffed up their marketing over the last 120 or so years you be in a state of absolute wonderment that the code still survives at all.
@alamuddin23783 жыл бұрын
@M Soccer hasn’t been no 1 in Australia’s 120 year existence. Can’t see it happening ever now. Stop targeting League videos to put your unwanted comments. Rugby League is Australia’s sporting landscape. League is also called football here. Such is its influence it’s wiped the name Soccer from its radar. Suck it.
@craigslattery9342 жыл бұрын
Good old days
@joshrees19853 жыл бұрын
Rip Tommy Raudonikis a Rugby league legend
@roostersbays952 жыл бұрын
traditional and cultural Australia i miss them
@manxmark2 жыл бұрын
Am I the only person who misses these days ?
@RodneyMcMinge Жыл бұрын
Not on your life. As soon as they destroyed the scrum, i left the game. They were great days.
@michaelhogan2071Ай бұрын
No. I do as well. The country was free a Holden or falcon on every drive proper scrums and the players still worked for a living which made them more like us. Working class. I was only a kid but if they're is a heaven it would be 1970s Australia complete with the old school NSW Rugby League
@someonesomewhere16002 жыл бұрын
I've followed the Tigers since way back in the Balmain days. But I'm a dead set Westie who grew up about five miles west of Lidcombe and I couldn't wait for these games. Wayne Smith went to our school. I missed playing first grade league with him at school by about a year. Growing up I knew that we were looked down on and the news pumped up any crime news and made us look worse. But on the footy field, there was a bit of the get square. If Balmain had to amalgamate with another club, I'm glad it was Wests. Two honest teams that some players took the short money to play for. Two clubs that deserved a bit more luck in the Finals when the "glamour" clubs knocked us out. Maybe I'm getting old, but the game ain't what it used to be. Seems bloody sterile now. Roach and Donnelly would have had their measure. Cheers to all you Westies. (Anyone ever go to Lidcombe Dancers Club back in the day? I went a number of times and one night about six of the Magpies showed up half shot and they were up for a scrap, was the impression I got. Wild boys.) Years after Wests left Lidcombe I was in a sports comp at Lidcombe Oval and we used the Wests changing room. You could feel the old aggro in the air. And I just remembered: I think the first First Grade game I ever saw was Balmain vs. Wests at Lidcombe with my Dad. We stood on the hill at what I think was the western end, but my directions have faded with my memory. Keith Barnes was still playing. Great memories of the game, and of going to the footy with my Dad.
@RodneyMcMinge Жыл бұрын
I played cricket with him as a kid. Hr was a bloody good cricketer. I got a surprise to see him in league. I used to play " Touch " against Dallas. Touch ?...yeah right !
@RodneyMcMinge10 ай бұрын
@JG-bw6lu At least get the bloody name right. It's football and i've been associated with it as a player and a coach for over 60 years.
@markcurran67669 ай бұрын
Thanks 😊 for your story enjoyable
@icenewzealand67747 ай бұрын
@JG-bw6lu Go put your shin-pads on oi,, Men like John Donnelly and Olsen fillipaina were far too alpha to play a beta sport like soccer . Just saying...
@leanneblake42485 жыл бұрын
My Uncle & Godfather is Shane Day. He was Slapping Tommy in the Face. haha Brilliant , cheers thanks for sharing
@absoluteb223 жыл бұрын
Hooker with tape around his head.
@bigfogman12 жыл бұрын
he was a legend at lidcombe tough as nails
@Satchmo345865 жыл бұрын
Great to see Bruce Gibbs......good bloke tuff player
@shanewilson3984 жыл бұрын
This is from the video fibros and silver tails, a real good watch.
@mick81463 жыл бұрын
rest in peace Tommy😔
@roybennett92842 жыл бұрын
I remember the Steelers vs Wests game in 1982 what a ed ward of a game that was
@stevenguegens70472 жыл бұрын
YES Bob Cooper ran about 70 Or 80 metres down field to belt a couple of THEM from Illawarra and I think he got a record suspension at the time Of about 15 months
@jaypercy5974Ай бұрын
Ah great teams love the lineup of both
@solidostso9 жыл бұрын
those were the days
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
But from the mid 90s it's all about cash
@ripme66163 жыл бұрын
Nothing better then smelling Manly blood through a broken nose ' Dallas Donnelly'
@brendanayres79209 ай бұрын
80 minutes of fights occasionally interrupted by a bit of footy! Sensational!
