StKilda vs North Preliminary Final 1997

[mcadam05]

Get you in the mood for saturday

people were asking when i was going too post this game well the wait is over!

Highlights of all St Kilda goals and after match interviews with Stewart Loewe,Stan Alves and Robert Harvey

ENJOY!

[jonesy]

What a night!

We do bag the feral Collingwood supporter base...but you'd have to admit if you were there that night,we were probably worse

I think the 108 North supporters that were there that night still hate us because of that

[Legendary]

F*** that was good

That was the year - forget Sheldon in the early 90's, 1997 was the year when every single person in Australia who ever had a whiff of red, white or black turned out and were hoping desperately that the Saints would win the flag.

All the pent up anger, frustration, pain and time since 1971 all came out ...

The talent in that team was unbelievable. The performance against North Melbourne was phenomenal.


What a tragedy that it all ended 12 months later ... looking at that side with a forward line of Heatley, Loewe, Hall and Winmar and a midfield of Harvey, Burke, Everitt, Keogh, Thompson, Brown ...

We should have been up for a very long time - 1997 for about 4 years should have been like 2008-11.

[Jacks Back]

I was there and it was a fantastic night

Thanks mcadam05

Pity the following week wasn't so crash hot.

[mcadam05]

How good was Heater! Peter McKenna loved him and so did i

[jonesy]

Heateeeeeeers Las Vegas!

[Dan Warna]

I was off my nut in 97, hadn't had anything to drink, was a natural high.

saints in a grand final, top of the ladder, and north were favourites.

Me and a friend (long time saints fan and member) were euphoric, we rode down batman avenue waving our flags and singing 'oh when the saints' and bipping the horn to the tune!

Everyone of the saints were so happy, we outnumbered the north fans 3.1 at the G that day.

I was dating his flat mate at the time, she was a dyed in the wool collingwood supporter, but even she was happy for us.

It was a most glorious evening that seemed to go on forever, and lasted till a little after half time on grand final day....

[stevie]

I was living in cairns then. The tv covergae wasn't gonna start till late, no radio either!


so I was ringing my sister in Mlebourne every half hour!! AWESOME!!

It was funny at the final siren - the celebrations were reasonably subdued!

i noticed the commentators kept calling Adam Simpson David King

[stevie]

I was living in cairns then. The tv covergae wasn't gonna start till late, no radio either!


so I was ringing my sister in Mlebourne every half hour!! AWESOME!!

It was funny at the final siren - the celebrations were reasonably subdued!

i noticed the commentators kept calling Adam Simpson David King

[fingers]

My first prelim. It is one of those nights that is so vivid in my memory.

[Thinline]

Winmar, Loewe, Harvey, Heatley, Aussie, Burke etc...

Such a good, even, skilful side and so strong in important places.

The worst of the lost grannies by quite some margin imo.

[Stillwaiting]

I can recall a picture of barry Hall haveing knocked carey flat on is face, leaning over gripping his jumper and ready to thump him. It looked like Carey was about to pee his pants.

[jonesy]

Loved Carey being moved to Stewie that night,and getting a bath in the process. Loewe was the most underated player the game has seen,an absolute unstoppable freak in the air. Unfortunatly he had a Nick like Gf the following week,but had a pretty fair excuse the night before...

See Pagan give Schwatter a spray at the end of the vision as North walked off the ground. He was shown the door a few weeks later,fair old penalty to pay

[Stillwaiting]

Loved Carey being moved to Stewie that night,and getting a bath in the process. Loewe was the most underated player the game has seen,an absolute unstoppable freak in the air. Unfortunatly he had a Nick like Gf the following week,but had a pretty fair excuse the night before...

See Pagan give Schwatter a spray at the end of the vision as North walked off the ground. He was shown the door a few weeks later,fair old penalty to pay

Yeah that was a decent spray, one of the best i have seen. I think that was then end of Schwass time at the roos.

[Life Long Saint]

What a night!

We do bag the feral Collingwood supporter base...but you'd have to admit if you were there that night,we were probably worse

I think the 108 North supporters that were there that night still hate us because of that

I am still embarrassed by the fact the Corey McKernan's injury was met with cheers by sections of our supporters. I loved the tackle by Burke and Cook but hated the cheering of the McKernan injury vision.

Ranks right up there with the booing of Troy Schwarz after the 2004 Wizard Cup GF win.

[mcadam05]

I can recall a picture of barry Hall haveing knocked carey flat on is face, leaning over gripping his jumper and ready to thump him. It looked like Carey was about to pee his pants.

made the cover of 'Marching in'

[perfectionist]

Luck was on our side for that match. Everyone will recall that we were without both of our ruckmen for that game, Lazar doing his knee in the last five minutes of the last H&A game against Port, and then Peter Everitt breaking his collarbone in the first 15 minutes of the very next game - the first final.

Wayne Schwass was suspended in the last H&A game (much to the annoyance of his coach), and Corey McKernan did his shoulder in the first five minutes of the PF. This "evened up" the rucks. Jason Heatley "couldn't miss" and we were on our way. No such luck in the GF, when Adelaide had their best team to pick from because Tony Modra was injured. We know what happened to Nicky and Stewie in the week leading up to the GF, and Robert Harvey did his knee in the first quarter, but soldiered on and Jason Heatley missed two sitters (for him) by half a metre. The rest in history. Bad history.

[Stillwaiting]

The biggest problem we had was loosing Everitt, he plays we win. Didnt Wren slaughter us, oh dear the nightmare is coming back,

[dcstkfc]

I can recall a picture of barry Hall haveing knocked carey flat on is face, leaning over gripping his jumper and ready to thump him. It looked like Carey was about to pee his pants.

made the cover of 'Marching in'

I've never seen that publication before.

What's the deal?

[perfectionist]

The biggest problem we had was loosing Everitt, he plays we win. Didnt Wren slaughter us, oh dear the nightmare is coming back,

Certainly Shaun Rehn was the most influential ruckman on the ground but Brett Cook was not disgraced, especially in ruck contests. More importantly, our ruck losses allowed David Pittman to play all day on Stewie Loewe. Our "second ruck" was David Sierakowski. Enough said. We simply ran out of height.

[matrix]

yeah whats the go with those mags?
how many came out?
when they come out?
etc etc

we all want color photocopies etc etc

[mcadam05]

I can recall a picture of barry Hall haveing knocked carey flat on is face, leaning over gripping his jumper and ready to thump him. It looked like Carey was about to pee his pants.

made the cover of 'Marching in'

I've never seen that publication before.

What's the deal?

it was a fanzine put out in 97/98( 6 issues )
you have seen the barry hall which is # 5 heres the others

[matrix]

sweeet

someone went to a lot of trouble

[mcadam05]

sweeet

someone went to a lot of trouble

Scott 'tv freak' Goodings was the main man behind it , from what i understand the AFL wouldnt let them sell it at the ground on match day because as they said it was in competition too the footy record

[matrix]

typical

never seen anything like them on ebay or the like
im guessing theres prob not that many out there still floating around