@mong45675 жыл бұрын
Great stuff from the maggies. I bet they were slapping and hitting each other wounding themselves before the game.
@justinlanger71094 жыл бұрын
@MANCHESTER UNITED much higher percentage of homosexuals than I thought. Thanks for stats.
@absoluteb223 жыл бұрын
@MAN UTD Man Utd is a corporate brand followed by mostly shallow bandwagoners.
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
Better than today's league.
@ajax05swan8 жыл бұрын
The Mighty Maggies
@shanekilpatrick33783 жыл бұрын
Footy for a different era. They’re pros today. Back then two weeks suspension, you’re going fishing, now you’ve lost thousands in salary and match fees.
@billmago79916 күн бұрын
i was at this game right in front of the first big dust up, sitting on the wooden plank that was a footy ground seat..... Roy Masters was my Geography teacher that year at Doonside High...ive copped four of the best from Roy ( old guys know what i mean )........ but hey Roy, all's forgiven, i deserved it 😁
@Ccssww Жыл бұрын
Ah you belted , you scratched, you eye gouged, you yelled and screamed, headbutted lockers called us nasty names.....but we still won the comp.😝
@martinwilson2660 Жыл бұрын
Unadulterated violence. Brilliant. Just glad not to have been good enough/tough enough/old enough to have been a league player from that era.
@73prd9 ай бұрын
Manly Forever ❤
@colinoverton88975 жыл бұрын
He's forgotten to take his tablets. That says it all!
@stephenlancaster70383 жыл бұрын
Steve Knight played for Wests before he went to Manly. Fibro and Silvertail
@AussieOnYouTube10 жыл бұрын
C'MON WESTS
@kidmillion25524 жыл бұрын
Halcyon days indeed👌
@matcole98965 жыл бұрын
Manly won the competition that year but it was there for the taking for Wests and Roy Masters knew that for a fact.Such a shame because I believe Wests had a better team that year.
@glenchapman38993 жыл бұрын
Well Manly got some bloody help. I will go to my grave knowing that disallowed try should have been given
@overlook237 Жыл бұрын
That high shot on the no4 reminds me of Edwards taking Bradley Clyde's head off in GB Vs Aus test. Great stuff!!
@Bigjezza22572 жыл бұрын
Rip Tommy
@bigfogman18 жыл бұрын
manly in the 1970's were a side that dominated and bashed most teams in the comp-except wests who belted them and belted them and west belted all of them and were the most feared team in the comp-these were the great days of club rivalry and will never be repeated as the game now resembles volleyball-soft as-I was there that day and could hear the insult exchange prior to kick off from the sidelines-no surprise the game went the way it did-lol
@chrisc63585 жыл бұрын
bro how you gonna say the game resembles volleyball i bet you these guys cant bring down 1.9m 117kg Jason Taumalolo running full speed the game now has harder players then ever however the game is more tightly reffed now which adjusted how the game is played but these players are still way more tougher and stronger then all these players if the game now was reffed how it was back in the day you wouldn't be saying that
@youtubearchive36685 жыл бұрын
You mean way fatter and slower right?
@chrisc63585 жыл бұрын
@@youtubearchive3668 na mate complete opposite the game has actually gone faster then before
@tombow51984 жыл бұрын
Did West win a premiership play this style?
@cristianhill73794 жыл бұрын
@@chrisc6358 Forwards in the era of this clip were expected to play the full 80 minutes, there was no interchange back then. Modern forwards do it easier, sometimes averaging only 55 - 60 minutes of game time. This is why the game is dominated by Polynesians, the interchange is ideal for their 'impact' style of play.
@stevegriffiths53644 ай бұрын
The young Western Suburbs Magpies still play at Lidcombe Oval in 2024. You should look up their fixture list and get back there with your support....its a great day out.
@shanemoore80554 жыл бұрын
when all games started at 3 pm on a Sunday afternoon.
@spslap57713 жыл бұрын
I Miss grand finals on Sunday .BBQ and beers
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
It's mostly on Saturdays & Sundays to a small degree till the mid 90s
@theHentySkeptic10 ай бұрын
Used to go to lidcombe to watch manly because brookvale had no trains. Might have been there that day...
@BlakeWard9 ай бұрын
Great footy back then
@geoffaldwinckle10968 жыл бұрын
crikey id heard about this, but its worse than i imagined.
@googlefashists49862 жыл бұрын
No point winning the fight if you dont win. The magpies won no premieships in those days
@holyhunterlola88505 жыл бұрын
Manly won the Comp that year
@Gav6714 жыл бұрын
Have a go at Bruce Gibbs. Meat pie mate? Couldn't run out of sight now.
@Midnight-kn7mg3 жыл бұрын
And now we have teams like melbourne storm just being tactical and refs blamed, makes me laugh knowing what a joke the game is now😂
@cloudattack3279 Жыл бұрын
I would go to Lidcombe all the time with my relatives, we were mad maggies supporters. I remember some Manly dude yell out to my Auntie “Why don’t you just go back to your westie homes?” To which Auntie replied “At least we own ours!” 🤣🤣
@kalea72ify2 жыл бұрын
Bring back the Magpies
@stillages13 жыл бұрын
I had Brendon Tuutas Wests shirt....the baby faced assassin
@glenchapman38993 жыл бұрын
Yeah when he hit people they stayed hit
@3_too_won3 жыл бұрын
So what do you want a medal or a chest to pin it on.
@davidparris7167 Жыл бұрын
Westies was my team.....sadly now only history. Could never warm to that Balmain dominated bastard team that replaced my beloved Maggies.
@TheBronsonfan7 жыл бұрын
what the Fuck happened to footy I miss the Winfield Cup
@dennisfdrinkwater72325 жыл бұрын
Hensley Rugby League 1988
@TomLaios Жыл бұрын
Drive past Lidcombe Oval daily.The kids today have no idea what went on.
@oztuber25 жыл бұрын
when footy was footy.. not like now.. souths fan but love watching the tough guys of old bash each other.. what happened to our great game... soft soft soft
@3_too_won3 жыл бұрын
To many women involved that,s what happened
@AnthonyKiyola6 жыл бұрын
Great to see two sets of tough forwards rip into each other. Very entertaining but who had the last laugh that year? Btw, I don't support Manly.
@harryhatter2962 Жыл бұрын
NOT ONE of the wests players would be any where else except in Gaol in these days with those tactics!
@ihopetowin Жыл бұрын
Back in the days when Australians sounded like Australians.
@mickeymouse1697 Жыл бұрын
They should make a movie about wests
@triffidgrower4 жыл бұрын
Typical Manly grub defence........."everybody else was doing it".
@billyboy7449 Жыл бұрын
🦅🦅🦅
@7s292 жыл бұрын
That was a hate from old times. Back then everyone loved to hate manly.
@camerondelamotte1594 күн бұрын
who won the first
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
I'd get killed before seeing today's nrl
@manxmark6 жыл бұрын
When did Rugby become so PC and sterile ?. Not the game I knew !!!
@bpmuppet723 жыл бұрын
When all the woke arsed sooky la la’s became in charge!
@ashtarroth15948 жыл бұрын
Teams so frightened of Wests? Hehehehe, that makes me laugh, no premierships for them in the 70's feared by no one obviously.
@bigfogman12 жыл бұрын
what rubbish written by someone who doesnt know anything abut footy in the seventies
@Timst3R Жыл бұрын
"Style of people" Oh man.
@jimpikoulis6726Ай бұрын
Classic Aussie biffo
@GWLAD4 жыл бұрын
Wests Tigers
@BlakeWard9 ай бұрын
Tough footy
@martinwilliamdavies7977 Жыл бұрын
Dallas Hit Them. Aye, Oh Aye Man.
@joshlock46272 ай бұрын
As a graded coach - Gibbs so fat and slow , horrific hands He scored turning around in a confused state at dummy half . He just lunged and opportunistic try Rex Mossop has stated on air about Gibbs terrible hands . Easily can can be side stepped in defence . Wests reserves at the time were last . Masters once said he lacked forward depth . Forcing Gibbs into firsts He wouldn’t make park football today Being slow overweight isn’t intimidating
@ahjoostdedahbehigpu67493 жыл бұрын
And then Les Boyd ended up at Manly. The best player we ever stole from the westies.
@canwelook Жыл бұрын
And from memory, Ray Brown and John Dorahy joined him at Manly. Masters had drilled into them his Silvertails legend, about how Manly players had all the luxuries and lifestyle that anyone could possibly want. Seems he convinced them so they joined Manly.
@3_too_won Жыл бұрын
And Les Boyd was a useless cunt and did Sweet F A for his money .
@andrewsmith8729 Жыл бұрын
@@canwelook John Dorahy never got much of a go on when he was at Manly. Boyd was a rampaging bull when in form. I remember Manly came up with this idea of letting Boyd and Terry Randall run through the centres. Then later it was Boyd and Cleal. They just carved through the defensive lines back then... it must have been in the early / mid 1980s.
@amr36036 жыл бұрын
Who is the English guy with the 'tache?
@peteratkins9506 жыл бұрын
Johnny Gray he was a hooker.Good player even though he played with Manly.
@steveerrol58025 жыл бұрын
Played with North Sydney too. Good goal kicker as well !
@peterpiper8314 жыл бұрын
He more or less started the "round the corner" style of goalkicking in the comp.
@halkerable11 ай бұрын
Best not about this is the ridiculous sound effects 😂. Like watching looney tunes!
@jontydenton18985 жыл бұрын
Ludicrous sound effects
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
I like Lidcombe oval & I hate anz stadium
@Mmmm22173 жыл бұрын
Win Lose or Draw
@buzzcrushtrendkill2 жыл бұрын
when blokes were allowed to be blokes
@demi.is.a.cutiee87643 жыл бұрын
Manly still won the comp that year.
@absoluteb223 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the officials in their pocket.
@limcako413 жыл бұрын
@@absoluteb22 Having Greg Hartley helped
@rushbeat149 жыл бұрын
Commentary sounds wrong, TV was rex mossop and this guy wasn't calling on the radio either so who is it?
@coasttweed8 жыл бұрын
+rushbeat14 you don't know what you are talking about
@rushbeat148 жыл бұрын
The who is the commentator?
@chrisburke67756 жыл бұрын
rushbeat14
@str8brawling1335 жыл бұрын
The "commentator" is the actor Chris Haywood. This video is an excerpt from a longer documentary about the Wests vs Manly (Fibros vs Silvertails) rivalry in the 1978 season. For some reason they dubbed Chris Haywood's commentary over Rex Mossop's call of the match, telecast by Channel 7.
@johnfisher7473 жыл бұрын
No one called it better than the Moose
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
From the mid 80s there's less fibros wests vs silvertails manly
@petermaxwell29655 жыл бұрын
Roy masters smart cookie, or an evil bastard ?
@065882752 жыл бұрын
strange that randall got in ni trouble for the payback well done arko u cheat
@robertwhite96684 ай бұрын
Wests were the most feared team in Sydney because they were the dirtiest.
@madrock19705 жыл бұрын
Must be 12 Manly fans who watched this
@sneakyam3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day they used to have a sign up at Lidcombe Oval advertising the next home game. Before a match against the Silvertails they'd have: Wests v Manly - War And it was.
@MisterPolitical12 жыл бұрын
Today's NRL has electric screens
@intellectualgladiata4 жыл бұрын
Wayne Smith kind of ruined their legacy as tough guys when he admitted that he stayed down to milk it so that Steve Knight could get sent off. Sorry Mugpies, tough guys don't do that.
@croweater754 жыл бұрын
When tommy says stay down you stay down
@peterpiper8314 жыл бұрын
The ref waved Knight off immediately after the tackle, I think Tommy remembered wrong.
@ryantosatto6075 жыл бұрын
Back then west were so dog
@daveo2882 Жыл бұрын
Wayne Smith was a teacher at my primary school. He was an arrogant prick. When he got knocked out by Steve Knight it was awesome. And on Monday we let him know. We all ended up on detention, but it was well worth it.
@intellectualgladiata9 жыл бұрын
Lost just a little bit of respect for Tommy after seeing this. Telling Wayne Smith to stay down wasn't in the spirit of the game. :-)
@FalseFlagAmerican6 жыл бұрын
Gamesmanship.
@TombstoneHeart5 жыл бұрын
The video of the Wayne Smith incident shows that initially, Tommy wasn't even close enough to Smith to whisper anything in his ear. Two Wests players, number eight and another player, get to Smith first and are bending over him, but it takes Tommy a while to stop gloating over the penalty and the send off, to get to Smith. The funniest thing in the whole video is how bad Manly's defence was that day. Let's face it, on his best day, Bruce Gibbs couldn't run out of sight on a dark night, yet from dummy half and a standing start, he split the Manly defence like cheap kindling and scored. I bet the big bugger is still bludging free beers for that effort. lol
@patpearce82214 жыл бұрын
Yeah it was if they were going to send them off, always has been
@peterpiper8314 жыл бұрын
The ref sent Knight off immediately, way before Tommy got anywhere near Smith.
@dicessdontbenosey4382 жыл бұрын
Good old days in sydney when boys hit like girls 😁
@paulrichards6478 жыл бұрын
embarrassing for every one of these academics
@phillnavin12124 жыл бұрын
No one was frightened, they all knew u were grubs and only way u had a chance was to cheap shot opponents
@benjaminparkinson525510 ай бұрын
Now look at them they are pathetic a club in turmoil like south's in 2023
@jillo973110 жыл бұрын
every side should have put the bif on manly. the eagles would have taken out spoon after spoon as they always went limp after a belting. look what happened in 1981. broadhurst gets belted, manly played like pussies and lost the game
@wasp4eva110 жыл бұрын
You're an idiot. How many spoons have Manly had you dumbshit?!! Answer, 0.
@Golden938 жыл бұрын
+Jill O you have the IQ of a thong
@stevensmith31477 жыл бұрын
Jill O You are entitled to your opinion as well .Just because you don't agree with what others are saying it doesn't make you a idiot
@absoluteb226 жыл бұрын
Yeh 'rockdood 'cause they constantly stacked their 1st & reserve grade with quality players from other teams you fraud.
@daveo28823 жыл бұрын
@@absoluteb22 a fuckstick opinion from a fuckstick Wests......oh hang, they’re long gone.
@davo630049 жыл бұрын
What did that achieve ? Took wests until 2005 to win gf. Muppets
@robmiljus9 жыл бұрын
You still hurt about this ay? And it was the tigers who won in 2005. Face it, the magpies smashed the shit out of the Silver tails. And not just once either.
@tboutros19 жыл бұрын
David Maloney who are the muppets! Manly bought half the west team in 1980. At last when the west Tigers won in 2005 they did it with their Juniors.
@Golden938 жыл бұрын
+Rob Miljus Manly had a better head to head record against the magpies....even at Lidcombe
@robmiljus8 жыл бұрын
Dan Lamb but was that because they bought most of the magpies's best players of years past?!! Les boyd, John dorahy, Ray Brown, John Ribot, Terry Hill, just to name a few. Yes, I agree Manly had a better head to head record. But that was mostly because of Manly getting all of those players and being a team with more money to spend. I think we can both agree that the Eagles vs Magpies rivalry was great and there will never be anything like it ever again. Especially the shit rugby league we see these days. Man, how much better was league. Better and more exciting than it is nowadays. For me, rugby league is slowly dieing and it's a shame because I loved watching it in the past. NRL is a good cure for my insomnia now.